Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4403, 11 October 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Returning' from Wellington one morning last week, n heavily laden lorry owned by the Hapier-Wel-lington. Transport Co., skidded on the wet bitumen on, the Takapnu Plains and capsized. It rolled over on the load and landed on its wheels again. The body of the lorry was damaged but the driver escaped with minor cuts on the face.

Provided the weather is favourable, it is the intention of Squadron Leader J. D. ITewett, and Plying officer C. E. Kav, of Auckland, New Zealand’s representatives in the Centenary Air Race from London to Melbourne, to fly the Tasman immedately following the race. Plans for the eontiipiation of the airmen’s flight to New Zealand have been made, and they propose to land at the Mange re aerodrome.

A simple but unusual mishap, fortunately without serious consequences, occurred at Patutnhi School recently. While ascending a short flight of wooden steps, a girl slipped between the top step and the doorstep, and her knee became so firmly wedged that all efforts to extricate the girl from her plight were unavailing until a saw was commissioned and the-step was removed. Luckily, the girl’s weight fell on the stop, otherwise a serious fracture might have resulted.

Fish stories not without some reason, are looked at askance, hut this one is supported by ocular evidence. There is at present on view in a Dunedin shop window a cannibal-trout in the act of tryig to swallow a smaller fish. The cannibal fish is about 14in. long, and out of its mouth is projecting the tail of another fish, which apparently proved too large a meal, and became firmly wedged in the throat of the other. Both were dead when taken out of the water at Sullivan’s Dam.

Just-before the gale reached its height in the Wairarapa last week, a Carterton man was milking a cow in the shelter of a big .pine tree. A woman, came along to get the milk, and jokingly remarked, as she saw the tree swaying in the wind: “It would be something to talk about if this came down and killed a man, a. woman and a ccw under it.” The man had just finishedi milking, and -he and the lady moved away, the cow calmly remaining and chewing her cud, when a. great gust of the rising storm up-rooted the tree, with the cow still near its trunk. The other two ran clear and the cow seemed doomed, but the huge branches held up the trunk and she rushed 1 out, only losing the top of her coyer, which was torn from her back. It was a close shave.

Visitors to an Otago beach the other day found a number of marine animals known as sea cucumbers. Mr D. Graham, the Portobello authority, says that they are only known to live buried in the sand, and in the circumstances he considers that there must have been some marine ground disturbance to bring to light so many of these animals, which are purely burrowers. Each animal is eight inches in length, the anterior portion containing the mouth. The feelers average an inch in diameter, four of them tapering to a point, not unlike a saveloy, and there is a four-inch tapering tail. Mr Graham states that they are a linjk, between marine worms and starfishes or sea eggs. Some specimens were brown and others were from blue to grey in colour. Some years ag'o a similar occurrence was reported at New Brighton, near Christchurch. N.Z. Woolpaclk and Textiles, Ltd., advertise for six girls to start work immediately.

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The annual meeting of the Mn.nawatu (Foxton) Rowing Club will be held in Harvey’s rooms at 8 o’clock this evening. At a representative meeting of Wellington eitv and suburban petrol resellers on Tuesday it was decided, as from midnight, to drop the price of ordinary spirit to Is Sd per gallon and to maintain the price of “super” spirits at 2s a gallon. The Fcatherston and Wairarapa County Councils have been authorised to engage unemployed labour, where it may he urgently required for the repair of damage done to farmers’ houses and outbuildings in the Wairarapa by last week’s storm.

Premission has been granted the Wellington Racing Club to hold a race meeting at Trentham on Saturday, December 15, in hojiour of the Duke of Gloucester, who will arrive in New Zealand on the morning of that day. Ilis Royal Highness, who is keen on racing, has graciously signified his approval of the meeting to he held in his honour in, the capital city. The l()sth anniversary of the first landing of Captain Cook in New Zealand was celebrated at a ceremony at the monument on Kaiti Beach, Gisborne,' on Monday, when speeches were delivered by the Mayor and representatives of the Taira whit i Native Association and the Early Settlers’ Association. Wreaths were laid on the monument by the Victoria League, the Women’s Club and others.

The ship Duchess of Argyle and the barque Jane Clifford, the first two vessels to bring' British immigrants direct to Auckland, arrived in the Waitemata Harbour from Greenock, Scotland, 92 years ago on Tuesday with 500 passengers, mostly. Scots. The Diichcss of Argyle, (5G7 tons, was commanded by Captain R. G. Ta.it. while the Jane Clifford, 558 tons, was commanded by Captain Paul.

Thin week the “New Zealand Free Lance” features include articles on the Governor-General-eleet (Viscount Galway), on a girl A.B. in a sailing ship by Miss Pamela Bourne, on the close of the wrestling season; and on the commercial living legislation, etc. The turf pages include prospects for the Eliorslie spring meeting, the Masterton gallops and some suothern form notes with a view to the meeting at Washdylke this week. Pietovially, the issue -commands attention for its graphic illustrations of the Wairarapa storm, interIsland rugby, the Morro Castle marine tragedy and: the America Cup yacht race, flashes of the, sensational Detton-Sonnenberg wrestling bout, and local government changes on the West Coast.

A singular method of contributing toward the communal expenses, devised by the Maoris, was one of the attractions at Waahi Pa, near ITuntly, last Saturday, when the celebrations to commemorate the first anniversary of the crowning of “King” Koroki te Wherowhero were commenced. Parties of visiting natives would approach the home people with branches on which banknotes.' as many as the visitors could .muster, were tied. After appropriate chants, the branch would be stuck in the ground. Afterward the home people would remove the branch — and the notes —with courteous ritual. These gifts are customary, and! are for the purpose of swelling the coffers to provide food and other necessities. The ceremony is left to the womenfolk, .Maoris showing a fine appreciation, of feminine ways of handling the tribal revenue. /

Some of the tribulations that beset'the women of the back blocks owing to lack of roading facilities wore graphically described by Mrs F. M. Whittaker, Okoke, who wait-

ed on the Clifton County Council recently with a request that two andl a. half miles of the Piko Road should be metalled. She, herself, she said, had been tipped off a sledge and landed with a can full of cream on top of her in, the mud. which had to be scraped off her witti a stick. It was in cases of sickness, however, that the greatest trial was experienced. Only quite recently, Mrs AVereta, who accompanied her on the deputation, had slipped into a hole while taking home a sick boy just discharged from hospital and the mud and water had poured over her shoulder. She felt that if she had had. any of the councillors there at the time she could have put them in the hole and drowned them.

At a recent social function for men held in Auckland there was a clapping of handls when .an attendant handed round a big box of “churchwarden” pipes, together with a generous supply of the wellknown New Zealand toasted tobacco. The young, fellows present seemed to experience some little difficulty in handling their long clays, but “boys of the old 1 brigade” got on better. They had “been there before,” as one of them remarked. But if there was any difference of opinion regarding the pipes there was none at all about the tobacjco, which was voted “Kapai” by everybody. “Rich and mellow” it met /with the keenest appreciation. This famous tobacco, as most smokers are aware, is remarkable for its comparative freedom from nicotine which is readily absorbed thanks ■to the toasting it gets when manufactured. This, it should be noted, is the only toasted tobacco, and the five brands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldlog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No! 10 (Bulkhead) and Desert Gold —appeal to all smokers. For flavour, and bouquet they are unequalled.—Advt.