LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 8 September 1933, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

The amount of the Fletcher Construction Company's tender for the new Dunedin Post Office is £292,-MS.

it. A. Adams and Sous arc now showing a new range of spring millinery and dross materials, and invito inspection.

As a result of the prominence given to the work of Turi as a navigator by the recent erection of a memorial to him in Patca, the Wellington branch of the Navy League has recommended that the two destroyers at present being built in Britain bo named Turi and Kupe respectively.

A meeting for the purpose of forming a committee for the Patea Queen will be held at 7.80 p.m. in St. George’s .Schoolroom to-day, September 8. All parishioners arc invited to be present and helpful suggestions will be welcomed and considered at the meeting.

AVainwright ’s, X Patca, arc showing a lovely range of spring goods, and cordially invite inspection of these new season’s fashions.

The University of New Zealand, with the object of helping the children of unemployed men, has decided to accept without-foe entries for the University Examination this year, provided the headmasters or head mistresses of the schools certify that the candidates are the children of registered unemployed and have a reasonable chance of passing the examination.

There is nothing that you require that the Patea Mart cannot supply. A look .at ’their advertisement in our Wanted columns of this issue will convince you that their prices are the cheapest that can be obtained consistent' with quality. A visit of inspection is requested.

The holder of" ticket No. LB9l i - the Jubilee Institute for the Blind Art Union is requested to ring phone 111, Patca, when they will receive the prize won by tins ticket.

An admission that he was “not very much enamoured” of what has been called the 10-acre “small farm” scheme was made by the Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, at Lyttelton last week. “1 am more in favour of largo farms up to 50 acres on which the settlers can make a living,” said the Minister. “I do not approve of putting a man on a farm unless he has some prospects of making a living from it in normal times. About 50 acres, carrying 25 to 80 cows, is the best size, I think.”

“When the captain of the bout 1 made the trip to Now Zealand in last year told me the New Zealand tobacco was toasted,’' writes “Lonehand" in “Everybody's Weekly," “1 thought he was pulling my leg. In the name of all that’s wonderful," 1 asked, “why toasted?" “\\ait till you sample it," replied “the old man," “then you’ll understand what toasting tobacco docs." And so 1 did. I found about nine men out of c\eiy dozen were smoking this toasted tobacco, and throughout my sojourn in that delightful country I smoked nothing else myself, It is the toasting of the loaf that imparts to this tobacco its beautiful flavour and unrivalled bouquet. There are only four brands, but four's plenty because they comprise a very mild aromatic (Rivorhead Gold), two choice blends of medium strength (Cavendish and Navy Cut No. :•] (Bulldog), and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshcud), a rich, mellow, full flavoured sort. ,Thc latter was my favourite, but all four arc top-hole, and SAFE, because they are toasted, which ingenious-process (I saw r it in operation) successfully eliminates the nicotine.