Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 3 August 1931, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The Sydney Lord Mayor’s resolution rutting wages and salaries from S I-:.! to 2d per cent, has been carried •by the City Council.'

The well-known steeplechaser Gilgai won the hunters’ jumping competition at the I’angitikei Hunt Club’s point to point meeting last week.

A memorial signed by 120 representatives' of business and professional men and others of Palmerston North district has been received by Mr. G. A r . Forbes, urging the desirability of fusion of the political parties.

hid - . \V. G. Simpson'' will address the friends and supporters of the New Zealand Labour Party in tho supper room of the Town Hall to-night, August .1, at 8 p.m. Ladies arc especially invited to be present.

Messrs. Freeman K. Jackson and Co., Ltd., will hold their usual sale at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday at noon, when good entries of sheep, cattle, and pigs, will be offered.

There will be a treat in store for those interested in school football on Wednesday, whoa the annual seven-a-side tournament will be held in flic local Domain. No less than 21 teams have been entered. In addition to tho football, tho usual basketball tournament will also be held.

All schools taking part, in tho football ami basketball tournament in the local Domain on Wednesday have been granted a holiday on that day. Cars will not bo ‘allowed in the Domain on Wednesday on account of the soft, nature of the ground.

.Some cf tiie feats of endurance performed by the early colonists seem incredible in these days, says a Christchurch newspaper. Mr. Ebonozer Hay, the lirst settler in Pigeon Hay, used to carry -l(Jll) to tiOlb of butler on his back every week over rough bush trucks and return the same day. The distance lie would cover was 80 miles.

The annual football and basketball tournament, of the Putea District Public Schools ’ A.A.A. will be held in the

Paten Domain on Wednesday, At gust 5, at 11 a.m. Pefreshmonts will lie obtainable on the ground.

•‘I uyod to ciijo}' a smoko mure than anything else,’wrote a correspondent of 5i London weekly not long since, “but about thicc months ago, my doctor told mo that if I didn’t knock oil* smoking it would knock me oil'. So'l gave it host, hut the longing for a pipe is still very insistent at times. And what can I do.”’ The trouble in this case was undoubtedly caused by excess of nicotine in the tobacco smoked. A common defect. Most of the foreign tobaccos are like that. Happily for Alaorilamlers our line New Zealand tobacco is toasted, anil this costly and elaborate process rids the loaf of its too abundant nicotine and renders it perfectly safe to smoke, even to excess. The toasting, moreover. it is that gives N.Z. tobacco its delightful aroma and fascinating flavour. There nre four brands only: Liverhead Cold. Navy Cut No. Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10. They vary in strength (from very mild to full flavoured) but are uniform in quality. The world produces no bet-

Buys taking .part in the sevon-n-side toot-ball tourmiment on AVeduesday are urged to bring a towel and a change of clothing, so that they can change and not stand about in muddy football togs until the next game.' The rainfall for July was 10.48 in, which constitutes a record for the month of July for the past 12 years. No earlier records are available. In 1924 the rainfall for July was (1.75 in. The I’atea Ladies’ Golf Club had to postpone still another match on (Saturday on account of the rain. The visit to AVavcdey was postponed, and the, match with, the. Alanaia Ladies’ Club on Wednesday was also put. off indefinitely. A loss for the year of £3002, after writing oil' £IOBB depreciation on plant and buildings, is shown in the report of the Auckland Lacing Club. A notable feature of the accounts is that while the ekilb’s revenue from the totalisalor dropped from £55,854 to £41,062 the Government’s share in taxation increased from £56,064 to £5(1.375.