NEWS AND NOTES.
The fuel tlml the string attached to his kite was dry, and not wel, probably saved the life of a boy at Greymonth recently. His kile, had become entangled with an electric power line, of 11,000 volts, and lie was tugging at the string in an endeavour to free the 'kite. Had the string been wet, it would have acted as it conductor, and the boy would have been electrocuted.
“The 21 per emit, increase in the totalisatnr tax simply means a bonus to Ihc bookmaker,” said Mr. 11. 0. Dickie when outlining recent luxation increases to the TTuwera 'Elmtuber of Commerce the other evening, “ft simply means that; on every £1 bet the bookmaker takes he is made a present of 3/41, because thill amount is deducted from every fit invested on (he toialisntor, and the bookmaker pays uily on the tofalisator dividends, provided (hey are under his limit.”
The inhabitants of Nine Island are suffering front the effects of a drought. Life on the Island is I airly simple, but the few whites wlio live there find the diet somewhit ( limited. The meat is pork and chicken. The chickens are tall, thin birds with long legs, and they practically run wild. There is not nmcli grass or vegetables (except the eoeuamit palm) for animals to feed on, so when the. housewife fancies she would like chicken for dinner, a recent visitor to tin 1 island asserted, she goes out, catches one of them and ties it by the leg to the trunk of a palm ltee. She then shakes down a few nuts, cuts them in half and leaves them there for the chicken to feed on for it" few days till it is plump 1 Hough for the table.
The tii-s 1 factory for the produciion of paper from seaweed is at Novosibirsk, in Siberia. The lakes of the Clinnsk district alone can supply annually 1.00,000 tons i-f seaweeds, which arc said to be almost pure cellulose. The conversion of the weeds into paper lakes less than half an hour, whereas in the ordinary process of paper production more than a day passes before (tie raw material is transformed into the finished produel. Sixteen different kinds of paper, as well as cardboard and vine, have been obtained from the seaweeds. The waste is used to produce a fire.pi plastic mass which can be manufactured into tiles and other products. The seaweeds also contain iodine and bromine.
“If you smoke here you will smoke hereafter!” 'Such is the ratlier startling title of a leallet distributed broadcast by a London Anti-Tolmeeo Association. Tin’s should be in teres ting to devotees of Ihe weed. There is a lot of .nonsense written and uttered, about tobacco. Bundling is no crime! Ami if it makes existence more enjoyable for most of us (as il assuredly does), why should we not indulge:’ The “one tiling needful” b that the tobacco should be pure. Imported brands seldom are. How can they be seeing that most of them are poisonous with nicotine? Gases innumerable there are of heart or nerve trouble due to -excess of poison in the leaf. Nicotine can be largely eliminated, however, by toasting the tobacco. This process renders il perfectly innocuous. It also gives il its famous bouquet and incomparable llavbur. There are only four brands of toasted on the market —“Riverhead Gold,” “'Cavendish,” “Navy Cut No. 3,’’.and “Cut Plug No. 10.” Of course there are imitations! Did you ever know a good thing that wasn't; imitated?—Advt. 130.
A NERVE TONIC. Modern foods do not contain sufficient of that element most vital to the proper and efficient functioning of nerves —Phosphorus. Nerves must have a. special concentrated food! A. tonic! Marshall's iFospherine. Easily assimilated —strength giving. Imparts life and energy to the whole nervous system. Take a course! Obtainable all chemists and stores —2/6 buys 100 doses. —6.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4525, 1 November 1930, Page 4
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650NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4525, 1 November 1930, Page 4
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