LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2219, 28 May 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There arc about B()9 men employed on l,b.c 'Rullor Gorge, railway.

Having served for 55. years, the railway bridge over the Waikato river at Ngaruawaliia. is shortly to l e replaced by a rtc-ol stni •t'l.e .»( improved type.

'‘Wliat I have soon of the scenery in the South Island compares very favourably with anything in Europe, said Air T. R. Toovey, ol the port if London Authority.

A new record for weekly tonnage through the Otira tunnel, was reached last week, the total amount of coal, timber and general Height transported being 14,158 tons.

“Schools ought to have individuality just like people,’,’ remarked the president, Dr. .1. S. Eliott, at the annual meeting of the Wellington College Old Roys’ Association.

Air Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposes to visit America, shortly, when ho wi 11 deliver a, number of speeches on AngloAmerican relations.

Burned out electric light bulbs are considered so valuable by an eastern company in IT.S.A. that it has constructed a special apparatus for breaking up the bulbs to obtain the In ass si His, the only part worth saving.

Data collected from the operation of more than. 800 automobiles in diiferent parts of the tinted States and on varjous kinds of roads show that the average cost of running a car is 3RI per mile.

According to estimates bv Al. Georges Claud, a famous French inventor and scientist, the Gulf stream in passing a given pbint off the Florida coast carries about a pennyworth of gold in each cubic meter.

Mixing men of two nationalities in a working team will result •v. a greater work output than if oil? nationality alone is employed, according to Dr Edwin Alcllvain, director of the employment sendee of a large Philadelphia, industry.

When it is realised that in 1840 threeqnarters of New Zealand was forest clad and that at the present time there was only 7 per cent of its total area in hush, the effect on bird life can be readily guaged.

Gerald Grimsdell, nine years of age, living Jit, the north of London, has a patch ot garden in what was once the old forest of Aljddlesex. Digging there the other day he found 600 silver Roman coins about the she of a- sixpence.

A man who 'died recently ill England had devoted his life to the strange trade of onion peeling, which he started with a capital of 6s. He and hjs wife were peeling onions lor nearly 50 years, and accumulated over £6OOO.

Some idea, of the value of the work accomplished by the St. John Ambilance Association, will he gathered from the fact th it during +he past eight months the. Queen’.-, wlml f station at Auckland Ims dealt with 2500 accident cases.

Eleven types of pneumonia not' hitherto recognised as due to distinct forms of pneumococci, the, pneumonia germ, have been' discovered“by Air Georgia Cooper, bacteriologist in the research laboratories of the New A oi k City’s Department of Health.

The Government of the Kingdom of Albania has ''recently pornulgated an Ordinance stating that the w ekh day of rest will in future be Sunday, not Friday, as formerly. In conformity with this new Ordinance, shops, schools and Government officers v ill be closed all day. on Sunday instead of on Friday. .

For tHe first time in four years the National Union of Scottish A liners was able to bold a conferenre last month whirh is supposed to be annual. Since its last meeting the union had been rent by trouble, industrial and domestic, and even now the Communists’ activity is irritating.

In Britain’s elections now on Mr Oliver Baldwin, son of the Prime Minister, is again a Labour candidate. Air Ramsay MacDonald’s son is a Labour candidate and both Air Arthur Henderson’s sons are following in their father’s footsteps. Air Lloyd George’s son and daughter are Liberal candidates.

Scientists and scholars at Cambridge University have developed a new international language. It contains just 500 words and can be print ed on a single sheet of note paper. English is the basic tongue eh'osen, and it is said that persons of any nation may learn the reduced vocabulary in a few weeks or months. Tt is caled “panoptic English,”