Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3828, 7 August 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Six bankruptcies were filed in Masterton for the month of July. To Motorists: Fill up at Fairoy’s Refreshment Rooms. The spirit with which we serve you will please you. Hot pies, mashed potatoes and peas, 9d; for the ladies dainty morning and afternoon tea, 9d. Rest room for Ladies. Mothers with babies special attention. Plunket Rooms on premises. Open on Thursdays, at Fairey’s, Foxton.*

What is believed to be the highest price ever paid in New Zealand for a sucking pig was obtained last week at a sale at Kohimarama, Auckland. The young pig, a large white Yorkshire boar, was one of the progeny of the pigs imported by Mr. Anderson from Canada last year, and was only about a month old. It was sold to Mr. F. Discombe, a well known Waikato breeder, for 20 guineas. “It is marvellous what some people will do,” declared the chairman of the Hawcra School Committee during a discussion as to the safe steward-ship of school property. “The other night a load of shingle on the side of a country road ready for commencement of a job next morning was not all there when the men arrived. A lorry had been pulled up in the dark and the shingle shovelled and parted away. Several times similar occurrences have been known.”

In the year 1352 haymakers were paid Id a day; a mower of meadows 3d a day; or 5d an acre in England. Reapers of corn in the first week in August, 2d a day, in the second 3d a day, and so on till the end of August, without meat, drink, or any allowance, finding their own tools. For threshing' a quarter of wheat or rye 2Ad, a quarter of barley, beans, peas, and oats lid. A master carpenter earned 3d a day, other carpenters 2d; a master mason 4d a day, other masons 3d, and their servants lid a day. Tilers 3d, and their “knaves” lid, thatchers 3d a day, plasterers and other works of mud walls, and their knaves, in like manner, without meat or drink; and this from Easter to Michaelmas, and from that time less, according to the direction of the justices.

Tobacco, always a joy to the smoker, is never perhaps, better appreciated than on a long railway journey when one has, perforce, to remain a prisoner for hours at a time. Such is the beneficent influence of the weed that it will relieve even the tedium of the longest journey. But on a trip like that you want a brand you can smoke all day without tongue or throat or nerves being affected. “Where is such tobcaco to be obtained?” you may ask. Why, any tobacconist will supply you. What strength do you like? Ask for “Riverhead Gold” if you fancy something mild and aromatic, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog), if you prefer a medium blend, or “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead), if you arc addicted to a full-flavoured ’bac-cy. These brands are grown and manufactured in New Zealand. They are all toasted in the making and'hence their flavour and fragrance. They can be smoked pipeful after pipeful, with impunity because unlike the imported tobaccos, they are comparatively free from nicotine. That’s why doctors recommend them.

The New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board reports that to date 13,000 carcases of lamb have been delivered in the United Kingdom under the scheme by which the board delivers single carcases to friends of New Zealanders. Among the private companies recently registered in Wellington is one with a capital of £lO. It has an issue of 200 shares, of which 199 are held by one shareholder and one share by a second holder. The objects of the company are stated to 1)0 dealing in land, house and other property, and incidental. The Island Widow at the C. M. Ross Coy’s, contains the best values in Ladies’ Undies ever offered anywhere.*