LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 31 July 1933, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The usual sale will be held iu the 'Wanganui yards on Wednesday, when good yardings of sheep, cattle, and pigs will be offered.

Residents of Opaku and surrounding districts are reminded not to forget the euchre and dance evening in the Opaku Hall on Friday next iu aid of the Opaku Queen candidate. A free bus will leave Patca for the hall.

Visitors to the town on Wednesday can have a full day’s enjoyment by attending the school football tournament in the local Domain, which starts at 10.15 a.m. and is timed to finish iu ample time for., spectators to tat part in the unveiling of the Turi Memorial,

Two remarkable mangolds grown by Mr. E. Cole, the Avcll-known cricketer of Douglas, are to be seen iu the window of Mr. H. A. Jones ’ establishment. One is an exact replica of the head of the individual known as Ikey Moses, whilst the other is remarkably like Rebecca, his wife. The mangolds arc wonderful freaks and well worthy of inspection.

The business people and others are respectfully requested by His Worship the Mayor to observe Wednesday afternoon next as ® public holiday on The occasion of the unveiling of the Turi Memorial by the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Internal Affairs. The ceremony will commence sharp at 3 o’clock.

No less than five Maori couples were married at the Iwatca Pa, near Tuhara (Whiroa) on Saturday night, the minister who officiated being the Rev. Hone Waaka, of the Eatana Church; Sixty couples sat down to the wedding supper, at which a number of pakehas were also present. A dance concluded the marriage festivities, a feature of which was the marriage of a father and a son at the same time.

,We' are reminded that spring is fast -approaching by the receipt of a copy of Cooper’s catalogue and garden guide, issued by F. Cooper, Ltd., seed growers, Wellington. This linn is one of the pioneers of the seed growing industry in New Zealand. During the past few years wonderful success has been obtained ‘with the produce of their seeds at all the principal agricultural and horticultural shows throughout New Zealand. Tho firm makes hundreds of trials each year of all the main vegetable and farm seeds. Every bag of seed they receive is tested for growth by the Department of, Agriculture and also by themselves, and seeds only of the highest germination are - sold. (These trials and germination tests prove the superiority of Cooper ’s Seeds. “ Whoir tobacco has a very pronounced ‘bite,’ ” remarked the coroner at a Chicago inquest (or; ‘..autopsy, ’ as. the Americans say), “it is obvious that it contains too much nicotine, and the habitual use of such tobacco is certainly unwise. It appears that in this case deceased (a house decorator, who died while smoking his pipe), was a heavy' smoker, sometimes using as much as two ounces of tobacco a day. This, tobacco, a sample of which I have analysed, was unusually strong. Its nicotine content was three times as great as it should have been. It gradually affected .the heart, and, its cumulative effect was undoubtedly the cause of death.” Happily New Zealanders run no such risk. Our beautiful New jf ’ , Zealand tobacco is toasted, and this process (necessitating the employment of elaborate machinery and skilled labour) safeguards the smokcr ? because it draws 'out the poisonous nicotine besides imparting. to the tobacco its famous flavour and unequalled fragrance. There are four toasted-brands: Rivorhead Gold) Navy Out No. 3 , (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulkhead). unique.