LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1889, 27 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A proposal is being made to form a Ladies’ Swimming Club in Feilding.

This week in Dunedin the wholesale juice of eggs advanced 1 o 2s 9d per dozen. The nir was bitterly cold in Oamaru on Tuesday ami there was a fairly heavy coating of snow on the ranges. Bo far the railways in the Otago district, have been comparatively freefront private motor bus competition. An important, ceremony was performed at Motuiti. on Tuesday, when Mrs A. Seifert planted the first finx jdant in the area acquired by .Motuiti. Ltd. Lindsay’s, The Square, are offering ladies’ and maids’ raincoats—seasonable goods at .reasonable prices. See. the advertisement on the Ladies’ Page of i lie Star. A study of horticultural methods m Australia is to he made shortly by Mr 0. A. Oreen, secretary of the New Zealand Horticultural Trades Assoeiat. ion. i: Oti the Stewart Island excursion, 1 mat, an old man who was taking his lirsti sea voyage. He was as interested as a schoolboy.” said a. member of the Canterbury Farmers’ .Excursion Committee. The announcement that the present petrol lax of -Id per gallon is not going to mark- the limit of taxation in this direction if the revenue derived is found to hot insufficient lor IHo purpose required of ii has just been given by Hi Minister ol bonds, the Hon. A. D. McLeod.

A lady at Lite householders meeting at the Avenue school, Wanganui, asked whether the moral tone of the school had deteriorated, since Pubic reading had been discontinued. Mr Jackson, headmaster, rejiliedj that Lite inspectors had reported that the moral tone of the school had always been good.

The- trustees of (he Commercial Travellers’ and. Warehousemen's Blind Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Fund have received a cheque for Cloo from the District Public Trustee, Wellington. a legacy in terms of the will of ilie late Mrs * Christina McTnnes, of Wellington.

“Eve only been in the country two hours, and 1 will he out of it again in. -10 minutes,” said a young man who was charged, with drunkenness at the Auckland Police Court. As lie had nothing but American money with him, no fine, was imposed, and lie was convicted and. discharged.

A proposal to keep the street lamps burning' all night for the inconvenience- of burglars wn s made to the Onehunga orough Council by the local Chamber of Commerce, but was not entertained, one member expressing the opinion that it would he cheaper to emplov more policome.il.

Mr C. Nash, of the National Tobacco Co., says that already his company has received 350 halos lrom the Nelson district. Although the season has been an unusual one, he considers, that the average return to growers per acre will he between COO and £IOO.

An Auckland resident, Mr Cucksey, has returned from a world tour, most of which lias bean done hv motor ear. On tlx* run through Canada and the United tales Mr Cucksey thought tha the would “put New Zealand < n the map.’’ Above his number plate, which was registered in California, he fixed the words “New Zealand” in fairly large loiters. “I didn’t know there wa s a New Zealand in California,’ remarked a wondering resident of the ‘Stales whom Mr Cucksey met.

Hori bought a oar. To cole bra to the purchase lie celebrated, and tlicn hit out on the- long trail for the. pa. 'Pen minutes down the road i Hoods rescued him from the river and dragged. his car out with horses. “What happened, Hori?” asked his friends. “When 1 puy te- oar I drive; ivory fas’, ivory fas’ for home. The trees pass me, the houses pass me, the telegram post go by. all going ivory fas’. Then a- bridge eomo ivory fas’ towards me, so I pull to one side bo let hint go past.”—New Plymouth Herald. Owing to the prolonged spell of dry weather many of the smaller streams in the Cape Egmont district have almost dried, up. Some that have never been known to fail are almost completely dry. The eels are consequently falling an easy prey to others besides members of recognised eel dubs. An. old Maori woman of over 70 years of age the other day lilted one weighing 181 b from under a couple of stones in one of. the streams. From the sam estream she took 30 eels of varying sizes.:,