LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume L, 9 August 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Mr. William Johnson, who recently died at Weymouth, at 85, was present at the last execution of a sailor for insubordination. ■.' '

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

The euchre party organised by the Church of England Ladies’ Guild will be held in St. George’s Sunday Schoolroom on Monday, August 12, at 8 p.m. The gentleman’s prize will be a, pair of pyjamas and the lady’s prize an Irish linen duchess set, hand worked. There will be a good supper.

The Patea Borough Council notifies in this,issue that it is their intention to enforce section 216 of the electrical supply regulations, 1927, whereby a deposit of 10s must accompany each application for a meter test. Such deposit will ibe refunded if the test proves an error in the meter exceeding 2-L.per cent. If the meter, when tested, is' found to be accurate within 2-1 per cent, the deposit will be retained bv the council.

Recently a notification was published -that the Imperial Government .were issuing Memorial Plaques and Scrolls, together with, a letter from His Majesty, on account of those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have died since being discharged from the forces, provided the death took place on or before August 31, 1928, and that it was the result of war service. The Government has now received a despatch stating that the memorial plaque factory will be closed so soon as the outstanding demands have been dealt with. In the circumstances, the Defence, Department i,s forwarding to the United Kingdom a final list of applications, and this will include all those received by the Department on or before August 2G, therefore the relatives of

the deceased soldiers should not delay communicating with Base Records Office, Wellington relative to their claim to receive memorials. Subsequent to August 2G all applications of this kind will be declined, and the relatives of ex-soldiers will not have cause to blame the New Zealand Defence Department if their neglect moans to them the loss of the beautiful memorials.

Hints for Smokers: Don't keep to one pipe and smoko it until it is soaked with '‘juice." Briars arc cheap enough. Keep three or four, or better still, half a dozen by you, and smoke them turn about. And whatever you do avoid tobaccos containing a lot of nicotifcc. They are terribly destructive to the nerves, and often cause' heart trouble. Unfortunately most imported tobaccos are full of nicotine, in which respect they differ entirely from the brands manufactured by the National 'Tobacco Co., Ltd. (the pioneers of the tobacco industry iu New Zealand), which are almost free from it, so that you ean smoke them day in and day out with absolute impunity. They can't hurt you. This is because they are all toasted, and these are the only tobaccos so treated, remember. There are no sweeter, cool-

er, more fragrant or more innocuous tobaccos than the National Tobacco Company’s, Popular varieties: Riverhead Gold (mild), Cavendish (medium), Navy Cut (a choice blend), and Cut Plug No. .10 (a. fine, rich, dark, fullflavoured ’’baccy). These goods are on sale (everywhere.

A full-size billiard table and equipment is advertised for sale in this issue. A grand dance in aid of the piano fund will be held in the Hurley ville Hall on Friday, August 16, when a good floor, good music (two instruments), and a good supper arc assured patrons. A reminder is given of the Patea and District Public Schools’’ A.A.A. annual football and basketball tournament. which is being held in the local Domain on Saturday next, August 10, commencing at 11 a.m. Refreshments will be obtainable on the ground. No class in the community -can obtain unalloyed satisfaction from the taxation proposals of the Government (says the Auckland "Sun”).' The primage duty is so inescapably an attack on the small householder and wage earner 1 that penurious democrats can obtain no satisfaction, not even a mordant chuckle, .from the accompanying onslaught on big land owners. The Government went into office pledged to a reduction of large estates, a policy it has already set-in motion, though with negligible results as far as any stimulus to land settlement is concerned. But it was no part of its endorsed platform to add a severe sup-er-tax and to sweep away the exemptions which have-allowed many struggling farmers to survive. There arc undoubtedly cases of wealthy farmers who, in bountiful seasons, have escaped their proper share of taxation. But the Government’s drastic proposition groups with these the men who since the slump have been unable to' make more than a bare living from oven a large and seemingly prosperous farm.