LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 15 February 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There ar e nearly 20.000 speakeasies (illicit bars) in New York City.

Outstanding; rates owing to the Feilding Borough Council at, present amount to £440.

The Birmingham. City Council permits Sunday golf on the municipal courses now.

An Ofcaki. resident has found what is considered to ho a. large piece of ambergris.

Rain caused a. postponement of the cricket match New South Wales r . England.

Good catches are well maintained at Taupo, with an improvement in fishing at both ends of the lake,

Airs C. N. Baeyertz, wife of the musical and literary critic, passed away in Auckland, on Saturday from a, heart attack.

Four notorious pickpockets were arrested during a, performance. »ol a play called “The Criminals’’ at a Berlin theatre recently

Solicitor to complainant: Do- you suggest that my client hit you with malice aforethought. Plaintiff: No, he hit me with a, brick.

A southerly gale, raged at Akaroa yesterday, so that the Sanders Cup race was postponed after four boat® had capsized.

The representative cricket match between Southland, and Otago wasconcluded, resulting in Otago winning by an innings and DO run®

“Push th© South. Island!” must he our motto for the future, said Dir C. H. Clibborn, on his return to Christ--church from the Harbour Associations’ conference in Auckland.

“I am pleased to record a decrease in. charitable aid in Palmerston North,” stated Mr F. Asher, relieving officer, in his report to the Hospital Board yesterday.

An increase of at least 10 miles an hour in the speed of motor traffic during the next 10 years was forecasted at the meeting of the North Island Motor Union.

A proposal to erect a, new Salvation Army hall in Hamilton for 300 people was discussed at a meeting of Hamilton business men who decided to a» sist. ‘ .

During the last two years 300,000 rabbits have been taken off properties in the Oniavania district in North Otago, where rabbits are- still numerous.

' The Palmerston Hospital Board yesterday decided to write off £8248 in outstanding patients’ fees, mostly balances of accounts. Some of thin money had been owing for six years-

Broom (Cytisus seoparius) and hemlock have been declared noxious weeds in the Podding borough on the motion of Cr. J. Corpe, at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council.

In tlie Magistrate’s Court at "Westport a- motor driver was prosecuted for allowing three persons to stand on the running board of his car, and Avas ordered to pay 10s costs.

The theft of mail hags on the steamer W.ohino and other similar instances has caused a, certain amount of consternation in the minds of business men in Dunedin AA'ho frequently send ''valuable documents by post

A piece or original ribbon, 60 years old, that was used when the first train went through the Lyttel■ton tunnel was sent- by Mr* Clarkson, of Linwood,to the manager of th« New Zealand. Railways.

That it would be possible for a Christchurch -citizen to belong to SO or 90 different bodies or associations was the statement made at the meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League.

A. curfew regulation was made requiring all til© delegates attending the World Conference of the Student Christian movement at Liverpool to he indoors at Bis or her host’s house by 10 o’clock every night during the conference period.

The Bay of Plenty section of the East Coast railway is being freely availed of this season for transport of surplus slieep from Gisborne to the Bay of Plenty and the Waikato, the stock being driven overland to U' A railhead at Taneatua.

Maori kumara growers in Poverty Bay are planting now for a late crop. The sale of kumara. plants has been a source of satisfactory revenue to some of the natives, who are able to get scores of seedling plants from a single tuber.