Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 25 February 1931, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

An advertiser is inquiring for a I o,irt car-ring, which Ims been lost.. Parliament is duo to moot on AA'ednosday, Alareh 11. Daylight saving will cease on .Sunday, March 15 next. lor January this year Alberta creamery butter manufacture increased 75 per cent, compared with January last year. The Paten. Public .School excursion to Wanganui will take place on AVodnoaday, March 4. Hot water will be obtainable free at Cook’s Gardens and visitors may visit the museum and art gallery free. Further details will be published later. What the present drop in prices for the Dominions’ dairy produce means to the small farmer was shown by a remark passed to a “Press” reporter recently by a. local resident who milks 10 cows and whose return last month worked out at an average of less than 2s per milking. AAHien the price of the cows' and the rent of his land was deducted the residue left about 2d per hour for the farmer’s labour.

The Patca Presbyterian Church is holding- n "Cobweb Fair" in the Foresters’ Hall next Friday at 2 p.m. The stalls will include flower and plant, produce, sewing, take, and sweet stalls, and n dainty afternoon tea and fruit salad will be obtainable. Specialities will be home-made bread, meat, and pot plants, including begonias. A musical programme will be rendered during the evening. A photograph of a cheese, showing a large-sized scrubbing brush deeply embedded in its centre, has been received by a Taranaki factory from the Tooley Street agents through whom it was consigned. The brush was not found in the cheese until it was beingcut up for sale by an FngHsh retailer, whose astonishment may be imagined. The second linstalment of 7s lid to bo paid by those who have registered under tine Unemployment Act and who have not paid the full levy will fall due on March 1., As this date is a Sunday the instalments will be payable on and after Alonday next. One month's grace will be allowed, as in the December payment, after which the penalty of sixpence will be added for each month or part of a month in arrears.

“I’m perishing for a smoke!” Tims .Major Scott, as he climbed out of the British Airship TJTOO immeiliatcly after her return flight to England from Montreal. So saying he pulled a ready-lilled pipe from his pocket, and lit up. Tes, most smokers know what if is to ‘■perish for a smoke.”' In good limes and in bad, when things are going right, and when they are going wrong, there's nothing like a pipe! Harmful’ Tell it to the marines! Beneficial, so long as the baccy’s right. The imported leaf may he harmful, owing to the quantity of nicotine it often contains, because nicotine is as deadly as cyanide, although slower in its action. Not so our New Zealand toasted tobaeco. 'like toasting eliminates most of the nicotine in it, so that it is perfectly harmless. And it is unrivalled for flavour and bouquet. There are only four brands: Riverhead field, Cavendish, Navy Out No. 3, and Cut Plug No. 10. No others arc manufactured. But of course there are imitations.

A shop with .‘Jo.ft frontage to main .-trect in Putca is advertised to let. The annual Easter camp of the Taranaki Presbyterian Voung Men’s Bible Class students is to be held on Mr. Dwyer’s farm. Ball Road. The arrangements are in tire hands of the Jvakaramea Bible Class. A Brisbane practitioner, Ur. A. ,1. Ross, has bought outright Sunday island, COO miles north of Auckland, and intends to settle it with 14 families, including 12 from New Zealand, says the ‘Sunday Guardian,’ Sydney. He is buying a schooner in Sydney this week. *1 here was a very fair attendance at the Coursing Club’s er/chre party in the I’oresters’ Hall on Monday, in spite of Liie inclement weather. Mrs. Allen won the lady’s prize and Mr. A. Carlton the men’s prize. Tenders closing at 5 p.m. on Batin’day, March 14, are called in this issue for the erection of a Druids’ Hall in Paten. Plans and spcciiications may be seen at Mr. C. J. (jardiner’s shop, Fgmonl Btrect.