The Levin Daily Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 July 1933, Page 4

The Levin Daily Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The first, consignment of 100 pairs of boots under the Unemployment Board’s mass supply scheme, arrived at Levin to-day and will bo distributed next Friday. These boots have all been worked for as provided by the regulations and are to supply the consequent orders. The administration is under the control of the Postmaster as local Registration Officer for the Unemployment Board.

Admirers of mountain scenery and trampers will be interested in a New Zealand Filmcraft production now showing at the Regent Theatre depicting a tramp over the Tasman Glacier and an ascent of Mt. Sterling. The huge ice crevices are clearly shown, whilst a perpendicular climb over a rocky face near the summit provides a thrill not often experienced in a scenic picture. The snow capped .peaks of Cook and Tasman make an ideal background.

“New Zealanders ought to be happy,” wrote Captain Goring in. “Travel” on his return Home recently from touring Maoriland, “they have the loveliest scenery, a glorious climate, all the necessaries of life and most of its luxuries, including, perhaps, the finest tobacco heart of smoker can desire. As an old smoker myself the latter delighted me. Its supremacy, it seems, is largely due to the fact that, unlike any other tobacco with which I am acquainted, it is toasted. Does that little word convey anything to your mind.’ It assuredly would if you smoked this tobacco. The toasting of the leaf releases the ethereal oilis it contains. Hence its unique flavour and incomparable bouquet, also its comparative freedom from the deadly nicotine which is mostly eliminated by the toasting. Take it from me there is 3 no more delightful tobacco than this nor any so harmless.” This refers, as the New Zealand reader hardly needs to be reminded, to the four beautiful brands: Kiverhcad Gold, Navy Gut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). —357* Davie’s change of advt. in to-day’s issue gives another list of bargains for the week-end. A glance at the windows will convince you that you can buy your drapery at lower prices at this store.* When making-up your shopping list refer to .Yates’ Cash Stores’ advertisement in this issue. You will find every-day grocery lines listed there at keener prices.* A further list of week-end specials from Dempsey's shoe store is featured in, their advertisement to-daja,*

The annual meeting of the Levin Horticultural Society will be held in the 'Whakatane Club this evening at 7.30 p.m. All members and others interested in horticulture are invited to attend. The annual report and balance sheet will be presented and officers elected.

A settler in the Awaiti district, near Paeroa, Mr AV. Doran, was seriously injured in a painful accident the other morning. He was leading a horse across a broken-down fence and was holding the wire down with his foot when the horse jumped and knocked him over. As soon as Mr Doran’s foot loft the wire it sprung up and frightened the horse, which jumped on him. It was necessary to carry the injured man about a mile on a stretcher to the ambulance, owing to an unformed road being in a very rough condition.

Whilst repairing a high-pressure motor van tyre a Dunedin service station proprietor was the victim of a painful and somewhat unusual accident. He had finiished vulcanising a patch, and having affixed the lock ring, was pumping the tyre up, when without warning the tube blew out, the 'explosion being sufficient to drive the ring with, considerable /force against his head. Fortunately he was wearing a cap, the peak of which afforded some protection, but even then, the flying ring inflicted a gash in his forehead which necessitated the insertion of II stitches.

Interesting results are available from the 1933 mangel-growing competition held by the Manawatu-Oroua Boys’ and .Girls’ Agricultural Club. The record yield per acre has been exceeded in two instances this year, M. Lind (Rongotea. school) growing lC3i tons per acre, and P. Petersen (Makino) 151 tons. Thirteen plots averaged. over 100 tons to the acre. The average yield has steadily increased from 3(5.9 tons in 1925 to tons .this year. There was a total entry of 204 plots this year and 154 were presented for final judging. All tlfe crops produced were grown in 22-incdi (drills and 77 per cent, of these averaged over 50 tons per acre, bringing up the question as to whether the wider 30-inch drill that is generally accepted as the standard for mangels is necessary.

The inexplicable mental kink that leads people to destroy or interfere with road signs and finger-posts on the public highway is still in evidence in parts of the Horowhenua district, some not far removed from Levin. During a recent week-end the local patrol officer found that six signs had been damaged. Some were smashed by stones or physical violence, others had had one bolt unscrewed and the pointer turned upside down, while in yet other instances the finger posts were reversed. In certain cases, particular signs are regularly interfered with. So bad has the practice become that the Wellington Automobile Association is offering a substantial reward for evidence that will lead to the identification and conviction of those responsible for this senseless mischief. Persons able to give such information are invited-to communicate either with the local patrol officer or the secretary of the Association.