Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4407, 20 October 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Two girls cricket clubs have been formed in Palmerston North. The girls intend to take the held attired in blouse, shorts and cricket caps.

A lovely crystal bowl has been donated to the Otaki Horticultural and District Society by Mr Byron Brown for competition at the coming rose show. It will he awarded as a points prize in the home industries section and should cause very keen competition.

By permission of the Directors of tiie Levin Dairy Co., eighty boys of the Secondary Department of the Levin District High School, visited the company’s factory on Wednesday, the visit occupying the whole morning. During this period they were able to follow the operations at the factory from the arrival of the cream to the packing of the bntter for the market.

Memories of the days when the miners came in their thousands to the Otago goldfields are revived by the successful mining operations which Mr R. S. Thompson is carrying on at Wethcrstoncs. Mr Thompson has found a half-sovereign dated 1800, and minted in Sydney; a shilling piece dated 1819, with the head of George 111., and four-penny pieces dated 1840. All the coins are in an excellent state of preservation.

Chinamen are noted kitchen gardeners and the fact that they unknown to make full use of their sections during the time the vegetables are being produced is common property. An instance of the manner in which they reduced the fertility of the soil was given at the Assessment Court at Wanganui on Wednesday. Mr H. .J. Duigan, in giving evidence, said that he knew of a. section upon which a good sole of grass could not he grown for four years after the Chinese gardeners had left it. The owners had been put to much expense to secure a good growth even after the fourth year. It appeared, said Mr Duigan, that the Chinamen took all the humus out of the soil.

‘Well I ought to know something about tobacco,” said a Gisborne purveyor of the weed to a reporter, “been in the trade for.SO years. No cut up to be had in Hew Zealand in those days. Everybody smoked Now it’s the other way about, and everybody smokes cutup. Has the toasted New Zealand cut into tlu* trade in American, You ask. Yes it has'. I started to stock toasted New Zealand as a side-line. Now I reckon it’s my best seller. The five toasted brands: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullsliead) and Desert Gold are in demand all the time. The toasting these brands get when manufactured is largely responsible for their popularity. Next to no nicotine in any of them. That’s what toasting does! You never hear or read of heart- or nerve trouble amongst smokers of toasted. It’s 100 per cent. pure. That do you for an item. The reporter shut up his notebook. “Thanks,” he said, “it will!”—and it has!—Adv-t.

A number of local residents attended the Wellington races to-day. H. S. Graham (38 minutes) and J. Preston (25 minutes) represented Levin and Poxton respectively in the Palmerston Xorth-Petone road cycle race to-day. The flag was down at half-mast ~1 tj 1( . local Post Office to-day on the occasion of the funeral of the late It. Poineaire, former President of Franco.

Petty thieving is still prevalent in Otaki, says the Mail, and an evening or so ago a battery was removed from a lorry left in Main Street.

Whitebait has been plentiful in Otaki for some time past but catches have been: forwarded to Wellington on account of good prices offering.

The great air race from England to Melbourne started to-day. Twontv-one machines started, 15 competing in the speed section, while the handicap field, which includes most of those who are competing in the big event, numbers 17.

For reasons of a private nature, Mr E. 0. Bond, of Awahuri, lias declined an invitation to contest the Tanrnnga seat in the interests of lho Labour Party at the next general election. The Minister of Agriculture, the lion. C. E. Macmillan, at present represents the Tnu rnnga. electorate.

An estimate that between 2-10,091) and 250,000 acres were sown in wheat this season throughout New Zealand was advanced bv Mr W. W. Mulliollaml to a meeting of wheat-growers’ delegates at Christchurch yesterday. “This is a very awkward acreage from the marketing point of view,” Mr Mulholland

>aid. If would be well on in the season before it would lie clear whether the crop would be in excess of requirements or otherwise. This was a halycon state of allairs for speculators, hut it was unsal isfactory to the growers, some of whom might he in the position of. having seeded their wheat for less than it was worth.

So much is heard about the Japanese menace in trade these days that laymen are inclined to lay at Japan's door the responsibility for all the price-cutting and cut throat competition which are complicating the already complex problems of commerce. According to a prominent importer of dress fabrics, however, the blame, if Name it may lie milled, must have a wider distribution. Discussing the matter with an Otago Daily Times reporter, he said that Italy was under-selling Japan very notieeably in the matter of silks. “Most of the best and cheapest silks we are importing to-day come from Rome,” he said, “and it is a very attractive, high-quality article which Mussolini's crowd are turning out.”

A somewhat unusual position arose at yesterday’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court. Counsel sought an application of separation and maintenance on behalf of a client and in the course of his opening remarks, stated that the couple had obtained a separation in Wanganui in 1923 but shortly after had decided to live together. The Magistrate (Mr J. L. Stout) immediately asked if the original separation had been annulled as if no,t it was still in force and a further separation could not be granted or considered. The parties, who were present in court, were under the impression that the separation had been dissolved at the time but as nothing official was known in the matter an adjournment had to he made until next month.

An American Rugby football team may tour New Zealand in 1936. Mr Paul Ford, the representative of the San Francisco Olympic Club, who is on a mission to New Zealand and Australia to endeavour to arrange reciprocal Rugby visits between teams from those two countries and America, conferred with the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union on Wednesday evening. After going into the subject exhaustively, the committee decided to recommend to the delegates at the next annual meeting of the union that a New Zealand team should play two matches against Californian teams on their way back from the tour of Great Britain in February, 1936, and, subject to approval by the Australian Rugby Union, that ail American team should be invited to tour Australia and New Zealand in 1936.