Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, MARCH,2,1936 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 2 March 1936, Page 2

Patea & Waverley Press MONDAY, MARCH,2,1936 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

An owner is wanted for some keys that'have been found.

Mr, J. Bates, cycle dealer, Patch, is advertising specials in this issue, Langslow’s tire holding a sale' of household linen. The South Taranaki Electric Bower Board has a replace advertisement in this issue. Tire usual sale will bo hold at the Wanganui yards on Wednesday at noon, when good yardiugs of sheep, cattle, and pigs will bo offered. A young man named Alfred Lankshear was admitted to the local hospital last week suffering from concussion caused by a fall from a haystack at Whcnuakura. A reward is offered for information about the whereabouts of four Jersey heifers, which have been lost. The Presbyterian Church are holding a Sunrise Pair in the Town Hall Priday, March (5, when there -will be produce, sewing, sweets, cake, and flower stalls, also mystery parcels and other attractions, la the evening - an excellent programme will Ire rendered, details of which will be announced later. Various competitions, iincluding a nail-driving contest, will be held. Particulars will be found in .another column.

Arrangements arc well in hand for the erection of a church for the Anglican community at. Alton. I’lans have already been prepared for a "building to cost approximately between’ ( i()0 and £7OO, and tenders fop its erection will be called shortly;"'' ! ,

On (Sunday, .March 8, the Vvest Coast (North Island) surf life-saving championships will bo held at Castlccliff Beach, Wanganui. Our advertising columns in this issue contain particulars of a special • excursion from New Plymouth, Waitara, and Hawera to Wanganui for this date. ' The provision of fast trains and exceedingly cheap fares affords enthusiasts interested in the championships and residents' in general an Excellent opportunity of visiting the Ilivcr City at moderate cost.

To rail at tobacco for thirty years and denounce smoking as a vice and then conclude that you've been ‘barlciug. up the wrong tree’ all the time! What a ‘ tight about face! ’ The late Professor Huxley, the eminent scientist, was an; anti-tobaccoite for half his lifetime. One day a friend persuaded him to try a mild havana —and straightway he changed his tune! Ho found it delicious, and , lived to admit ’there’s no more harm in a pipe of tobacco thani there is in a cup of tea.’ But tobacco varies in quality just us tea does, In both eases it’s a wise plan to buy the best‘but "not necessarily the most expensive. In the case of .tobacco tho best, is the genuine ‘toasted,’ which though quite moderate in price is matchless for bouquet and unrivalled for purity. The nicotine it contains (common to all tobacco) is eliminated by toasting, and hence the harmlessness of the live famous brairds —(Jut Plug No. 10 (Bull.-head), Navy Cut No. ?> (Bulldog), Cavendish, It Ivor head Gold, and Desert Gold.