LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2134, 13 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tn a, small town in Germany they ' have Jmilt a, town hall with money collected in fines from, motorists.

Every week a gold sovereign in a split piece of cardboard arrives at the London Temperance Hospital from so m e bod v u n know n.

Britain holds the lend in plush toys and the more expensive mechanical toys. Bolls still mainly come from Germany. Factories .in and around ‘London are increasing at tWe rate ol one a week, the increase of factory workers being 1000 a week. To meet the needs of teaching and research work, there is now a staff of 12 lecturers at the Massey Agricultural College, and each is a specialist in some particular branch of agriculture. Mrs Sigrid TJndsct, the Norwegian novelist, is only the second woman to been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the money value of which, is sufFcient to make an author independent for life.

An event which is probably unique took place in Christchurch recently, wlicn a bride and bridegroom were married by two Catholic priests, who. were brothers respectively of the! contract!n g parties.

There seems to bo a very g»od standard of taste in New Zealand music, which appears to bo progressing on the- right lines, says Mr Frank Hutehen, of the N.S.W. Conservetorium of Music.

“I welcome the now responsibility,” stated Hon. W. A. Veitch, as Minister of Transport. “I can see the opportunity of rendering very useful service to- the people as it is obvious that Hi vast development of motor transport is due.”

”1 am convinced that in. a country district, where rents and land values are so much, lower than in the that people cannot do hotter than patronise their own towns,” said Mr Lye, M.P., at a meeting of the Mor rinsville Chamber of Commerce.

Stating that beekeepers had a duty to iperform. in. keeping, their beehives clean, Mr W. R. McKenna, S.M., fined Herbert Beecroft, of Henderson, £1 in the Police Court at Aucklandon a charge of failing to keep his apiary in a proper condition.

Asked in London by Mr Jordan,, tlic Auckland M.P., whether New Zealand honey found favour in Britain: “Speaking for myself,” replied tile Home Secretary, Sir Joynson Hicks, “I have it every morning for breakfast.”

“The invasion of the tfental practice by men without ideals and without .principle is demoralising the standards and degrading the. profes--sion in the eyes of the public,” said Dr. Henry Luheck in his presidential address to the Dental Association of New South Wales.

If the opinion of teachers, as shown in an exhaustive qtu stiomvre submitted by the school committee, the elimination of homework at Hie. Mount E'clen School (Auckland) has resulted in greater concentration,, more individual attention, and quickened interest amongst the pupils.

A practical way of recognising at. poet’s claim to honour has been- accorded by the Germans to Peter Supf. As an acknowledgment of the; poetry lie has written on the subject

of flying he has been given a freo

pass on the German Lufthansa air line.

A. quick realisation of the potentialities of a film, as a means of advertising New Zealand has prompted the Minister in cllarg© of the Publicity Department, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, to arrange for the establishment of a 16 millimetre plant at the Miramar Laboratory to enable pictures- of that size to be prepared for (distribution throughout the World.