LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3967, 23 September 1930, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Present indications are. that the Old Timers’ Dance, promoted by the Lake County A. and P. Society, which takes place in the Athenaeum Hall on Friday exening next, will be as successful as previous year’s functions. At a meeting of ladies, held in the Council Chambers on Thursday last, a strong committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements in connection with the provision of supper in the Haeremai Tea Rooms . The Mount Cook Motor Co. has kindly consented to run special buses between Queenstown and Arrowtown at a nominal return fare of four shillings. The music for the dance will be supplied by Mr W, Hardy’s orchestra from Cromwell. Tickets "may be obtained from members of the A. and P. Society. The Arrow Lawn Tennis Club will open the season on Wednesday, Ist October, when members of other clubs and the general public are invited to attend. A dance will be held in the Atheneura Hall in the evening. A Bible Class “rally" was held in St. John’s Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening, 11th inst. A number of", representatives from the Queenstown and Lower Shotover classes were present. Addresses were given by the Revs. J. Kilpatrick and M. Jackson and Mrs W. H. Berry, leader of the Queenstown class. The visitors were afterwards entertained by the members of the local Bible Class at tea in Mrs Johnston’s hall. A most enjoyable evening followed with various competitions and games. The erection of the dam at the intake of the Arrow river irrigation works is now completed, and it is expected that the water will be turned on shortly.

Considerable activity has been displayed recently by the beat Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial Committee. Members of the committee, assisted, by others, have done a good deal of work in clearing Soldiers’ Hill o'f noxious weeds, etc. The water has been laid on, and a number of trees and shrubs have been planted. It is hoped to make the Hill one of the beauty spots of Arrowtown.

The Arrow Borough Council has recently gone in for a free-planting scheme. A number of pinus insignis trees have been purchased, and these have been planted on a section adjoining the cemetery and in the Recreation ground. Mr James Smith is still engaged in cutting up fall to his Shamrock claim, ■but he expects to commence sluicing operations shortly. Messrs Win. Reid and Sons, Arrowtown, notify the farming community that they have partridge peas for sale, suitable for seed.

The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Collie Club will be held at Arrowtown on Oct. 11.

Separate tenders for supplies to the Lnke County Co - operative Dairy Co., Ltd. close with the secretary, Mr A. P. Griffin, Queenstown next Monday, at 5 p.m. Attention is drawn to an alteration in the advt. regarding the tenders invited for the supply of coal. This now reads: ‘‘Cartage of approximately 50 of coal from Bannockburn to factory.” Inventors have long been trying to produce a tobacco-pipe capable of neutralising or absorbing the nicotine contained in tobacco. Up-to-date none of them nave succeeded. The fact is they are parking up the wrong tree, or puttina the cart before the horse. The only effectual way of eliminating nicotine from the tobacco leaf is to toast the Jitter. This process gets rid of so much of the poison that the small balance remaining is negligible. It also imparts to the tobacco a flavour and aroma jtou may seek in vain in the imported brands, which full of nicotine as they usually are, are liable to cause heart km nerve trouble to the smoker. No |uch drawback exists in the case of ijNew Zealand toasted. Smoke it as freely as you please, it cannot harm you. It’s fangs are drawn! It is tbasted. There are only four brands—Riverhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. No others are manufactured, and connoisseurs pronounce them as fully equal in all respects to leaf grown in any part of the world.