The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1932, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Some excitement prevailed amongst Tiraaru philatelists recently through the receipt at the local post office of a few sheets of twopenny stamps with the top row unperforafed. When the fact was known great business was in evidence, collectors being keen to obtain as many as possible of these irregular stamps. ,

Four Eltham residents had an unenviable experience while fishing at Pukearuhe. They had waded across deep water to a flat rock island where they soon obtained several fish, but the tidies Were high and jthey had inot noticed the rarpid rise until a big wave surged over the rock, washing a wav their food and fish. I n this predicament they had to await the fall of the tide before returning to the shore.

Visitors to Sydney during the Harbour Bridge Carnival will have a choice of four special “Ecso” train four-dav tours which will traverse very inter 7 esting scenic, farming, fruit and mining districts. The itineraries have been planned by the Railway Commissioners to ensure a maximum of sight-seeing with a minimum of cost, and with the utmost comfort. Each tour will be personally conducted and excursionists will have opportunities of meeting the leading residents of districts visited.

The Now Zealand Poultry Association, in Furtherance of the Regis’ration Bill which it desires Parliament to make Jaw, intends to meet interested members when the House opens on February 23rd.

No speedway meeting will bo hold at Palmerston North this week, 'but it is understood that the next fixture will be on February 17th, when Kilmister, Tonks, Key and Grogley will participate in special match races. There will also be silver sash, handicap and “big six” events.

A painful accident befel Mr Geo. Rough, sr.r., of Foxton, on Friday, lie was engaged in repairing a weigh bridge at Harper Bros.’ mill. Levin, when a heavy beam fell from a trolley and struck his right leg, severely straining the tendons, and inccessitating -medical attention on Mr Rough’s return to Foxton. It will be some days before Mr Rough will 'be able to resume work.

Under the Unemployment Board’s subsidy scheme, Harper Bros.’ flaxmill at Levin worked the greater part of last week. Messrs Ross, Rough and Co.’s mill at Foxton started operations on Friday and it was anticipated that Mukupai, at Shannon, will re-open today as soon as the men engaged in ever-hauling the plant have completed operations. Thus this week should see the three mills for which arrangements have been made with the Unemployment Board in full swing.

A half-grown but well-developed pe jguin which had obviously died but a short while previously was found between the railway line and the Hima-tangi-Foxton Road about half a -mile from Motuiti. The discovery of the penguin so far inland .was somewhat mystifying and it is a matter for conjecture whether its own wanderings iiad carried it to the place where it died, or whether it had been transported thither from the beach by the occupants of some car.

When only three men answered ,an advertisement asking .for volunteers to cultivate vegetable plots, the executive set up by the unemployed of Blenheim to organise gardening schemes threatened to resign their positions. It was remarked that the men seemed to regard the matter as a joke. Mr J. Stevenson, secretary, declared that his time was too valuable to waste if no results were forthcoming. Other members expressed similar sentiments, and said they would not carry on unless the men as a body showed more appreciation of the chances offered them.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian ChurcU of New Zealand will open its annual conference in Christchurch on February 23rd. Some 150 to 170 ministers and an equal number of elders, from all parts of New Zealand, are expected. The retiring Mod erator, Rev. John Collie, of Dunedin, will preside at the opening and will then retire in favour of the moderatorelect, Rev. Adam Begg, of Timaru, who will deliver the opening address, A moderator-elect,, to take office as Moderator in 1933, will be announced before the assembly concludes.

Ironic subtleties in official documents, whether intended or unconscious, are seldom met with, but the British (Past Office lhas (perpetrated an amusing example in connection with the recent air mail from Australia to England, and return. Everyone knows the -unfortunate mishaps and delays that befel the Southern Sun and the Southern Star, though Kingsford Smith eventually did bring the mails safely home. On a letter received in Christchurch during the week, the air mail adhesive stamp “Par Avion” is obliterated (by the Post Office’s slogan, “It’s quicker to telephone.”

At the annual meeting of the Levin W.C.T.U. all the officers were re-elect-ed, these being as follows: —Mrs Cummins, President; Mesdames Gibson and Young, vice-Presidents; Mrs Kennerley, Treasurer; Mrs Meyers, corresponding secretary; Mrs Sorensen, recording secretary; Mrs Gibson, “White Ribbon” paper; Mrs Rawson, membership; Mrs W. M. Allan, literature; Mrs Nyc, cradle-roll; Mrs 'Chalk, L.T.L.; Mrs Treen, reporter; Mrs Andricksen, evan gelistic, home and mothers’ meetings. Most satisfactory reports were given of every branch of the Union’s work. The President ex)pressed thanks to all officers for their loyal co-operation during the year, for the happy spirit in which meetings had been carried through and the termination of a most successful year. Rev. Mr Slade was (for his (kind assistance on several occasions and a hearty vote of thanks was accorded the Press. The Dominion Convention will be held in Wanganui in March. Once upon a time toasted tobacco 'was quite a novelty. People knew all about toasted cheese, and toasted kidneys —but toasted tobacco! To-day every smoker knows that toasting tobacco (rather a costly and elaborate process) rids it of most of its nicotine, thus removing a common cause of throat irritation. It takes out every bit of “bite” and seals in the flavour of the world’s finest tobacco. It is the delicious mellow richness of the New Zealand product that distinguishes it from the imported brands, all of which contain far more of the poisonous nicotine than is wise for any smoker to constantly inhale. But the immense popularity of the New Zealand goods has had the usual result. It has brought a number of imitations into the field. So when buying remember that the genuine toasted article is confined to four brands: Riverhead Goffi, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish and Cut Plug No. 10. They range from a mild aromatic /to a full-flavoured tobacco such as the old smoker always prefer,*

