Bay of Plenty Times. MONDAY, JULY 13th., 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIX, Issue 10615, 13 July 1931, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. MONDAY, JULY 13th., 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cold mining in Central Otago has been somewhat better this year than for some time, due mainly to the large number of persons prospecting. Tills was the view expressed by a Naseby miner in conversation with a Dunedin Star reporter. Heavyfrosts had set in early this year, he said, and the miners had been fortunate in obtaining just sufficient water for a few days to wash up their boxes The premium on the gold sent to Australia had been extremely satisfying to the miners, who received as much as 18s Id premium on an ounce, of gold, for which they were paid about £3 Ids.

“There are millions of pounds invested in Die butter blending industry," said Sir James Parr, speaking at Matamata. The High Commissioner’s office had been trying for eighteen months to got a mark put on such butter under the Merchandise Marks Act, showing the country of origin. New Zealand butter was mixed with foreign butter and sold as “Devonshire Valley,” and “Cheddar Vale,” and such brands, which gave the impression that it was fresh English butter. It, was not sold as English butter, but was pushed under the notice of customers who were deceived by the label. It was the highest commercial fraud in England.

A cow was electrocuted on Mr Barugh’s farm at Tower Road, Matamata, on June 20, due to a service line breaking Isays the Matamata Record). The line was an old one in which a No. 8 iron wire had been joined to a light stranded copper cable, and the break took place at the joint. None of this typo of construction has been done for many years by the Thames Valley Electric Power Board.

The Wellington Acclimatisation Society has decided to spend up to £IOO on the breeding and liberation of quail.

“I have just returned (writes a Melbourne man) from a wheatgrowing district of New South Wales where a farmer has sold his wheat at Is a bushel, delivered at the local railway station. The farmer had to pay for the bags, costing him 9d each, or 3d a bushel. These bags, of course, are given in. So all that the farmer got for his wheat was 9d a bushel, or 2s 3d a bag. Another farmer was offered lljd a bushel But he carted his wheat hack to his farm. Only three years ago the price at the same railway station was •is 6d a bushel, or six times my friend's ninepence.’’

In future when a permanent employee of the New Plymouth Borough Council receives fees for acting as a witness in Court or as a juryman, the fees must be paid by him into tile council’s account, except the fees received for time spent at the Court on the statutory half-holiday, any statutory holiday, or during the employee’s annual leave: these fees may he retained by the employee. This decision was made by the Council on the recommendation of the finance committee.

A new Salvation Army Hall has i been erected at Napier on the site , of the one that was destroyed by the ; earthquake. The new structure is j built entirely of wood and is of the! same dimensions as the former hall, j The opening ceremony is to be con- | ducted by Commissioner Cunning- ■; ham on July IS. >

A resident of Dargaville now on a visit to his relatives in England thought she would like to try some toheroas. states the “North Auckland Times." How to get toheroas Home in eatable condition was a puzzle until she hit upon the idea of curing them something after the Maori fashion by drying them in the sun and smoking them. She followed this plan, and look the dried toheroas Home with her in a tin. On arrival at her destination in Hie Homeland she found that, soaked in water for a few hours, and cooked in the ordinary way for fritters and .soup, they were hard to distinguish from those taken fresh from the shell.

• ; "Take more care when it is raiui i lug; a driver cannot see well when ; ' the windscreen is wet." is the wordi j ing on a poster which the WellingI i ton Automobile Club has decided to J ’ subscribe towards. It is intended lo f i impress upon school children the ne- ; : cessity of car in crossing streets in i I wet weather, and hears a picture . ; showing as from the inside of a car j 1 the small area of the windscreen » | kept clear by the wiper. The view • j through the cleared portion of the j ] screen is shown sharply; the rest is ; j murky.

Over four hundred people from Thames patronised the excursion train to Tauranga on Saturday. The train arrived hero at II a.m, and left on the return at 0.15 p.m. As usanl the arrangements wen- a credit to the officials of the Department.

All recruits who have completed an offer of service for enlistment in the Territorial Force are requested to attend at the ( onmation Hall at 7 p in. on Friday, 17th inst., for medical examination and attestation. Any further applicants who d;sire to serve are invited to attend.

Cabled from London the other day that Londoners now consume 50 per cent, less alcohol and smoke 100 per cent, more tobacco than formerly. Yet the enemies of the weed will insist that smoking invariably leads to drinking, and that the confirmed smoker is usually a confirmed sot. But the cablegram seems to give the lie direct to that assertion. It is a lie, because tobacco quite often does away with the craving for alcohol. And while liquor, taken to excess, fuddles the brain, and destroys the ability to think clearly, tobacco has precisely the opposite effect. It is a sedative and nerve-soother. But beware of over-indulgence in tobacco unless it’s pure! If overloaded with nicotine, as the foreign tobaccos generally are, it will infallibly wreck the health, sooner or later. The world’s purest tobacco is the toasted New Zealand. The toasting kills the poison, leaving the tobacco pure, sweet, mellow, fragrant—and innocuous. There are only four brands of toasted; Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 and Cut Plug No. 10.