LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The drawing cfthe art union in connection with the recent successrui hockey bazaar will take plaoe ait the Lyceum Theatre to-morow night. Belore the war there were 000 potato Hour factories in operation in Us-nnany. The. present estimate is that there are now over IiOOO there. Tho next meeting of the Kiwitea County Council Mill be held on the JOth ins!., having been put a week later on account of the necessity for holding a special meeting on that date. Before Messrs Simile and Fisher, J«.P., Joseph Georgeson was convicted and lined £1, iv default 7 days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. He uas also convicted and fined £5, in default one month's imprisonment, for using obscene language. Mr R. C. Gillies, who is well-known throughout South Canterbury, has just sold his sheep run in the Haka Valley. The run comprises 7915 acres of freehold and 3000 acres of leasehold. It is understood that the freehold realised between £60,0(A* and £65,000. In view of the fact that: the Borough Council continues to pile up loans, it is of interest to know that old loans have commenced to mature. The first 'to reach this happy state is the Aorangi bridge Loan No. 1 of £814, raised in 1894. The annual interest was £30 12s lOd, and.the Couifcil will from henceforth save this sum. At the annual meeting of the Oroua Licensing Bench this, week the following members were on the Bench : Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. (Chairman), aJ.d Messrs J. W. Bramwell, H. J. Booth, G. Bartholomew, E. Goodbehere, and C. Taylor. Routine business was transacted. All transfers and renewals of liscenses were graaited except in the case of the Kimbolton Hotel, in which case the renewal was adjourned for ■three months to allow of completion •of repairs. Are Feilding's rates higher or lower than Palinei-ston's? Cr. Andrew saicl last night he had made a comparison ancl found tint if his property were in a relatively similar position in Palmerston. his rates would be £1 less. The Ma .-or replied that the Government valuation of the Borough of Feildin-j: wn.s far too low, land therefore the comoarison was not fair. The Mayor does not see that his*_£ontention would only make the comparison worse for Feilding. The National Dairy Association raises a hitter complaint about the pillaging of butter and cheese from the railways. The Association's annual report says: —"The evil is on the increase, and when three boxes of butter are lost from a consignment of 200, as between loading station and destination, it is time the Railway Department took responsibility for losses incurred, and adopted preventive measures to minimise the constant annoyance, and serious loss now prevalent."