Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1926.

Shannon News, 19 February 1926, Page 2

Shannon News FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1926.

Tlie Makerua School Picnic is being held to-day at Makerua. His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Murdoch).who has .been oo a visit to New Plymouth, has returned home. This afternoon a meeting of members of the Shannon Plunlfet, Society and all those interested in the Society's Baby Carnival will toe held in the Society's rooms, Ballance street at 3 p.m. for the .purpose of making arrangements in connection with the Carnival. As announced in another column of this issue the Levin Band will play a programme of music in the Recreation Ground on Sunday next. Given fine weather there is every reason to be- • lleve that there will be a. large attendance, especially in view of the fact •that the band have now a complete set of new silver-plated instruments. Entries for the children's section, of the Levin Horticultural Show close on Tuesday next. These are the. writing and essay classes and the work must i>e in the secretary's hands by that day to enable it to be judged by the Show day, Tuesday, March. 2. Schedules can be obtained from Mr H. Hudson, "News" representative in Shannon. "My experience ol human nature, from the point of view of. a barman," stated a witness, in a licensing case at the Napier Police Court the other morning, "is that the more, a man drinks, the more he wants to drink."

;G'eneral satisfaction was expresed by members of the Wairarapa 'Automobile Association at the apparent co-opera-tion existing between drovers and drivers of cars in the Wairarapa. Such good feeling does not exist in .some other districts.

"A boy's will is the wind's will ," comes from a Lapland song. Proof of the saying comes from' a schoolboy in New Plymouth. He is evidently an ambitious boy, for, during the Gover-nor-General's visit to this town, . the glamour of a high official position moved him to write to the Governor asking what a boy of nine years had to do to deserve a Governor's position. Sir Charles Fergusson replied in very sympathetic and encouraging vein, pointing out that a 'boy's duty was to work hard and to behave like a man. Perhaps the little schoolboy had heard of men punching lady teachers, or perhaps his will .to be worthy of a Governor's post was weak a day or two ago; at any rate, the lady teacher got the punch. The boy got something, too, for the subsequently painful interview with the headmaster did not consist entirely of talk.

The difference twixt the pipe arid the cigarette is as well marked as that between a sandwich and a grilled steak. Hence, while the cigarette has numberless votaries, the pipe, because it is so satisfying has many more. Seasoned | smokers say there is'nothing to equal a pipe for solid comfort and enjoyment. ' But the tobacco must be good, and not loaded with nicotine as the imported brands usually are. Our own New Zealand grown tobaccos arc the purest and being comparatively fi'cc from nicotine they are greatly appreciated by smokers who find they can smoke them for hours at a time without burning their tongues or experiencing other unpleasant consequences. It is interesting to note that these tobaccos are all toasted in the process of manufacture, and to the toasting must be attributed the wonderful flavour and delightful aroma that characterises them. The principal brands are "Riverhead Gold," mild "Navy Cut" (Bulldog), medium, and "Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull - shead) full-strength. AH toasted and every tobacconist stocks them 4 *

Mr W.. Clayton left on .Wednesday on a visit to the Dunedki ExliaJbition. •There is a galaxy of talent in Stanley McKay's Pantomime Companies that is rarely seen in similar productions and needs little introduction to pleasure-seeker's who have seen some of his previous shows. "Little BoPeep" will he showing at the De Luxe Theatre, Levin, on Friday, February 27th, "The Forty Thieves" on Saturday, February 28, and a matinee "The Forty Thieves" at 2.30 p.m. The pantomime company consists of 25 Australian star artists and eleven 'juvenile whirlwind "acrobats: A show lull of comedy with 'beautiful dresses, gorgeous scenery, and_ the latest songs and naees. Full particulars will be announce din the next issue of the "Shannon News." A new road from Blenheim to the Nelson-West Coast highway, joining the latter near Grlenhopo, was traversed on Sunday by a motor-ear for the first time. The Express says that the road, giving a direct route to the West Coast, will become an important tourist route.