LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

BOOM IN BRIDES. A farmer who has been visiting one of our big cities predicts a boom in tire matrimonial market as soon as ever the slump depression passes. He has had to put oil' his own wedding because he cannot raise enough money to furnish a house decently and fit for « wife to live in. He went the length the other day of offering to give the bank the title deeds of his property, worth a thousand or two, to see if they would advance him £2OO to enable him to get married, but tho manager said ho could not advance him a penny. He believed there were scores of young farmers waiting for tho clouds to roll away so that they might be able to take on matrimonial bliss, and may that time soon come. SUPERFINE PRODUCE. At the Dairy Producers' Conference it was resolved that the Government be urged to establish a superfine grade of butter at 92 points over, and cheese at 91 and over. Mr F. Singleton, Director of the Dairy Division, being asked for his opinion, said, that when tlft same proposal was made two years ago the merchants informed him (that the establishment of a superfine grade would take the place of the present first-grade, and first-grade would fall. If they established a pool the position would be changed to some extent, ami he would he prepared to recommend the Government to make the change. On the past season 53 per cent, of tho butiter secured 92 points and over, and 44 per cent, of the cheese graded 91 and over. Mr Goodfcllow (Waikato) said his association had obtained a premium of 4s for superfine. He _ was not sure that it would bo wise to institute superfine unless they had the pool established to sec that the premium was obtained.

CARD GAMES. The. following are the names of the Kowhai Rebecca Lodge to play against the A.O.F. B team in to-night's card tourney: Nurse Wallis, Mrs Shorter, Miss McDavit, Miss Thomas, Mrs East, Jlrs Churcher, Miss Churcber, Mrs Knight, Miss Wells, Mrs Taylor, Miss Laing, Mrs Garlick. THE PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. In our report of the Patriotic Society's meeting of Friday, a couple of figure errors did injustice to the society. The administrative expenses for the year were £ll 3s (not £ll3 as stated),' and the percentage of administrative expenses as compared with the disbursements was 2i per cent, (not 2:1). ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY. The annual meeting of the Feilding Acclimatisation Society will be held in the Dainties to-morrow night. In tiie annual report it is stated that the Society is in a good financial position. ,During the year there were liberated 2000 yearlings last May in the Oroua and Pohangina rivers, and another 2000 brown trout yearlings have been ordered for liberation this month. The society received requests to have Pukcko included in the list of Native game to be shot this season from home farmers in the district, as it was stated that they had become quire numerous and were doing damage o the crops in certain areas. Application was duly made to the Department of Internal Affairs, but a rep.y was received that at present the Government could not consider removing same from the absolutely protected list, but that the persons concerned could apply to the Minister who had power to give authority to allow the bird to be destroyed if same were causing injury or damage, under the provisions of Section 32 of the Animals' Protection and Game Act, 19211922.

CRIBBAGE AT WAITUNA. The following will represent Feilding against Waituna to-morrow night : Noble, Davies, Hoskins, Ingram, Warn, Hooper. Thorne, Prior, Nesbit, Parsonage, J. Rodgers, J. Stevens, Rosonoski, Fowler, MeiN'ab, Cockcroft', Barltrop, Moore, A. Reid, J. Taylor, A. Ncwell, Dewhurst, Dalton. 'Bus leaves Post Office at G. 45 p.m. sharp. , ■ CHILDREN'S DRESS BALL. Children 1 Here is your event of the season. This is the fancy dress ball arranged annually by the ladies of St. John's parish, to be held in tho Drill Hall next Friday night, at 7 o'clock. See the details in the advertisement. A "class-conscious" person is one who is travelling in a first-class carriage, with a second-class ticket, says an Auckland Labourite. This item is going the rounds of the papers. It is stated that a 21b loaf of bread can be purchased at Feilding for sd, while in tho majority of towns in New Zealand it would cost 6}d. The Palmerston Borough Council has only £BO outstanding in rates. The total amount collectable is £36,000. Tho AVairarapa Age states that not far from Mauriceville a tentdweller resides by the roadside. He is apparently expecting to be able to build before long, for ho has a fully equipped sideboard outside tho tent. At the meeting of tho Auckland Education Board an important report dealing with the standardisation of school books was presented by the senior inspector, Mr C. W. Garrard, who favours the proposal. "I am satisfied as to the future. Our city is a wealthy one. The rates in Wellington are not as high as thoy are in Sydney. A Woolwich man had recently told me that their rates were 19s on tho annual value. Before this thoy were 9s in the £. In Sydney the rate on the unimproved value is os. Ours is not quite 3s."—Mayor Wright, of Wellington. Found guilty of having robbed his employers, Nelson, Moate and Co., of £2700, William Henry Pollock (secretary) was sentenced to 18 months hard labour. Portland cement is being offered by an English firm to New Plymouth importers at £6 per ton in sacks landed at tho breakwater.

There is no immediate prospe-i of the Wellington Farmers' Merit Company proceeding with its propound woollen mills at Waingawa. The pioject has not been dropped, but it is understood that a change of site may bo considered before tho scheme 's advanced. The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, stated on Saturday that tho unemployed were being steadily provided for and absorbed. Palmerston North hairdressers have reduced their charges to pre-war level. All the heavy machinery for use at the power-house at Waikaremoana is now installed, including turbines and generators, states the Napier Daily Telegraph, and the way in which the work is being pushed, on shows that the Public Works Department are in earnest, and their part of the contract will now soon be accomplished. Organist was in good form for tho recital at Wesley Church on Saturday night, and his pieces were listened to' with pleasure by, a large congregation. The programme was varied by the inclusion of some quartello and concerted numbers which were well given.