NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4488, 7 August 1930, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

The Villi,ooll ordinary shares of jlic Suez Canal, which were originally worth iMU each, arc now valued at £20(1 each.

A farmer in the Ota no district advises that with two rabbit traps inside of a month be. trapped over 20 hawks. lie places a trap, tin - bailed, fastened to a post, and alongside lie places the bait. This is a simple and inexpensive and effective method, and the writer suggests that it is in the hands of the I a mini's themselves to keep these pests under.

When you go to sleep your teel automatically become heavier and your brain lighter! This is bemuse tlie blood drains slowly from Ihe bead into the limbs. If you cannot sleep at nights it is because, vottr brain is too full of blood and therefore too active. II you lake another pillow, Nature's process will be assisted, and sleep will conic much easier. It was lor this reason that the custom of using pillows arose. Witln.nl a pillow, or with only a low one, the blood has to light ils way’ uphill, as it were, and insomnia rest'd Is. What the sleepless really need is a sloping bed for, the upper part of the body being heavier than the lower, it naturallv sinks down, and even if volt prop yourself nip with two pillows your neck is liable to be curved, so that the flow of blood is as badly hampered as ever.

The stopping of speculative building in Christchurch was one effect of the temporary linahcinl depression, according to a Christchurch real eslale agent. Such builders who had in tlie past live rears found it easy to arrange credit with timber merchants and ironmongers, and had been able to raise money by first and second mortgages at easy rales and on small margins, now found it;''impossible, to do so. In consequence they had turned their attention to contract work only. The result was that though for a short lime there was a surplus of houses, that surplus was being slowly.but steadily absorbed, and in the near future property owners could look forward to such an improvement in the market, he thought, as would enable them to sell the properties which they now held without loss.

Discussing the objections to the petrol lax, a correspondent in the exchange says:- —“During the last “() years quite sixtv million pounds have been sent out ol the country for motor-ears, and about the same amount ha> been added to the value of the cars before they reach the purchaser. At the present time quite iwo-lbirds ol this value Fitts gone in depreciation, and is, therefore, a total loss. The taking of Ibis huge amount out .of cironlnl ion litis affected everybody. Another side is Utahan outcry was soon made ilmt tin- roads must be made bolter for the easy running of the ears, and every local authority was soon started oil tin orgy 01. spending which litis resulted in large increases lo the rates, . . - A loss of two millions is expected litis financial year, and as- years .oil bv greater losses will recur, tints public money is being lost to satisfy motorists who are now objecting to make good flu; loss solely caused by them.”

“I think that aviation throughout the world is a greater influence toward peace than toward war,” said Squadron-Lender L. M. Isitt, addressing a men’s brotherhood meeting at Auckland. In England and on the Continent it was very easy to travel from one country to another, and it was much easier to fly than to go by other means. This convenience was leading to a nical deal of air travel and to fellowship between airmen and flying enthusiasts of different nations. One of Messrs Newman Brothers' service cars, while on the trip from Nelson to Blenheim last week, while descending the Wangamoa Hill, ran into a deer. The deer, which appeared to tie a six-pointer, was apparently meandering up the bill when the ear swung round a bend and dazzled it with its headlights. Startled by this sudden apparition, the animal sprang forward and was knocked over, hut quickly renamed its feel and lied the scene. A front mudguard and a projecting horn on the ear were slightly bent by the impact'.