Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4558, 12 October 1935, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day there are .47 licensed hotels in the city of Wellington; fifty years ago there were 67.

With summer still some distance away, Canterbury farmers are praying for rain. It has been stated that a member of the Governor-General’s suite will shortly return to England. Two pure white angora rabbits were killed by poisoners operating under the Manawatu Rabbit Board when working at Himatangi the other day.

A furrow approximately 20 miles long will be necessary to enable a poisoning of the Tangimoana Afforestation area to be carried out by the Manawatu Rabbit Board.

The New Jersey (Court of Errors and Appeals, U.S.A., unanimously upholds Hauptmann’s death sentence and conviction for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder. Painted finger-nails in scarlet, gold, silver, green and blue, were seen among the feminine portion of the guests at a dinner party in Wellington recently. Record figures were last year achieved for the sale of basflcetware and other goods manufactured by the blind people of -the Jubilee Institute at Auckland, some £13,000 being realised.

Commenting on the very beneficial results to be obtained from the Health (Camps, at Thursday night’s meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board, the Chairman (Mr J. Chrystall) said that another excellent scheme was the providing of milk for school children. “If a National scheme on this line was adopted,” he said, “the cost would be returned ten times over.”

In forwarding a reply on behalf of the Moutoa Drainage Board to the local Postmaster in connection with an appeal for co-operation in the Health Stamp campaign. The Clerk, at the suggestion of one of the Trustees, appended a postscript suggesting that the Government should conduct lotteries for this purpose, on similar lines to that run in Australia. When the letter was read at Thursday evening’s meeting of the Board, the appendage was noted with some surprise by the Chairman (Mr J. Chrystall). “You didn’t consult me on that,” lie said jocularly, but in more serious vein, added: “I think that is the last thing that the Government should contemplate.”

Efforts are being made to establish a Maori Rotary iClub at Hastings.

It is reported that buyers have been offering Hunterville breeders £1 per head for lambs for January delivery. Guy Fawkes Day is never forgotten. The Bth of November is a far more important day—All Saints .Prosperity Fair in the Town Hall is to be held on that date.f Wieather permitting, the Foxton Silver Band will discourse a programme of music at Seaview Park to-morrow afternoon at 2.30 o’clock. The loss of the launch Miss Paramata has led to the suggestion that small craft should not be permitted to put to sea without some certificate of seaworthiness and without efficient- emergency gear in the way of sail and a seaanchor.

A falling tree was responsible for the admission to the Palmerston N. Hospital on Thursday of Eric Charles Knight, aged 28, labourer, of Shannon. Knight, tvho was engaged in tree felling operations, sustained injuries to his back and his condition this morning was reported to be satisfactory. Will Rogers, who was killed in the flying accident in Alaska, died worth between £1,000,000 and £l,200,000. Wiley Post, the famous airman, who lost his life at the same time, died practically penniless, because he poured all the huge money he made back into aviation.

A Christchurch woman has invented a new type of fire lighter, for which several advantages can be claimed, chiefly that of lighting coal direct from paper and dispensing with the use of kindling wood. Provisional protection has been taken throughout all British countries for a period of nine months.

The opinion that the natural enemy of the rabbit was now more numerous than it has been at any time during the Board’s experience was the opinion expressed by one member of the Manawatu Rabbit Board at Thursday’s meeting. This was attributed to the fact that trapping had been curtailed. 1 At the annual meeting of the Manawatu Head Centre of the Royal Life Saving Society held in Palmerston North on Tuesday evening Mr R. A. Robbie, of the Foxton Surf and Life Saving Club, was elected a member of the Board of examiners and Mr M. Baird a member of the committee. A grant of £5 was made by the Centre to the local Club.

Sales tax collected during August amounted to £201,446, an increase of £11,789, and the highest monthly return since January, when £211,137 was collected. In August, 1934, the collection was £185,037. Since the end of the financial year on March 31 this tax has yielded £973,966, compared with £847,896 in the same period last vear.

The great, pyramid of Cheops close to the west bank of the Nile and almost opposite Cairo, is 461 feet high, 746 feet square at the base and covers nearly 15 acres of ground. It was built' between the years 4731 B.C. and 4454 B.C. and it was not until the 19th Century that scientists realised that it held any chronological significance or was in fact anything more than a tomb. 'There have been hundreds of pyramids in Egypt yet the greatest of them all is the only one that has never been a tomb. On Tuesday evening next at the Masonic Hall, with the assistance of a splendid series of lantern slides, Dr. Tk S. Milne will deal with the present day knowledge of the greatest of the world’s seven wonders. !

A day or two ago Mr D. Eric McLeod, of Raupare, had returned to him in a most extraordinary way a silver watch that he lost in 1916 when he was manager of Waipuna Station (states the “Hawke’s Bay Herald”). At the time when he lost the watch Mr McLeod was riding or walking over Waipuna, and a few days ago Mr S'. Devenie, of Hastings, found it lying among some scrub that he was cutting. The watch had Mr McLeod’s name engraved upon it, and Mr Devenie rang him up and asked whether he had ever lost “something silver” at Waipuna. After hearing the circumstances of the discovery, Mr. McLeod recognised it as his watch, and it was duly handed to him. The winding key was much corroded, but the outside was as bright as new silver, and the works in perfect condition.

The two old mates chanced to meet in Auckland Domain and got talking about the old days. “I member the time,” said one, “when you could buy a prime leg o’ mutton for a bob.” “Ah,” said the other, “and I mind the time when beer was sixpence a pint and bacca sixpence a ounce. Not this here toasted ’most everyone smokes now, of course.” “Not likely,” agreed his mate, “toasted’s different to other bacca. I been smoking it this dozen years —and can you beat it?” “There’s nothing to touch it,” declared the other with emphasis, “and mind you it couldn’t do you no ’arm not if you smoked a pound of it a week. That’s what toasting does!” This being carried unanimously the paii’ lit up and toddled off in quest of “ ’arf-a-’handle.” Toasted certainly. has an irresistible appeal for smokers. Look at the demand for all five brands: Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead). Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, and Desert Gold. Yes, and look at the imitations! —and avoid them! —Advt.

Woods’ Orest Peppermint Core, For Influenza Colds.

The wheelbarrow tourists, Messrs Lukey and .Schofield, left Ashburton at 4 p.m. yesterday on the 54-mile lap to Christchurch, which they proposed covering in 24 hours. The professional cyclists from both the North and South Islands participated in a 100 mile road race between Palmerston North and Wellington to-dav. There were 45 entries and the limit men were despatched from the Grand Hotel at 9.30 a.m. The riders passed through Foxton between. 10.45 and 11.30 a.m., experiencing good going on the all-bitumen section of the route.