LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 6 March 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tlu> I’atcu Municipal Brass Band will render a programme at the hospital on Sunday afternoon. Air. A. Cl. Held advertises a ten per rent, redaction in painting and papering charges. He. lias in stock “fortesolemn,” all Kugiisli floor coverings. A yards wide, at the Bargain price of 3s Ihi per yard. A railway telegraph pole on the hepperton overhead Bridge was snapped off two'feet from the ground when it was struck by a ear driven by Air. P. hooker, Patea, at about 8.31 J on Wednesday morning (says the ‘News’). .Mr. l.oeker, who was on his way to Auckland, turned rather sharply on the bridge ami the car struck the jade which fid I on the car. No wires were brought down. The front of the ear was damaged by the impact. -Air. Locker had two passengers with him, hat heyoml bruises no one was hurt. Tin l value of life saving clubs was illustrated in a striking manner on Sunday near Inlgewood, when a young man named Higgins got into ditliculties whilst river bathing and sank before 1 anyone would get: near hint. An alarm was raised and a young man named St. t.leorge dived into the pool where .Higgins had sunk and after some dillieplty located the body, and seizing it by the foot brought it to the surface. A member of a life "saving club happened to be on the spot and promptly set to work to apply the usual resuscitation measures taught to members of his club. Although the young man Higgins had been some minutes under water and to all outward appearances was quite dead, the restoration measures after a time proved successful, the apparently drowned man recovering sufficiently to be able to walk to a ear, which conveyed him to his home.

An owner is wanted for a pair of spectacles, which have boon found. The Huatorville cricket team put up something of a record on Saturday, wiie.ii seven out of 10 players made nothing between them. The whole team made 21. one player making 11 and two others four each, with “Air. Extras ” two. A referendum among parents of Hunterville school children, resulted in verdict for a picnic on Hunterville | Domain, the voting being: Domain 20, South Spit lb, 'Wanganui 15. | The news of the Napier eaithqiiake ■ was muieh exaggerated in the Canadian and American papers. One paper in Vancouver stated that there were 1000 dentils and another in Bau Francisco that there were 2000, The inquiry into the circumstances of the death: of Nairn Chhiba, the Indian fruiterer whose body was found in a living room at the rear of his ; hop in High Street, Ha worn, on February 1. will be resumed on Tuesday next before the coroner, Mr. it. S. 'age. “I, am sorry that we have shut out New Zealand butter —we wanted if: vow prices are going up and it is not ;he farmer who gels the advantage of d.” slates a Canadian correspondent : a -i letter a friend at Welli .o-.f ■■ “Not only butter is affected, but milk in I elmese. The only things that are oming down in price tire motor ears, ' at we do not buy cars every day like e i'o butler.” “When I'm real hungry for a moke,” said a speaker at a. social gathering the other day, “a cigarette .s no earthly good to me. It's like oiTering a fancy biscuit to a starving man. Even a cigar leaxes me cold. A pipe of good honest ‘cut up’ is what 1, crave —New Zealand toasted for preference, ” Tdost veteran smokers are like that. They prefer a well-loaded briar to the best cigar or cigarette. As to the New Zealand toasted tobacco it has this to recommend it: the toasting rids it of most of its nicotine, and leaves it sweet, cool, and pure, whereas ihe foreign tobaccos are often rank with nicotine —a deadly poison, boar in mind. Can stuff like that be good lo smoke, day after day. think yon? Thero are only four brands of toasted: Riverhead Gold, Navy Cut No. ", Cavendish. and Cut Plug No. TO. They are all famous for their delicious flavour, ami fine aroma. And you can smoke them freely even to excess. They are toasted and therefore harmless.