Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4512, 2 October 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Only two men appear on tin* on employment register at Sending. Our readers will be interested to learn that the interior of Mrs. Ball’s Boot Store has been enlarged and re-arranged for the com fort and convenience of patrons. 'Phis also allows ol the well-selec-ted stocks of Ladies’ and Children’s Footwear to be displayed as their quality warrants. Call in and inspect.*

Judging by the prolific blossomng of stone fruit trees in this In -ality there should he heavy crop ;his season provided the. weatlun s not: too boisterous.

While engaged trawling fm flounders in the Wiaivarnpa Lak. I'ceemtily, a Greytown party haulm in an octoipus, that measured 4. inches across.

Shopping in the city may have a big appeal, but tor real solid value Mrs. Ball’s Boot Store, Main Street, can not he surpassed. The latest in Ladies' Hand Bags (very attractive), Fancy Goods, etc. Indents are now being opened. liispection invited.*

Settlers in the Kairanga distric are objecting to the Manawatn Oroua River Board's £300,0h Hood control scheme, and to Hi classification for rating. A mcci ii,»- of 50 property-owners o Tuesday night decided to call

conference of objectors to consider the best means of lighting the proposal and defeating the loan poll.

At a special meeting of the Grey • town School Committee on Friday night, the headmaster stated that it was not intended in the future to try and exercise control over High School pupils outside the playground, though they would he impressed of the fact that they were expected to comport themselves as little ladies aiid gentlemen in the streets (says the local paper). To meet the demands of expanding business, the Mien’s Footwear and Mercery departments of Mrs. Ball’s Store have been moved to the main shop (Darcy Ball’s), where the wonderful values will he maintained in all the lines stocked.*

‘‘People arc drinking less and less now,” said an hotel broker giving evidence at the Supreme Court at Christchurch. “In fact, 1 think prohibition is coming, without the people having to carry it by vote. The hotel business has slackened up considerably of late months. He added that there had been a big falling off in the takings of several hotels in which he was personally interested.

Before Mr. Mosley, S.M., at Christchurch, on Tuesday, Frederick George Findlay McKay, aged 36, a former teller in the ißank of New South Millies at Greymouth, pleaded guilty to charges <>i theft of £3.14, the property of the hank, and was committed to the Supreme (Court for sentence. In a statement made to the police-, accused said that lie got into debt, mainly through gambling on horses and he took the money to meet the debts.

One hundred and seventy-six polling places have been gazetted for Hie by-election on October Bth in the Western Maori constituency, caused by the death of Sir Maui Pomare. The electorate extends from Auckland, Coromandel and Tnuranga, through Waikato and King Country, as far as Wellington. The Chatham Islands are included in the electorate, because the Maori inhabitants of the group are members of the Ngali-Tama .and the Nguti-M'utunga tribes of Taranaki. Mr. G. P. Shepherd, of the Native Department at Wellington, is the returning officer at the election.

“Facts are. stubborn things.”Smollett.

And colds are stubborn too, unless you put your faith in Baxters Lung Preserver. That popular specific quickly soothes and relieves the worst cough or eold. Try it! “Baxter's” also possesses unique .tonic properties which protect you against further attacks. How obtainable with a new screw cap which preserves the contents. All chemists and stores. Medium size bottle, 2/6; large, economical family size, 4/6; bachelor’s size, 1/6—5.

If you want to buy a cheap car go to (Sydney. Mr. S. Holden Howie, who has just returned to Auckland from a visit there, said lie saw a ear bought for 10/- and driven away. It was in first class running order. All sorts of cars can be bought at ridiculously low prices. An indication of the tremendous slump in the car industry over the other side is forcibly brought home by the fact that during the last quarter, 54,000 licenses wove handed in to the autliori-

“New Zealand is a wonderful tlaco for institutions,” said Arcliijsliop .Julius, speaking at a home or children in Christchurch. “We emu to have them for all purposes. Ye do want one, though, for the lathers and mothers —one where hey may learn their duty to their diiidren. There is need for this, or so many of them do not. know iow to care in the right way for heir children, so that other instiutions have to undertake tlie work hcv should have done.”

In the course of his investigations into the question of the unemployed in Auckland, the chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, Mr. William Wallace, visited Manna House to see the work (bar is being done there in providing free meals for men out of employment. Since Sister Esther and the Presbyterian Social Service Association started the idea late this winter .25,000 free meals have been provided for men out of work.

