LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1203, 13 September 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tlie mew dam at Mangaliao is expected jo he finished by Christmas.

At a special meeting of the Lyt-ton Street School Committee-, Mr T. K. Hay was elected secretary in place of Mr T. F. Fitz Gerald.

Another motor ear was found burned after having beep stolen by joy .-(riders the- previous evening in Auckland. This makes a- total of eight ears so destroyed since the end of April. '

Butter continues to have a bright outlook in England, with every indication of values holding for some time. New Zealand finest has been touching IPOs per ewt, and a firm, though quiet, demand is reported.

General G. Robley of London, writing to W. F. Gordon of New Plymouth, says that the New Zealand Cross won by Antonio Bod rogues do Sard in.a was sold for £95 to an A morion n purchaser.

The Mannwatu-Oroua Power Board consumers to date total 591)7, madeup as follows: Lighting and heating 3822, electt ic ranges .900, water heaters 727, industrial 80, milking motors 548, small motors 222, street lighting 218, community lights 50.

“T have been round the world twice, and l think that the New Zealand scenery is the,best, that between Blenheim and Rnngiora- surpassing it all,” said Mrs -Sanford, one of the two ladies who toured across Australia by car.

As a. result of the gale on Sunday a. tree planted for beautifying purposes in Kimholton road was uprooted'. The shrubs and trees in Denbigh Square, a spot much exposed fo boisterous weather, were buffeted, hut not- greatly damaged.

Botanists have disovered on the Hawaiian islands nearly 700 varieties of plants that are found nowhere elso (says the Samoa Times). The reason is apparently that the islands are far from other land and have been isolated in this way for many geologic ages. A trapper a(- the Palmerston North waterworks- reserve caught 517 opossums this season. His tally and the catches of two others in the Featherston district, who trapped, nearly 1050 between them, are said (o lie probably among the best: in New Zealand.

A man always looks well dressed in a. good navy or grey worsted soil. At the present time Humphreys and Andrews are making a display in their windows of these goods at special prices. Their announcement *iv Hjeir advertisement of this issue is worth perusal. ;

Asparagus appeared last week end at the Auckland city markets for the first time this season. Supplies at, preseht are short, hut the vegerafile should be coming from the growers in large quantities during next week. Asparagus is grown in many districts, much of the regular supply coining from the neighbourhood of Tauronga.

A mean theft was perpetrated at Stratford on a. visiting motorist last week. A commercial traveller from Auckland put up at one of the hotels and garaged his expensive car fn some promises at the rear. When he visited the slued on Sunday morning to continue his journey, he found that someone had removed his five tyres with their rims and holts. The car was left: on the jack.

The Timam Presbytery was asked to decide an unusual point at its meeting as to the religion of a child of Presbyterian parents, which had been oliYistoned by an Anglican clergyman (says an exchange). A letter. before the meeting stated that a, Presbyterian woman in hospital had asked that her apparently dying baby be christened, and. as the Presbyterian minister was absent from, the district, the ceremony had been performed by a, minister of the Anglican Church. The child lived, and it was presumed was an Anglican. The matter tile Presbytery could not give a ruling on, if.

Lake Rotorua is extraordinarily high, the drainage of the recent heavy rains having run down from tlie, hills. It is some time since such a level has been attained, says the Rotorua. Chronicle, and it is a matter of rjpgrei that the scheme of hydro-electric development at Okero was not carried out. This would have had the effect of keeping the level permanent and thus providing for the extension of summer lake services now rendered precarious, owing to the difficulties of navigating the Ohau Channel in a dry., season. At present the stream would take the largest vessel on the lake without trouble to navigator or danger to his craft.

In their space on page 7 Simson’s, the outfitters, announce the last- week of their great, surplus stock sale.

Tobacco plants appear to do well at Thames. A plant grown at the Thames Bowling Club’s grounds produced a fine specimen of leaves.

Under the will of the late J. F. Buchanan, of Little- River. Canterbury, St. Andrew’s Church and the Presbyterian Church authorities each receive £250,

Martinborough. in the Lower Wairnrapa, which up to the present has been under the administration of a Town Board, has been elevated to the status of a borough.

“A speech,” remarked Mr ,T. F. Montague, elocutionary judge, at the Greymouth competitions, “should he like a. woman’s dress— long enough to cover the subject, and short enough to he interesting.”

An apparatus designed to prevent railway disasters lias been invented by an Italian. Special signals are worked by means of a third rail that develops electricity during the movement of the- train. A light shows in the driver’s cabin when anything is obstructing the line, and if ibis Isignored a hell rings. Should this also escape attention, the train is automatically stopped by a device that applies he Westinghoilse brake. The third rail, can also be thie means A working a telephone service »i‘ drivers.

Alter Four years’ of persistent endeavour, Ah; G. L.. Bartlett, of the Dannevirke Bowling Club, has succeeded in getting members ‘of the club t-o pass a resolution permitting Sunday bowls. Although, in the past, members have participated in tournaments on Good Friday and Christmas Day, they have by a small majority decided against having the game played on Sundays. Mr Bartlett submitted a motion at the special meeting on Wednesday, and after some discussion the motion was p*.cosed by 2G votes to 12.

There is an admirable class of citium who settles any argument by saying, “It must be right—l saw it in the paper.” There is arior*er class who infer that the angels of the pen sit up inventing murders ami politics and events of the world. There is a. further class who burble, “I don’t know bow ever you find the stuff to fill the paper every day.” This, innocent soul would probatDy disbelieve the truth that the function of inky backstops is to prevent the vast overflow from “creeping in.” The press (says the Auckland Star), which sedulously conib-s the whole known world for you, is used to abuse and the laughable dictum of the ignorant ./that it is mostly lies; but it is not so used to praise. The president of a. conference of tbreo hpndred journalists entertained by *flii Lord Mayor of London was Senator Alagalhaes, of South Amelia., And his words ane memorable. “When the world wishes to know the truth it comes to read it in the journals of the British Empire.” A lakes a ftfflow. feel bucked. Hoorav!