Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LV, Issue 4569, 7 November 1935, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1935. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Keith Voitre, the New Zealand jockey, rode the winning double Speardale and Gaychow at Ascot. Voitre’s percentages' of the Flemington wins amount to £520. Burglars who broke into the premises of the Ridge Tyre Remoulding Company, Limited, Auckland, blew open the safe, forced the till and rifled a number of desks for a total return of twopence. There was no money in the safe and the two pennies were all that was left in the till. The stock was not tampered with. i The biggest land deal in recent history in Poyerty_ Bay was completed when Mr. Humphrey Bayly, a well-known station owner, added Tangihau Station to his already substantial holdings. The price .is reported to be in excess of £IOO,000. The property comprises 15,157 acres and is 32 miles inland from Gisborne. It was acquired in '1928 by the late Mr A. M. Georgetti after being bought in at auction at £115,000. -The Georgetti Estate was the vendor in yesterday’s deal.

With the snow rapidly disappearing from the Ruakine Mountains in Central Hawke’s Bay, the search for the body of the late Mi'. Hamish Armstrong, who was lost in an aeroplane "disaster on August 4, is being continued. During the past month a party has been searching the Watkarara ranges. The weather has not been good for the searchers, rain and fog interfering with their task. The snow is on the mountains in Central Hawke’s Bay much later than usual this year, due to the late arrival of settled summer weather.

Stating that the prospects of the Dunedin actor, Colin Tapley, were very promising in the great American film centre at Hollywood, Mr. Guy Tapley, who, accompanied by his wife, has returned from a trip abroad, said yesterday that his brother’s contracts with the Paramount concern provided for sixr months options, but in the last contract that had been arranged with the company the options were extended to 12 months. When Mr Tapley visited Colin and spent part of his holiday -with him at Hollywood the latter was working in a film called “Buccaneer.”'

When an aeroplane which they were flying over the Blue Mountains, Australia, caught fire in midair, Rex Nieholl, aged 26, the Tas : man fiver, and Albert Needham, aged 29, had. miraculous escapes from death? They managed to bring the machine down at the bottom of a deep gorge, and escaped with slight facial injuries. The ma-. chine was wrecked. The men took the. compass from the aeroplane and walked all day through bush, eventually reaching Newnes Junction, near Lithgow, the following night. The steady support of the public for the health stamp movement centring round the sale of the twopenny Health Stamp has put fresh heart into the organisations concerned. The fourth week of the campaign was restricted by the inclusion of Labour Day, a collector’s holiday, when the post-offices were closed, but’ the thousand-pouiid-a-week average of preceding periods was agan nearly achieved, the total announced by the DirectorGeneral of the Postal Department (Mr G. McNamara) for the end of the period being £3,988 19/7, comprising receipts from sale of stamps £2119 7/7, envelopes £220 10/-, and donations £1649 2/-. Guy Fawkes celebrations were for the most part cancelled by the juvenile population of Foxton on Tuesday evening owing to early heavy rain. Later, however, conditions improved and the Boy Scouts held a bon fire and display in Easton’s paddock. Although the fifth of November survives as an anniversary because of a plot centred in gunpowder that was never fired, it is also the anniversary of an event in which much powder was exploded in anger-—the Battle of Inkerman. 'On November 5, 1854, in the course of the Crimean War, a combined British and French force flung back an assault by the Russian troops on the field of Inkerman with heavy loss of life. The total British force engaged Avas 8500, of . whom 2357 were killed and AVounded. The French lost 939 out of about 7000 men avlio took the field, and the Russians are said to haA T e lost 11,000 out of about 42,000 soldiers engaged in the battle

They were balking about local industries in the smoke-room of an Auckland Club the other night. “I remember when the first New Zealand tobacco caine on the market nigh upon half a century ago,” remarked the -ancient mariner smoking the big cherrywood, of sorts — also little smokes called “eiggarillos’t —just a bit of leaf with a filling of ‘cut-up.’ They had a fair sale—for those days—but the manager (an old friend of mine) told me it was the foreign labels he’d had printed and stuck on the boxes that sold them. No use, he said, to offer them as New Zealand mader-no one w r ould. have looked at them!” What a change the years have wrought!. To-day our beautiful New Zealand tobaccos—(Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Cold and Desert Cold—require no foreign labels to sell them! sell at sight, and the demand is always growing. Not only is the quality superb but they’re harmless no matter how freely you indulge. They’re toasted! 526