Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 4260, 4 November 1933, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Returns received by the Census and Statistics Office show that the estimated areas sown in cereals during the 1933-34 season will be: Wheat, 294,500 acres; oats: 330,500 acres; barley: 27,500 acres. It is estimated that 22,350 acres will be planted in potatoes. Sir Charles Kingston! Smith stated that he will compete in the Melbourne Century race, and then reuounco long-distance Hying. He did not regard flying to New Zealand as long-distance flying, as the journey could be made in daylight. He hoped to leave tor New Zealand early in January. The relief workers, under the supervision of Mr W. Neville, borough employee, have made a wonderful transformation of the late Tennis Club’s property (which has been taken over by the Borough Council) in Avenue Road. Grass and hard courts have been laid down and the banks uniformly terraced and improved. Last month £164 12/8 was lost from the office of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Later, reported the finance committee to a meeting of the Board last week, a bank note of £IOO was discovered in a drawer between two sheets of paper . “It is obvious that the whole packet of money had been stolen, and whoever took it had some difficulty in changing the note and placed it where it was found. The matter is in the hands of the police, added the report. The season for the export of eggs from Otago has now concluded, the total amounting to 3,777 crates of 30 dozen each. The final consignment, which was despatched by rail to Lyttelton for shipment by the Rangitikei, amounted to 1,601 crates, which is believed to be the largest shipment to date from any one centre in the Dominion. The price this year is about 1/9 per long hundred (as 10 dozen is known in the trade), lower, but this will be offset by the increased exchange rate, making the price f.o.b. about lOd per dozen. As a. result of two boys playing with gelignite and one losing a finger by explosion, the father of one of the boys, Robert Maben Currie, was charged in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court with being in possession on October 10, of three plug’s of gelignite and three detonators without lawful purpose, lhc defendant pleaded guilty. As the police did not press for a penalty he was convicted and discharged. He said he had been on contract work in the country. Some explosives were left over and he brought them home for safety. His son found them during his absence. Killing two birds with one stone is nothing to the double feat performed by a member of a partj of young men from New Plymouth who went on a pig-shooting expedition in the district near Matau recently. After tramping for some time the party found two pigs side by side, which the marksmen shot with one bullet, striking one in the head and the otlun in the shoulder. Later two eels were found feeding on some rubbish in a creek. With careful aim, and allowing for the deflection of the bullet by the water, the same marksman shot both with one bullet.

Two line instances of generosity in the service of the Anglican Maori Mission were cited by the Bishop of Aotearoa (the Right Rev. F. A. Bennett) in the course of bis seimon at St. Mary’s Church, at ITawcra. He said that at a settlement, Wainui, in the Waikato, an elderly Maori woman gave a site for a church and the sum of £l5O. The site was accepted with thanks and later she returned and added the sum of £l5O to the gift. In another locality in the far north, the Maoris felled kauri trees, sufficient to build a church, and carted them by bullock teams to the sawmill where they were prepared for use, and the whole building was erected and finished free of debt. It was in the “Cathedral City’’ that a smartly dressed lady went a-slumming. Interviewing' an old fellow in his wretched home she found him enjoying his pipe. “I’m glad,” she said, with a hard smile, “to see you can afford to smoke in spite of the hard times.” “D’you smoke yourself, ma’am?” queried the old man. The lady stared, “I smoke cigarettes—yes,” she replied. “The cigarette to well-to-do ladies is just a plaything,” said the ancient. “To me, friendless and weary, the pipe is a blessing unspeakable. I smoke but one pipe a day.” The lady, highly offended at such plain speaking, went. “Insolent,” she muttered. But was he? Tobacco has been reviled as healthdestroying. That depends. Look at our Few Zealand brands- —practically free from nicotine, therefore harmless. They’re toasted! Four varieties: Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and Riverhead Gold ,—the sweetest, wholesomest, and most delightful tobaccos procurable in this or any other country. They art absolutely pure! They will not affect heart, nerves, or throat I—Adyt.

A fairly sharp earthquake was experienced at 5.20 yesterday morning. The epicentre is given as 40 miles from Wellington, in CookStrait.

Judging by the enthusiastic cooperation of the pupils the school shop day, being held to-day promises to be a record success. The egg drive alone realised something over £5. There was a splendid display of sponge cakes and other edibles.

