LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 4852, 30 July 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

LEVY ON LORRIES. A protest was made at the meeting of the executive of the Dominion Dairy Farmers’ Union against tne proposed levy on lorries under the new Highways Bill. It was pointed cut that many of the dairy companies were now using lorries, and tnat one company in Auckland had no h 1 :-- i ban 50 of'these vehicles. The levy was regarded as. an indirect tax on tlie dairying industry. STARTLING REFORMS. Professor William MeDougall, oi fJarva rd University, U.S.A., has a plan for the reorganisation of society bv a series of startling reforms, in a recent address lie declared himseit in favour of disfranchising the mcn’allv deficient, convicted criminals ind the illiterate, and prohibiting marriage between citizens with inn i-ights and the disfranchised. Such citizens in turn would be divided into classes. In Class A would be those of the highest grades, physically, mentally and morally.. Children of A parents would start in life as moni--1 bers of the lower Class B, to be promoted or relegated according to their ! success in measuring up the recognised standards. In the lowest i strata of society Professor McDou-o-nll’s scheme would call for restric- , tion of the number of offspring by a ' “deliberate social control dictated by th e principles of national ethics.”

WIT IN COURT. Touches of humour were incorporated into a ease before the Compensation Court (says the Auckland Herald). An aged, miller, named Pilgrim, was claiming against tne pukekohe Borough Council for compensation in respect of eerta in waterpower rights, and Mr Endean, counsel for defendants, when calling Mr T. R. Gulliver to give evidence, remarked that on the previous day they had gone through the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” and now were about to start on “Gulliver’s ’Travels.” A little later Sir Endean, when addressing the Court, referred to Sir Pilgrim’s rights jus being “ns dead as Tutankhamen in his tomb, to which Mr Leary, for the claimant, replied that “some people think Tutankhamen is very much ailve. At another stage Mr Endean urged that the power rights were of no value, and said the best test of that was —Would Mr Leary put any money into the mil!? “Is il:' ’ e 1 once asked Mr Justice Herdman, “he might have none.” “Then,” persuasively added Mr Endean. “lie might borrow some on the value of the rights.”

BOOSTING NEW ZEALAND

Interviewed in Montreal, on his return voyage to England, Mr Julian Grande, ICR.G.S., who recently spent several weeks in our Dominion, said: “New Zealand is the most charming country I have ever visit-

ed. It is never dull or monotonous, but wonderfully varied by plains and valleys, and slopes ana hills, deep ravines and bold peaks, fortified eminences and great snow mountains. Its peaks, passes, and glaciers . are head and shoulders above anything you will find in the Swjss, French, or Italian Alps. The New Zealand Alps are certainly more varied and impressive than the European Alps. I don’t wish to exaggerate, but the finest piece of scenery in the way of virgin bush 1 have seen was during a. three and a half hours’ ride on horseback between Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. Moreover. _ these two glaciers arc only 700 Feet above sea level and only seven miles from the sea. itself, and although the highest peaks ill New Zealand reach only 12.000 ft.. yet climbing them means actually 12.000 ft.. and not (IOOOft.. as is the ease at Monte Blanc, because von climb Mont Blanc by train to a height of 5000 ft. and hv mule a couple of thousand feet.”

MAN WITH A SIXTH SENSE

From Notodden, Norway, co.mcs the report of a man with a sixth sense. He has oil several occasions been used by the police to trace stolen goods that had beeburied in some cases many miles distant from the scene of the robbery. In one instance ho is reported to have accurately described where certain goods would he found without leaving his own room. Another time a valuable dog was lost, and police and others had pursued a fruitless search ior many days. They then called in the man, who said the dog would be found at the top of a long valley some miles away. The searchers went to the place described, and found the dog. The man. whose name is Hnlvorsen, is also claimed to have found water and iron ore. the latter beneath deep snow.

How cricket is being improved in England: Cambridge University students are again helping to train elementary sclioolbovs in Cambridge as cricketers. Fifteen colleges will each take a school and instruct boys on the college playing field.

A bedroom floor, made of blue glass with a pattern in enamel, was recently exhibited in London. Over 100 pounds of sugar for encli person was the consumption m America, last year.

In the last six months more than 12,000,000 postal packets line! to ot surcharged in British post offices, postmen collecting on them nearly £ 90,000.

A number of Feilding members of the Salvation Army took part in the special services conducted all day by Commissioner and Mrs Hoggard in i’almerston yesterday. A motor lorry, belonging vo r egg merchant, collided with a motor car on the road between Ligny :•

Velaine, near Sursambre, and 7800 eggs were spread about the road. Out. of 530 cases of eggs on the lorry, 30(1 were thrown to the ground anc; smashed.

Since 1910, £1,500,000 has been.obtained in London by street collections for charity.

The Loyal Ashburton Lodge, M.U., 1.0.0. F., which recently celebrated its jubilee, has paid out £14,708 in sickness, funeral, and medical bonefits during the 50 years of its existence. During file war, 40 o{ its members saw service, 11 making the supreme sacrifice. “My patience in such matters is very nearly exhausted,” said Mr A. M. Mowlcm, 5.M.,. at the Elthnb Court when convicting a youth for riding a motor cycle at night without a light. “Time and t ine again T have to point out the danger of this practice, and as a warning 1 intend to make it the dearest lamp you can buy.’' The youth was lined 30s. and ordered to provide a suitable light at once. The Mayor of Northampton (Eng.), having offered a prize for arithmetic at a girls’ school, the Mayoress promptly offered one for the girl who could black a grate without blacking her face and apron. “Husbands.” she said, “would rather have wives who could mend socks than do arithmetic.”

Corporal punishment for youthful delinquents was advocated by Mr Justice Herdman at the Supremo Court in Auckland, when admitting a youth to probation for theft. “What ought to be done,” said His Honor, “would he to order . you a birching by the police : that is what should bo done to boys who get into mischief of this kind. Nothing would lie better, but I cannot order it, as the law does not permit it.”

New potatoes and green peas from Nelson are on sale in Wellington, peas realising 12s per peck of rib as against 10s last season, while potatoes arei realising 7d per lb. Have you made the most of the great winter sale now coming to an end on August 3? Remember this is your final opportunity for buying, at bargain prices, your needs for the remaining winter season, as well as a great many things for spring and summer too. You still have time to save pounds on your purchases—-it you shop now. The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd,