LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 18 April 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The usual sale will be held at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday at noon, when good yardings will be offered at auction.

An election of seven members to represent the Comity of Patca on the Patca Hospital Board will be held on Wednesday, May H- Nominations close at the County Offices on Wednesday April 27, at noon.

The brethren of Lodge Patca Nilwinning are requested to attend the funeral of the late Bro. J. G. Beamish, which takes place to-day. The lodge will be tylcd at 1.15 p.m.

An election for one member to represent Waverley subdivision and cue member to represent the Otoia Biding in the Patea County, on the Patca Harbour Board will be held on ednesday, May 11, 1932. Nominations close on Wednesday, April 27, at the County Council Office, Patca.

Mr. Douglas Pools has an important advertisement in another column uith regard to his special cash offer of 20 per cent, reduction on various lines, an offer which should bo very acceptable these limes when economy is the order of the day.

An advertiser is inquiring for a blue Belton setter, which has been lost.

A painfully sudden death occurred at the Hawera bowling green on Saturday, a, well-known player named Machin expiring suddenly.

A reward is offered for the return of a bunch of keys in a leather ease, which have been lost.

The Patca Football Club’s popular euchre party will be held in the Forester’s Hall to-night at 8. There will be good prizes and a good supper.

The Patca County Council notifies in this issue that a general election of councillors will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 1932 for two members for Wavcrley Riding, 2 members for Moumahaki Riding, 1 member for Kapara Riding, and 4 members for Otoia Riding. Nominations close on Wednesday, April 27, at noon.

A:i Englishwoman who visited New Zealand last year in company with her husband and family, writing from London to a relative in New Plymouth, states: “I now refuse to buy anything but New Zealand butter. The strange part is that the Danish butter is sold at a higher price on the London market than the New Zealand article. To my taste New Zealand is the better butter. Something wrong somewhere! ”

“Pied tape” was in evidence at the last meeting of the Awatcrc County Council. Two items of the day’s business were the signing of a permit authorising the construction of a small hydro electric plant and the certifying of a plan for a side road. On the face of it, such items seem the ordinary ones of local body business, but the joke lay in the fact that the hydro electric plant was constructed ten years ago, and the road has been in use for no less than 3(5 years.

The local Fire Brigade held their hrst of a series of old-time dances in the Foresters’ Hall on Friday night last, when about 27 couples participated in the dancing. The Monte Carlo dance was won by Mr. McClusky and Miss Willis. Special thanks arc due to Mr. McClusky for his very enjoyable items rendered, and also to Mrs. Ainslcy, Mrs. Oakley, and Miss Laing for extras played. Dancers arc reminded that the next dance will be held in the Foresters’ Hall on Friday, April 2!), and all young folks who are desirous of learning the old-time dances are requested to bo at the hall at 7.30 pan., when the committee will endeavour to assist them.

“ Mid-Victoriau doctors had a ha.,:t of condemning anything that made life tolerable, ’ ’ wrote Dr. Frederick Graves, in the London ‘Daily Express’ recently, adding, “the new school of medicine takes a different view. It has come to recognise that tobacco, for instance, is a great solace in times of worry, and for many a direct aid to mental effort and concentration.” The doctor, however, is keenly alive to the danger from excess of nicotine in tobacco. “Pure nicotine,” he states, “like strychnine and arsenic, is now known to be a deadly poison.” It is. And what is more, practically all the brands in every-day use contain more or less of this vile stuff. The most notable exception is found in the New Zealand tobacco which, put through a costly purifying process in the course of manufacture (toasting), is rendered practically free from nicotine and is consequently harmless to the smoker. The process also gives this famous tobacco its world renowned flavour and peerless bouquet. Nolo carefully there arc only four brands: Ilivorhcad Gold, Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10.