Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LII, 15 April 1931, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The supplementary electors’ list for the Borough of Patea will close shortly, and residents are advised to apply for enrolment immediately.

Arrangements are in hand for the hoikling of the usual public service on Amzac Day, April 25, in the Town Hall. The time of the service will be 11 a.m.

yir Arthur Dorman chairman of Dorman. Long, ami Co., left £.132,000. He bequeathed ten dozen bottles of port to each of his sons and live dozen each to his wife and daughters.

Advice Jias : bun received from Cromwell that the infant son of G. J. Crabbc, of Bannockburn, was found drowned in a large bucket of water underneath a table in Crabbe’s residence on Saturday.

Cirptaiu Neville Stack who is regarded as Britain’s ablest civilian pilot, accompanied by ,L 11. Chaplin, established a record Hight from London to Berlin and back in one day, It was a distance of 1250 miles and the Hying time was 10 hours 28 minutes.

The annual sports of the Kakaramea Sports and Agricultural Association arc to bo held in Mrs. Lord's paddock, opposite the Kakaramea Factory, to-day week. 'The Patea Band will be in attendance and will render selections throughout the afternoon. The sports programme is as interesting and varied as usual, and given a fine day some enjoyable contests should result.

Poppy Pay will be observed locally on Friday, the 21th hist., when residents of the town and district will be afforded an opportunity of showing their appreciation of (he sacrifices made by (hose from this district who laid down their lives in the Great War. Airs. J. Petersen has kindly undertaken the sale of poppies as previously and ■ the proceeds will be devoted to the upkeep of the local war memorial at the entrance to the Domain. The annual meetings of householders for the election of School Committers for the ensuing year will be held at (he respective schools on Monday, April 20, 1031, at S p.m., with the ex coption of Patea, in which case the meeting will be hold in the L'”' Council Chambers, immediately after the annual meetings, each newly elected committee shall meet and elect a chairman. Refugees from Hawke’s Bay arc notified by advertisement in this issue lo ret mm to their homes immediately. Those not in a lit condition to travel mar have fheir time extended on representation being made to the local relief committee. Anaemia ’ Rich blood restored with British Yeast-O-Cod Tablets, which build up weight and strength; 3s; A. K. Lames, Chemist. Health ami grace restored by Youth-O-Form, which permanently reduces stoutness; Os Od; A. ]3. Eauies, Chemist.

Nansett’s advertise their home-made cakes, fresh pies, and the latest chewing sweets in this- issue.

An advertiser wishes to buy a quantity of second-hand timber or an old house for removal.

Attention is drawn in our advertising columns to an interesting and informative address in the Methodist Church to-night by the Rev. J. R. Metcalfe, recently returned missionary from the Solomon Islands.

The annual meeting of the Patca IJifie Association will be held in tho Borough Council Chambers on Wednesday next, 22nd inst., at 7..‘!0 p.m., when the report ami balance-sheet for the year will be presented and officers elected.

Mrs. M. James asks why housewives trouble to cook cakes, etc., when they can be obtained from her establishment quite as cheaply las they can be made at homo. She also has stocks of confectionery of all kinds, and is agent for the S.O.S. Motors.

A miraculous escape from death occurred at the railway crossing between AVoodvillc ami the Manawatu. A sedan motor cur driven by A. J. Bierrc, manager of the Fletcher Construction Company, Wellington, who was returning from Hastings with a companion named N. Burnett, was caught by a railway engine from Palmerston North. The tar was carried some distance along tho track and wrecked. Air. Bierrc sustained injuries to- his head, which necessitated 7 stitches. The other passenger also had to have medical attention.

Asked by a customer whether he had seen many change's in tobacco pipe fashions during his long connection with the trade, a veteran Christchurch tobacconist said he had. scon a number of “now tangled pipes" introduced from time to time. “Not one of them lasted," he added reminiscently. “The ordinary pipe is good enough for the ordinary smoker, and he generally prefers a briar. As for tobacco there are more brands than there used to be, but the growing preference is for toasted New Zealand. It’s extraordinary the demand that has sprung up for this tobacco. Of course, the toasting of the leaf vastly improves the flavour uiul gives the goods their fine bouquet. Ay, and it does more—it gets the nicotine poison out. There's no other tobacco so free from nicotine. The imported lines are full of it. That’s very had for the smoker. There are four brands of toasted. Rivcrhead Gold, Cavendish, Navy Cut No. 3, and Gut Plug No. 10. No others are manufactured. And. take it from me, they've come to stay.' ;