LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The General Committee of the Feilding A. and P. Association will meet at 7.30 o'clock to-night. To-morrow tho Feilding golfing season will closo. A mixed foursome will be played, and the prizes won during the season will be presented. There was a large attendance at the benefit given last night by the management of the Lyceum to the Lytton Street School. A resident of Levin suffered a severe loaa one night recently when 106 chickens out of a pen of 112 destroyed by a weasel. A party of Gore fishermen who visited the Otamata on separate days during October secured the fine haul of 716 trout. The widow of the late Mr A- E. Braithwaite, the Postmaster at-Pon-sonby, murdered under Btich tragic circumstances, receives a compassionate allowance of £600.

To prevent premature burial, the Japanese Diet proposes (according to the Kobe Herald) to prolong the interval between death and burial to 70 hours.

Whitebait seem to have adopted tho go-slow policy all over the Const waters (states the Grey River Argus). Tho factory at West-port has closed owing to the scacity of Whitebait.

The Wairarapa was visited last Saturday night and Sunday with one of the coldest snaps that have been experienced in tho month of November, for many years. Seamen employed on the N.S.VV-. State trawlers threaten a strike, owing to the Government's refusal to grant them an eight-hour day, and increased pay. It. has been decided to hold a stop-work meeting. Mr E. Myerson, of Sydney, real estate agent and property owner, issued a writ for £10,000, in respect of alleged libel, against Smith's Weekly. The jury awarded Myerson one farthing damages. Three thousand head of cattle have come forward for tho Feilding sale to-day, this being about equal to the number yarded last Friday. The cattle comprise young beasts and stores, not a large number of bullocks offering. There is a small yarding of sheepMayor Harford is expected to return home from Wellington tonight. While in the city he ascertained that the £500 promised by the Government-towards the cost to the Council of the Johnston plantation property had been made available. Of this sum, £300 is for -rotecting the property from the Oroua river, and £200 towards the £400 which the Council agreed to pay for nine-tenths of an acre adjoining the plantation. Halcombe residents are notified by advertisement in this issue of a special Gospel Mission commencing in the Public Hall there on Sunday afternoon at 2.45, and continuing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, at p.m. These services will be conducted by the Scottish Evangelist, Mr Forbes Maclood, and vital and appropriate subjects will bo dealt with bearing on the Fundamentals of the Faith, illustrated by Old and New Testament texts and narratives.

Speaking at the Arbitration Court at Napier on Wednesday, Mr Justice Stringer said, in . reference to the Court's recent announcement of a bonus of 9s, that thore was some question of the reliability of the Government Statistician's figures, on which the Court had been accustomed to reply. Until that was settled, applications for the bonus could not be granted. Various unions applied for the bonus. When the first case was called, Mr W. Cecil Prime, secretary of the Employers' Federation, opposed the application, but said tho employers were prepared! to allow the cases to be decided by the test case at Wellington. All the cases were therefore adjourned to Wellington, where they will be automatically decided by a decision in the test case. His Honour assured a trade representative, who said that the building trade employers were already granting the bonus, that, in the event of the award l>cin_ modified the building trade employees could not be asked for a refund.