Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4508, 23 September 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Herald states that a Palliatun, district dairy farmer, out of a herd of 3(1 cows, had 30 calves this season. Of these, only one .was a heifer calf.

There was a sensational fall in the price of petrol in Blenheim ree cntlv—a drop of 3d per gallon, making the retail price cheaper than before the increase of taxation.

Yesterday was the twenty-third anniversary of the proclamation ol New Zealand as a Dominion. The actual anniversary fell on Friday, the holiday having been made a Monday fixture. The banks were closed.

Slipper comfort is no longer a matter of expense. Ladies will find a range of cosy slippers in various colours at the exceptionally low price of 2/fr per pair at Mrs Ball’s, Main Street. Smart, warm, eomfortaJble for only half-a-crown!*

At the Auckland .Magistrate’s Court yesterday, Mr F. K. Hunt inflicted a fine of £7:5 on Joseph Spencer Greenwood (fit)) for keeping a common gaming house, and £25 on his assistant, George Gecliug Paul (54). Both had been before the Court previously. On Wednesday morning, a poultry farmer at Mange iv (Auckland) found that 112 chickens out of a brood of 250 bad been killed by a rat wliie.li had dug a three-foot tunnel into the fowl-house and taken the chickens away. The farmer also found the rat’s nest at the tunnel head, and it contained thirteen young rats.

For the third time, Alfred -James Stanley Colonso, aged 32, farm labourer of no fixed abode, was remanded when he appeared again in the Magistrate’s Court (‘Christ-ehurc-h) on Saturday, . charged with murdering Robert William Ooekburn at Cake Coleridge on September 3rd. The hearing of the charge was proceeded with today. The Government considers it inconvenient to introduce daylight: saving -over the South Island at the present time, as requested by the Canterbury people, on account of the shortage of electricity, as in the ordinary course of events summertime will operate on October 12th next, when, of course, it will become uniform over the whole Dominion.

Have you seen the latest in Tennis Shoes at Mrs Ball’s, Main Street? These are of satin, in a variety of colours. Very desirable. Also Tennis Shoes in canvas with coloured insets. Very smart.*

A quarter-acre section in the Borough of Blenheim changed hands the other (lay for 50s. It is not , much of a section ,requiring a great deal of tilling in, but the figure probably sets a new lowwater mark for such transactions in any part of New Zealand (states the Marlborough Express). The costs incidental to the transfer would run out at about £3 15s, and the -annual rates at the present time are at least 50 per cent, more than the new capital value of the section. The new owner will probably apply for a revaluation, but his bargain is hardly to affect the neighbourhood values muck, as they are well established at between £BO and £.IOO per quarteracre, unimproved. [A section in Main Street, Foxton, was recently sold for £2 : —20ft. at 2/- per foot.] The wanderer’s song, ever gay and glad, Still cheers the way when his heart is sad; With tightened belt as he trudges

along, He lifts his soul in The Wanderer’s

Song. It voices liis challenge - and Haunt at fate, j\s hungry and chilled he halts by , your gate — Tin* Wanderer’s Song is gratitude pure, tor warmth and Woods’ Great I’eppperioint Cure. —20.

“Many of the fires that occur in New Zealand are easily prevent - ible, and are due to carelessness,” said Inspector Hugo, speaking at Wanganui Fire Brigade’s annual reunion. Last- year 457 tires were caused by irons, heaters, and stoves being left on, airing clothes before open (ires, etc. These liros caused damage totalling nearly £1,000,000. The total lire losses in New Zealand last year amounted to £1,250,000.

Up-to-the-minute in fashion, smart to the highest degree, is the description of Ladies’ and Gents’ footwear now on sale at Mrs Ball’s, Main Street. New Zealand’s best, markets are searched to provide our stocks of fashionable- footwear.* Said by its owners to be 100 years old, a gander belonging to Sara and Ivatherine Allen died at Erie, Illinois, recently. Geese are noted for longevity, but the Allen sisters said they had never heard of another centenarian. The sisters said the gander was brought from New York to Illinois by pioneers, and later was taken to Nebraska. In 1884 it became. Ibe property of William 11. Allen and was returned to Illinois. Originally grev in colour,- the plumage turned white with advancing age. To the average golfer (lie holein one is probably considered quite a rarity but that it is happening surprisingly often in the course of a year is shown by the report of an American safety razor company, which shows that it gave away in the first four months of this year ao fewer than <505 of its safety razor sets, which are offered as prizes to golfers who make a liole-in-one. The company began, doing I his in 1925, and since then 10,185 men and women in the United Stales and 3,197 in the British Isles have returned cards showing tiial they had made a hole-in-one.

According- to a diver who went down oIT Long Point, south of Dunedin, the remains of the intercolonial steamer Manuka are now spread over nearly an acre of the sea bottom. The vessel has broken up. Galight on the rodks, she was exposed to the full force of the waves returning from the cliffs. The diver, it is reported, found that sand was covering most of flic heavy gear. The boilers were not to be seen, and the propeller was also hidden. The remains of the Mamuka are still on the market- for sale, but it does not seem at all likely that the underwriters in London will ever obtain the price they are asking for the wreck.

