LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4012, 11 June 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Factory closed for the season on Tuesday last. The Masterton County' Council is moving in the direction of procuring a stone-crushing plant. To-day is the 19th anniversary of the official landing of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall (now the King and Queen) in New Zealand at Auckland. The springs of modern beds w *»re anticipated by the ancient Egyptians, who had a flat case made of transverse strips of bamboo, which" gave a spring to the bed when covered with a ma*. Enjoyable entertainment for dancers and card players is provided at 'tlie fortnightly socials of St. John's Tennis Club in the Parish Hall. The next of the series is to bo held to-morrow night. The tender of Mr H. D. Downer has been accepted for the erection of the shelter-sheds at tlie Feilding District High School, the price being £180. The committee are contributing £25 towards the work. Mr A. Cleland last night retook his seat at (the Borough Council table, having been elected unopposed, following hi. having lost his seat owing to an accidental breach of the law through a technicality. Another attack on the road-hog was made by the Borough Council last night, when the Mayor was asked to wait upon the Sergeant of Police and ask that the Moitor By-law dealing with speed be strictly enforced. Hairdressers are not often humorists, says a London writer. Wherefore a reader was all the more surprised to see on the wall of a shop in the city the following notice: "It is computed that the average lady's scalp possesses 608 hairs per square inch, or aboivtl 109,440 in all. We'll singe the lot for Is." At the Central Police Court, Sydney,.' a Chinaman named Philip Le Chin, aged 04. was charged with selling liquor without a license. Accused pleaded not guilty. The police prosecutor informed the magistrate that the po-1 lice raided the accused's premises in Dixon Street at night, and thousands of bottles of whisky, gin, Chinese brandy, etc., were found there. The liquor was valued at £2000, and it 'took two motor cars to carry it away. Chin was remanded, and was allowed I bail.