LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 26 March 1934, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A young purebred Berkshire boar is advertised for sale.

Woolworth’s (Sydney), Ltd., reports a profit of £125,553 for the year. A dividend of 8;} per cent, and a bonus of 5 per cent, have been paid, making 25 per cent, for the year.

Entries arc now being received by Messrs. Freeman K. Jackson and Co., Ltd., for their Wanganui horse fair, which is to be held on Saturday, April 14.

"I’m not quite full enough for words,” remarked a young competitor at the Awakino dog trials in acknowledging the receipt of a trophy he had won. His apt turning of a frequent excuse for inability to make a speech on similar occasions elicited general applause.

A salesman is a man who knows very little about a great deal and keeps on knowing less and less ,a’bout more and more, until finally he knows nothing about anything. A manager is a man who knows a great deal about very little, and who goes on knowing more and more about loss and less until finally he knows practically everything about nothing.

A phenomenon in kidney fats, or knobs, was ’discovered in a bullock at the Waitara freezing works'. In each bullock there arc two knobs of fat attached to the kidneys, the usual weight of both together being about 401 b, but one knob alone from a beast slaughtered turned the scale at the astounding figure of 1451 b. It was perfectly healthy and normal in every respect except in its size, and was passed as such by Mr. E. B. Wood, the inspecting veterinarian attached to the works. The other knob was of the usual size and weight. The bullock was one of a line of 16, all of which carried an unusual amount of kidney fat.

The handy man in one of the Dunedin business houses had a narrow escape from a fatal accident the other morning. He was sotting the fire in an office fireplace when he noticed a peculiar looking object in a shovel of coal which he was preparing to throwon the fire. Fortunately he took the precaution to pick it up and examine it. It proved to be & fair-sized plug of samsonite, and those with a knowledge of explosives say that, if it had gone into the fire it would ha\ c wrecked the office and probably blown the man to pieces.

Another eu.se of a complete recovery from a broken neck has been recorded, Waipukurau providing the latest instance. A young man, Mr. Noel Murphy, w,as admitted to the Waipukurau Hospital on December (i, 1933, suffering from a broken neck received iu a diving accident at the Tukituki River. After a dive from a tree several feet above, he struck the bottom of the river. He was admitted to hospital, where it was found that the bones iu his nock were broken. He was packed in sandbags and kept perfectly still for three months while the bones mended. To-day he is once again in good health, and expects to resume work in a few months.

The Maoris in Patca were in their clement on Friday, when they had a held day among large cels at the Borough Council’s hydro dam. In order to effect certain repairs and also to scour out the dam, which had never been opened since its completion, the engineer, Mr. J. Oufnningham, and his staff opened the gate and let the water escape. The great flow of water stirred up the mud, and as a result an ink-like mass tore its way over the cliff and into tho. sea, which was black in the neighbourhood all the afternoon. Along with the water came the plentiful supply of cels and fish, and sonm of the Maoris spent the afternoon wading waist high in the mud catching some beautiful specimens of this delicacy. The' cels were of very large size and in good condition, as the waste water from the Kakaramca dairy factory flows into the stream,. The dam was closed again on Saturday morning.

Hints to smokers: "A pipe burns through or cracks simply owing to carelessness," says a London export, “a new pipe should not bo subjected to intense heat until the interior of the bowl is protected by a layer of carbon, although too great an accumulation of carbon must be avoided. So must the rough scraping of the bowl. And the knocking of the pipe against hard objects, also “lighting up” from (he flame of a candle, may easily crack the wood." Quite. But how about the tobacco? If full of nicotine (as it so often is) the pipe rapidly fouls and becomes clogged, necessitating continual scraping out, so that the bowl soon becomes a mere shell. Impure tobacco is bad for the pipe and worse for the smoker. You can buy a new pipe for a shilling. Health impaired by bad tobacco may cost you more than that. The purest tobacco of all is the toasted Xew Zealand. Hardly any nicotine in it. The toasting does it! Four brands only: Eivorhcad Gold, Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshoad)'*

The usual sale will be held at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday next at noon, when good entries of sheep, cattle, and pigs will bo offered. A final reminder is given of the Methodist Church Prosperity - Fair, which is to be held in the Town Hall to-morrow (Tuesday). There will be stalls of every kind, and amusement for all.

An enjoyable lit-tlc concert and social by the Scouts and Cubs was held in the Foresters' Hall on Friday evening, when some excellent items were presented by the boys.

Judgment for the full amount claim ed in the Patea Court by the Taranaki Chain Stores, Ltd., from H. Budding, £9 8s and costs £4 4s 6d, has been given by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. Budding’s defence rvas that he had paid for some of the goods on which the claim was based and that having cancelled orders he had not received the other goods. Mr. J. Foy appeared for the plaintiff company.

Parishioners of St. George’s Church will have a treat on Good Friday night, when the choir will sing Maunders’ 'From Olivet to Calvary.’ After some months of strenuous practice the .work is very pleasing to hear. (The soloists have entered into their parts with a reverent and intelligent spirit, and the beautiful harmony in the solos will be appreciated by all who have an understanding of sacred music. The offerings will be in aid of the choir funds.

Inspired by' Langley’s experiments, Orville and Wilbur Wright worked for years on their aeroplane, and at last, in 190.1, at Kitty Hawk, North Caro lina, they made a successful flight. L w-as the first time that a machine heavier than air, carrying a man, had raised itself by its own power into Huair, sailed forward and landed aafely.

There, should be fewer white butterflies in Hawke’s Bay as the result of a competition for children organised by the Hawke’s B.ay Agricultural and Pastoral. Society, states a Hastings correspondent. In order to assist in some measure towards combating the white butterfly pest, -which has caused such damage to crops during the past three years, the society offered 37s 6d in prize money to the children producing the largest number of white butterflies. Four entrants came forward with a total of 134,297 butterflies. A remarkable feature of the competition w*as the total secured by the winner, Noeline Parker, of Porangahau, who sent in 117,852. Noeline Parker is certainly doing good work in ridding the province of the pest, for she Won the competition last year also with 65,000. The next competitor secured 13,520, and he was well ahead of the third, 2175. The fourth total was 750.