LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 27 June 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are 1.200 more mental patients in N.S.W. than there is accommodation for. Hanley, riding an A.J.S. "motor cycle secured second place in the Isle, of Man junior tourist trophy raceOpossums are to have their freedom for flie corning season in/ Hawke s Bay. t There are 3,752,730 bachelors in England and Wales, ml' whom 238,202 live in London. The Aberdeen Council refused an application by Mormons for the use ol a .municipal pond for baptismal services. ‘Last Saturday afternoon 15 members of the Canterbury Aero Club were taken for flights, and six new, members were enrolled. The reconstructions of the Ford Motor Company for the production of the new Ford car is reported to have cost £5,000,000, Measles as a, disease is now more often fatal than scarlet fever, diphtheria,, and typhoid lever put together. A New Plymouth Association message states that the Blenheim Oil Well Company started a new. bore on the 10th inst., 130ffc. from the old bore. It was reported to the Dominion conference, of the B.S.A. in Wellington that on Poppy Day last year 3 75,820 poppies. 'Were disposed of. as, against 361,42-1 in 302/.. The mildness of the. winter and thfc prospect of an early spring is demonstrated by the. fact that tUe native kowhai trees are already in bloom at Otapiri, in Southland. Friend: Where 1 are you going so hurriedly? Tailori To the chemist. Friend: And yet you are smiling? Tailor:- Yes, T am sure to' measure • him for a suit.

Mrs Flora Annie- Steel, who completed her autobiography just before her death, was an aunt of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Minister of Labour in the Baldwin Government.

The largest export from Thames during the past month was 68 tons ot cheese, the next largest bojng four tons of kauri gum, and butter two ■r*H; i•»!* y • tolls. < ;

The six-wheeler motor vehicle is finding great favour in Tndja. One British firm alone lias completed a contract for the supply of 328 of those chassis to the India Office.

The report of the Armstrong-Fhit-worth Company. Tor 192.8 shows that the net income, without allowing anything for depreciation, was £197,219, while the net loss, after providing for interest, was £551,970. ,

The N.S.W. Minister for Lands (Mr Ball) states that in the 35 months from January 1, 1928, to the end of March of the present, year,. 45 estates, with ,a total area, of 481,67.9 acres, had been subdivided into 856 farms by the Bevan Cabinet’s policy-

“There aro thousands of people out of work and waiting for sonwthing to do, and vet there are thousands of jobs waiting to he done, nut waiting for money to enable them to bo done,” says the. Minister of JMiblm Works, Mr E. A. Ransom.

A parcel urgently needed for the West Coast missed the train in Christchurch, but Captain Buckley, of the. Wigram Aerodrome, soon bad it on board a Moth! ’plane and set out for Springfield where he caught up the express-

The Australian Broadcasting Company, organised by Union Theatre in conjunction with. Fullers’ Theatre and Mr F. Albert, will receive 32s per head of the licensed listeners fees, the other 12s going to the Post Office.

The wen.llh of the United. States is calculated to bo over £IOO per bend of the population. Ttfore is £43 in the Savings Rank to every man, woman and child in the country. Over 4,000,000 Americans have an income of £6OO a year or more.

TTis lionoymopn at an end, Colonel t Lindbergh, was Lack at work. His first engagement since his marriage, was at Mitchell Field to observe the opening .flight tests for the £30,000 .prize offered by the Daniel Guggen- ) helm foundation for the safest air* craft.

Two red gums are flowering profusely ou the footpath in Alma road, Conville, while wattles in several gardens in. Wanganui are already, bursting into bloom. Tuis are also active in the various reserves. These, are said to he signs of an early | spring. '