Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4545, 18 December 1930, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, DEC. 18, 1930. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A mooting' of tin* Foxl on Unemployed Committee will bo hold in t ho Counoil Chambers at 8 o'olook to-morrow evening. A rather severe and somewhat prolonged earthquake was e.vperii need at about 11.40 o’eloek last evening. Another shake of minor severitv was felt at o dock this morning'. For the Christmas trade, Mrs. Ball, of the Main Street Boot Store, has an exceptionally wide range of appropriate goods, extending front shoes, slippers, etc., to handUc.e.rohiofs, fancy soaps, writing outfits, Christmas novelties, and many other lines both attractive and useful. The [trices are right, and don’t forget the Universal Coupons.* A correspondent, “Parent,” writes to protest against permitting school children waiting upon householders to sell guesses on articles in connection with the school fete. Our correspondent suggests that “this method of raising funds tor the school should not he permitted by those in authority as if is ■contrary lo the moral well-being of the rising generation.” Mr. R. Bishop, of Otahuliu, found a stray dog on his premises in August. He repeatedly drove it away, but the dog always returned, and rather than see it starve, lie gave it an occasional meal. On 31si October the dogkilled 99 purebred chickens belonging to Harold King, a neighbouring poultry farmer, who was awarded .6.14 IT/- damages and costs against Bishop. The Magistrate, Mr. Levien, remarked: “if you feed a dog and suffer it to remain on your property you are in law deemed to be the owner of it.” We are informed that Mr. Bond, Manawaitu County 'Council engineer, who is in charge of the Sanatorium Road construction is well satisfied with the woilk of the men employed and good progress is being made despite the recent nd- \ cr.se weather conditions. One of the most interesting and importaiifc events at yesterday’s school gala day, was the life-sav-ing, land drill and resuscitation exhibition by a squad of High School boys, under the direction of their master, Mr. Robbie. The lads carried out the work with accuracy and .precision and won praise and 'Congratulations from the spectators. The school is to he congratulated upon including this work in its curriculum. Letters from two societies, reporting on the manner in which prizes granted by the Ilorowhemia Power Board for electric cooking had been allocated, were received at the Board meeting yesterday. The secretary of the Otaki Horticultural Society (Rev. 0. IX. Isaacson) wrote, with reference to the Board’s donation of £2 for prizes at the November Show, that these had been awarded in three classes; there had been a large number of entries: a pleasing feature was that most of the exhibitors had never competed in cookery classes before. From the Foxlou Society a letter was received in which it v.as stated that at the Spring Show there wore, in till, 194 entries in the cooking section, and of these there were 14 in the electric classes; at the Summer Show, the cookery entries totalled 79, of which 12 were from electric appliances; some exhibitors seemed to be of opinion that, electrically cooked calkes were more evenly finished ■ than others.

A), a conference of medicos at Birmingham recently (lie subject of tobacco cropped up. Tlie president said that if some method could !be devised of eliminating nicotine from tobacco, the discovery would 'benefit humanity because nicotine was responsible for many and grave ills. Surely the doctors talking' part in that conference are behind the times — otherwise they would know that tobacco is now being grown and manufactured in Mew Zealand which is practically free from nicotine, This happy result has been achieved iby toasting the leaf. That 'kills the nicotine, Tobacco thus treated is rendered quite harmless. You can smoke it even to excess with impunity. You cannot say that of the imported tobaccos, for they are mostly full of nicotine. There are, by the way, only four brands of toasted Mew Zealand ou the market — “JTiverhcad Gold," “Navy Cut Mo. 3,” “Cavendish,’’ and iOut Plug Mo. TO. - ’ They are of various strengths, hut are all remarkable for their purity, coolness, devour and line aroma. Of course they are being imitated so beware! —Advt, 15ti.