LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

PHmmerfcon people five looking forward to the time when the now railway tunnel through tins Johnsonville lull will bo completed. This improvcjnent. will bring the beach within half an hour of Wellington.

There are no criminal cases listed for tlie Supreme Court sessions in Wanganui. It is over 40 years since the criminal calendar was a blank. IMr Justice Smith had the pleasure of receiving a pair of white gloves.

One of the- latest publicity activities of the High Commissioner for New Zealand has been the screening of New Zealand films regularly on all the vessels of the "Rotterdam Lloyd Royal Mail line to Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore and Java.

“The essentialities for the winning of a. good business in that town are quality, service and long credit—particularly long credit,” remarked a delegate amidst loud laughter at the conference of the Now. Zealand .Master Grocers’ Federation in Napier.

The announcement that Mr C. Harwell will attempt to cross Cook Strait in a canvas canoe next Sunday gives interest to a report of a successful trip by two canoes some wWat similar in construction. 39 year* ago. A word of warning to aero clubs regarding finance was expressed by Major Wilkes when talking to officials of the Nelson Aero Club. He. pointed out that the expenses, which included the salaries of an instructor and also a ground engineer, were heavy, and a. club might find some difficulty in maintaining its revenue at a sufficient figure.

Rays the Christchurch. Star editorially: The purchase of an estate at Feilding for closer settlement is an earnest of the intention of the Liberal Government to put land settlement in tlte forefront of its programme. . This estate is only a beginning. It will be subdivided into 10 or 12 dairy farms and will provide a good j living for that many new settlers.

A question of some importance to the business community generally was reviewed at the Master Grocers’ Federation conference in Napier when a motion was passed asking the Government fo amend, the Stamp Duties _Act, 1923, by providing that receipts for amounts of €2 and not exceeding £5 he charged with a duty of one penny only.

Watersiders in Lyttelton one day this week refused to turn to on the s.s. Tees after dinner. AYhen the agents enquired the reason they were* told the men demanded 6d an hour above the ordinary rates, holding that the. conditions of work were too hard in that there was not sufficient room between decks to work. r lhe work cf loading stopped for an hour, and the agents were obliged to grant the. increase in order to get the vessel away.