Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4413, 3 November 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL

An electric jmtato peeler was recently installed on trial at the Masterton public hospital.

The Parliamentary Monetary Committee, the report of which will probably be pigeon-holed, cost the country £1,575. ■ A total of £628 12/1 has been raised by community sings in Wellington this year in aid of unemployment relief. Blight has already made its appearance! in potato- and other crops in the Otaki district, says the Mail. It is stated that in the Ohau district one crop is badly blackened. It is reported that as a result of the heavy milling of pinus insignis trees brought down by the recent storm in the Wairarapa, the price of this timber has sharply declined.

The Mataroa, which sailed from London yesterday, has 500 British cars included in her cargo. This shipment, which is for New Zealand, constitutes a record. The motor cargo is valued at £IOO,OOO. A meeting of the management committee of the local Presbyterian lOhurch was held this week, when it was decided to alter the time of the service from. 7 p.m. to 7.30 pan. The congregation is requested to take note of the altered time of to-morrow evening’s service.

The first wool sale of the season will bo held in Auckland on November 27.

Bathing is now becoming a popular. pastime in Otaki, says the Mail, and beaches and rivers are freely patronised. The Foxton baths aie now open. To encourage the illumination ol Wellington shops at night during the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, the City Council' has decided to reduce the price of electricity by Id per unit for all outside decorative lights. _ It is understood in Rotorua that the representation of outside tribes in the Arawa welcome to the Duke of Gloucester will be limited to 120 from each tribe, and the selection will be in the hands of the Maori members of Parliament. The Marehese Marconi, speaking to America at the inauguration of a new Italian radio station on Wednesday announced that he was shortly to conduct a television experiment. between Italy and the United States.

Mrs P. Waterson. of Opotiki, received terrible scalp injuries and face wounds on Wednesday as a result of her hair becoming caught in the belting of a milking machine. She underwent an operation in the Opotiki hospital where she lies in a critical conditon. Mr Henry Channings, overseer to the Levin Borough Council, has issued proceedings against the Leigon Press Limited, the Commercial Printing Coy., Ltd., Mr D. McLaughlin, and Mr W. R. KingstonSmith, claiming as damages the sum of £3OO in respect of alleged libel contained in an article in “National Opinion.”

Whitebait have been running very freely at the mouth of the Wairarapa river during the past week and some good catches have been made. A seizure of whitebait nets, which were alleged to have been set contrary to the regulations, was made in the vicinity a few days ago by a ranger of the Acclimatisation Society.

Two New Plymouth residents, Messrs E. Whitwell and R. Whitwell, a father and son, have drawn Andrea in the Irish sweep on the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Neither are thinking of the £30,000 they will receive if Andrea wins, but they are content with the thoughts of £4OO for drawing a horse. They previously held several unsuccessful tickets. The father is a service station proprietor and his son si bank clerk.

Firemen raking over the debris of a mixed store at Litchardt, Sydney, which was gutted by fire on Thursday, discovered a huge quantity of gold, silver and copper coins and partly burned banknotes representing 25 pears’ savings of Mr James Hunt, who carried on business there. The police also discovered a large quantity of valuable jewellery which, like the coins, had been secreted in seats, chairs, and other hiding places. The wealth was conveyed by the police to a bank in buckets. .The police recovered 340 sovereigns which are now worth about fifiSO.

