LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 18 April 1934, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A spring heifer and a heifer just calved tire advertised for sale.

The annual meeting of subseribers oi the Patoa Public Library will be held in the Borough Council chambers on Tiday, .April All, at 7.e1) p.m.

A football match between the Palm, ami Hawora teams will he played on the Patea Domain on Saturday next, April l’t. Mr. A, Spratt will be th referee. Tenders, closing - on April 114, are invited in this issue for re-rooting a nine-roomed house and minor alterations to same. The Patea County Council in (hi. issue invites tenders, closing on April l’.'j for excavating - and screening H)i cubic yards of shingle in the Uppe Waitotara Valley. A grand dance will be held in tin Xgutuwera Hall to-night ( Wednesday, mi aid of the Ngntuwer.i (lynma slum. There will be a good floor, good music, and good supper. All dancer.in the surrounding districts should set that they keep this: night free. New Zealand to Xow York in ft (.lays! That is all it will take Mr Hubert Wilkins, who told a ‘News' reporter at (Stratford that he will be leasing the country on May 5 for the U.S.A. and England. The vessel is due at Los Angeles on. May I’O and Mr Hubert will take a traus-coutiuen-tal air liner and be at Xow York next day. “And yet it takes two whole days," added the visitor, "to travel from one end of Hew Zealand to the other!’' Included in the programme at tm Girl Guides’ birthday concert in tin town Hall on .Monday next is a very pretty item, "Fifteen Minutes i Cherry Blossom Land," with exempt, from ‘The Geisha,’ a Japanese d.una iiy six little Brownies, and a trio. "Lesson in Kissing," by Mrs. Du, ■’orbett and .Misses M. Hamerlun and 0. Adams. The frocking and scene.. in this number arc very charming. Another item that will be thoroughly enjoyed is the placet te, " Ail After noon Call," by three little Brownies A pretty number, "The Km-haiite. Glade," includes the numbers ‘‘The Flowers’ Awakening," "Fives’ Pn lie," and "The Teddy Bears’ Picnic," all in appropriate costume. Other outstanding' numbers, with delightful cos (nines and background, are the song, "Valley of the Moon," with a rainbow ballet, "Dutch Clog Dance," with chorus of Dutch girls, the Gavotte ballet, with the song "Rendezvous," byMrs. Guy Corbett and ,Shepherd and Shepherdess statues, and the play, "Foxtrot or Minuet?" by the senior girls. . The adult items will be songs by Mr. and Mrs. 1. W. Jones ami Miss (Marian Huiuertoii, the latter giving a song ii character, and an elocutionary item by Miss Bytty McCarty, L.T.C.L. The Alton 'Guides will also gave an item. Programmes will be on sale at Id each at the concert. Geo. lv ill, Auckland 's pioneer hairdresser, who passed out nut long since, saw Auckland grow from a village to a populous city, and remembered the introduction, of cigarettes to New Zealand (in 1887). The new fashion tailed to catch on right, away and was con lined at lirst to the "smart set.'" Everybody smoked a pipe then. There was no "cut up." Yon carved your slug at llie counter, a knife being- provided for the purpose. New Zealand smokers are better oil' to-day, and Mr. Ivill witnessed the rise to fame of the iV.nr toasted biamls, Navy Cut No. 3 ■'Bulldog), Cavendish, Kiverhead -Gold, and Cat Plug No. HI (Bn I Isheai I) now so popular with devotees of the weed everywhere. The nicotine evil was not so fully recognised as it is now, when Mr. Ivill startl'd bn.siness. We know now that excess of this poison in the leaf it is that affects heart, nerves, and throat. "We know, also, that the toasted brands are practically free from Nicotine and that even over-indulg-ence in them cannot affect the health. And how good they are!

Tendons arc invited in this issue foxcutting firewood into -HI lengths at the Patea Hospital. .11.‘turned .‘oldiers are asked to assemble- at the t’alca Cemetery gates at 1.-lj p.m. to-day to attend the funeral of their lute comrade, Claude Stacey. Rotorua Maoris are reported to be already making preparations for the forthcoming visit of Prince George. They are weaving special mats and preparing other articles of Maori craftsmanship which will be presented to the Prince at the great Maori welcomc to be accorded him when he visits Rotorua. The Mgr. ere folk are very proud oi I lie praise lately bestowed on their charming SlittJc village, writes the .''tralioro and Xgaere correspondent ol tlie ‘Taranaki Herald’ of fifty years ago, which travellers have unanimously agreed is the brightest spot on the whole mountain road. Mr. Hobson new sawmill, which Is now in full woiking outer, lias given additional i.ie and activity to the place, «ud with the handsome residences, well cultivaled gardens, and ornamental waters and shrubberies, it would not appear that bush life is such a hard matter .’tier all or tlint limes arc as bad as represented. The excellem price lately obtained for salt butter lias assisted to reduce tin; wrinkles on the brow of many a settler, who Jius been troubled with anxious doubts as to his ability to meet his next calls. Among the most interesting items oj ueiglit (airied by the Bold hern Cross when it look the air from Mow Zea.:11111 to Australia were three letters, each of which contained a piece ot ihree ply wood, parts of the original •Southern Cross. One of those piece: was addressed to Airs. H. L. Cooper, of Kelbuxn, 'Wellington, says the ‘Post.’ As part of the under surface of 1 he. wing of the monoplane, (his small piece of wood has flown the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Tasman Idea (three times as part of the monoplane am! once as air mail ■ •eight); it has flown over pracf ic.ilh the whole of Australia; lias beer across the United iStates. has flown from Australia an Ragland, and ]) fact, has been everywhere the Southern Cross travelled up till the beg.lining of last year. The small pieces ivh.ch went to Australia by the ail mail were cut from a large portion taken from the wing of the* .-touther i Cress at. Palmerston Xo'lh in February, HKld, and autographed by Gii Charles Jvingsford .Smith, by whom it was piresentod to the secretary of one of the Mew Zealand Aero Clubs. hast week live working dranglu horses, valued aLTi’AO, and a cow. own ed by Air. G. W: Vessey, of Tina... died suddenly in puzzling circun stances. When the team of horse's wa working in the paddock it was notieei. (hat cue of the animals showed signs of weakness and it died shortly after. The remaining four were taken to tin stable, and till died before midnight, suffering an agonising death. Mex, morning a cow died. The intestines oi one of the horses and cow have been sent to the analyst of the .stock De partnu'iit for examination. Meanwhoe all Hie stock on the farm has lain isolated.