LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are now 41,000 motor cycles in, New Zealand.

’Hie 1030. annual conference of the Dominion Licensed Victuallers’ Association is io be held in Palmerston.

Aiossrs A and G, Price of Thames have secured the first of a series of bridge eonstruet ion contracts for live R ail way Department.

In three months' 310 convictions for illegal betting were obtained in Sydney and Newcastle, N.S.W., the fines totalling £4OOO.

Because one man had not paid a fine there was a complete stoppage of work at a Broken Hill mine recently.

Tlie British Automobile Association bos more than 400,000 members. New members are joining at the rate of 2000 a wo*k. ■

‘ Smoke is ihfe greatest nuisance m the Lancashire mill towns and in the Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield districts.

Sir Eclwjn Lutyens, architect oi the Whitehall Cenotaph in London has been appointed architect ol the new .Liverpool Roman Catholic Cathedral.

There has been an increase in the number of weddings performed at Thames this year, 34 . having been registered, compared wjtli 28 last venr.

■lt js reported that the municipal authorities of Brussels have refused the application of a. company to run a fleet of sidecar taxis in the capital of Belgium.

In comparison with August,'l92B, tlrero were very few deaths in Thames last month. Last year no fewer than 17 people passed away during August, whilst this year only four have died.

‘‘Business in Hunterville during the past six months' has been better than for any period during the past eighty years,” said a local business man. —Express;

Mr Lee Hill, of Wellington, visited Otaki for the purpose of securing pictures for a talkie.- The well known singers, Miss Kate Hakaraia and Air Tobi Gray, were thus photographed.

The present aim of men w r ho have charge of physical culture js all round training and fitness, 'so that \if a man to sprint for a train, or tram he .would catch it —and not do 'himself harm.

‘Tel love to be] j bre yon,” was the remark of / Air. Moslem, S.M., in the Napier Police .Conr]) to a defendant charged with a breach of a prohibition order who informed Him that it would never occur again.

Owing to the . heavy running expenses jt is likely, that the men’s shelter conducted ; by the Anglican City Mission in Auckland under the Rev. Jasper Ca'lder wjll he closed by the end of this month.

The Southern Hawke’s Tiny Herd Testing Association bias 80 groups, with a. total of 2858 cows, and 44 individual herds' totalling 1012 cows. The approximate revenue for the sea. son was £B7B.

Dunedin merchants and shopkeepers say that the grocery trade in many parts of the Dominion, and to some degree in Dunedin, is in a most unsettled state owing to fierce price competition.

Hundreds of Hauraki Plains residents saw an aeroplane for tile first time last week when Mr J. D. Hewlett of Auckland flew his new Moth aeroplane from Hobsonville to Kaibero in 55 minutes, with his son Peter as a. passenger.

A. H. Burt, thb jockey, who sustained concussion of the brain when To Arakura fell in tho. Alaiden Hunters’ Steeplechase at the Hunt Club races .at New Plymouth on Saturday, is reported to be progressing satisfactorily.

Nearly 1,7-50,000 is the tally to date of the brown trout stripping operations by tlie officers ' of the Otago Acclimatisation Soejety this season. . Alost of the eggs are from the Leith, the Waiwera river, and one of the tributaries of Lake Manaka.

A movement is on foot in some parts of Australia to secure legislation to prohibit the manufacture of margarine. That margarine is a distinct menace to tlijb butter industry is recognised, but whether the proposal to prohibit its manifestation is the way to combat fit is quesionable. —Thames Star.

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