LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4011, 4 August 1931, Page 5

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were slight falls of snow on Thursday and Friday nights. At Crown Terrace there was a depth ot about four inches on Saturday morning. The County match, Vincent v Maniototo, played at Ranfurly, on the 25th nit., resulted in a win lor Vincent by 8 points to 6. In keeping with their accustomed enterprise the Arrow Stoics (Messrs McGiil and Saunders) are in bright and early with seeds for the plantseason. Fanners and gardeners would do well to lodge their orders with- ' out delay. J. M. (“Dick”) Feebly, Heriot, a former member of the Arrow 'lootball Club, was selected to play lor combined Tuapeka-West Otago team in the country matches in pune.Uu on Thursday last The rainfall for the month of July, as recorded by Miss Hamilton, Auov town, was as follows: —Rainfall toi the month, 322 points; days on "Inch rain fell, 14 days; maximum fall, 59 points on the 4th. ihe rainfall for July last year was 126 points for i days. Messrs A. Goodley and Son.', of Roslyn, Dunedin, and formerly of Arrowtown, have purchased the storekeeping and bakery business ol Mr J. C. McClymont, Waikouati, and entered into possession on the Ist inst. Arrow and St. Joseph’s (Queenstown) basketball teams met on the Arrow Public School grounds on Wednesday afternoon last, when after a keenly contested game, the Arrow girls were victorious by 8 goals to 3. For the winners the goals were shot by Annie Fitzgerald (6) and Elaine Peterson (2).

You can go right through the whole winter a cough-proof man or woman if you use “NAZOL" —the scientific remedy. Disinfects the points of in. fection. 120 full doses for 2s 6d. GO doses for Is 6d. A new American service from San Francisco to Sydney via Auckland and other ports has been inaugurated, the Matson liner Sonoma arriving in Auck land during the week on the first trip under these auspices. This Matson service was dropped 25 yeans ago. Another big yield of barley is reported from Crown Terrace. A small area on Mi’ W. H. Thompson’s farm threshed out at an average of slightly over 98 bushels per acre. A radical change in totalisator betting is embodied in proposals to be submitted in the New Zealand Trotting Conference next month by the executive committee. At present dividends are paid on the first and second horses where there are more than five uubracketed starters, and it is now proposed to include a dividend on the third horse as well. Power is also given for the payment of a dividend on the first horse only. If the proposals are adopted investors will be able to bet on the straightout system, that is, for a win only, or on the place system, first, second or third. These systems are in vogue at Randwick, Sydney, and have proved very popular. Those who profess to believe that as a result ol the low prices for pro-

duce there has been a falling oil' in the demand for farm properties may be surprised to learn (says the Express; that, in Marlborough at least, there is still plenty of evidence of a very real land hunger and a keen demand for farms, provided that the price is right. As an illustration of this a firm of agents recently advertised for sale or lease a .small farm property handy to Blenheim. They received a dozen replies, of which nine or ten are from good “prospects” with money available for investment in the land. Cabled from London the other day that Londoners now consume 50 per cent less alcohol and smoke 100 per cent more tobacco than formerly. Yet the enemies of the weed wih insist that smoking invariably leads to drinking, and that the confirmed smoker is usually a confirmed sot. But the cablegram seems to give the lie direct to that assertion, it is a lie, because tobacco quite often does away with the craving for alcohol. And while liquor, taken to excels, fuddles the brain, and destroys the ability to think clearly, tobacco has precisely the opposite effect. It is a sedative and nervesoother. But beware of over-indul-gence in tobacco unless it’s pure! If overloaded with nicotine, as the foreign tobaccos generally are, it will infallibly wreck the health, sooner or later). The world’s purest tobacco is tne toasted New Zealand. The toasting kills the poison, leaving the tobacco pure, sweet, mellow, fragrant and innocuous. There are only four brands of toasted: Eiverhead Gold, Cavendish. Navy Cut No .3 and Cut Plug No. 10.