The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930. LOCAL & GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1930, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1930. LOCAL & GENERAL.

A young woman named Myrtle Wiggins, formerly of Petone and wife of Archibald Joseph Wiggins, of Mangatainoka, was admitted to the Pahiatua hospital late yesterday afternoon suffering from severe burns on the hands, arms and body sustained through her clothes catching alight while placing a kettle, on the fire of the range. Her condition is critical.—PresS Association.

Mr T. W. Howie displayed a sample of art(ificiaij wool at the recent combined conference between farmers and business men in Wanganui (says the Chronicle). This was a particularly good imitation of the genuine article, and closely resembled a lock from that portion of the fleece which is taken off the neck of the sheep. “You can easily tell it,’’ Mr Howie remarked. "Just put a match to it. It is made of wood.” The substance burns very rapidly, Just like tinder.

The Hon. W. B. Taverner states that tenders will be called at the end of this year for the erection of the Dunedin Post Office, the foundations of which are nearing completion. —Press Association.

There are approximately 1600 patients at the Porirua Mental Hospital, and a staff of 250. An appeal is being made to secure eight or a dozen radio sets for the institution at a cost of £3500 to £4OOO.

Arthur Herbert Scaratt, aged 32, living at Point Chevalier with friends, walked into a hotel convenience yesterday at 4.30 p.m. and took poison. He was found by the barman and sent to hospital where he died an hour later. —Press Association.

Acting on the request of the Rational Association and a patient who complained of the singing of dismal hymns in hospital wards and the distribution of “religious tracts of a crude nature,” the Auckland Hospital Board considered the question of forbidding religious services in the wards unless with the special permission of the medical superintendent. The matter was eventually referred to a committee.

The popularity of wireless is daily becoming greater, and in this connection an anecdote is told. A Napier resident recently had a wireless set installed in her home. Delighted with tlie prospect of hearing music over the air she sat beside it immediately after breakfast and proceeded to turn the switches and knobs in all directions. Her pains were unrewarded, so after an hour of futile effort she rang up the firm whence she purchased the set, and complained in no undecided style that the machine would not work. “Send a man up at once,” she demanded. ‘'Excuse me, madam,'*’ came the repty, “but. I think it might be as well if you were to wait until there is something on the air,” This also serves to indicate some of the troubles with which dealers are confronted.

A Wellington professional man makes a hobby of collecting tobacco pipes. He has some rare and valuable specimens from many lands. Yet for his own use he is content with a shilling briar! Well, the tobacco counts for far more than the pipe. It should be of fine flavour and delightful aroma. Also-and above all—it should be _ as free from nicotine as it can possibly be. You may say: “Ah! it’s all very fine, but where is tobacco like that to be had?” Why at the nearest tobacconist’s shop! Ask for New Zealand toasted. Next to no nicotine in it! That meanl it’s safe to smoke to any extent. You can’t say that of the imported goods with thair large percentage of nicotine. It’s the toasting that rids the New Zealand of its nicotine and. gives it its incomparable flavour and unrivalled bouquet. There are only four brands of toasted — Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. Are there any imitations?' Rather! Every good thing is imitated. Beware!— N.P. 140*

Second grade petrol at 2s Id per gallon and first grade at 2s 2d is announced by J. C. Mf’lnes, the Ford dealer. These prices will apply as from to-morrow*

Dempsey’s Shoe Store, next Post Office, Levin, have just opened up a particularly fine range of the latest spring and early summer shades and styles of ladies shoes, together with a shipment of the famous Packard, the great Canadian slipper. This is the first time these slippers ' have been shown in Levin and we have no doubt this shipment will have, a speedy clearance at the prices marked. Dempsey’s extend a cordial invitation to all to visit this store and promise a pleasant and profitable shopping experience.*

Sparkling health! Accept it. Take Rhunerva daily.—C. S. Keedwell, Chemist.*

Ah! can be heard quite frequently in Clark’s Showroom at present, the new Millinery just being opened up giving cause for much excitement —if you have time to look, Clark’s, Ltd. have time to show.*

■ Intestinal Poisons suppressed by Yeaston Tablets which remove constipation. Obtainable F. P. Stephenson, Chemist,