LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4018, 7 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A French airman, Boussoutra Bernard, flew tor 1459 minutes, a world's endurance record, The a,viator encircled Etampes and Orleans at a speed of 60 miles an hour.

Though the primary schools of Feilding are still closed on account of the miluanza epidemic, the Technical School classes are being held as usual. On Saturday night the Feilding Hockey Association's Old English Fair closed with great ecla.t. The evening's takings amounted to awout and the total for the fair will probably reach £350. A Sydney message states that Barry ■ is steadily training with McDevitt as a rowing partner. The Englishman is showing a great turn of speed, and easily .accounted for McDevitt. Apropos of they, recent reported thefts of building material in Wanganui, a, local resident will appear at the local Court to-day to answer four charges of alleged appropriation -of material from various building jobs In progress. Saturday was evidently good tallyho weather, for there was a, large gathering of members of the Manawatu Hunt Club at Mr S. R .Lancaster's homestead. After the hunt tea was served, .and Mr and Mrs Lancaster was for their hospitality. A Paris message states that a, man named Bogot, dirty and ragged, was arrested on the roadside, gleefully counting bank notes valued at over 100,000 francs. Bogot protested that he was a marine- pensioner, and had won most of t!he money during three days at Epsom, chiefly on the Derby. The police made investigations, and found this to be true, arid released him.

a cable from Sydney states that the rain has practically cieared. Though much more is required xn the ary areas thoroughly to, break the •drought, almost the whole titate has greatly benehtted, and the outlook nas vastly improved.. It is claimed .tliat it has saved the whea,t crop irom disaster, hundreds of farmers from feankruptcy, iand .will enable the pa scoralists to save many, of their breeding stock, which otherwise would have perished'or had to be sacrificed.

'JDhe funeral of the late Mr U. v. Shannon, at "The Totarae," will take place at Wellington 'at 2 o'clock toda.y. The funeral service -will be preached at St. Paul's Cathedral by the Yen. Archdeacon JoShnson, and the internment will take place at, «ydney Street Cemetery, where Mrs Snaunon is buried. The cemetexy_ is closed except to those who.liave plots there.

. The Niagara, from Vancouver, due to arrive in Auckland about the 14th, has 957 sacks of English and American mail on board. The Moana, for Wellington from San Francisco, due about the 16th, 'hae a large parcel mail, filling 1572 sacks, and sgme 50 sacks of letters. These are all American. , .

A sad illustration of the moral tone existing in some circles at the present time in Auckland was "iven in two affiliation cases callecl at the Magistrate's Court ion Friday morning; In one instance the putative father w.as 16 years of ag£, and the other 17 years. In each,case the mothers wgre older than the youths.

During the progress of, .a • football match L>etw,eelL~ Palinejston North High. School and' Feilding Technical third grade teams at Feilding on SatUrda.Yi a placer; in the former team, named Whitehead, sustained a- broken arm. Another player named Jamieson, playing foi . Pirates against Feilding Union, was severely cut about the eye, the result of an accidental kick. A belief in heroic measures if the circumstances justify them was undoubtedly the cause which led Thomas Solomari, of Hamilton, Canada, to crack' his friend's head- with •»• skittle. Both ■ worked in a skittle-alley,, and the friend, George Casey by name, was addicted to drugs. Soloman endeavoured to , wean, hhn from his weakness,- but arguments proving unavailing, Soloman in the end knocked hinvon the ihead, tied.him to a table, and confiscated his h"->oder-mic syringe and supply of drugs. He then took the outfit to the police station, and the* police rescued Casey and took him to _the 'hospital, while Soloman was put in the cells.'

The local bodies in , the Waikato'district'are working.actively for the'construction of light lines of railway. Captain Dansey/ .wlio has considerable experience in the construction and working of these lines, stated at a 'conference at Hamilton that standard gauge rails were all right whenthey could afford' them, but light lines were better than none at all. So far as his experience went the narrow gauge could not be assailed.; Asked as 'to "how he 'intended/solving the labour problem, Captain'Densey'eaid it was intended to ire-form the" Pioneer Maori Battalion. A board of control of officers- in various parts of. New Zealand ha.d been' formed, and this board would allocate the , men to the various 'districts. .'By. this means it was hoped' to put ''together a expert, railway 'buildere,- Who would build a line' asTast as it was Tbirflt in France. I •

On Wednesday, 2nd June, a meeting of ladies met at Rongotea- to discuss the best way in which the women could assist to raise funds for the Williard Home for Children. Mrs Crabb (president), accompanied by Mrs A. A. 'Martin (secretary), of Palmerstbn; explained the- aims of the Board of 'Management in organising the Home, and ista.ted that they hop- ' ed that representative women of each I district" which supported the institution would have & seat on the Finance Committee, and that a member of each of the public bodies contributing to the funds would be'elected to the Advisory Boardj so that the whole of the Hospital Board 'District would Ije in "touch" with the management of the home. The meeting expressed a wish to 'assist, and oftered their (services to' collect donations of money from the surrounding district as soon as they could be orgaH*Bed. They also promised to do what they could in other directions.