Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LII, Issue 4685, 21 November 1931, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A ticket rnndn out to “‘Two Timers,” Flitter SI., Foxton, was smeessful in winning' a .ClIII) prize in the Irish Free Stale sweepstake. The purchaser of the tieket is engaged on loeal unemployment relief work.

Colonel Burton and StalV-Capiain Sam Hayes will be conducting the evening meeting at 7 pan. in Ihe Salvation Army hall to-morrow evening. Staff-Captain Hayes will be saying farewell on this occasion as he leaves next week for his new appointment in the Auekland prnvinee.

Bowlers, tennis and eriekel players should see the values in blazers, trousers, and sox at the C. I'dRoss Co.’s, flood blazers half price. Cream trousers from 10/11, worth double. Sox from !/- pair.f “Air. Holland's platform id printing press finance and high wages is nothing ij.ut. a bold and unashamed bid offered by Labour to the unthinking for power at any price,” says Air 0. S. MaeKcnzie, Liberal candidate for Waitaki. “No member of Parliament is desirous of reducing wages except as an urgent necessity, but what an employer can pay depends on how much he can get for what lie produces.”

All wool Colonial Bathing costumes: 7/11 for 4/11 ; !)/(> for b/1 E 10/0 for 7/11; 31/0 for 8/11. Lowest prices on record at the ('. AI. Ross Co.’s.f

To carry out bill two portions of the Labour programme, the taxpayer's would have to [pud nearly C 10,000,000 according to the Afinister. The restoration of the wage and salary cuts would involve .C1,500,D1M), and between £ 000,000 and £7,000,000 would have to be provided to place the unemployed oil-works at lull time and award rates. Then Labour proposed to take eoiilrol of the banking system. “T think it would need to,” said Air Forbes, at Rangiora. “To do what it sets out to do would need a couple of banking systems.”

At. a meeting of the Tlovowbenna Rower Board on Tuesday, Mr A. E. Hyde asked if the board had at any time considered the advisability id obtaining slot meters for use in tenanted houses. The Engineei (Mr .T. A. Smith) stated that such meters were costly and the expense of their maintenance would be rather heavy. Mr IT vde said be had noticed that they were in fairly extensive use in rented buildings in Palmerston North. The Engi.noer remarked that three different rates of payment lor current were in force in this Beard's district; and he thought that slot meters would cost about three times as much as the meters at present in use. Air. Hyde said lie bad thought that slot meters might be suitable for seaside settlements. The Engineer stated that under the existing system of supply in the Board’s district, the tenants were required to pay a deposit of .Cl.

Dr. D. Miller, of the Cnwlhrnu Institute, Nelson, has visited 01.• i£>*<i this month to investagate llie results or the Infest experiment. in the eontrol of gorse hv the liberating of apion weevils. These weevils, of European origin, live oln the sends of the gorse, burrowing into (he pods, sticking them <lry and depositing' eggs for the increase ol their race, ({real enre was taken before liberating' these' weevils to make sure that they would not at the same time destroy vegetation other than gorse. Tt was found that they would not take to peas or beans or any of the other varieties submitted. The gorse land chosen for their liberation is at Manuhorikia. Saddle Mill and Flagstall. Dr. Miller was so satisfied with the Otago experiment that lie has undertaken to send down another eonsignmen! of the apion.

An extraordinary accident happened at the rear of the Clyde Hotel, Wairoa, on Monday. Mr Svenson,othe proprietor, had emptied a barrel of whisky the previous day and had placed the barrel out in the yard behind Flint’s billiard room. A Mr Larsen, one of the hotel employees, peered into the open side of the barrel, where the plug had been taken out, hut forgot that he had alighted cigarette in his month. A terrific explosion occurred, resulting in a large pieee of the barrel being hurled 10 yards away, and Mr Larsen being badly burnt about the face and forehead. He was taken to |)r. ITalhvright for medical attention, and is progressing as well as can he expected, hut it will he some lime before he recovers. Fortunately, Air Larsen closed his eyes and although he was badly burned nil rouiul them it is not thought that his eyesight has been affected in any way. The sound of the explosion was heard some distance awav.

What matter if you’re poor, if strong, No wealth but thews and sinew, Digestion like a working horse, Pure blood that flows within you? Oh, health’s a pearl, a string of them ,To wear in life assure. For coughs and colds the pearl of all Is Woods’ Great Peppermint .'Cure.—2o.