LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 26 June 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several lambs arc to bo soon on Mr AV. A . Thomson's farm at Kairangn. In Palmerston there are f>7 married' men with 170 dependents, and 12 single men unemployed. They say “Washington never told a lie.” The reason is given in Simson’s advertisement on page 8. Cecil do Mill© is now making his 55tli motion, pietuye.. It is “pyriamite,’’ his first talking pjetpre and his first lor Afetro-fJoldwyn-Mayer. Auckland offers its new cit/ engineer a, commencing salary of £ISOO, , increasing py annual ine'f.rnei't.s IQ £2OOO a year. j . i A Coroner states thtit the,|nosj> dangerous time in the life of a.motorist is when ho lias beep driving-for about 12 mouths. j The Anglican Boys ’Home at Low* .or H.utf/ offers tree accoiu'modatioh ■ for 10 boys 8 to 12 years of age, irrespoetive of denomination who are refugees from the. earthquakes. A ear for £75 lias been produced in Frapce. It. has a- vertical twocylinder two-stroke engine.. The clutch, and gear b°x normal, hut no differential is fitted in the rear axle. ■, f ■ - i “T don’t thihk. any society in the country can boast such a wonderful membership as this society,” remarked Mr Nat -Kettle at Hip annual meeting of the- Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society. Before tfie end of the year the membership would 1 touch 2000. . ’ ‘ ' r ' ? The Medical Council of the People’s- League .of Heath, in England, js urging upon tjie. G'overn m ent fhe desirability -of zones of silenge round hospitals and similar institutions. ! They also, ?srant, M*. .pffFfnt. the sale ;of any motor cycle wjiieh |s not efficiently silenced.

Sis pien in 'a, Pu|>lic Works pump at Koroniti on the Wanganui rjyer had a narrow’ pscapp from, sctjff ll ? in * jury. At the height of a. gale a lofty tree was uprooted’ by .thfv W>pd a h 4 blown across their* tent, which th° men had vacated only a few minutes before.

Full responsibility for Monday’s ’quake was undertaken .by a.-small boy of four who resides at Bpseueat|i, Wellington. When the shock came be was standing with one hapd leaning against the' wall of -thle. house, find as the wall began to jean, alarmingly and sway bade and’forth the youngster, grinning' delightfully, cried: , “Oil, look, Mummy, I di<T that!” •

Apparently an early start is being made in. Westport to repair the dam ft2o' paused by 'the eartlujnakos, loi, the Palmerston, labour officer received a request to send bricklayers to Westport, where about a 'month’? work is available. Although the positions yvere offered' to’ several men, none will leave unless bis fate I s . paid.