LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 280, 9 July 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Otago Harbour Board celebrated its jubilee yesterday.

"Has.any other party a majority in this House?." asked Mr Masscy in the House last night. "Whatever is said, we have the majority, and we are the dominant party."

Wallaby hunting is now a favourite sport of finite a number of Oamaru sportsmen. Tho wallaby are located on the bills behind Waimate, and are reported to have increased considerably in resent years.

One hundred and forty-eight pounds weight for a dressed 4-tooth maiden ewe is good measure. This owe, a flock Southdown, was bred by Mr T). H. McLean, at Boaeonsfiold, and is on view in Mr W. ijuaylc's shop wftidow., Of its! kind, is is a record.

Possessing property is nob always

an indication of .wealth. c A solicitor a!.' the Ala gist rate's Court in Auckland in asking for judgment, said that defendant had considerable property. "Yes, and perhaps ho has quite, a number of mortgages," .said Air Hunt S.AI., amid laughter.

Occasionally large families Jive i" small houses. During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate's Court in Wanghnui a girl witness sai<l she lived in a fonr-roonied house. There were two bedrooms. Her father and two brothers slept in one room, while another was occupied by witness, her mother, and two young brothers.

A. freak, a rabbit with two tusks, was -shot at Aiwania Plains the other day. The tusks were over an inch long and curved from the lower jaw above the nostrils, thus making the picking lip of food extremely difficult, Though handicapped in this way the little, animal was in fair condition, showing that it had been able to accommodate itself to circumstances.

"What does it matter what hours vou work? What does it matter what pay you get? It all turns upon production, in this country you have pro grossed along the Bolshevic lines, and cannot turn back. Cannot a man work as slow and slower in -IS hours as you can in 11. You have four hours more to do it in. "--Hon, W. Earnsha.w in the Legislative Council.

There arrived at Opoliki the other day the Fisher brothers, of Mbtu, who had chosen a .unique mode of travel (.reports the Poverty Bay Herald).. They .made a boat .at Alotu and in it made the journey from that settlement down the Alotu River. They are enthusiastic oyer the trip, describing the scenery as magnificiciit. The trip was- made without mishap of anv kind.

Spain is the only remaining European country where the Sovereign observes the ancient religious ceremony of "washing',' tire, feet of 12 old men on Maundy Thursday. Tn Madrid the ceremony, as performed by King Alfonso, consists in kneeing on a cushion before each of the old men, who are seated with bare foot. A Court dignitary holds a gold dish bofor the feet of each man in turn, while the king sprinkles a few drops of the scented water over each, foot, and then .tenches each foot lightly witli a cloth handed to him by one of the bishops present.

In Esthonin there are nearly 5000 Baptist Sunday schools, attended by 800,000 children.

A master of bounds with his pack of yellow and tans -caused some interest when passing through the Square, this morning.. The usual Wednesday hunt is being hold ai, I'arorangi to-day.

.The Tourist Department has decided to install electric light and power at ti>e Mount Cook Hermitage. The light will be genorate.i with .water power obtained, from Sawyer's Creek, which is about two miles from the Hermitage. Coal at the Hermitage costs ClO per ton.

A manufacturer of small goods in Oamaru says the reason that the Government bad issued regulations in regard to the manufacture of sausages was that in some townssh.ips. these goods consisted of nothing more than meal and water, with a little seasoning thrown in.

Said Mr Massey in the House last night: 1 have no doubt that if at any time wi.thin a reasonable distance the. so-called. Liberal-Labour Party comes into olfiee the leader of the Labour Party would say: You will have to do this, and the lion, gentleman would have to give in. Mr Wilford : Not on your life.

The ilag-stafl on the post office this morning provided -a centre of attraction for passers-by. A painter was busy on the tower, giving the polo a coat of paint, and from the footpath, ROft. below, his position did not .seem to lie an enviable one. The building is undergoing extensive renovation.

The Timaru Herald says.: .About a month ago, a lady had her handbag stolen on Caroline Bay. The bag contained a pension certificate, a number of small personal belongings, and £.l 10s in cash. Yesterday she received the bag through the Post Office, and though the personal belongings and the pensions certificate were ill. it, the £3 10s was missing.

Xo longer do factories voice a complaint of an insufficiency of female labour. A change has come over the scene in Christchureh. Jn the past jew days n clothing factory advertised for a. girl. There were 40 applicants Thirty-five girls turned up in a hopeless quest of a single job announced by a fancy leather factory. These are not isolated instances. Few girls prefer to stay at home, in these days, and the improved conditions of the factory w;.rk compared with those that used to rule has made this class of employment extroirfoly popular. Unfortunately, many classes of factories are experiencing a lean time and cannot absorb the labour offering.

Seldom does the theft of a motor ca r prove beneficial to the owner of the car, but such is the position in the case of an Oakland car which dissap-p.-ared from ('ore. Street and was found in llareoiirt Street, Crey Lynn, Auckland. The car was. not at all damaged, and did not appear to have run very far. Afore important to the owners, however, was the fact that although the benzine tank was practically empty when the car was stolen, it was practically full when it Avas recovered. Tire owners' gain, on the whole incident is thus nearly eight gallons of benzine.

Satisfaction with the treatment received from the Education Department was the feeling expressed by the High School Hoard of Afanagers last night, on receipt of a letter from the High. School Boards' Association. The letter asked the Feeding Board to say whether it had any complaints against Ihe Department, and a statement was made at the meeting that the Association had made a general complaint against the Department and when pinned down by 'the Minister for something definite, had circulated this request to High School Boards. The Feilding Board had no support for the Association in its general complaint.