Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3834, 21 August 1928, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. N. G. Lewis, a young barrister, of Wellington, has been chosen to stand in the Reform interests for the Wanganui seat. At the local police court yesterday, before Mr. J. K. Ilornblow, J.P., a first offending inebriate was convicted and discharged. Mrs. C. Cronf|uest, of Shannon, was highly commended in the contralto solo class (own selection) at the Wellington Competition on Saturday.

The local territorials and senior cadets went into camp at the racecourse yesterday morning. The camp is in charge of Sergt.-Major Thompson. There are about (30 cadets and territorials receiving instruction which will be of a week’s duration.

The following committees have been elected by the Wanganui Education Board: —Finance: Messrs Hemingway, Ilornblow, and Woodrolfe. Boundaries and By-laws: Messrs Tingey, Oram, Ilornblow, Coleman, and the new member to be appointed for the northern end. A motor collision took place between two motor cars on the Bun-nythorpe-Ashhurst road on Saturday night. Mr. Currie, of Bunnythorpe, the occupant of one car sustained injuries to his ribs and shoulder. The occupants of the ,other car, Messrs Thompson and .'"Doyle, of Palmerston North, were uninjured. Both cars were badly damaged. “Have you got a spare pair of strides?” was the plaintive request from one of the local players during the Rugby game at the racecourse on Saturday. The distressed one whose shorts were ripped up the side was urged by the spectators to “play on.” However he subsequently found a pair of “longs,” in which he was a conspicuous figure and apparently caught the referee’s eye -for offside play.

Fashions in foods are ever changing, states the Dunedin correspondent of the Lyttelton Times. Of late, in Dunedin, at any rate, prunes are particularly in favour as an accompaniment to the breakfast porridge, being served regularly at the big hotels and boarding houses. For this new departure there is warrant from the doctors. As it chances this dried fruit is relatively cheap just now, the Californian tinners being content with lower prices than usual. For the consignment, of prunes and other hydrated fruits to arrive from America .in November and December somewhat higher values will rule. To Motorists: Fill up at Fairey’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.* The Prime Minister was fined half-a-crown by the Wanganui Rotary Club yesterday. The charge, as read by Mr.. J. Foster, was as follows: —“It is some time since you have been in Wanganui.” Mr. Coates paid up with a smile. Rotarians then sang “Hello, Digger, you’re a friend of mine.” A similar fine was inflicted on Mr. W. S. Glenn, JVI.P. for Rangitikci, for “being in bed at 7.30 p.m. when rung up the other night.” In separating himself from the coin of the realm, Mr. Glenn said it was through the service of his country that he had had to retire so early.

A meeting of the town committee of the United Sports Association, presided over bv Mr. W. T. Jewell, was held on Saturday night, when final arrangements were made in connection with the programme for the sports meeting to be held on Labour Day.

A message from Winnipeg states that Sir Joseph Ward, New Zealand, intimated in an interview on Sunday that he Had been asked by a cable sent at the instance of 50 candidates of the United Party to become leader. He declined to say whether be would accept or not. Ho would not discuss the political situation in New Zealand.

A meeting of the creditors of Mr. J, B. Batchelor, the young Christchurch solicitor for whose arrest a warrant was issued recently, has been called for next Wednesday afternoon. Since the warrant was issued the police have been unsuccessful in their efforts to find Bachelor, and bis office in Hereford Street is locked. He is understood to have gone to the North Island.

The Reform candidature at Wellington East is threatened with being split as the result of the announcement of a contestant against Mr. Forsyth. In response to a largely-signed petition, Mr. J. J. Clark, of Kilbirnie, a well known resident and pioneer officer of the Reform League, has consented to stand in the Reform interests. The sitting member declines to submit to a selection ballot.

On the morning of July 27 last George Alfred Taylor said good-bye to his wife and rode off on Iris hic yele from his homo at 459 Harewood Road, Christchurch. Since that day, nearly a month back, he has neither been seen nor heard of. Taylor is six feet tall, with a fresh complexion and fair hair. He was ;> labourer employed by the Waimakariri County Council.

“In some quarters I am called the pessimistic member of the Cabinet, hut sometimes to he an optimist is to be a darned fool,” said t*e Hon. A. D. McLeod, in replying to a deputation of poultry farmers at Christchurch. The Minister said that he had the records of between 10,000 and 11,000 discharged soldiers who had been settled on the land in every branch of farming, and the highest percentage of failures was in the poultry industry. Out of 164 soldiers who had been settled and financed in the poultry industry, there had been (32 absolute failures. That showed that the poultry industry was one that must he assisted if it were going to he enlarged. ,

“One hears a good deal to-day about the feeling between the North Island and the South Island,” said the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Industries and Commerce, in the course of his address at the opening of (lie winter show in the King Edward Barracks recently (reports the “Sun”). “I want to see that pass away. As a North Island man, I can assure you we up there love you all in the .South. You’ll prohahlf saf that that love is the same as a calf has for its mother —for all it can get out of it. But a national outlook will he better for this country than a parochial one. That little strip of water, does not divide the two islands as much as some people think. We owe a lot to the South Island, and we will probably owe a lot more —if we can borrow any more!”

