LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10294, 21 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The less friction, the less wear, and the more speed. The Canterbury Rugby I nion last night decided io challenge Hawke's Bay for the I'.anfurly Shield, conditional upon the match' being played at Christchurch. Christchurch last year spent .4163,000 in maintenance on its city streets apart from reconstruction. This is the largest sum ever spent, and the streets are stated to be worse than ever before. “Denmark uses five tons of manures to the 100 acres while New Zealand u es 12} cwt. Is it any wonder that New Zealand dairymen are frightened ot that little country s competition ?'' said Mr J. AN. McCulloch while lecturing at the iarm school at Masterton. The Spinsters’ Ball at Mangamutu to-night promises to he a pronounced success, and is being eagerly looked forward to by the dancing public. AYi Duncan’s orchestra will provide the very latest and best in music, and the ladies are endeavouring to surpass all previous efforts ’ll the way of supper. Any amount of unexpected incidents' occur at boxing tourneys, but no one expected the incident which to.lowed one of the amateur bouts at the Wanganui Drill Hall on Saturday night. After the lads had shaken hands the winning hoy threw las arms round his opponent and bestowed upon him a chaste salute. It was unusual and the audience was mildly’ surprised. Mr Joseph -McCabe, who made a lecture tour through New Zealand some years ago. was ill Chicago recently. He described it as the worst city in the world. Murder, manslaughter, blackmail, bribery, and corruption are the order ol the day and night, in Chicago. In 1900 there were five murders to every 100,000 citizens. To-day there was 10. More than a murder a day has been committed in Chicago for two years. There is nothing like it in aifv modern civilisation. “To my mind the whole question ol our school buildings will have to be reconsidered. 1 have no objection to teachers' ni,\ns, cloak hulls and the like. I believe they are essential and necessary, but il our income is limited then we will have tv see where wo can effect econ unies. Unless the Government a:.J Parliament increase the vote, and I don't i Link there is much chain of that, we will have to revise the whole position, and see if we are not spending too much even in the towns. I will go into this again, and review the whole position.”—Hon. !{. A. AYrighl, Minister of Education, in the course ol a speech at Napier. Keen motorists will be interested to know that the noted Studebaker ears have drooped in price. See A and R Donald about the new price list..*

It is announced that the Canadian, general election will be held on September 14th. In reply to a question at the Martmborougli farm school, Air \\ J. McCulluch stated that lime must first lie used to correct the acidity in the soil If the ground was MW* super alone would not sweeten it, lime in this instance being an essential. If farmers wanted to get the best from any manures they had also to use lime. * , “I am sick and tired of hearing of the evils of pernicious literature and demoralising pictures,” said Canon Percival James in an address on ‘‘Making the Morals of a Generation” to the Workers’ Education As--socLation recently. "I know these things do exist, but they do not exist to the extent some |>eople say they do,” he added. ‘‘The remedy is easily found. It lies in the hands of thd parents. They should be the censors who should say what they will allow their children to read and see.” New Zealand leads the British Empire in the matter of honey consumption. with 1-Jlbs per head, while Canada comes next with lJ|bs. It is believed that great prospects are ahead ot the Dominion in the lue.tter ot export ot honey to the United Kingdom, where the consumption is exceedingly small. Less than ItKXI tons of honey i» produced at Home and the imports amount to 4000 tons. Ol the latter amount New land in 192-j contributed 786 tons. “I wish more of the wive- were here this evening,” said Mr Gorringo the Government swine ex|iert. in the course ol an address to farmers in the \\ airarapa. “They remember what they hear better than you men. do. and they would see that whafc they were told was put into practice,” he continued. “Men olten slacken off in their methods, but is woman doesn’t, and she keeps her husband up to scratch,” lie concluded amid laughter. The question of the length of tha shooting season came up lor u.m-us-sion at a meeting of the South AYai—rarapa sub-committee of the Welling—ton Acclimatisation Society, when Air A. AlcLeod contended that two months was too short. Air F. Bro-cks was against a three months' season, _ and thought the best way to preserve game was to have a short sea—son. Eventually it was decided that it he a recommendation that the season lx- three months for ducks and two for swans, with a proviso that a close seasc | he observed lor sw ans and ducks when deemed necessary by the committee

An alarming ex|<erience befell a young lady at Wanganui lveently, the victim being almost suffocated by fumes from a gas-heated hot water geyser. She was preparing a hath, and had heated the califont, which wa.s without a vent t > the outer air. Consequently, when tno door and window were clos'd. tlie girl was overcome, and fainted. Hep ■mother, noting the. disquieting silence. tried the door and then looked through the window, to see her daughter lying inert upon the floor. Neighbours were summoned, ai door was battered in, but rot for s nne time was tile girl its:. . ;.:ted, and then only after a tl ;< t had been called. “Some of the business firms of Hamilton are .lot playing the game,” said the engineer t > the vV.upa County Council, m reporting on damage' done by heavy traffic to the Great South road. He continued: “they are encouraging heavy traffic, by mad from Auckland to Hamilton in winter just to save a few iieni-o per ton. J his also applies to other * ctions en route to Auckland. Recently. ten heavy lorries, each with a load of benzine or store.- iirmlimg from 8 to 10 tens, passed over this (load, en route from Auckland to Hamilton and it turned by the sanio route. Such traffic does more damage to the roads at this time ot tho year than the whole of its freights would come to.” * Giant fescue, a grass of tremendous growth, but interior food value, has taken hold in a good many districts in New Zealand. lit many eases, too, it has established itself tin fertile soils, hut. whether growing on go<*d or poor land, it is regarded with disfavour as wtii|iying space which could be more profitably employed in growing better fodder. It:, eradication is a matter of extreme ■difficulty and it need, therefore, occasion no surprise that sinm fanners urge that it he declared a. noxious weed. This suggestion tunics Lorn the Hauraki Plains CountyCouncil. in parts of whose area tilts giant fescue has taken a firm hold and in some places is killing out thut better grasses. Though it i„ 12 years since they* first played Rugby football in . New Z aland team two of tile members of the first Rual>\ aide that represented New Zealand are now t.> receive ill Hiack ' caps. The two old footballers, members ot the 1884 team, who are to have this honour conferred on thorn arc Air “Darby" Ryan and Mr I B. (I t minor, and then >. ps were received from the New Zealand R by 1 nion by the Auckland Union on Wednesday evening. Mr Ryan i present in the Auckland Hospital, ami the president, of the Auckland l nion. Air .1. Arniel. and the cliairfn: r ol the Management Committee. AL- 1!. I* rost, were dept ted to take hi' cap to the hospital and there make the presentation. ('auditions for patients at the Waii. to Hospital are soon to lx* - do more ehceriul with the installation * , • ; Picture in; olio . hid, lb' A\ a 'ka.to Hospital Patients Sun--nine t., jue intend- to purchase h r 4.12, > (sa.ys the AYaikato Times > I roiiinu iit medics;! men the \vy»rl«f o’, ei n..*c r»p})roved the ides* of liiov—,n« pictures for hospital patient** It* helps then, to regain their health .m, i > forget for a few momenta (heir ailments. It is the drecrv ; .',v waiting to .. t well i Uliioli lias a tost cessing effe. t. and piOtures are one ( »f the trim's which help ,ho ailing f Jk. T- n be . po and it is special I v i-onstriicted s - lh: t i- .-a o ho readily moved from ward t » wi id. There will . I screen.