LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Rongotea Queen Carnival netted £7OO. The coronation ceremony takes place next \vco]i,

The sawmills m the Southland province are reported to lie I airly active at the present time.

The population of London equals that of Belgium and exceeds by two million that, of tin- whole of Australia.

From to-morrow, the .Agricultural High School's second vacation will commence and the school will resume on September 10.

Good progress is being made with the erection of the Government's hydro-electric sub-station at liunnythorpe.

Whitebait has started running in the Pviamahnnga river hut no big catch has yet been reported (slates a yYairarapa exchange).

At a meeting of the N.Z.F.A. in Wellington it was stated that the cabaret given at Poverty Hay during the visit of the Chinese team resulted in a profit of ,C44:\.

The recently erected big steel towpi's to carry the electric 'transmission wires over the hills at Ash hurst, to connect up with the Waikaremoana scheme make an imposing sight.

The public should be on I heir guard against counterfeit money, as there are evidences that- some .spurious coin i.s being circulated in Christchurch (says the Press).

"Inquiries which, have been made do not bear out the. view that the drinking of methylated spirit is a widespread habit in New Zealand," stated the Minister of Customs, the Hon. W. Downie Stewart.

A party of YYairarapa Lower Valley have returned from Palhser Hay and report having a most .successful pig-hunting expedition. Pigs arc wvy numerous on the Whatarangi station.

It is stated the £lllO9 was discovered M'wn up in the clothes of an old .Maori who died recently near AVollington. Secreted in the house were also found three pickle bottles filled with sovereigns.

"1 object to some of the treatment J have received, and I am not going to stand it," said Cr. (Johns, at a meeting of the Wanganui City Council. "You will have to sit down, then," replied Mayor Hope Gibbons.

Mr A. F. AnsC.ll, ex-president ot the Otago Motor Club, ami executive member of the South Island SiotOr Union, asked to express his views ol the Motor Vehicles Bill, said that motor organisations were very pleased that the. Bill had been brought forward.

Ft is anticipated that it will bo another ten flays before the East Coast railway lino, ■between. Bay View (Po.t----alio) and Eskdale will be reopened for traffic. The damage to tlie line, was done during the March flood, so that to place it on.ee again in order has taken some time.

Mr J. J. OXoill. Liberal M.P. for Lancaster, speaking at Lancaster recently, said the stage was sot for a general election in the autumn, and before then tactic arrangements vmld he made between the Liberal and Labour parties not to contest seats whore the result of a three-cornered fight won Id be a Conservative \u.-tory.

It i.s anticipated that towards the end of the present month it will bo p.o.KSihie to commence a try-out of a portion of the plant at Mangahao, and it should be only a 'natter of a few weeks now before power is being distributed to certain parts of Ajanawatu district which have ■ oe.n reticulated in readiness.

Dr. FT. M. Monro, son of Mr C. J. Monro, of PaJrneriiton, has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Of the 5-1 candidates submitted, 2-1 passed, I)r. Monro being eighth on the list. The three sons of Mr C. J. Monro are now in the medical profession .

The early bird caught the. bargain at a large, sale of second-hand motorears held in New Plymouth. The first ear on the auction block was a fivesoat'or Austin, 1924 model. "Are there ouy bids?" said the auctioneer. There ware no bids and be repeated the question. "A tenner," came a voice from the crowd. The engine was. ticking over perfectly, yet no fiu'tber bid was forth coining, and the car .wa§ knocked down at £lO. The tyres alone were very nearly wqrth tbe money.

That it is considered impracticable to publish mi up-to-date roll or South African veterans'.—Tleply of Defence Department.

The Maunganui was despatched from San Francisco on August 13, and is due at Wellington on September 1.

On the past year's returns., in wool, mutton, lamb, and by-pro-ducts combined, the sheep stands out still as the leading primary wealth-producer in the Dominion.

Good progress is being made with the curbing and channelling work within the borough, and those streets which have been attended to, apart from the necessity of the work, haw a very different appear-

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A Feilding resident who has been making regular visits to Apili, says he did not see one rabbit in all his travels over the district this week. This was a great, tribute "to the work of the Rabbit Board and the manner in which farmers had attacked the pest.

"Acting upon a suggestion that tho loud speaker should be o nt of sight," writes a correspondent to an English paper, "I turned the. light off when listening to the nightingales. A crash disturbed me, and, turning on the light, J found the loud speaker on the door with a kitten wedged in the horn endeavouring to get the invisible bird !"

The use of registration cards or a form of them was advocated by Professor Adams, the American edu\ntionist, in an address to the Rotary Club at Wellington. In tho ease of boys leaving school, he said, cards bearing information which would give employers some idea P,f the capacity and learnings of a boy when leaving school and entering into- the world.

Mr S. G. Smith, M.P., has been appointed chairman of the Taranaki Kducation Board. The retiring chairman (Mr A. Lee), who. in proposing Mr Smith for the position, referred to the biter's experience of and interest in educational matters. Tho other members of the board unanimously supported Mr Smith's nomination, and spoke in eulogistic term.s of his fitness for the position.

The Flock House, boys were taken completely by surprise the other evening when a large contingent ol visitors arrived to entertain them. A really good concert programme was given, the boys and the visitors alike thoroughly enjoyed, it. The ■surprise of the evening was the presentation of a handsome gramaphone and a big selection of records. Mrs FT. A. Goodall, in making the presentation to tho boys, said that the idea originated with Mrs J. IJ. Johnstone, that a birthday party should be givey, them all together, as it was impossible to have a party for each boy individually. Loud cheers!