Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4520, 21 October 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

(lull's with intermittent showers have continued (throughout this distriel; tor several days. I hi 1 wintry conditions have retarden garden and orchard growths. Ratepayers who desire to take advantage of the live per cent, discon'int on their rates are reminded that to-morrow 22nd inst., is the last- day upon which the concession will he granted.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Dalmerston North Hospital Board, tenders were accepted for additions to tlie nurses’ home'and tor the erection of it new operating theatre.

A heavy snowfall is reported at Chateau Tongawiro, which is most unusual for October.. The snow has driven main wild horses down on to the plain. There is I feet of snow on the sporlsground, Init all roads are (dear. As a result id' the deputation which waited on the Mayor (Mr M. K. Pcrreau) last Driday evening a .special meeting of the Fox lon Borough Council will 'lie held at 8 p.m. on Thursday next to receive members of the deputation. A conference of local body representatives within the Hospital Board district has been enlivened by (he Palmerston North Hospital Board to discuss the unemployment. situation. The eonlerenee will take place at Palmerston N. on Thursday next at 1 pan.

Tennis players in this district' should specially note that Tennis Shoes of all sizes, and in various colours, can he obtained at Airs. Ball’s Boot; Store, Main Street. Ladies' and (tents’ from (»/(». Children's - Tennis Shoes also at easy

prices.*

'During September, the Palmerston Notrth Charitable Aid Officer (Mr. w. H. V. Watson) issued (172 rations to 87 eases as compared with f)l)2 rations to 80 east's in August. Of the first mentioned number 292 rations to 45 > eases were in Palmerston North. Casuals assisted ju Palmerston North from August 2(ith to September 25th iiumbeirod 3!) (37 the previous month) as against 21 in September ;i)2i).

The motor sports will he here very shortly now, and ladies will he requiring smart footwear to give, tone to their appearance. Fashion shoes in the very latest, and smartest styles at Mrs. Balls, Main Street. Prices cannot he hcaten anywhere.*

A serious mishap ncctiiu'cd lo two sons of! Mr. ami Mrs. W, Ku!looii, of Levin, on Friday evening (snys flu; Chronicle). They were handling a detonator, when if exploded, with the result that. -Vernon, aged Mi, lost the thumb and Loretingei' of his Jett hand, while a piece of the. detonator entered the left eye of Malcolm, aged six. The lads wore taken to the Levin Private Hospital, where they were operated on by Mrs. Hunter (Levin) and Monro (Palmerston North) respectively. They are now reported to 'be making sal.islaet.ory progress, but-.the younger boy has sulfered the loss of the injured eye. Officials of the Peilding Acclimatisation. Society were hardly equal to tile shock they received on Thursday morning last, when practically the whole of a consignment of l-t,()()0 trout fry, placed in the society’s holding ponds on Wednesday evening, were found dead. The utmost care had been taken in'handling the fry and the mortality cannot be accounted tor; A sample of the water in the holding ponds lias been taken and sent, to Wellington for analysis, .because if is felt that the explanation can onlv lie with the water.

"Do you want happiness in your homo:’’ began the lady canvasser and noting the stony stare ol the other woman, hastened to add (producing a small box). "1 have here the famous Anti-Tobacco tablets. .Drop two, daily, into your husband’s tea, and in a weeks time he’ll, not look at his pipe. He ll be cured! Only hall-a-crown.” ‘‘(hlir’u,” interrupted the missus, “wouldn’t ’ave ’em at a gift! Stop ■’ini from smoking? Why, ’ed he like a bear, with a sore ’cad. ’Appiness in the ’ome? Yus, —I don’t think!” The door slammed. She was right. Tobacco brings joy, not misery to the home. But not the imported. Too full of poisonous nicotine. The New Zealand toasted tobaccos are different. Sweet, -cool and fragrant .there’s hardly any nicotine in them. It’s the toasting that does it! Only fouir brands of toasted mauufaetuf^ul —“Kiverliead Gold,” “Cavendish,” “Navy Cut No. 3,” and “Cut Plug No. 10.” And you can smokie them from dia-ylight to dark and take no harm. Delicious! But ’ware imitations! —Advt. 125.

“Reform of the Lords”- —the excision of caste, With all its inherited powers of the past; Leaves only one logical issire to see, One Vote In One iChamiher Where All Parties Be. Reform in Hygiene is already well known, The clinics of science have made it our own; Relief for our colds, must effective and sure, is ours in Woods Great Peppermint Cure. —23.

Shearing has commenced in some I arts of northern Hawke’s Ray.

The lirst of the new season’s strawberries reaching the Auckland Icily Markets were readily disposed of at 3/9 a chip.

Since the end of March the Christchurch City Council issued permits for 489 buildings valued at ,C2()2,80(>. For tse same period last year f)7(i permits were issued for buildings valued at ,C3B-I,(i!)4.