The speed of the modern light aeroplane was put to excellent advantage by four businessmen, two from Auckland, and two from Palmerston North, who wished to have an urgent conference last Sunday morning. New Plymouth was chosen as the rendezvous, and the Auckland machine took off from Mangere at 7.30 a.m., about the time the Palmerston North aeroplane commenced its northward flight. The two craft reached New • Plymouth about 9.25, and after a conference, which lasted until nearly noon, the return trips were commenced. The Auckland pair landed at Mangere at 2.30 p.m. A letter arrived in Auckland on Monday that was posted at Te Hague, Holland, on Thursday, October 18th. It had taken just 11 days to make the journey half round the world, and that countin'' a day or so to go over to Mildenhall, England, before setting out on its journey proper. It was one of the letters brought bv Captain K. : D. Parmentier, the Dutch pilot, who competed in the Centenary Air Race while carrying passengers on a commercial flight. The envelope bears stamps to the value of 1 guilder 12 & cents, an equivalent of Is 8d in New Zealand money. One of the stamps for 30 cents is an impressive triagular air mail stamp showing the propellor and engine of a well-known Dutch ’plane. A special overprinting on the envelope announces that the letter has travelled “NederlandAustralia, Macßobertson Race.” London’s latest ! —a cigar shop in Picadilly run by a woman for women! Do women smoke cigars? It’s becoming fashionable in ultra smart society circles at Home. An illustration in a popular London daily shows the interior of the Picadilly smoke shop, with the smiling proprietress giving a light to a society belle who has a small cigar between her dainty lips. But ladies don’t smoke in the street —so far—although even that may come! Who knows. Man, poor animal —all his little ways are being copied by the adorable and all-conquering sex! But while ladies (some of them) are talking to cigars men are smoking fewer of them, the masculine preference being more for pipe or cigarette. As for New Zealand “toasted,” i.e. (Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold, they are in everincreasing demand. Smokers know how to appreciate a good thing! And toasting (the manufacturers’ own exclusive process) renders this tobacco harmless, and while it eliminates nicotine, it vastly improves flavour and aroma.

The exemption for unemployment tax purposes upon married women’s incomes, from £2O to £SO does not become operative until next April. A reminder is given of the huge Dutch and Auction sale to be held in the Town Hall supper-room, on Monday, commencing at 10.30 a.in. For particulars see advertisement on page 3. Of the 804 divorce petitions filed in the Dominion last year, the greater number were by wives, the figures being husbands 384, wives 420. Altogether 318 decrees nisi were granted in husbands’ petitions, and 3G5 in wives’ petitions. Separation for not less than three years was the principal ground stated in the petitions. There were 230 wives who petitioned on this ground, and 154 husbands. Petitions founded on adultery are next in order, and, according to the figures, wives have been the worst offenders. Husbands’ petitions founded on this ground totalled 114, and wives’ petitions 157.

A return of the totalisator investments at all the principal Labour Day week, end racing and trotting fixtures in New Zealand indicates that there is again a slight increase in public patronage of both branches of the sport. There were nine meetings, and at every one, with the exception of that of the Auckland Trotting Club, the investments showed an increase on those of last year. The big drop in the Auckland figures was due apparently to the very unfavourable weather experienced, particularly on the first day. The totals were: 1933, £183,542; 19.34, £185,839 15s.

The first New Zealand workers’ delegation to the Soviet, Union left from Auckland by the Remuera last Saturday. The delegates arc Mr M. Riske, a Wellington school teacher, and national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union, and Mr E. Warner, of the Hutt railway workshops. Mr Warner is wellknown in Labour circles. lie was for many years secretary of the Boilermakers’ Union, is a member of the Labour Party, and on the management board of the Petone Technical College. Their travelling expenses have been raised bv voluntary subscriptions, and the results of various functions held by the workers throughout the Dominion. In Soviet Russia they will be the guests of the Soviet trades unions.

It would seem that the enterprising’ business houses of India are loofking for a footing in the New Zealand market for sports goods, states the Southland Times. The representative of one Indian factory has recently been in the Dominion, and noted New' Zealand requirements. In a. letter . received from him since his return to India he states that he has explained those requirements to his factory, and, where necessary, changes are being made in the method of manufacture. The lines specifically’ mentioned are hockey sticks, and cases for both Rugby and Association footballs. The phrasing of the letter .is quaint. It reads: “I present due compliments from my native land, where I reached safely, and know not how to thank and repay deep debt of gratitude and the hospitality you showered on me .when I frequented your wonderful land. Your business confidence placed in me is really noteworthy and I implore heaven’s assistance to turn all vows practical.” That shop-lifting by women is an offence not unknown in Dunedin has been proved from time to time by reports of Police Court proceedings. And unfortunately it is pot only in shops that the fingers of some women have been shown to lie too light for the public peace of mind. A small class, which might appropriately be designated as “tram-lifters,” is springing up, says the Dunedin Star. Recently the driver of a tramear had occasion to order a woman to return to another of her sex an umbrella which for a few moments had been left reclining by itself against a seat. On a recent night, moreover, a conductor who had bought a bag of buttered scones and cakes for his tea placed the parcel down temporarily on the corner of a seat while he went down the ear to attend to his duties. In his brief absence his tea disappeared, and in the course of the investigations that followed a female passenger admitted that it was reclining in her shopping bag.