Several books have been written >n the present world wide depression and many pages have ibeen devoted to suggesting remedies, but the most concise treatise so far is a pamphlet' publisned by P B. Fitzherbert, entitled, “The Money Famine Starves Civilisation.” Simple matters such as thrift have been omitted to give space to more important material, which is dealt with in a concise manner in the 20 pages. The pamphlet is procurable from Wm. Stannard at Is.*

The municipal elections in Wellington last year cost the city £2533, £330 in excess of the estimate.

Eighteen Masterton residents were each fined 25s and 15s 3d costs on Friday for using garden hoses, contrary to the Borough by-laws.

Accounts amounting to £165,477 19s 2d wore passed for payment by the finance committee of the_ Wellington City Council on Monday night.

A powdering of snow on the Tararuas W! is noticeable on Sunday morning after the frost of the previous • Snow in mid-summer is hard to peninc/ Und lnust bc an unique hap-

P; ' rC l rll t l s fi° t dd warn their children Perms' in ° r .n reabin g of insulators and b 3 schcme nCCt T witk tlle Power have been broken L^OmiU^f 8 ’ date and action is to lu- tvu recent those doing the •«»““

Of dark brown plumage with light spots a New Zealand shining cuckoo has been found and it to be stuffed in Taranaki and placed in the Now Plymouth Museum. The bird, which is about ten inches long, with a very long tail, is thought to have been electrocuted.

A peak of 7850 feet in the “Two Thumb’’ Range, comprising the God-ley-Rangitata watershed of the Southern Alps, has been named Mount .Coates with the consent of Et. Hon. J. G. Coates. This mountain lies between Mounts D’Archiac (9279 ff) and Forbes (8385 ft). v '

The chairman of the Wairarapa South County Council (Mr. T. Moore) remarked at Saturday’s meeting of the Council that the financial position of the County was good, but it would not be wise to plunge into any great- expense before the end of March, as in the following year it was manifest that heavy calls would be made on he County’s financial resources.

Bread will become cheaper at the beginning of next month, according to a prominent Wellington master,' baker. He said that it would have to drop in price on account of the reduced price of wheat. It is also believed that the 10 per cent cut in wages will have some effect on the position, but the amount of the reduction has not yet been fixed, and the matter will not be settled until the end of the month.

Just before 2 o’clock this afternoon the Fire Brigade received a call to Weraroa where a grass fire threatened damage to buildings behind the Werajoa Service Station. A lead was put out from Seddon Street and the conflagration was soon under control. No damage resulted. The siren -was also sounded at 5.15 p.m. on Saturday for & similar outbreak at the corner of Weraroa and Mako Mako Roads. In „

that instance the fire was extinguished before the fire engine arrived.

Well dressed women went the other day to the mid-season show of one of London’s smart dress designers, and heard him dictate their wardrobes for 1932. “You will rustle next spring,’’ he warned them. Every underslip will be of taffeta, and every dress will rustle.’’ In rustled one of his most beautiful models, “Before Dawn.” The whole gown of blue grey, bodice and skirt, was knife-pleated, and underneath stood out a taffeta skirt of pale pink. The price of every model was announced. This departure from the conventions of the exclusive dress salon has been made necessary by the economy wave.

The statement that experiments conducted in Australia have proved, that selected New Zealand flax has yielded as high as 71.575 per cent, of alpha cellulose, is made by Mr A. K. Wilson, of Sydney, in a letter to the Auckland Herald. Cellulose is used for making artificial silk yarns, cellulose hydrate, transparent sheets, moulded plastics, decorative wall boards for panelling and for paper. For the production of these goods white spruce supplies 85 -per cent, of the pulp requirements. Mr Willson says that the percentage cf Cellulose yield from the selected flax is substantially in excess of the highest yields yet obtained from white spruce. To produce the goods of which cellulose is the basis, over 3,000,000 tons of green leaf would be required annually.

“Too many grocers still look upon advertising as a needless expense, and waste of money. Poor advertising may be, but good advertising is the bfeblood of business,” declared Mr. Eric Gray, in his presidential address to the conference of the New Zealand Master Grocers’ Federation yesterday. Cease to advertise and your business will surely die. If advertising does not pay, why do Wrigley’s, Wanamaker s Gamage’s, Heinz, and thousands of other successful business firms spend such vast sums of money on advertising? It is just as important to include a definite appropriation for advertising in your budget as it is allow for payment of wages. One ox the most successful grocers of y day, the late Sir Thomas PiP ton >? a a motto which is right to the point, and worth adopting: ‘The man who on his trade Must either bust, or advertise.