There is a possibility of a. French football team visiting the Dominion in 1932. In 1933 an Australian team will 1m sent, to South A lirica.

Mr. 4. M. Thomson, of Christchurch. lias an Indian Runner duck which has laid 188 eggs in 1.89 consecutive days in the egg-laying competition of the New Zealand Utility Club now being held at Papanni.

A girl aged nineteen, masquerading as a man, was arrested on the Ashburton railway station on Friday on a charge of absconding from the Cirls’ Home at Christchurch, and the tliei’t <>f £8 worth of clothing, the property of a Chinese. She was remanded to Chiristehiireh.

Mr. A. Taylor has left at the Taranaki Herald olTicte a hollow rubber tennis ball which has been pierced hv a root of couch grass. The root, having forced its way in|o (he ball, could not succeed in Jinding n way out. The result is a neatly packed hall of root estimated to he two yards long. The bull was dug; up at a (hipili of tour loot in Whiieley Street, New Plymouth, and was at lirst taken for a potato.

Speaking at a social function hehl at (5 rev town recently the Mayor (Mr. 11. -T. Rees) said, “It had been stated the rates had gone up this year, hut lie would like to tell them that; it could not he a\oided. H was surprising to him that whisky went up, the petro-l tax went up, the lota lisa tor tax was more, there was an unemployment tax, vet nobody growled, hut when the rates went up everybody growled.”

Members of the general public who appreciate really smart toolwear should inspect the latest importations at Mrs. Ball's Boot Store, Main Street., These include both ladies’ and gents’ requirements, the most altra'dive on the ma rkei.®

IDuring September 1!)7 patients were admitted to the Palmerston North Hospital, 22!) we,re discharged while 7 died. On October 1 there were in the institution .101 patients. Owing 4o the reduced number of admissions in the lirst few days of Ostohe-r il was possible to accommodate all female surgical cast's in Princess Mary ward thus allowing the upstairs Wilson ward lo be closed. Two scarlet fever and one diphtheria cases were admitted during September, seven eases remaining in isolation at the end of the month.

Progress in |ill< >rmin in resen reli is reported upon ljv 1 lie Department in Xeientilie iiihl Indus!rinl I»<‘search,. but mi method of eontro!1 iii”' Iho sorious pest ol “yellow disouso is in sight'. Tlu* report oonolinlos: “Tho oirilionl posilion into which the flux industry bus drifted consequent upon n serious drop iu_ export values, and Hie high cost of production is greatly to be deplored, as it may lead to a seven 1 curtailment and possible discontinuance of the research work I hat is at present being' carried on and of which the industry is in such desperate need.”

The baptismal bowl used at the baptismal service «>n Sunday morning: at the Presbyterian Church lias load a unique history. Originally dedicated and sent out by the Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland to the late Kev. .lames Duncan, some Sti - Venn's ago, it was used occasionally by Mr. Duncan, and then given Ibv him to the Kev. 0. K. Ail ken, who succeeded the late Kev. -I. Duncan as minister at Foxtail. Mr. Ai I ken. who has retired from the active work of the ministry, when in Fox ton tor the Soth celebrations of the church, returned the bowl to the officials and it is intended in the near lutitre to erect a suitable pedestal to form with the bowl a baptismal font.

Mr. W. P.ryant, who recently completed negotiations with a Wanganui man in connection with the sale of his launch, set out last Sunday week, accompanied by the. purchaser, his sou and Mr. \V. Milson, to lake the boat to Wanganui. Shortly after the Maim wain bar had been cleared, however, the engine broke down and the boat commenced to drift. 'Fortunately, the m. v. Foxton left Fo'ixton shortly after the launch, atl-so en route to Wanganui, noticing (In* launch's ■predicament, threw it a line and towe'd the smaller craft to Wanganui. On the return .journey to Foxton by ear, the purchaser haring agreed to run the Foxton party home, the ear broke down ;f short way out of Wlanganni, but a passing motorist travelling to Wellington in an empty ear happened along and obligingly ogeml the local party a lift. home.

“ ’Tis a comfort in grief. 7 ’ — Selous. The most depressing and annoying ills are undoubtedly coughs and colds. For such griefs, however, ■Baxter’s Lung Preserver is a wonderful comfort —soothes and relieves from the very first dose. Also tones up the whole system against further trouble.

Get your “Baxter’s” to-day! A new screw cap preserves the contents. Obtainable all chemists and stores. Medium size, 2/6; large, economic? il family size, 4/0; bachelor's size, 1/0. —1.

A good “run” of whitebait occurred in flic Manawatu on Sunday. An example of the productivity of small holdings farmed on the light lines is afforded I>v Mr. HoWarlli's farm, near Morrinsville, ’where 124 milking • cows and 122 young stock are carried on 3(5 ae>res. This works out at a cow to 1.2 acres without counting the other animals. In his herd Mr. Ilowarlli has four 1 ti-months-old ludfers in milk and giving two gallons each.