LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume L, 2 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

An advertiser who is leaving the district has a Continental piano for sale.

The Patea Borough Council invite applications up to 1 j),m. on Monday, August 5, for the renting of a house in Lssex (Street.

Considering the various fees, cost of living, and ■books, etc., incurred in the six years’ training now essential before anyone can become a doctor, a total expenditure of £IOOO at least is necessary.

“I can see no cure for unemployment in this country,” said the Bishop of London recently; “the natural cure is to send British stock to the Dominions and Colonics.”

There will be no service in the Patea Methodist Church at 7 p.m. next Sunday. The usual service will be held at 11 a.m.

> Adjutant Fraser, of Wanganui, will conduct a special campaign in the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday next at 7.30 p.m. each day. A cordial invitation is extended to all.

The credit of being the most intelligent dog in the world is given to Fellow, a German sheep dog, owned by an American. He is said to understand 400 words and obeys all sorts of orders given in quiet, conversational t-oneA

The annual meeting of the Patca Fire;Brigade will bo hold in the Fire (Station on Wednesday, August 7, at 7.00 p.m., when the annual report and balance-sheet will be road and officers elected for the year. All ex-firemen are cordially invited to be present.

The I’atea Croquet Club’s euchre party will lie held in St. George’s Sunday Schoolroom on Monday, August 5, when the gentleman’s prize will be a suit of pyjamas and the lady’s prize half a dozen breakfast cups and saucers presented by Mrs. Blydo. There will be a good supper.

Thu ladies used to say they “couldn’t boar tobacco smoke,’’ that it made them '“quite ill.’’ Now most of them will tell you ‘ ‘ they just love it.” Which is doubtless why they rush the smoking compartments on the trams and trains, so that the men who are “hungering for a whiff” arc often “crowded out.” Tobacco smoke is certainly pretty powerful sometimes. Baccy highly charged with nicotine will make it so. Brands like that mostly come from Yankcelaud, and should be given a. wide berth. Ask the doctors —they know. The purest tobaccos obtainable are those of the National Tobacco Company, Ltd. (the pioneers of the tobacco industry in New Zealand). Sweet, cool and fragrant, they appeal to all smokers. Quite harmless, too, because they are toasted (no other tobaccos arc). 'You may smoko them from sun-mp to sunset—and after —without fear /of consequences. Ask any tobacconist for National Tobacco Go.’s ‘Eiverhcad Gold’ (mild), “Navy Cut” x>r “Cavendish” (both medium), or “Cut Plug No. 10” (full strength). There’s a brand to suit, every smoker.

A reminder is given of tlic Croquet Club's street day to-morrow.

An advertiser lias new laid hen and duck eggs, also settings of purebred fawn and white Indian Runner duck eggs for sale.

The Paten Volunteer Fire Brigade has an advertisement in this issue thanking all those who in any way assisted in making their annual ball such a success.

The English cricket county championship was instituted in 1873 and Yorkshire has won it no fewer than 11 times. Yorkshire’s first win was in 1893 and her last in 1925.

Some motorist, probably a stranger to the town, saw. lit to make use of the memorial entrance to the Domain on Tuesday. The entrance of vehicles by means of this gateway is strictly forbidden and it is hoped by the board that no motorists will make use of the gateway in.future.