Instances have been reported a I civ of birds being electrocuted It rough establishing contact on jare electric power wires in Canterbury. A number of cases near each year. Magpies, seagulls, Hid birds of that kind are the vicLirns, their si/.e making them liable l<> touch two wires at once with I heir wings or their beaks, when I hey have a lighted on one strand: The sparrow, on the other band, is immune, for by no possible stretch could bis small form cover the space between two wires.

An instance of eagerness and enterprise in seeking work is reported in an exchange. Last week a Poverty Bay sheepfa.vmer had to interview men who were replying to his advertise incut for a married couple to work on his station. One of the applicants, who seemed otherwise suitable, had no children or sheepdogs, and the farmer stated that as there was a school close by he would give preference to a .man who had at least two children of school age, also two good dogs. Within three hours the applicant was hack again to report that he now had both the children and i the dogs. “But 1 didn’t promise von the job,” said the somewhat astonished farmer. “Did you get them on ‘spec’?” “Yes, 1 was going to he ready for the job,” said the man. It transpired that the children belonged to his wife’s sister, who had a family of seven and was in poor circumstances. The job was his.

Smokers are. really very careless —that is, many of them are. They’d go on smoking the same old briar until it’s fairly clogged with black, oily, evil-smelling stuff. That's nicotine. A drop has been known to destroy life. Every time you smoke a very foul pipe, you are slowly poisoning yourself. If your pipe is like that, buy a new one. And choose your tobacco with discrimination. The quantity of nicotine varies very much with the tobacco. Practically all the imported brands are fit'll of it. Our toasted New Zealand tobacicos are the world’s purest. The toasting kills the nicotine. You can smoke these goods to any extent, witli absolute safety. Can you say that of any other tobaccos? It is, by the way, worth noting that only four brands of toasted are manufactured- — “Riverhead Gold,’’ “Navy Cut No. 3,” “'Cavendish,” and “(bit Plug No. 10." Of different strengths, they are all remarkable for their purity, coolness, freedom from “bite,” fragrance and flavour. But keep your eye lifted for imitations! —Advt. 118.

There has been presented to the Wanganui Museum a little green lizard (naultinus grayi) which brings with it a touch of history, .-.a vs the W'anganui Chronicle. Mr. X. Annabel has staled that this kind of lizard was discovered by his uncle, Mr. Joseph Annabel, while engaged in a Government survey in the wooded country of the Wanganui district. (An necouiil of the finding- was read by Sir Walter Bailer before the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1880). The Maoris were universally afraid of the tiny reptile, which emits a peculiar chattering .sound called “laughing” by the natives, on being unvested. The laugh of the green lizard was enough to terrify the bravest warrior and its power for evil was strangely believed in by the tribes all over the country. Sir George Grey, in his account of an Expedition through the Interior, 1840-50, stated: “1 have seen twenty or thirty able-bodied men tiy in a state of the most abject fright and even take to the water when pursued by a child with a dead hotly of common green iizard in his hands.”

When Youth’s Alluring Charm Hath Fled, And all its dreams and hopes lie dead; The surest solace we shall find, Is in the culture of the mind. In youth, and infancy, and age, W'bate’cr of life may 'be our stage; For colds we find one solace sure, In soothing Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.- — Advt. 24.

In a chat with T'e Awamutu settlers a few days ago, while demonstrating the use of sodium chlorate in eradicating ragwort, Mr. G. B. Melrose stated that it was very

difficult to arrive at the quantity of material required to spray an acre of land infested with ragwort. For example, on Stratford Demonstration Farm, where only scattered plants were to he found, approximately lilbs. of materia 1 ] per acre were used, whereas on an-

other farm, where a fairly solid block of five acres of ragwort standing about- three feet high was treated, approximately 2(>libs. of sodium chlorate per acre were used. Although, most of the plants on this area .were in bloom the effect of the spray was such that all plants were 'killed and no seed ripened, as would have been the ease had the plants just been cut and allowed to lie. This was important, said Mr. Melrose. The work carried out clearly indicated that spraying with chlorate was far faster than either cutting or pulling, and the expenditure in material was amply recovered in the less labour involved. In addition, the chlorates definitely billed the plants, and therefore gave promise of providing landholders with a method by which the elimination of ragwort became possible. —Waipa Post.