Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4409, 25 October 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Whitebait was very plentiful in the Manawatu River on Tuesday, and fishermen had a good day. A large quantity of bait was caught at the Main Drain while the lish were freely netted at the beach.

The regulations regarding' the taking of toheroas is still regarded more in the breach than in the observance, says the Levin Chronicle. On Sunday visitors to the Waitorerc Beach took away, large numbers. One small lorry was seen loading up four full sacks. Canned tomatoes packed at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, after being railed 1000 miles with freight and landing charges added, plus 30 per cent duty and 25 per cent, exchange, are sold in Wellington at 3/-' per case less than locallygrown tomatoes, reports a Wellington paper. Wo ilk. has now been commenced on the task of finishing off the eight mile stretch of the ITimatangiRangiotii highway, although operations ha\lc been held up by the adverse weather conditions of late. Sealing is taking the form of a mix-in-place and the workmen have already completed the first 80 chains.

Last evening members of the Foxton District High School Old Pupils’ Association journeyed to Marton for the purpose of attending the annual ball given by the members of the Marton District High Schoo.l Old Pupils’ Association. There was an excellent attendance at the dance and all present spent a most enjoyable time. It happened on an Auckland suburban bus, which, just started, was hailed by a lady of uncertain age and forbidding aspect. She had hardly seated herself when she prodded the driver violently in the bae|kt with her “gamp.” “Tell that man smoking his pipe to put it out!” she demanded. The driver ignored her. “I’ll report you!” indignantly exclaimed the lady. “Do,” said the driver, “smoking’s allowed on our buses.” When she had alighted the smoker remarked: “A fair terror, and no error! I wouldn’t care to be married to that. Why, the smoke from my baeca’s as sweet as a- bunch of roses!— New Zealand Cavendish—toasted.” The driver hoped the boss would tell her off properly if she complained. The passengers smiled. There’s really liothing to object to in “toasted New Zealand.” The toasting it is that eliminates its nicotine and gives it its worldfamed flavour and fragrance. It’s as harmless as it’s choice. The five toasted brands , so popular with smokers are: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), and Desert Gold. —Advt. “Oh, what a plague are coughs and colds,” We often hear it said, Oh, I’d give anything to lose The cold that’s in my head. How needless are such words as these, Why should these ills endure? To drive away all coughs and colds Use Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 19

In their search for missing women, the defectives engaged on the A Usury murder case have already traced 032 girls. Because the type of picture did not appeal to them, a number of irresponsible.-; at a recent Sunday night screening at Auckland slashed the seats about and generally damaged the fittings. The concrete kcrbing which surrounds the Soldiers Memorial in the Triangle has been freshened up with white paint, adding to the attractiveness of the reserve. Easton Park gates have been similarly treated.

Permission has been granted by the Taranaki Education Board for its architect, Mr C. IT. Moore, to bring before the executive of the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute a suggestion that the use of white paper is largely responsible for the prevalence of eye weakness among the children of -New Zealand schools.

A demonstration of the new flame-throwing week-killer was given on the Railway Reserve at Mol'uiti this morning to members of the Manawatu Rabbit Board and others present. Gorse, lupin, broom and other noxious growths were all attacked quite successfully. The plots on which the demonstrations were carried out have been marked for later investigation to prove the efficacy or otherwise of (he patent. Lee Pong, aged 17, was charged in the .Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday with assaulting Carl Mafcking Hertz so as to cause actual hodilv harm. After hearing the evidence Air E. Sti!well, S.M., said the Chinese had been provoked and the charge would have to he reduced to one of common assault. lie fined Fong £3, in default three weeks' gaol. The allegation arose out of a dispute with Chinese over a pakapoo ticket.

A collision occurred in Main Street, Tainarunui, on Tuesday night between a motor-ear driven by Roy Andrews and a motor-cycle driven by Reginald Dunnage, single, aged 25. Dunnage received a blow on the head and lacerated wounds to the leg, being sent to hospital where he. later became unconscious. An operation was performed on his head, but'he died yesterday afternoon. Deceased, whose relatives live at Katikati, was employed as a draughtsman by the Public Works Department at Taumarunui and was very popular in Taumarunui, being a keen golfer and tennis player.

