LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1131, 20 June 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There arc II Id licensed hotels 511 Now Zealand.

The first, lamb of the season made its appearance on Mr P. J. Small's farm at Kainmga last Friday.

Hon. B. F. Bollard states that there are dOO applications lor the position of lilm censor, lie proposes to reduce them to a dozen and submit these to Cabinet.

From now on the afternoon’s lengthen, but the sun continues to rise later daily until the 29th insl. The shortest day this year will he next Wednesday.

Albert Basham, a well known Communist, was " charged at the Auckland Police Court with selling the Labour .Monthly, which expressed a seditious intention. A <‘fused was remanded.

Something in the nature of a record was established lor C hristohmeli last Wednesday when no fewer than four persons—an engineer, a motor salesman, a farmer, and a 1 ailoi were adjudicated bankrupt.

The transfers of town and suburban properties in the month of April in. the North Island were 900, and the consideration ol £036,107 and in the South Island 500. and consideration £‘385,239.

Last season a parasite known as the Aphilinus Mali was liberated m the Onmaru district for the purpose of combating the depredations ol woolly aphis in fruit trees. It has done effective work in destroying aphis.

Henry Ford and 11 others launched the Ford Motor C°- '°ss than 2o years ago with a total cash capital of £7OOO. Lately Mr Ford refused an offer of one billion dollars loi the company’s stock, all of which he now controls.

“Any advance on £120.000? I can't accept that, gentlemen, and must pass the property in.’’ In this way a Sydney auctioneer declined I 'si bid of £ISOO a foot for 323-331 George (stredt. recently. The property was a block of five shops.

“1 admit candidly that the drnp{'i'v trade lias had a slow time Ini' nine months, hut in the past month there has been a distinct improvement.” was a statement made by t lie manager ol a large t hristchuii li drapery concern.

“Supposing you took a taxi to the railway station, and on arrival you gave the driver a halt-sovereign, would you call that a tare?” asked a witness in Auckland. “No. I would not think that was fair.” drily retorted Mr Cullen. S.M.

In the Ron a Studio showcase Air Hobday is exhibiting a series ol interesting and historic photographs, which include the late Sir Ernest Shaekleton and Lieut. Hod. Carr, the Feildingite. receiving the diploma of aviation from the President of Brazil. .

in New Zealand for the year ended March 31, 1027, there, were 2d,<*sl transfers of town and suburban properties, as compared with 26,138 in the previous year, a decrease of 407. and the consideration was C 1«. 1. 280, against £17.8057,004, a shrinkage of £081,775.

During the hearing of some liquor eases in the W’aihi Magistrate’s Court the incidents of which included the chase of a couple of suspects hv two constables, one of the defendants was asked why he ran away? He replied: “Well, everyone else was running, so F thought I would run. too.”—(Laughter).

“1 do not admit that the children of the. present day are spoilt,” said Dr. Lawson. Professor of Education, in the course of an address at the •Otago University. “The present day child is more open and frank than when 1 was a. youngster, and he is having a more enjoyable time, there not being the same need lor repression At Cnirnbrne, in Ashburton county, at the height of a wind storm a tree fell, bringing down a high tension wire to within two feet of the ground. A group of men approached the wire to investigate the damage. With 'them went a dog, which, in an attempt to leap over the hanging wire, came in contact with it. Instantly, it was reduced to a withered, shapeless mass as small as a man’s hand.