LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4315, 11 June 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

NEWEST WOMAN. A masked woman bandit, who is described as having a refined voice and a silvery laugh, is stated to be among those wanted by the Berlin police in connection with the robbery of a large post office. A few weeks ago, when more than 1.0110,000 marks (nominally £50,000) in bags and cash boxes had been locked in the post office safe ready to be taken to the Jieiehsbank. three masked men dashed in and ordered the- two clerks on duty to hold up their bauds. Four more bandits. including a young woman, who wore a neatly cut black mask, rushed into the room, 'fhe woman, whose small mask failed to hide her blonde hair, seemed to know every comer of tin posf office. In a calm, confident manner she directed the men to the saf< in which the cash-boxes were lAeked and replied to an occasional ques thin in a low, refined voice. After the robbers had satistied themselves that they had got all the money it. the oust office they hound and gag ged the officials, who were not re leased lor all hour. The authentic have olfei-ed a reward of 20,0CX marks. - THE HAZAAR. The business at the Anglican Church Ha/.aar was very brisk again yesterday anil last evening, all the stall bidders being liberally patronised. The ha/.aar will he open froir 7 n.m. to-night, and will finally close about 10 o'clock. There are still manv attractions to offer and the Drill Halt will be well worth a visit-

Some £200.000 has already been .spent in housing, machinery, etc., at fhe Mangahao hydro-electrical works

It is notified in the Gazette that Hawaii now permits the importation of New Zealand apples and pear.s ii cold storage if they are certified b\ the*Government to be free from in s P et pests and plant diseases, ant not to have come in contact'witl Australian-grown fruit during tin voyage.

Nominal fees only are now to In charged for the training of mater nity nurses. These, as set out ill tin Ga/.ette, are: "Pupil nurses: If registered under the Nurses' Registration Act, ISOS. 10s fo r six months" training; in all other cases, 20s foi 12 mouths' training." English crockery prices have not fallen, neconling to information sup plied to the Marlborough Express but. "ii the contrary these prices ar< to-day amoiig the very few that arc practically'firm, English goods othis description are still in cry short •ttliply. ami owing to the present coa' .trikp in England deliveries will hi dower than ever. "The statement previously published." says the Express, "were taken from a Wnngnnu" nnper. which is evidently making (he same mistake as manv others at tin present time, in taking the many nanio prices of to-day as representillf present market rates." The Nelson Girls' College is at r. standstill for want of accommodation istates an exchange,). This year til U'eli applications bv intending board ■ •rs had to be refused. The Hoard "I .inventors is tnnv seeking Government ipprovnl for the proposed purchafii 'I property at Fairfield, in the viein dv. ..ii which |. •,.,■!. ,-, hostel for tilt •tec nidation of all boarding pupils the present college building t',', be devoted to teaching purposes only. Tin iwuers id Ibe proper) v have agree* t" accept CIXXXJ.

'fhe Wi'p-tlaud Licensing Committee ,it its annual meeting yesterday, ad joiirued the majority o't application.ini renewals for three mouths, to en able the recommendations of the po life ! "ld Health Depaitnieiit to In given eireet to. The Health Depart ment's reijuirements are fairly exfeti sue. mainly in renard to installation "1 h"t and cold water service throughout buildings,* and attentioi t.. sanitary conditions. f( was re marked that the police reports mad. in. reteroiie c - L. misconduct of licen se.-.i during tine past year. The replies which the Aciing-Pre iiiler gives fo Labour deputation which come (,i him asking silly n u>s tions and making inane assertion i are the soul of brevity fsavs tin : W.'inganui f'hrouicle). Sir Franci : Hell is a lawyer, but he does no ! clothe bis views in a Wealth of word ; which mean nothing, and he does no ; mat.' a practice of saying he wil "give the matter his consideration,' I His remarks do not allow of any am higuity or misunderstanding. " But anyhow, what answer could a mat make to a fool deputation which sug gests that the Government is pur [lOsely causing unemployment ? i is really too silly to waste words on That is a sample of the mental out 'it of the "Insane Labftur Party." In order to guard against the in traduction ol disease in wool import cd into Australia, regulations hav. been prescribe*] under the Quaran tine Aei which importers will hence forth he obliged to observe. It iprovided (reports the Age) that im porters id' wuyl other than sample: shall, prior to shipment, notify par tioulars of the chief quarantine olfi fer, and obtain liis-permission to pro eyed with the importation. On ar rival in Australia the wool will be re moved to a quarantine station or ; place apjuoved bv the quarantine oft! 1-ri for disinfection. Wool will 'no be subject to this restriction if ae cotnpanied by a certificate that it wa grown in either New Zealand or Nor folk Island. Imported animal hair n' bristles, unless already scoured foi umnufaeiuriiig purposes, will also In submitted to a disinfecting process. It is estimated that (iomelhing liki l-)I),fXX) pole's will 1... required I'm electric transmission lines in Wairar apa and (he hush di.-lricts. When anomalies in the railwax taiilf were.' under discussion at a meet lie.; of the Waugauui Harbour Botiri: last evening, .Mr W. G. Uassett men tioued that on a recent occasion in was charged Its <Jd to take fcome ex .-.'-.- luggage from Waugauui to New Plymouth. To bring the same lug back to Wanganui from New Plymouth the charge was os 2d. Remuneration at the rale ol £8 pe day was received recently by stove (lore at Port Kembla. New South Wale.-. A cargo of .sulphur Iron America arrived a! Port Kembla on .May 5, and the stevedore*, who das-, cd sulphur as obnoxious cargo, insist cd up.'ii being paid at the rate of -1a t'-n for unloading i( and placing it in trucks. Thei,- working day was V In. ills, less three bonis tor meals ami "f-mokes," and their earning.-, £B.

Although some ol the stolen l.'nioi Bank one pound notes are eontinu ally being discovered, much to tin disgust of the po-so-.-or.s, no defuiili information has been gleaned by (hi police concerning the person or per son,-- responsible i'o,- the theft of tin circulation of the notes.