For a distance of 35 miles the work of completing the gap in the South Island Main Trunk raliway between Parnassus and Wharnnui is now in hand. The distance between the railheads is 7b miles. Over litlO men are engaged on various phases of the construction work, 291) a I the southern end, and 315 at the northern. From the Parnassus end the construction parties are working for nine miles northwards of the present railway terminus, 'flic farthest point in which work in progressing at present is three miles over the Conway River. Work is also in progress for 2(i miles south of VYliarnnui, the outlying camp being live miles south of the Clarence River.

Almost a romance is attached to the story of the origin of a new potato that lias gained local fame as a first early, writes a Balclutha correspondent. The potato originated in the wilds of the Waropa hills, and the story goes that a sportsman, looking for game in the spring- of the year, came upon an abandoned rnbbiter’s camp, and noticed some potato haulms on a pile of refuse that had, seemingly, .sprung from potato peelings. It still wanted a long time to Christmas, and the thought crossed the hunter’s mind: “Those potatoes will be mighty early.” He thought no more of the matter until next spring, when he was again in the locality of the derelict camp, and the potatoes again called attention to themselves by their luxurious growth. Later on, the hunter came back and bagged quite a lot of the tubers, and, using these for seed, raised a good crop of very early potatoes. To ueveal the name the potato now goes by would lie a priceless advertisement for somebody. Let i! suffice to say that the name is quite a good one, and very appropiyate.

proficiency and competency certificates in the public schools nnisl be gained for this year as the result of an examination to be lieht throughout the Dominion from November 20th to 24th next. Hitherto about 60 per cent. of : hese certificates have been given on the recommendation of the bead masters of schools. Toe Department, however, has noticed a discrepancy in the percentage of recommendations in the various education districts. This may be attributed to several reasons —the inspectors’ standard of efficiency may vary considerably; certain schools may be less efficient than others, or some schools may be understaffed. To remedy this discrepancy the examination this year will be in the nature of a general survey of the whole position. Teachers will furnish their estimates- of the candidates’ attainments and assist in maiiking the subjects, but all the marks will be assessed or re-assessed by the inspectors and will be compared with the teachers' estimates. The Department has no intention of reverting to the examination system, but the survey this year is intended to put proficiency on a more equitable basis. The Wanganui Education Board has approved of this proposal.

Tiilco care (hat the* face which looks out from your mirror in the morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again all day, but other's will. The St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church ill Palmerston North held its annual golden offering on Sunday. Up to the present .6247 has been realised.

But for pro nip 1 action on the part of Nurse Ashmore, her dwelling might have been seriously damaged by (ire this morning. A gentleman-boarder had been smoking' in the dining room, hut had left the house, when Nurse Ashmore, who was in her garden, noticed. smoke issuing from the building. On running inside she found the house tilled with smoke, ami discovered two cushions and a wicker chair on lire. With presence of mind she seized the cushions and threw them in the bath and carried the chair outside. Except for the articles mentioned there was no damage done. Before he left Sydney for New Zealand, Sir Otto Neimever delivered himself- of the following a'phorisms for the benefit of Australia: —You've got a programme mapped out for von—stick to it. It will take you two or three years to find your feet again—but you’ll find them. The cost of living will conn* down with the reduced costs of production. Your retail prices have already dropped. You pay Is lid for a pound of butter, which commodity you ship to China for Is per pound. It’s a little habit you’ve got. Only way out of it is to live in China. You do likewise with sugar and other products to other countries. Same little habit. You seem to have plenty of swagmcn about, but yoii'we always had plenty of rousabouts. A youth of twenty asked me if he would be 'wise 1u marry. 1 told him not to he a fool. You are too optimistic to realise your true position yet. Perhaps it would have been better if vou’d lost the last Test match!

A school teacher in Northampton received the following from a complaining parent: “Sir, will you please for the future give my hoy sum easier gomes to do at nights. This is what he brought hoatn to or three night hack: ‘lf for galling of here will fill thirfyto pint bottles, how meny pint and half bottles will nine gallin fill'?’ Wei we tried, and could make nothing of it at all! and my boy cried and sed he didn’t dare to go bade in the morning without doin’ it. “So, I had to go an’ buy a nine gallin cask: of bore, which I could il afford to do, and then we went and borrowed a lot of wine and brandy bottles, besides a few we had by us. Well, we emptied the cask into the bottles, and then counted them, and there were lit, and my hoy put the number down for an answer.. “1 don’t know whether it is rite or not, as we spilt sum while doin’ it." “P.S. — Please let the next some lx* in water, as I am iu>l able to buy any more here.”

Aii Auckland visitor climbed to tin* top <>f' Rnngitoto the other morning, ;md having reached , the summit, sat down to enjoy the view—mid a smoke at the same time. But when lie was ready to light up In* discovered to his dismay that lie had no mateehsf And not ti soul in sight! It’s wonderful how ssmoko enhances (lie pleasure of an outing! A pipe is the best of company abroad or at home. But let your • tobacco be pure! Why smoke the imported stuff, full of poisonous nicotine, when any tobacconist will supply you with toasted Jvew Zealand? The latter are the purest; tobaccos in the world. The toasting process eliminates the nicotine,, and at; the same time imparts to the goods their famous flavour and bouquet. There are only four toasted brands manufactured K.iverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, lOaveudish and Cut Plug No. 10. In varying strengths, they appeal to all smokers, and you may smoke them as freely as you please for they are (thanks to the toasting) perfectly harmless.