LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1890, 28 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Parliament .will probably meet on June 28.

There are now 30 British peers who ire umler 21 years of age.

The. Wairoa. H. 8., freezing works have closed down tor the season.

The man to-day who wakes up and finds himself rich is the prize lighter. —Lord Dewar.

The British people spent £97,000 less on te.leg.rame last year than they did iiii 1920.

Scarlet fever is still lingering about Dunedin. Two or three eases per day are. reported to the oHirer ot health.

The subjects in Si. Patti’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow are advertised. The Rev. Time. Miller. M.A.. will he the preacher

At the evening service ol St John’s Church to-morrow the anthem “The Splendours of Thy Glory, horde will lie rendered by the choir.

In 1927 Britain, used 714.462.512 gallons of motor spirit. With the new tariff increase oi 4:'d per gallon, what a isum for 1928 !

During the four weeks ended on March 31 last the timber exported from the port ol Grey mouth was 2.647.899 ft.

The subject of discourse' at the Baptist Church to-morrow night iu one. ol deep and vital interest to all. See the advertisement.

Tim Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of issue of cheap excursion tickets trom May 3 to 16.

As a splendid line for girls Sutton's have just opened, up trom I'uigImid a big range of girls navy fleecy lined woven bloomers in a lull range of sizes. A warm winter line.

Some idea of the extent of the good work being done by the Plunket Society in. Nelson may ne tint .1 front the fact that the class under treatment numbered 611.

“It is very gratifying to know that there is a credit- balance of £3500 odd at the end of the linaneial year,” .said the Mayor ol St. Kilda, Dunedin. A Wellington Rugby writer claims that A. Knlwasser. formerly of Hawke’s Bay and a member of the Maori team that toured England and France, is settling in Wellington this season. The memorial to the men and women of the Otago 1 niversity who served in the late war is to take the form of a line gravel walk in the. Universitv grounds, Dunedin.

in Birmingham a. postal sorter must be familiar with, the names of 234 1 streets, and in the south-eastern area of London, the- names of no fewer than 6700 streets must he, memorised.

Nearly 2000 radio listeners in the Auckland province, have not yet paid their licenses. April 14 was the last day of grace, and so far 10,569 license fees of all kinds, including a, few new ones, have been paid in the province.