LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2304, 5 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At one tjme them were 2000 Maoris in Otago. Now there are less, that? 40 full-blooded Maoris. ' ,;

During the first six months of this' year out of 135,241 offenders against English motoring regulations 30.101. persons were let off with cautions. ■

In the. search for oil in Australia the Commonwealth Government has contributed £13.882' as subsidy to private companies.

The Premier of Queensland, Mr Moore, lias been emphasising the importance of land settlement, and promising vigorous measures.

A daily air mail service between Sydney and 'Brisbane is to be instituted in November, and between Sydney and Melbourne early in the New Year.

The proposals of the Taurnngn, Power Board to raise two loans, one of .C 25.000 for the extension of reticulation, and the other of £SOOO for installations, were carried at a poll.

“Why did you let yourself bo known by a wrong name?” asked counsel of a witness in the Invercargill Police Court. “Well a man can go under a consumed name it he wants to. can’t he?” was the reply.