Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4405, 16 October 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Torrential rain fell . locally shortly after 5 o'clock last' evening. Gutters were unable to cope with the water and for a short time Main Street wa's flooded along either kerbside. Gardens and pastures will benefit considerably from the downfall.

Raymond Allan Mc-Fadyen, aged 40, a married man residing at Green. Island, .died in the Dunedin hospital from severe he act injuries. He was riding a bicycle and it is believed that when he was passing some horses he was kicked. He was found lying on the road with the bicycle alongside.

Throwing with a good deal more enthusiasm than sikill a competitor in the javelin event at the annual athletic sports of the Christchurch Boys’ High School with one shot scattered a loud speaker, the operator, and a small stall of assistants when the pointed missile landed too close. Later, to the great delight of the school Roys in the spectators’ gallery, the javelin pierced the battery box and buried its point several inches deep. The loudspeaker groaned faintly and appeared to he mortally wounded, but when the javelin was plucked out it. was found that no serious dgmage had been done, and the speaker carried on as before.

A queer thing' about tobacco is that a. mail may go on smoking the same • old brand year after year contentedly enough. Smoking that particular brand has become just ja habit. Then, all of a sudden, lie may tire of his pipe, and 1 , perhaps, to hi»**dismay, find that smoking has lost its appeal. When that happens he should change his tobacco and more likely than not, he will begin to smoke again with renewed -zest. Let him try the “toasted New Zealand,” and if that fails to restore his hive for his pipe his case may be considered hopeless! The object of toasting this tobacco is now well-known to smokers —it eliminates the nicotine, enhances the flavour, and gives the weed its wonderful fragrance. You can smoke any of the five toasted brands —Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. .3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulkhead) and Desert Gold—as freely as you like. They can’t do you any harm! The production of these tobaccos now constitutes an. important New Zealand industry that finds constant employment for many hands. —Advt.

A hale old man is Mr White, Although he’s eighty-three, He never seems to have the ’flu, No coughs or colds has he. He’s used for very many years - A trusted method sure, For coughs and colds he is prepared With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 23

There is a good deal of sickness about at present.

It was decided by the Otaki Borough Council at Friday night’s meeting to give notice prohibiting the setting off of fireworks in the town on November sth, and to ask for the co-operation of the poliee in the matter. The practice of setting off crackers in the streets was considered dangerous. • Thirty tons of pins are made every week by seven manufacturers in Birmingham, Mr G. A. Laughton, an English business man, who is visiting New Zealand, stated in Christchurch. Mr Laughton's firm produces three tons of pins a week,, which, represents about 10 per cent, of the total output. The pins are shipped, to all parts of the world. The manufacturers find that the demand for hairpins is nearly as great now as when women wore their hair long, although the design of the pin has been changed. One reason for this, said Mr Laughton, was that hairpins were inclined to fall out of short hair and more were lost.

Discrepancies between Church and civil laws relating to. marriage formed the chief subject of the presidential address .of Bishop Williams at the openning of the 2fith. Waiapu Synod at Napier. “The Church teaches that the marriage union is made for life. If through human weakness a man and wife find it better to live apart the door should never be closed to the hope of reconciliation,” lie said.

"The low standard set in current literature and civil laws too often leads young people lightly to underlake the responsibility of marriage with the thought, possibly not expressed in words, that if it proves irksome it can he easily laid aside.”