Ernest Cecil Hill, aged 31, married with no children, was found dead in a bedroom at his residence at Dobson on Thursday by his wife, who had been absent an hour. A pea rifle bullet had gone through his head. Deceased was a relief worker who had been in ill-health. During Thursday night the Palmerston North Girls’ High School and College Street school were tiro-' ken into, entrance being gained in each case by means of broken windows. The intruder was in search of money, but secured very little for his unauthorised efforts. A claim for a. writ of mandamus commanding the Horowhenua Electric Power Board to supply him with power, was lodged with the Palmerston North Supreme Court recently by Wilfred C. Lee, farmer, of Marotiri. The case was set down for hearing yesterday, but as it is purely a matter of law, the Hon. Air Justice A[acGregor agreed that arguments should be submitted in writing. The statement of claim alleged that the Power Board had cut off the power and had refused to re-connect after formal demand. Plaintiff claimed that the Board owed a statutory duty to plaintiff to supply electricity upon the same terms and conditions as others in the same locality. A case in which the plaintiff was a Chinaman and the defendant a Maori gave rise to some amusing comment between two counsel and the Magistrate in the Lower ITutt Court this week. The ease concerned a building erected by the plaintiff on the defendant’s land, and the point was whether it was a. fixture or not, and counsel for the defendant (Air E. P. Bunny) remarked jocularly that, seeing the case was between a Ala or i and a Chinaman, it should be referred to the League of Nations. The Afagistrate (Air J. S. Barton, S.AI.) thought that- it might come before one of the delegates of the Institute of Pacific Relations, and counsel for the plaintiff (Air C. A. L. Treadwell) hoped that relations would be pacific afterwards. Good progress is being made with the construction of a 110,000 volt electric transmission line from

Arapuni to Stratford, a distance of 123 miles. The object of the line is to connect the Arapuni system with the Alangahao and Wnikaremoana systems, and to supplement the Taranaki reticulation with current from Arapuni when thecapacity of the Alangahao system is fully extended. The new line follows a route through the King Country, touching Puketutu, Olmra, Tangarakau, and Whangamomona. About three-quarters of the line is constructed and the whole of the work is expected to be completed before next winter. Alost of the lino will be suspended from wooden poles, but over the hilly country steel towers are being erected. The Eastwood Council, says a Sydney newspaper, is lo consider a proposal to erect a monument to “Granny Smith,” who raised the world-famous apple which bears her name. The site where the famous apple was first grown is on North Road, in the Eastwood Alunieipality. The proposal for a monument came from Mr John Goulding, of Eastwood, who says he- believes that councils and public bodies throughout New South Wales would subscribe to such a scheme. As a commencement, the Eastwood Progress Association, to which Mr Goulding outlined his proposal, has decided to co-operate in any direction the council takes. A nasty accident befel lan, the two-and-a-half year old son of Mr and Airs R. J. Rolston, of Fairfield, on Thursday morning, when he was with his parents in a ear driven by Air H. J. Lancaster and hound for the Palmerston North Show. The little liov, who was with his mother in the rear compartment, was standing against the door, when it suddenly opened and he fell out on to the road, south of Shannon. Tt is remarkable that his injuries were not more serious than they actually were, as he landed on the gravel. He sustained cuts about the head and sundry bruises and abrasions, and was brought hack in the car to \evin for medical attention, this being rendered at the Levin Private Hospital by Drs. Hunter and Miller. Several stitches were put in; and this morning the young patient is at home and in a satisfactory condition.

“Although I have travelled all over the world, it has remained for Wellington to be the first city to give me a practical demonstration of cleanliness being next to godliness,” remarked an English visitor at present in Wellington to a “Post” representative. Scenting some eulogy of the Dominion’s capital city, the “Post” man pressed for elucidation. “Well, it is like this,” the visitor went on to say. “Yesterday I drove along the Hutt Road —incidentally surely one of the finest marine drives in the world —and amongst the many advertisement hoardings which disfigure the landscape—a thing which ought never to have been tolerated —I noticed two in juxtaposition. One was a scriptural injunction about sin and salvation, and its neighbour called attention to someone’s bag-wash. If that, does not bear out my statement, I don’t know what does!”