LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Patea Mail, 7 August 1940, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

A girl’s navy jacket lost at the school tournament on the domain, 'is enquired for in this issue.

The Empire Stores have an interesting advertisement in this issue, giving the latest prices of groceries etc.

Mr. S. Mayne, consulting optician will visit Patea Thursday, August Sth. Appointments may be made with Mr. ~’iUon.

The Central Fruit Store has an interesting announcement with regard to delicious and Ballarat apples, which are being offered at exceptional prices.

A complimentary evening will be tendered the members ...of the Third Echelon in the Town Hall, Patea on Thursday next at 8 p.m. Admission will be free.

A Social and Dance in aid of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers’" Fund will be held in Ihipuke Hall, Waitotara, on Saturday, August 10, when an excellent Maori programme will be presented.

Gibson’s Stores have an interesting advertisement in this issue with regard to garden seeds, groceries etc., including Gibson’s special teas.

Messrs Ti. A. Adams and Sons notify that they are now offering the first of the new season’s millinery, including felts, bakus, balibuntals and sisals.

The local Rifle Club intend to hold a Sweepstake Shoot on Saturday, and will continue shoots fortnightly in the future.

The Patea Patriotic! Social committee competitions wore-wion as follows: grocery hamper, Mrs. Honeyfield; hamper, Mr. E. Fitzwater.

Those intending to travel overseas should make a point of communicating with Mossr s 0. F. Millward and Co., Wangamti, who will furnish them with full particulars with regard to fares etc.

At‘a meeting of the Southern Hawke’s Bay branch of the Fanners’ Union, it was stated that farmers' on coastal properties could aid in the defence of the -country. One member said that a South Island farmer had organised his station hands, and -armed and drilled them daily. It iWias pointed out that if an enemy were to land on some isolated part of the coast, it would be the job of the local farmers to hamper his movements till a mobile force arrived. *

The value of minerals, including kauri gum, exported from the Dominion and of the coal used in the country last year amounted to £4,132,476, as compared with £3,672,075 in 1938, according to the Mines ‘Statement, presented in the , House of Representatives. The list of 13 minerals ranges from pumice worth £11,172 to gold and silver valued at £1,566,977, The total value of minerals exported from New Zealand to the end of 1939 was £207,680,483.

An excellent .example of help in the -war effort has been given by a Wpodville farmer, who has offered to graze up to 50 heifers on his sheep farm during the coming months and has given to a roadman who occupies a cottage on his property the use of 40 acres to run a herd of 20 cows. He has also expressed his willingness to lend two horses to the local troop of mounted rifles and has announced that any farmer needing lime free may come and take what he requires. Lime to be found on the property is 98 per cent. pure.

‘ 1 One thing you must admire about the Germans is their thoroughness," says a writer in "Zealandia," the lEomau Catholic newspaper. "They think of everything, and if you happen to be a German citizen they certainly see to. it that jour thinking conforms to the. interests of the State; that is whteri you think out aloud. For 'instance, there is the story of the 80-yeur-old man who died in Cologne, and whose sou had a memorial notice published in the daily papers: "In memory of Ernst Muller, whom God has called to a better world." Next day tine bereaved son was arrested on the grounds that the memorial notice constituted an insult to the Nazi State. Such admirable self restraint, too! They did not even ask who God was, anyway, that' He should transfer a German citizen without a Nazi permit. "

“I had rather a trying experience once upon a time,” writes Mr. Robert Seeley in a London weekly. “I was a young pew pinup, then, one of a party of prospectors ip Northern Queensland, One day I wandered away from camp ami got ‘bushed.’ It was nearly throe weeks before they found me, and I had some adventures in the meantime, believe me! On the third day I ran out of tobacco! • smokers will sympathise! 1 shall never forgot the first smoke I had after I was found!—delightful! But nowadays I find the tobacco I used to smoke when on the wallabi has lost its savour. Over much nicotine in it. Since coining to Maori land I have smoked ‘New Zealand Toasted,’ and ask nothing bettor. I understand its peculiar fragrance, and comparative freedom from nicotine in this incomparable tobacco are duo to its being toasted. It is certainly the finest I have ever smoked —and the least harmful.” Mr. Seely refers to the five famous toasted brands —Riverhead Gold, Des’crt Gold, Navy Cut No, 3, Cavendish and Cut jpiugm ip,