Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LI, 3 March 1930, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1930 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A euchre party organised by Sr. George’s Ladies' Guild will be hold in SL George’s Schoolroom on Tuesday, March 1. at 5.15 sharp. Messrs. Freeman K. Jackson and Go., Ltd., will hold their usual sale at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday next, when large entries of sheep, cattle, and pigs will be offered. Air. B. H. Just, botanical nurseryman, Palmerston North, advertises in this issue that he has anemones and ranunculus for sale at Is per dozen. 6s per 100, and 30s per .1000. At the Foxtou !Bchool picnic held recently two of the happiest children on the ground were two sisters, 12 ami It years of age, respectively, who. not long ago were residents of unhappy Russia. These children. with their parents, had the good fortune to escape from Russia, where the conditions of living are said to be indescribable, and are now happily settled in New Zealand. Both girls ■speak English fluently and are exceptionally good in the: school work.

A reminder is yiven of the-swimming sports to bo held at the local beach on Wednesdav next.

The grand opening ball in ui,d- of the Kakaramea Hall funds wilt bt; held in the Kakaramea Hall on Tuesday, March 11, when ‘the music will lie supplied by Gilmore’s orchestra of foulinstruments. There will be a good floor and supper.

‘The annual spoils meeting of the .Kakaramea -Sports and Agricultural Association will be held on Wednesday, April 2. Further particulars will bo advertised later.

Air. C. A. Lareomibe has just received a shipment of ladies', shoes for all occasions. His prices are equal if not cheaper than the large city stores. An inspection is invited. ,

Only, bananas grown in Italy's; colonies are allowed to be on sale, in that country.

If all the jellyfish hatching, put in the sea in early summer, were to reach maturity they would turn' the sea into a solid mass of blue jelly..

Whilst the work of painting the memorial gates at the Domain was being carried out it was discovered that three out of the four large ornamental tops of the pillars wore in a highly dangerous condition and. liable to fall at any time. The tops have now been removed in the interests of public safety, and the question of what form the ornamentation of the tops of the pillars’ shall take will be discussed at the next meeting of the Domain Board.

The members of the M.O.C. team passed through Patca on the mail train on Friday. During the train's stay.at the station several of the members alighted, including the Indian Prince K. S. Duleepsinghi, who chatted with several local residents and - expressed their delight with everything they had seen in New Zealand. They also expressed the hope that they would again visit the Dominion.

A Now Zcamnder who is spending a wool cheque in Germany writes to say that one gets whirled about pretty cheaply by taxi in Berlin. He was told that all the taxi drivers with a red ‘band round the left sleeve could speak French or English. One day ho wanted a taxi, and went to a stand, selecting a rod-band driver. "Do you speak English’" "Too right!'' said Fritz. "Where did you learn it?" "Taranaki !'' -said Fritz. 1 ‘ You must have been a long time there." said the New Zealander. "My word, yes," said Fritz. "Born there.?" "Fought, in the war?," "My oath I" "With the German Army?" |"Not on your life —■ with the Dinks!" X MI the Berlin cabbies wear uniform again, and most of them war- ribbons, but Fritz from Taranaki isn't wearing any ribbons. Mentioned, too, that his aged German parcuts arc still in Taranaki. Scene: "SmoKer" of city trameur. Stern-faced auti-tobaccoite to stranger in the full . .enjoyment of his pipe: "Do you know, my friend. there's enough poison ■in that pipe of yours lo kill a hold mouse or 37 blue bottle flies?" "That so? Well, if over I see a held mouse smoking a pipe 1 'll tell the cat!" Joking apart, there’s a lot of nonsense talked and written about smoking. But as long as the baccy is pure, with little nicotine in it, it can't do much harm. But there’s dumb! The imported tobaccos just reek with nicotine. That’s why their habit, ual use is so unwise. They are -destructive to the nerves. and often affect the- heart. Too much nicotine! How is it? Our New Zealand brands are all but free from the poison. You can smoke them freely with absolute safety. Thousands of smokers are doing it. Oh, yes. there are brand.- to suit all tastes. Those most fancied arc: —"Navy Cut." "Cavendish." "Kivcrhosd Gold," and "Cut Plug No. 10,”

English, which, a century ago was spoken by twenty million people, is now the language of two hundred and twenty millions. The only declining .angiuigc is Turkish, which has decreased from thirty to twenty-four millions.

A very fine piece of work has just been completed to the order of the Fatea Domain Board by Mr. A. G. Reid, the well-known painter and signwritcT, of Egmont Street. The work consists of the painting of the" ornamental memorial gates at the en'trahce to the Domain. which have booh painted in green picked out with gold. The work has boon well executed the gates presenting a bettor appearance 'than ever before. It is only fitting that the gates, which are the local memorial to those who laid down, their the Great War, should bo kept in a‘condition worthy of the object for which -they wore erected, and the "work'of Mr. Reid has carried this out to The full. They are alike a credit to the contractor hnd the Domain Board. ~

Men from North of the Tweed regard a question, set .up at the recent Far examination in criminal law as a libel on the “ canny. Scot ” and a slur o.n a noble race. This was the question, which was firht oh J ' the list: — ‘/Mr. Me A partook of lunch in an XYZ cafe at a table where Mr. 8,a stranger, was also seated. The two were waited bn by Miss C. B, having finished his repast, placed sixpence oh his plate as a ; gratuity to Miss G, and departed, paying his bill. Mae hastily concluded his own mo.al, took up the sixpence, and placed it on his own plate as and for his gratuity to Miss G, paid his bill and departed. “What, if any, crime has Mac committed? ’ 3 Out of the 250 students who sat, it is safe to assume (says the “Star,” London), that a large proportion are patrons of a well-known tea shop where tipping is prohibited. The legal aspect of the problem must, therefore, appear to them to be more involved dtilll PJut the Scots, burning ximler a sense of wrong done to their countrymen by the insinuation, regarded the question aa an insult, and unworthy of notice. They left it severely alone.