LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Grey River Argus, 17 June 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

During the Shooting Season now open a license to shoot hares and wild duck costs only 10/- but when making up your hamper put in a handy pint flask of WHITE HORSE WHISKY, “the Spirit of the Age”. Screw top flasks to fit the back pocket are obtainable at ail good hotels on my recommendation. J. D. Lynch.—Advt.

Nelson Education Board has made the following grants: Reef ton School Committee, £5O for levelling new play-a-round; Denniston, £53 18s erection of new shelter shed; Progress Junction, new outhouses; Seddonville, £27, erection of a concrete tank. The Secretary reported that an application for an additional school room at Waiuta was before the Department.

Visit sunny Paroa and Burger 7 s Health Resort. Beautiful jirch Bush and good Beach and Beer. Afternoon Tea a speciality. The best of Wines and Spirits stocked. Pearls’ Beer on tap Bus passes aoor. G. Burger’s Parca Hotel. —Advt.

At Addington Stock sale this week a small supply of store sheep sold at late rates. There was a large fat cattle entry, prices for prime sorts being former, but rates generally were on a par with the week before. Fat Sheep were in large supply and prices rose 2s to 3s per head.

Motor-cars conveying performers will leave Grcyniouth Post Office for Blackball to-night Friday*, at ? 5.30 sharp.—Advt.

At Auckland 75,000 worth of debentures issued by the Glen Afton Collieries have all been taken up in a few days. There were two lots of debentures the interest on those free of income tax being at the rate of 61 per cent., and those not free at 71 percent

Tn connection with raising funds for the Technical School Hostel all those willing to assist the Mawhora King and Queen are requested to meet at the residence of Mrs Schaef, 72, Tainui Street, at 7 o’clock Saturday, June 18th.—Advt.

A volcanic shaft 60ft deep was ex plored on Mount Wellington last Sat urday by a party of Aucklanders, led by Mr T. West, of Milton road. Mount Eden, Auckland. Mr West knows the shaft well. He found Maori skeletons at the bottom of it in 1890, and re gards the volcanic cone of Mount Wei lington as one of much historical inter est. Its Maori name is Maungarei. Several descents have been made into the crater cavern. On the first occa sion Mr West was lowered by a rope attached to a post near the entrance Sometimes the descent was made hand over hand, but this is a strenuous phy Bical exercise, and calls for exceptional fitness. A few have managed it, but the usual practice is to lower each in* vestigator by paying out a rope into the eery depths below. The atmosphere was found to be pure by lowering a lighted candle before the members of the party entered the cavern.

Tn our advertising columns Mark Sprot and Co. Ltd., announce an auction sale of household furniture and effects of a Reefton client. Goods are now on hand and on view at the Auction Rooms. Also 200 bags of good cow chaff.—Advt.

Long lines of goods wagons nave traversed the railway lines both north and south of Wanganui during the last few months, the traffic having shown a marked increase on this section. The <?ause of the activity is not hard to find, for in the large quantities of pro duce exported from the port of Wanganui is a fair proportion which but a year or two ago had its outlet through another channel. In this connection the port of Patea is the loser, and although it has retained a good deal of its trade, Wanganui has been the out let for a considerable amount of dairy produce from the Patea and Waverley districts, while other consignments have been sent by rail to Wellington for direct shipment on the ocean-going

vessels. The fertiliser works at Wanganui have also maintained a large output, and the more general use of artificial manures by farmers has been a factor towards increased railway goods traffic.

Three ways to please your husband —take your choice—give him Gransalo wafers for lunch, Milderson’s Shortette for Tea, or Jam Tit Bit for Supper; 1/6 per lb. from Haglund Bros. —Advt.

A New Plymouth wire states that to mark election of Sir Ernest Rutherford eminent N.Z. scientist to the Presidency of the Royal Society, a large number of friends entertained Sir Ernest’s parents, Mr. and Mrs James Rutherford, at the Victoria League Rooms yesterday.

“I imagine that the East Coast railway will prove to be a world’s champion in its combined character as a money absorber and a servant giving a minimum service,” said a visiting civil engineer to a Hawke’s Bay Her aid reporter last week. “ Perhaps 1 am wrong in saying that it is the mosl expensive railway per mile in this country of expensive railway construction, yet I think that will be found to be true. I think the Government would be doing a wise thing to aban don its attempt to build the East Coast railway and to substitute for it a first-class permanent road from Napici to Gisborne.” “And to waste the money it has already spent?” asked the reporter. “Yes, if you like to call it waste. I don’t! The money they have spent is not a shingled flapper’s hairpin money compared with what they are going to let themselves in for,” was the engineer’s reply. “They are going to spend millions on this business —I forget how many millions—but I understand that the Mohaka viaduct alone is estimated to cost £1,250,000.” He suggested that a firstclass road could be built from Napier to Gisborne (130 miles) at a cost little more than that of the Mohaka viaduct

Annual Stock-taking Clearance at McGruer’s. Further reduced prices. Unbleached table damask 1/- yd; 38in. Crepe-de-chine in white, black and all the latest shades, 4/11 yd. We brought the prices down. We keep the prices down. —McGruer’s, best for values, Greymouth. —Advt.

Great Stock-taking Sale at McGruer’s. Further reduced prices to bring stocks to the minimum for annual stock-tak-ing. The great clean up of all oddments. Many articles at less than wholesale cost prices.—McGruer’s, “Always Busy,” Greymouth. —Advt.

What is the least injurious form r f smoking? The doctors favour the pipe. So does Mr Stanley Baldwin, the British Premier (an inveterate smoker). By the way, Mr Baldwin diffcrentiates between smokers. He says, judging by his experience, pipe smokers take a wider and saner view of things than either cigarette or cigar smokers. Be that as it may, the pipe has much to recommend it hygenically. And what of the tobacco? That is an allimportant question. Tobaccos heavily charged with nicotine (like most of the imported brands) cannot be smoked habitually -without causing trouble sooner or later. The heart, the nerves, or the general health is bound to suffer. In marked contrast arc our New Zealand-grown tobaccos, which, as a result of the toasting process to which they are now subjected, are so pure and so comparatively free from nicotine that they may be indulged in freely with absolute safety. That’s why doctors recommend them. Obtainable in three grades —“Riverhead Gold,” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), medium; or ‘Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), full ; strength.—46, w