LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 675, 6 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are still about 2000 visitors left i n the pa at Rafnnn, Of 500 trees planted in the Association Park, Mirimar, Wellington, all have been stolen except two. \ The contract has been let for a new Presbyterian Church at Dannevirke, to cost about £4500. The-r are 112 Church roads in London, 105 Park roads, 77 Grove roads, and 85 Victoria roads. Britain’s annual mail hag lias increased from 169,000,000 letters carried in 1884 to 3,500,000,000 • last year. An Gain am resident who visited the country the other day saw a silver grey rabbit with a pure white collar.

A woman centenarian, aged 105, has reeenty crossed the Atlantic from America on her way to her home in Beirut. Cigarette-making machines turn out 50,000 “smokes.’-’ an hour. The output of hand-made cigarettes is about 200 an hour. Two Napier doctors recently had their ears stolen, and both vehicles were eventually located abandoned in the same place. A bronze tablet in honour of Air Edison has been unveiled near where lie made his first invention in New Jersey, in ITS.A. The Hon. A. I). McLeod,. Minister of Lands, says the names of a few of the new Cabinet Ministers wTll be announced in. a few days, and the remainder very soon after. An Oamaru resident who has subsisted o n uncooked vegetables for

some months past declares that he yevcj. felt better in his life (says the North Otago Times).

Evening swimming has become very popular in Napier during the hotweather, and the baths, the sea, and the Tutnekuri river have been freely patronised.

The London County Council is asking inventors to find a cheap kind of non-splintering glass. There is n i safety glass at present entirely satisfnetorv.

The installation of the machinery at the Mnsterton Hosiery and Spinning Company’s new mill has proceeded without interruption, and it is expected that operations will commence in about two weeks’ time.

Eighteen Roy Scouts from Marton and 25 from Bulls leave for the Exhibition jamboree next Friday. They have all been in hard training for some time past, and should give a good account of themselves.

.Mark Elsom, a newsboy, having received a half-crown in mistake for a penny, took the 2s 5d to the Lincoln Police Station, and the police were able to restore the money to its owner. The Magistrates subscribed and gave the bov a watch.

Over £1260 for missions was given in less than one hour at the Seventh Day Adventist camp ground at Dannevirke, on Saturday afternoon, the largest amount being £l5O and the smallest pennies, thrown by the children into a missionary map.

Another sign of the times: The Tuncred street stables will, at the beginning of February, cease to house horses, and will be used instead for Liu* storage of motor ears, the garage of the firm taking over the stables having become too small lor the purpose. —Ashburton paper.

1* or the Band Contest to ho held °n Anniversary Day in Wanganui, the following bands are expected to compete: New Plymouth, Stratford, Eltham, Waitara, Marton and Feiiding. The New Zealand Brass Band Association has been granted permission for the contest to be held. It is over 15 years since a contest was held at Wanganui.

At the present rate of progress it would seem that before many years have elapsed every fifth person in New Zealand will he the possessor of a motor vehicle of some description. Since the end of June, when the total number of motor vehicles was 106,449, there has been a general monthly increase of between 2000 and 3000 registrations, and at the end of last month the total stood at 121.558. The increase last month exceeded 3000. The North Island figures are still well ahead of those for the South.