LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 6 September 1933, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Au ‘’advertiser with a comfortable home wants two gentlemen boarders.

Another honour that recently came to this district is the third prize won by the Whcnuakura Dairy Company’s factory for cheese factories grading 921 points and over throughout the season and showing the greatest improvement in grading points. The prize is a tribute not only to the manager and staff, but to the farmers of the district and their land (as well.

Mr. Roach, of Hamilton, will give a demonstration with regard to crossbred pigs at Mr. H. Hodge’s farm, at Alton to-day (Wednesday) at 1 p.m. All interested arc invited to be present. Mr. Roach rvill also give a demonstration on pedigree Tamworths at Mr. W. Parsons' farm, Whcnuakura, on Thursday, the 7th inst., at I p.m. This demonstration will be followed by an address on pig marketing.

A benefit football match between Kauru and Ratana will bo played on the local Domain on Saturday, September 9, at 2.30 p.m., to raise funds for Mr. J. Tunic, who was injured on the football field, and also the Turi Memorial Meeting House, now being erected at Te Wai-o-Turi. The Ratana Morehu Brass Band will parade and lead a procession through Egmont St. to the Domain.

A meeting for the purpose of forming a committee for the Patea Queen will be held at 7.30 p.m. in St. George’s Schoolroom, on Friday, September 8. All parishioners arc invited to bo present.

Mr. C. A. Lareombc, in order to be prepared for the inevitable rise in the price of footwear, has imported a splendid hew range mf boots and shoes, particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns.

The revenue for the Consolidated Fund for the three months ended June 30 last amounted to £4,214,978 as against £3,504,907 for the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure for the same period was £2,013,584, as against £2,006,370 last year.

‘ ‘ The slump has made little difference in the demand for cigarettes,” said a Wellington tobacconist while chatting with one of his “regulars” the other day, “only most folk prefer now to roll their own. They say it comes cheaper, and of course it docs—quite a lot. Women often smoke more cigarettes than is good for them although, of course, it’s not to my interest to say so. I had a lady customer who smokes three packets a day. Young fellows —to say nothing about boys—arc also heavy cigarette smokers, but men up in years generally smoke pipes, and usually prefer toasted tobacco, especially Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshcad) because it’s full flavoured and such as old smokers love. Oh, yes, there arc ofher brands of toasted —a mild aromatic (Riverhead Gold) and two mixtures, both medium (Cavendish, and Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog). Excellent, all of them, and so comparatively free from nicotine (thanks to being toasted) that you can’t over-in-dulgc, or if you do, you’ll take no harm. Toasting is a wonderful purifier.