Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4417, 10 November 1934, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1934 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow is Armistice Day. The Poxfcon Silver Band will play in Seaview Park, commencing! at 2.30 o’clock to-morrow afternoon, weather permitting. Good progress is being made with the surface sealing of the Hima-tangi-Rangiotu highway by the contractors, and the highway is greatly improved. At a meeting of the Directors of the Levin Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, on Thursday, it was decided to advance 7id per pound for butterfat supplied during the month of October, lor the coiiesponding period last year the par - out was Slid per lb.

Eyre’s Peninsula, South Australia’s vast, wheat-growing' province, is being devastated by the uoist grasshopper plague within memory. In many eases the farmers will reap no grain/ Many others will obtain no more than feed. The gi asshoppers continue to advance on a 250-mile front.

Charged with breaking and entering the Weraroa Stores on October 15th, 1934, a young man, named Raymond William Lookman, appeared in the Levin Magistrate s Court on Thursday afternoon before Mr W. P. Deal, J.P. On the application of the police, accused was remanded until Thursday next. Part of the property stolen has been recovered. A revised road map of the Manawatu and district, from Levin to Hunterville, is to be issued by the Automobile Association (Manawatu), with supplementary lists, about the end of this month. The new map covers Bketahuna, Palliatua and Woodville and on the leverse side carried handy data relative to camp sites, picnic spots, fishing, shelter, conveniences, etc.

Under the will of Mrs Jessy stark, of Dunedin, which has been sworn for probate purposes at under £42,000, three charitable bequests are made. The will provides that £SOO shall be paid to the trustees of the Old Men’s Home at. Oamaru, to be expended as they think fit in the interests of the home, and the other bequests are £SOO to the Otago Hospital Board for the general purposes of the Dunedin Hospital and £SOO to the Dundas St. Methodist Church. Mr James Moore Hickson, who visited Australia and New Zealand some years ago as the herald of “spiritual healing” and conducted missions of healing in this regard, left an estate valued at £30,000. The major portion of his estate (says the Australian .Church Record), roughly £20,000, was New Zealand property. The remainder represented his English property. He was an Australian, but for many years he had lived in England.

A massed demonstration at Newtown Park by nearly 14,000 school pupils on the morning of Tuesday, December 18, will give the Duke of Gloucester his first close-up impression of the youth of New Zealand. The Royal visitor is to arrive at Wellington on 'the Saturday for his six Aveeks’ tour of the Dominion. The children will be dra-Avn from schools Avithin a radius of 40 miles of the city, and the display will take the form of evolutions by the various schools and, a grand march past.

Advice was received in Palmerston North yesterday that Squad-ron-Leader McGregor and Mr 11. C. Walker will leave Sydney by the Niagara, and will arrive in Auckland on November 12. They will return to Palmerston North on November 14.

The New Zealand aviators Hewett and Kay landed at- Cootamuudra en route to Sydney. Hewett stated that they would fly the Tasman as soon as the machine had been overhauled at Mascot aerodrome.

A reward of £25 has been offered by the Wlaikato Traffic Control Group Authority to anyone supplying information which will lead to the conviction of the person who damaged a" traffic inspector’s car at Te Awamutu on September 28 (states a Hamilton correspondent). During the inspector’s temporary absence from the ear emery powder was put in the engine. The presence of the powder rvas not discovered until the ear had been running for some time. It was later found that damage to the extent of £6B had been done tm the engine.

The following dates have been fixed for sittings of the Supreme Court for next year for the hearing of criminal and civil eases in the Wellington judicial district: — Wellington, Febyarv 4, jMav f>, July 22, October 21; Palmerston North, February 5, May 7, July 23, October 22; Napier, February 11, May 20, August 5, October 20. Fixtures for other districts are:— Wanganui, February 11, May 27, August 5, November 18; Nelson, March 10, July 23, November 26; Blenheim, March 12, July 16, November 19. Sittings of the Court in banco will be held in Wellington every Wednesday.

To mark the appreciation of the Arawa tribe for the public service of the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloc, and in recognition of their interest in Maori matters, the Arawa District Trust Board has given the historic landing place of the Arawa canoe for a memorial park. The land is situated in the Waiariki Native Land Court district and comprises nearly ten acres. The padk is to be-the name of Lord Bledisloe, and three members of tho Arawa. tribe will have a voice in its control. The establishment of the park is provided for in the Native Purposes Bill, which was introduced" in the House of Representatives on Thursday night.

For weeks past Sydney has been squabbling- over the pronunciation of “centenary.” Those who had the Oxford Dictionary on their side were definite that it should be “centeenary.” On the other hand, those who wished to make it rhyme with “ten,” insisted that it should bo pronounced that way. The problem., however, was quite definitely settled, by 'the Duke of Gloucester. In his first broadcast speech from Perth the Prince referred to the “Centeenary” celebrations. Therc-foi-e, there can lie no argument in the matter in the future. If the Duke calls it “centeenary” it can be talken for granted that the rest of Australia will now follow suit! In Collins Graphic English Dictionary (a standard British work), the word centenary is pronounced sen-ten-a-ri and centenarian as sen-te-na-ri-an, with a. long sounding “a” in the case of na.

