Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 4669, 9 July 1936, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pictures aiul story of the Auckland Movie Ball figure lin this week’s Sporting and Dramatic Review, which is now on sale everywhere. All sports are dealt, with in the usual bright and interesting manner. This popular sixpenny journal is more profusely illustrated than ever.

An organisation of undertakers, t : he Auckland Provincial Puberal Directors’ Association, has been formed. The association is still in its early stages, but a meeting is to be called shortly to consider policy matters, said a member. Aspects of the new industrial legislation would be examined, including the 40-hour week.

An original excuse for not having renewed his driving license by June 5 was offered by a young clergyman in the Magistrate’s Court at Whangarei yesterday. “On May 30 mv wife went into hospital and the following day presented me with twins,” he said. “That drove everything else from my mind.” The magistrate, Mr Ct. N, Morris, S.M., smilingly remarked: “t\Vell, I will let you off with costs of 10s under those circumstances.”

A plucky action by a young man saved a baby lying in a pram from .being attacked by an Alsatian dog at [Christchurch on Monday but the man, Mr G. T. Watts, received a fracture of the left wrist, when he attempted to grab the dog to prevent it reaching the child. Mr Watts managed to reach the pram just aS/the dog, with its forepaws on the side, was snapping at the hood. Mr Watts attempted to grab the Alsatian but' it jerked back and broke his wrist. The dog was destroved.

“No man is asked to work indefinitely to pay off his creditors. I can’t contemplate a party working in the bush solely for that purpose,” said Mr P. H. Levien, S.M., to a judgment debtor in the Pukekohe Court. Debtor stated that if lie was ordered to pay he would not be able to give his wife the present allowance of £1 5s a week to keep herself and two daughters. “You are starving your wife and daughters,” the magistrate said. He added : “You are verv much like the farmer who starves his family until it is too late for them to enjoy anything.”

iSix thousand Maoris were provided with food at Waitara on the occasion of the unveiling of the. memorial to the late Sir Maui Pomare. They consumed 500 dozen bottles of soft drinlkis, 3,000 tins' of fruit, five bullocks and nine pigs, 1,100 lampreys (caught in the Waitara River), 2,000 mutton birds (from Stewart Island), 200 large loaves of bread, 2241 b. of butter and 40 gallons of milk. As a delicacy, a supply of 800 blind eels (tuere) from Picton was eked out over the week. Seventy-live tons of potatoes and kumara were also accounted for during.that period, as well as 3,000 fish, mostly schnapper, and eight bags of sugar. In a single meal 1001 b. of block cake and 48 dozen round cakes vanished, not to mention 15 tins of biscuits.

Does smoking shorten life"? Anti-tobacs say it does. Apropos of that the death at Swansea (Wales) of Miss Elizabeth Dilhvyn at the age of 00 was recently recorded. The old lady, a wellknown Swansea identity who formerly took an active part in local public affairs, was an inveterate smoker, but had no time for cigarettes. She used to say: “Smoking cigarettes is like drinking beer out of a thimble!” Many of your dyed-in-the-wool smokers are like that. Well, brands may come and brands may go, but “toasted,” like the “Brook,” goes on for ever! IPs always wanted! These famous tobaccos, 'Cut Plug. No. 10 (Bullshead), Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Riverhead Gold and Desert Gold merit their outstanding popularity; all are remarkably alike for flavour and bouquet, also for their comparative freedom from nicotine eliminated in the course of manufacture by toasting, the manufacturers’ exclusive process which does so much to safeguard the smoker. But don’t be imposed upon! Refuse all substitutes. The only genuine toasted brands are those above enumerated. —Advt.

A social evening, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies’ Social Guild, will be held in the school-room to-morrow evening. Musical items, competitions, games, and supper. An unusual accident happened to an Auckland young lady on Tuesday night. She sleeps in a room on the second storey of a dwelling in St. Heller’s Bay Road, and at 2.30 a.m. was awakened by the banging of a casement window. She got up to secure it. and as she grasped the casement the wind, which had reached gale force, pulled the window off its hinges and drew her through the aperture. She fell on the roof of a garage six feet below and sustained shock and bruises. Clad only in her night attire she managed to climb down to the ground and attracted the other inmates ,of the house by knocking on the door. The Times” holds the “key” to a problem which very recently taxed Ministerial brains, states that newspaper. What happened to the ignition key of the Hon. P. C. Webb’s ear during-his visit to Tuatapere on Thursday was a question which a •member of the Ministerial party described as “one of the great mysteries of life.” The loss of the key and the delay involved until a substitute was found was reported in the “Southland Times.” A “Times” reporter who travelled with the party was a front seat passenger and an active member of the search party. But when the search proved fruitless he recorded the incident, considering it closed. Late that evening, his day’s work done, the reporter prepared for bed. And the mystery was solved. Nestling coyly in one of his shoes was the missing key!