LOCAL AND GENERAL

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12439, 4 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Newman cheese factory's payout over the whole of lasi season vvas stated at the annual moetinsi to be 9.48 d.

The Newman Cheese Co. has 164 crates of white cheese and 250 of coloured of last season’s yet to be disposed of.

Mrs C. W. Hausmann, of Shannon, aged 44, succumbed in the Palmerston North hospital to injuries as the result of severe burns when ucr clothes caught fire.

As a result of an electric shock. Stanhope Slier well Smart. officer-in-charge of the Southland Electric Power Board’s sub-station in Herbert Street, died in hospital on Sunday morning. Deceased, who lived at the station, was a married man with three children.

The Chronicle’ 3 Moscow correspondent says that a giant aeroplane, the K 7. accommodating 128 passengers- and a crew of ten. successfully underwent a test flight. The machine is largely constructed of steel-and is litted with a bar. a lounge and a -promenade deck. The passengers sleep In the wings.

„ As a. result of a collision between Lord Leconfield’s car and a motorcycle combination at crossroads on Winscales Moor, three men named Furnace, Hatton and Greaforex were killed. Lord Leconfield sustained a broken nose and shock, and his bailiff facial injury. The chauffeur was unhurt. The motor-car overturned, while the motor-cycle was smashed and hurled into a hedge.

It is many years since an Indian monsoon has taken so heavy a toll of death and destruction as has followed in the wake of this year s excessively heavy rainfall. Vast stretches of the country are under water and buildings have collapsed on all sides owing to their having been weakened by' the flood waters. The death-roll was added to when 16 persons were killed b.v a collapsing verandah in Aiwar during a religious ceremony .

“Starving in tile midst of plenty” was exemplified in Palmerston North in a now form one day recently, under circumstances quite diverting to the few who witnessed the incident. A benzine “tanker,” a lorry ol the type used by-, the petrol companies for replenishing the bowsers, found itself ill the anomalous predicament of being stranded in the street because it had run out of benzine. Finally a. fellow-tank happened along, and was able to supply the deficiency, and the purveyor of the mighty atom was able to move on its way once more.

Pose Penate, believed tc be last of the strongarm squad oi the deposed President Machado was killed at Havana and his body paraded through the streets in ail open automobile. I'he authorities said that executioners of the A.B.C. Revolutionary Society killed Penate, who was. a sergeant in the old secret police.

An unusual charge, that of driving a tractor equipped with grippers on the Maraekakaho Road, near Stortford Bodge, with a consequent danger of causing damage to the road surface, was preferred against A. Lowe in the Napier Magistrate’s Court, before Mr A. M. Mowlen*, S.M., fsays the Napier Daily Telegraph). “A Clydesdale horse, shod in the ordinary way, would be trimental to the road thai my factor, 5 ’ declared the defendant, in denying that the tractor had caused any damage to the road surface. He was convicted and discharged. A literal ‘‘drop in brandy” outside a Dunedin hotel last Wednesday speedily brought together a crowd, attracted by the unusual spectacle. It appears that a quantity of this spirit was being transferred from bond to the hotel cellars, and that by some accident one of the hogsheads fell from the lorry on to the street, the impact knocking the head out of the cask. As a result the street was soon liowing with brandy, some of which actually found its way into the gutter on the opposite side of the roadway. In aIJ, 25 gallons of brandy, worth about £3 a gallon, went to waste, while sundry thiistv souls in the crowd looked on sorrowfully and deplored their inability to benefit by the occurrence.

Messrs Rorthwick wilL not be trucking pigs this week as originally notified. Tyres, motor spirit ana oil at keen competitive prices .at Donald’s garage. This firm carries a big stock of accessories. It executes repairs m first-class style—in fact, there is nothing in motordom but what it cannot do or sell. Of course there is the splendid service the public look for, the geniality and personality that wins and retains customers. Donald’s for skilled workmanship, Donald’s for courtesies and low costs.*