‘■l sold a wireless outfit to an outback settlor recently,” said Mr Hyde, of Shannon, at Tuesday’s Power Board meeting;, “Some days afterwards 1 called to see how the outfit was working. The settler told me to take it away as it was costing too much in electricity. He had not turned off the current since it had been installed!” concluded Mr Hyde. That reminded another member of a farmer who bought a motor car and while waiting for the vendor decided to set her going, lie succeeded in circling the paddock several times while he called to members of the family to get the vendor ns “he couldn’t stop the darned thing!” Addressing the Grand Jury at the opening of the criminal sessions of the Supreme Court at Auckland on Tuesday, Mr Justice Herdman commented on the prevalence of house-breaking and the efforts made to apprehend offenders. “House-breaking to-day appears to be the most fancied form of criminal activity, and I fear many cases of the kind go undetected,” he said. “The reason I am unable to state. Detective officers appear to work ably and well, so does the average constable, and so in some cases do the sergeants. In the matter of equipment we lag sadly behind in New Zealand. Everybody knows that to get speedily to the place where the crime is committed is of vital importance. It may he that at the present time we cannot afford to launch out in the matter of expenditure.” Information that two coveys of clmkor of about 70 birds had been seen at Harwradcn, 54 miles north ol' Christchurch, was placed before the meeting of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society at its last meeting. The report stated that Mr J. Quigley, of Hawarden, had recently seen the two coveys at the back of “The Pcalks.” If was very pleasing to find that the birds had become established in the district, said Mr C. D. Wheeler, chairman of the committee. He added that the birds had been liberated two years ago. Ho did not know where the particular birds had been liberated but the nearest point at which liberation had been carried out was a considerable distance from “The Peaks.” The ambergris season is in full swing again at Stewart Island, something like old times when prices were high, remarks the correspondent of the Southland News. The recent rise has given the industry a fillip and several parties have been out scouring the lonely remote beaches on the western shores of the island. One fishing vessel took a trip along the coast calling at every beach where it was possible to land. They went as far as a beac-h called “Three Legged Woodhen.” Their return was 17 ounces of ambergris of good grade besides some poorer quality which is still almost unsaleable. Another party walked to Little Hellfire Bay and along the coast to the Devil’s Cave and secured seven ounces of good ambergris. The best -- -ured this season was a beautiful piece weighing 24 ounces and picked! up by Mr. Arthur Traill at Mason’s Bay.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced locally a few minutes before midday yesterday. The Foxton Silver Band will be in attendance at Seaview Park during Sunday afternoon when it will render a selected programme of music. Captain Hewitt, of Auckland, who is one of the New Zealand competitors in the air race is an optimist, Before leaving Auckland lie made an appointment with his dentist for November Ist and those who know him well will not he at all surprised if he. keeps jt. The Waipu'kurau Borough Council, at its last meeting, confirmed the action of the Mayor, Mr I. AY. N. Mackie, in wiring to the Prime Minister, the member for the district and others, asking that no license he granted for the erection of another theatre in AA T aipukurau. The Council owns a theatre, which cost approximately £20,000, and it was felt that the erection of another theatre would he inimical to (he welfare of the ratepayers. “One of the worst springs we have had for black spot,” said a mcmihor of the ■Canterbury Fruit Growers’ Association at the last meeting of the association, when referring to the prevalence of the black spot blight in orchards this season. The president of the association, Mr F. AY. Bisson, remarked that he had already seen it on the leaves of trees, adding that in its ease sprays could he used only as preventatives, not as exterminators. It was stated that the blight could he present on a tree from throe to eight days before it became visible.

The unusual experience of being caught in a cloudburst while (ravelling in his .ear and keeping right underneath the rain cloud for a distance of over four miles was had by a Taranaki resident when returning from AA’ellington last week, just after passing through Foxton, he was caught in a torrential downpour of rain. Tt fell, literally, in bneketsful, he said. As he travelled along at a slow sliced, necessitated hv the had visibility, lie found' that the large black cloud from which the rain was pouring was keeping directly over his head. Eventually he stopped and waited a short time till the cloud ' passed on and he was able to proceed under less uncomfortable conditions.

A gold nugget of SoZ. 3dwt. in weight greeted the eyes of a prospecting party when they were washing up on a claim at Mikonui, AA’ostland, recently, while, two other small nuggets of 7dwt. each were revealed in a recent wash-up. The claim is that of Air E. Denia, of Ross, who is assisted by a brother and a cousin, Messrs V. and J. Denia. For some little time Air E. Denia had been receiving a mining subsidy. He wrote to the Ross Unemployment Committee thanking it for assisting him to work the claim. He stated that he had driven 200 ft. on fair gold, and considered Mint he could now make wages, and carry on without further aid.

Air. Carl Amerding, of Los Angeles, gave a very fine Gospel address in the Library Hall to a very fair audience on Tuesday evening. His subject , was based on Raul’s Epistle to the Romans, chapter 4, and he sought to show how a man could not justify himself before God either by works, law or ordinance, hut by faith alone through grace. Mr Armerding is a very fluent and interesting speaker and many will regret that his visit was so short.