A letter from Melbourne states that the reception to McGregor and Walker on their arrival there in the air race reflected no credit on the New Zealand representatives, it being considered that the reception was badly arranged. It is interesting to note that the only New Zealand representative present was Mr Bert Snell, of Otaki, but five minutes later there was a mad rush of photographers, joined by a few New Zealanders. Someone voiced a feeble cheer on their arrival, while it was regretted that certain aviators were conspicuous by their absence. Mr Snell was. the first to welcome the two airmen, later on being joined by Squadron-Leader Chandler, Flight-Lieutenant Buckley, and Mr Frank Armstrong, of Aikitio. The ojily woman to extend a welcome Avas a young Australian lady, a Miss D. Yates, of Caulfield.' The excitement of the race, says the letter, Avas over soon after the arrival of the first plane, and it is considered that the centenary celebration Avas lacking in carnival spirit.

It has been reported from Sydney that tAVo Australian trarvlers were to leave there last week to fish off the New Zealand coast. They are the trawlers Tongkal and Alfie Cam. The Alfie Cam put into Wellington on October 17 last short of coal, and left again the same evening for Sydney Avith a large haul of fish aboard. A hurried marine inquiry Avas held into the movements of the traAvler at that time as it Avas suspected that she had been fishing within the New Zealand territorial limits. No evidence could be produced, hoAvever, to. prove that she had in any Avay contravened the marine restrictions. The Alfie Cam’s haul is reported to have arrived in Sydney in perfect condition, and to have met Avith a good demand on that city’s markets. Her catch Avas made off the West Coast, South Island, and it Avas intended that she should return to fish on the same grounds last week. The Alfie Cam is a deep-sea traAvler of 280 tons, and ivas built in 1920. The Tongkol, Avhieh is owned by A. A. Murrell, of Sydney, is slightly larger than the Alfie Cam, and of more modern construction. She is fitted with a special refrigerating system, Avhieh enables her to carry fish from New Zealand to Sydney without difficulty. \

“Put them in the waste-paper basket,” said Mr W. B. Darlow at a meeting- of the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday, when the president, Mr A. G. Lunn, remarked that the number of anonymous- letters received by the chamber had shown an increase lately. The president said the council should maintain its altitude of ignoring- all letters from persons who declined to sign their names to the communications.

The exacting task of signing the 10,558 debentures which the Auckland City Council is issuing in connection with its conversion loan of £1,804,175, is now more than half completed and a start has been made with the delivery of the new securites to the Bank of New Zealand for dstribution to the holders. The deputy-mayor, Mr A. <J. Entrican, and the city treasurer, Mr A. Messer, are signing the new debentures and so far have averaged between 400 and 500 debentures an hour. On a recent morning Mr Entrican signed 517 debentures in an hour and 20 minutes.

The statements of receipts and expenditure of the New South Wales Stale Lottery was tabled in the State Parliament last week by the Assistant - Treasurer, Mr Spooner. It shows that at June 30, on the year’s transactions, there was a surplus of £670,918. The ticket sales amounted to £1,883,527. Prizes paid totalled £1,151,270, and prizes unclaimed £6055. Under the heading of administrative expenses are included the following items: —Salaries, £37,930; printing', £5980; advertising, £4106; rent, £3550; and stores and stationery, £IOB6. The Government steamer Matai lias left Dunedin for southern lighthouses and the West Coast Sounds. The vessel will make the usual call at Bluff, where she will embark a number of men arid load about 50 sheep and several head of cattle and convey them to Milford Sound. The men will be employed on the new road which is now being constructed tliei’p, and the sheep and cattle will provide meat for the men for some time. A number of passengers are making the round trip by the Matai, including Mr R. G. Simmers, of the Government meteorological office, Wellington. His time is almost entirely occupied in testing- instruments at the'various lig-hhouses and also those controlled by institutions on the mainland.

Thirty-two years ago yesterday the Huddart, Parker Company’s steamer Elingamite was wrecked on West Island, one of the Three Kings group, with the loss of 45 lives. The Elingamite, a ship of 2585 tons, was bound for Auckland from Sydney with 136 passengers and a crew of 59 on board. Captain E. B. Atwood was in command. On the morning- of Sunday, November 9, 1902, a dense fog was encountered, and the ship’s speed was reduced to five knots. At 11 a.in., without warning, broken water loomed up out of the murk, and before anything could be done to save the vessel she grounded. Boats and rafts were quickly launched, one boat being- capsized. Five boats and two rafts finally got away from the wreck. Captain Atwood and the chief steward were on board when the ship sank, twenty minutes after striking. The captain was picked up later by one of the boats. One lifeboat, with 37 passengers and .15 of the crew, reached the mainland at Houhora, whence the news of the disaster was received in Auckland. Another boat, with some thirty people aboard, was never heard of again. An old Wellington identity, full of years but still devpted to his pipe, when asked which smoke of the day he preferred, replied with a smile, “I have no preference. To me all smokes are equally good. Why I often wake in the night and have a whiff! Bad habit? Ha! ha! So it is. But like some other bad habits its very enjoyable! I used to smoke ordinary plug, but for years past I’ve been smoking Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead) and I find I not only get more enjoyment out of it but can smoke it with absolute impunity, and that makes all the difference. There are other toasted brands, but I don’t want anything better than Cut Plug No. 10.” The other toasted brands referred to are Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold. AJI are of superfine quality and all are quite harmless. “Toasted” is imitated, but never equalled, or evGn approached. It’s inimitable! And year after year the demand increases. There’s no finer, purer, or better tobacco manufactured. It’s on sale everywhere. — Advt.