LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 11 March 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Tiie seven leading countries of the world used electric power last year equal to the power of 270 million horses working for one hour.

“Toe H ?; signifies the initials of Talbot House (Toe is the official signalling term for the letter T). It :s an organisation founded at Poperinghe and Ypres in 1915 by the Kev. T. Clayton. Its objects are to preserve hi;exservice men, and to pass on to the vounger generation, the lessons of fellowship, sacrifice, and service in th Great War. Talbot House, in Queen Anne's Gate, London, is the headquarters of the organisation.

An advertiser lias a wringer, lawn mower, hose, garden tools, etc., for sale.

The Patea Mart is now offering large quantities of goods in a bankrupt estate, which arc all marked at cheap prices.

Third class railway passengers may travel four a side instead of five, with arm-rests, if an experimental carriage recently built by the L.N.E.R. (Eng.) comes into general use.

A meeting of all interested in the installation of a radio receiving set at the Patea Hospital will be held in the Borough Council chambers on Tuesday next, loth inst., at 7.30 p.m.

A rather amusing sight was presented at a recent bowling match at Wanganui when a Patea player, whose height is in the neighbourhood of 4ft Gin, was paired with a Wanganui player Oft 24-in in height.

The green painted Ford car, No. 79064, which was believed to have been taken from Wanganui on Tuesday by Bennett, the escapee from the Hautu prison camp, was found yesterday at Marakopa, near Kawhia.

“One of the jokes of Xew Zealand is that she is trying to run things by committees. There is only one way to get democratic, government as we understand it 'and that is to elect an autocrat. You have not got a democratic Government now. Power to recall the autocrat would, of course, be necessary. That is the only way to do things expeditiously and to plan,” said Mr. L. C. Walker, speaking at Christchurch.

The animal meeting of the Patea Football Club will be held in the County Council Chambers, Patea, on Saturday, the I2th inst., at 7.30 p.m., wheij the report and balance-sheet will bo presented and officers elected for the year.

That the farmers of the district have been hard hit by the low prices is shown by the fact that out of a total of £11,724 13s 3d collectable in rates by the Patea County Council, the treasurer so far has received only £1165 14s Id, leaving a balance of £10,558 19s 2d still to be collected.

Although 85 years of age, Mr. A. E. Judd is still an- active member of Windsor (Eng.) Parish Church choir, with which he has been associated for more than 30 years. To celebrate his long service and also his birthday his colleagues presented him with a silvermounted walking stick.

The matron of the Patea Hospital desires to sincerely thank the members of the Patea Municipal Band for the open air concert on Sunday afternoon and also Mrs. D. Hurley, sen., for cake and eggs, Mr. J. A. Has well, peaches; Mr. Birchell, Xmas cake; Mrs. Brown, Manutalii, flowers; Mr. W. Lamb, books; Mrs. J. Pearce, butter; Mrs. P. Bourkc, Mrs. Honeyficld; sen., Mrs. C. E. Honeyficld, Mr. Aker, flowers; Mr. R. J. Julian, Miss M. Jones, Mrs. Hodson, Mrs. Page (Kakaramea), Mrs. E. D. Wybourne, flowers; Mr. A. Taylor, vegetables; Mrs. Gilmour, books and flowers.

A remarkable instance of canine intelligence or instinct was witnessed at the week-end by a Herne Bay family, states the ‘Auckland Star.’ The dog, a half-bred cattle dog, had changed hands three or four days previously, and during that time had been kept tied up. His previous home was on the Pasadena Estate, Point Chevalier, and the dog, which had never been further afield than, a few hundred yards from the house, was conveyed in a closed car. However, he escaped from his new home on Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and could not be found. At 4.30 p.m. a telephone call informed the Herne Bay owners that the animal had arrived at his old home.

“The keenest analysis of this country’s problems that I have ever heard,’’ was the description given by Mr. J. S. Barton before the Napier Chamber of Commerce recently of an address he had heard some years ago by a member of the Chinese Soccer term which visited New Zealand. “That Chinese student,” he said, “told us that his party was trying, to take away from New Zealand the best of what its members saw, but he said that they hoped in China to make machinery their servant, and not their master, as was the case in New Zealand. Ho observed that New Zealand had built up enormous productive activities on a market which it could not control, and predicted that the whole lot -would collapse round our heads ' a pack of cards, leaving us with unprecedented unemployment. It was a great prophecy.”

Some men will pay a fancy price for a pipe because they like its shape, or admire its mount. Yet the most expensive pipe you cau buy gets foul just as quickly as the humble ‘ briar. ’ you cau -get anywhere for a shilling, it-'s not the pipe that matters half so much as the tobacco you bum in it. Many doctors arc heavy smokers, but being doctors they arc generally careful to see their tobacco is pure, i.c., as free from nicotine as they can get it. Nicotine is a most insidious poison, and is at the root of all trouble caused by smoking. Pure tobacco never did anyone any harm. It’s the brands reeking with nicotine —as all the imported brands arc —that should be avoided. Happily for New Zealand smokers the tobaccos grown and manufactured in this country arc practically free from nicotine, owing to their being toasted. There are only four brands of toasted: Hivcrhead Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 —all of them the world’s best.