“Wlmt a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest we owe to the discovery of America.” So wrote I lie late Sir Arthur Helps, and millions of smokers the world over have doubtless endorsed his words. But great as is our indebtedness to America for giving us the priceless boon of tobacco, the fact remains that practically all the Arnerican brands in use to-day contain an excess of nicotine. And that is had, as any doctor will tell you. It is no less true that the purest tobaccos of all, —i.e., those comparatively free from nicotine are our own New Zealand varieties. They are so pure in fact, that they may he indulged in with the utmost impunity. The leaf is toasted in the process of manufacture. Hence their delicious flavour and delightful fragrance. They come in several strengths, and are thus adapted to all tastes. You can get them at any tobacconist’s. Ask for “Riverhoad Gold” mild, “Navy Cut” (Bulldog) medium, or “Gut Plug No. 10” (Bullshead) full strength.

“I say without fear of contradiction that we could reduce our criminal population by 75 per cent, if only we could understand social delinquents, trace their individual histories, and exercise the neces- • sary amount of patience with them,” declared the Rev. Jasper Calder the other evening, according to the Auckland “Star,” at a meeting held under the auspices of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Mr. Cafiler said he had been dealing with defectives of one kind or another tor 21 years, and he had found it was not so muq|i their failure as the failure of sodial workers to understand them. He was not a perfect criminologist, hut he did know that each delinquent required individual treatment. It was only by a study of practical psychology that a way could he opened to the study and understanding of delinquents. Practical experience was essential in dealing with defectives of any kind. It was all very well for wiseacre professors, whose knowledge came from a study of hooks, to make pronouncements, hut his opinion was that they would he in a muddle if they tackled the problem as social workers were doing.

For the'first time in the history of! the local Preshy tori an Church tv.o lndv members, Mesdamcs J. Thomson and McEwnn, took their seats as members of the deacons’ court or management committee, and were welcomed by the chairman Mr. Nicholas.

The Wanganui Harbour Board lias completed the purchase of Balgownie swamp, the price being £IOOO. This well-known tract of rnupo country close to the mouth of the river, was offered some years ago at £75 an acre, and later at a total price of £IO,OOO. The area is over 100 acres in extent, and should one day be a great asset to ’the Board, says the Chronicle. A discovery, which, if entirely successful, should be the means of relieving back-country runholders of bidibidL upon their land, was reported to a meeting of the Poverty Bay executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union last week. Mr. D. W. Camming stated that while he was on Messrs Henson and Green’s station at Matawai, he was shown a white fungus, which he was told attacked the bidibidi roots. It had been noticed during the last few years, and it appeared like an aphis on the roots of the plants. It was agreed that the discovery should lie a very valuable one, and it was agreed that Mr. Camming should procure a sample and send it to the Government entomologist.

To escape the fury of the ship’s cat guarding her kittens, a young Alsatian dog jumped overboard from the steamer Cambridge, which reached Auckland from Liverpool on Tuesday (says the Herald), when the vessel was in the Pacific. The dog concerned, and also another one of the same breed on board, are consigned to Lyttelton. When the incident occurred the vessel was steaming over 1-1 knots, and soon the dog was far astern. When the alarm of “man overboard" was given, the Cambridge was immediately swung round and was steered back. The weather was fine and when the steamer was stopped no difficulty was experienced in launching a lifeboat and rescuing the dog which, during the remainder of the voyage gave the cat and her kittens a wide berth.

Deseribed as a “rotten system” and “a relie of barbarism,” members of the Wanganui Education Board on Wednesday commented strongly on the delay of a fortnight in the declaration- of the result of Board elections. “The Department has promised to keep the matter steadily in view,” said one member,' “and says that it is a matter for the legislature.” It was decided to make farther representations. A man who answered a complaint that he had failed to support his wife and family by saying that lie had been out of work for some lime and all bis earnings were “morigaged up before lie got them,”, was quickly taken up hv Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court in Wellington. “The first mortgage is his wife and child,” said Mr. Salmon. “The number of men who dodge their responsibilities is extraordinary.” A term of imprisonment was ordered in default of payment on the maintenance order.