Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3527, 21 August 1926, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local State School broke mp yesterday for a fortnight's holiday.

At Hastings, for being fn possession of an unlicensed radio wireless set, a man was fined £lO. We were informed by a Moutoa settler to-day that it is five weeks since the punt has been in operation.

Owing to indisposition several of the performers at Thursday night's concert were unable to fulfil their engagements. We are informed that the Sports Queen committee intend to give performances at Oroua Downs and Glen Oroua at an earlv date.

“This covers accident, fire or theft,” said the Town Clerk of Te Kuiti on Wednesday night when the insurance of the Borough steam roller was being discussed. Mr A. Walsh, son of Mr. Walsh of Coley Street, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis in the Palmerston North Hospital, is, we are pleased to state, making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

A meeting of the Foxton Amateur Cycling Club was held last night, when it was decided to write to the Borough Council requesting that the cycle track be laid down in Easton Park.

During the course of a law suit in Los Angeles recently, it was revealed that Howard Dignall had been earning £2OO a monthly'buying and re-selling gold teeth taken from the mouths of corpses by undertakers.

The Foxton friends of Mr. R„ Reid, of the Stale Forestry Service, will regret to lparn that he is at present in hospital at Hamner (North Canterbury), suffering from a broken ankle. Mr. Reid was until recently stationed at Tangimonnn, and was well-known locally.

Rabbitskins were selling recently at 13d apieee (says the North Otago Times) . It is estimated that the sales of rabbitskins in Dunedin last week, covering a fortnight’s consignments, realised over £OO,000. One buying firm alone made purchases to the value of over £13,000. The streets of Greymouth were lighted elec.tiijeally for the first time with current from the Power Board’s steam generating plant at Dobson on Tuesday. Two hundred street lamps were lighted. The ceremony inaugurates “Brighter Greymouth Week Celebrations.”

Ais a result of a bottle-gathering campaign indulged in by the school children of the Pio Pio school, Ohakune, the school benefited, with the subsidy, to the' extent of a new (£OS), piano and a sewing machine, valued at (£ls) and with these expenditures there was still a balance of £54. —Ohakune Times.

“Could I make arrangements to hire the county roller to roll niv pastures,” wrote a settler in the valley of the Kiwitea County Council this week (says the Feilding Star). “I understood progressive farmers adopt this practice.” The farmers on the council were evidently not as progressive as the applicant, for they scarcely agreed with the scheme.

An annual camp of ‘territorials will be..held at Trcntliam between August 24th and September 4fh, forming the biggest military camp assembled in the Dominion since the war. About 30 young men will be attending from Poston. The camp will comprise Ist Infantry Battalion, Wellington, and West Coast Regiment and will be under the command of Col. P. K. Turnbull, D.S.O. with Capt. D. 11. Donaldson, N.Z.'S.C. as adjutant. The local boys will leave Poston by train on Tuesday morning. A conference of delegates representing the Palmerston North and Poston Boroughs, Ivairanga and Manawatu Counties, and Manawatu Drainage Board, was held in Palmerston North yesterday, to discuss the question of united action in connection with the opposing of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board’s scheme for controlling tho lower reaches of the Manawatu river. The Mayor (Mr. P. J. Nathan) presided, and after a lengthy discussion, the services of Mr. R. W. Holmes, engineer, were engaged, and he was instructed to confer with the solicitor representing the local bodies at the forthcoming commission and prepare a defence.

The following- piece of history is interesting. (The first newspaper in the world was published on Rialto in Venice, and was sold for a coin called “Gazetta.” Hence the word gazette.

Owing to the advances in Australia flour, and the corresponding increase in New Zealand wheat, the millers have decided to increase the price of Hour to £2O 5s per ton, less 2i per cent, for cash, sacks in. s The following amounts forwarded to various Government departments by unknown persons as conscience money are acknowledged in the Gazette: £2, to the Railway Department, Dunedin: £5, the Defence Department, Wellington; 2s fid and £l, to the Treasury, Wellington. In a reserved judgment at Blen-' heim, Mr. Meldrum, S.M., convicted o Maori, W. Finley, on charges of being in possession of trout and native pigeons out of season. He vetoed defendant’s claim of the Maori right to kill game between Mount Tuliua and the sea under the Treaty of Waitangi. Defendant was fined 10s. and costs on one charge and convicted and ordered to pay costs on a second.

An accident that is probably unique in New Zealand was mentioned at the meeting of the Eketahnna County Council bn Saturday ns having occurred during the recent rains (says an exchange). A culvert; fell in on Central road, and a couple of hurdles were placed in the approaches. A hoy riding a pony was going along the road at dusk, and apparently did not understand why the hurdles had been, placed there. In any case, he put the pony at the obstacle, which it cleared in a flying leap —and landed partly in -the subsidence. A fa'.l for horse and rider down some fifteen feet of filling then resulted. The boy went right down into the water, and held on to the bridle determinedly, hut eventually it came off and the pony disappeared into the culvert, .the hoy heard a noise and ran to fbo other end ot the culvert, where the pony finally reappeared. It had sustained considerable damage in its passage through fififl of a 3ft. Gin. culvert.

Tt is Ihe roasting' of coffee-ber-ries that results in the development of the exquisite flavour so much appreciated by coffee-drinkers. That is well known. Bui it is not so well k flown that our New Zealand-grown tobaccos are now subjected to the same roasting or 'toasting process, and the same result. The flavour is brought fully out, while at the same time the deleterious properties of the tobacco are destroyed. All tobaccos, no matter where grown, have this in common —that they contain nicotine, some more, some less. And it is this poison that is chietllv responsible for the sufferings of those who indulge too freel/i„ the use of the fragrant weed. Heart and nerves are generally affected and often the eyesight. Scientists now tell us that toasting neutralises part of the nicotine and that toasted tobaccos may, therefore, be smoked with impjuity. They recommend Riverhead Gold, mild and aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium strength; and the full bodied Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead label). All are toasted.*