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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 9 December 1938, Page 4

All the Sunday school prize-givings in connection with All Saint’s parish will take place within the next week. Three will take place on Sunday next— Bishopdale after a family service at 11 a.m., and Toi Toi and St. Stephen’s, Tahuna, in the afternoon at 2.30. The Port Mission Hall prize-giving will be on Tuesday next at 7 p.m., and the one at the main All Saints’ Sunday School at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday week. Parents are invited to attend these gatherings.

The term concert by pupils of the Nelson School of Music will be held in the School of Music to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. During the evening there will be the distribution of examination certificates, and the announcement of prize winners.

The Loyal Howard Lodge social committee will hold its fortnightly dance in the Oddfellows’ hall, Waimea street, on Saturday night. The programme, mainly of old time numbers, will be directed by Bro. G. L. Housiaux. There will be an Early Bird waltz and a Monte Carlo, and good prizes will be awarded. The floor of the hall is in excellent condition for dancing. A generous supper will be provided, and Mr H. Williams’s dance band will supply the music.

Ben Ilur cigarettes are manufactured in Nelson entirely from matured tobacco leaf grown In Suhny Nelson. Ben Hur is a blend that will appeal to the discriminating cigarette smoker, at the popular price of 10 for 6d.*

Fruitgrowers are advised by advertisement in this issue that Mr G. G Taylor will carry out a series of demonstrations in the district next week, regarding spray volume applications, equipment, etc. All growers are urged to attend their district demonstration

"The first pipe of the day! Can you beat it v asks “Old Smoker,” in a South Island paper. “1 rise at 5 a.m., winter and summer, and the first thing I do is to light up! I smoke all day long, but that first pipe is easily the best! Sometimes 1 am asked if I never sulTer from burnt tongue. 1 never do! But then you see, 1 am particular in my choice of tobacco. Were I to be continually puffing some of those foreign brands We wot of I certainly couldn't indulge so freely as I do. But my tobacco is New Zealand toasted’ —the pick of the basket for flavour and allure.’ It contains so little nicotine that it is hardly worth mentioning! This tobacco undergoes special treatment at the factory which destroys most of the nicotine in it.” Another feather in the cap of “toasted.” Five brands only, remember : Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold. Navy Cut No. 3. Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. But, ’ware of imitations.*

Maori and Pakeha One of the pleasing features of the coming Centennial celebrations was that the Native people would take their part in the observances, side by side with the pakeha. the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) said at a meeting of the National Centennial Council yesterday (reports "The Post”). “I feel that both races can congratulate themselves on the fact that after a period of nearly one hundred years of pakeha colonisation, the Maori is taking an increasingly prominent part in the public affairs of the country, that he is responsible for a big share of its production, that he has his representatives in all our cultural, economic and social activities, and that as a race he is increasing in numbers and in importance.” Mr Parry said. Motor Taxation In reply to the South Island Motor Union’s representatives, the Prime Minister advised the quarterly meeting that the Government had given considerable consideration to the question of motor taxation, but in face of the demands for derating, the necessity of maintaining a balanced Budget, and the demand for greater subsidies, it was impossible to grant a reduction A reduction of the tax would make a reduction of the amount available to the Government for use in improving the country, and Mr Savage expressed the opinion that there would appear to be no urgent case for immediate relief, but said that when taxation was under review, the union’s representations would be given due consideration. The chairman said that the North Island Union iic.d decided to defer the matter until their next meeting, and it was agreed to adopt a similar course. In the Interests of Safety The Traffic Inspector. Mr C. E. Parkinson, to-day pointed out the danger which children expose themselves to in playing games on the road after school, which .was a practice that seemed to be becoming more common, especially in Upper Vanguard street and in the Wood area. In the interests of safety the Inspector makes an appeal to parents for their co-operation Calpurnia’s Salvaged Mails The British Post Office advises that mails salvaged from the flying boat Calpurnia arc being reconditioned and will be forwarded by air as available. Motueka River’s Sudden Rise A party of men on public works, whilst loadng gravel onto lorries in the bed of the Motueka river yesterday morning, were surprised by a sudden rise in the river, and had to make a hurried retreat to the mainland When the men commenced work in the morning, the river appeared normal, but about 10 o clock without warning the water rose so rapidly that the workers were trapped on the island at the Motueka bridge. The bank of the river on the Riwaka side was reached after a wetting, but the six vehicles had to be abandoned as the depth of water was too great to remove them. Last evening the river was still in flood and the lorries had rot been removed