LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4577, 1 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

TO-NIGHT'S SCHOOL ELECTIONS The annaul meetings of parents and others interested in the cause of primary education take place throughout the Feilding district at 8 o'clock tonight for tho purpose of electing School Committees. We again request Chairmen or Secretaries of the Committees to send to the Star the results of the meetings. This can be done either by. telegrams (endorsed "Press") or by telephone to this office, or by letter or postcard. _ All such interesting contributions will be thankfully received for publication.

A DAY FOR SPORTS. Feilding on Saturday was a day full of sport. Though the weather was cold with a south-easterly wind, some lovers of tennis found the conditions" not impossible for a game. Croquet plavers had their wind-up play the Parish Hall ground. A big bowling round-up took place on the local green, seven rinks coming over from Palmerston North. The Feilding Golf Club's season was officially opened, with a big gathering on the Aorangi rinks. Members of the Feilding Rifle Club assembled on the range at Mr T. Simpson's and banged away to their hearts' content. Our senior footballers played a friendly match at Cheltenham, the junior and thirds were at the racecourse, and the fourths and High School teams played on the High School ground. Hockey players carried their crooked sticks to the Victoria Park, where the season's competitions were commenced. The Feilding Motor Club held a' very useful and interesting speed judging competition over a country course. And quite a- large contingent of gunmen went into the farming, areas to'shoot rabbits, in order to get their, eye in for the. opening of the shooting season to-day.

A POPULAR C.T. Mr L. A. Stokes, who has taken over-Mr John Campbell's boot business in Feilding, was not permitted to leave Palmerston, where he had lone resided, without a demonstration" from his fellow commercial travellers of tho district. At a gathering of from 80 to 100 men of the road and some traders in the largest sample room in Palmerston on Saturday night, Mr Stokes was entertained'at a dinner, and on behalf of the company President R. S. Lee presented him with an elaborate dinner service. Reference was made to Mr Sfcoke's enthusiasm when secretary ot the C.T. Association and to his good qualities and business capacity, whilst the host of good wishes for success as a business man in Feilding were heartily extended to Mm.

It is slated (savs the M.D. Times) that the interest in the School Committee election at Longburn is so keen that one of the "tickets" has circularised parents, and is employing motor cars to convey householders to the place of meeting. The Auckland Grammar School Board received 72 applications for the position of secretary and treasurer to the board. Mr C. Morris, of Otaki, on Wednesday killed a pi* which had two distinct hearts. A local butcher, who has had 20 years' experience, states that he has never heard of a similar case. "My wife could hear you wink," said a witness at the Magistrate's Court in Wellington. Some hearing 1 Preserved peas, green in colour, without the use of copper, are the product of two firms, one in Franco and the other in America, who hold the secret receipe. A remarkable feat was accomplished by a doctor in the Western District (Otago) a few days ago. Having been called to a case in the country, he found the road blocked by a lvashout. 200 ft. wide. . All other drivers were held up not so the doctor, who, gathering speed in his Tin Lizzie, dashed at the gap, taking off five feet from the Kvnk a nd landing 10ft. clear of the broken edge on the far side. ; : "Well fed. and,, no fleas on them," was the cheery announcement of Ashburton's professional rat-catcher as ho produced two plump rats at the Guardian office. The couple tipped the scales at lib. 6oz. Another largo consignment of timber from Main Trunk mills will be taken from Wauganupi. in a few days time by the Ihumata. The shipment, which 'has been consigned to Melbourne, approximates 800,000 superfeet. A young man. named James Thompson was arrested at Masterton on Friday on a charge of receiving part of the proceeds of the Paekariki sate robbery. Two men named Beil and Carmichael were recently sentenced to five years' imprisonment for the theft of the safe from the railway station. It is alleged that Thompson was implicated and that he received part of the proceeds of the robbery. On Friday the primary schools' district championship athletic sports were held at Raetihi. The weather was beautiful, and some hundreds ol children had quite a gala day. The silver cup carrying the championship points prize was won in the last event of the day (skipping) by the Raetihi School, which beat Rangatua by a point. The-greatest excitement prevailed.up to the last amongst the; children.