LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 6 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The 2000114 member of the South Taranaki Automobile Association was enrolled, this week at Stratford. To date the Hastings District Nurse (Nurse Cassin) lias given. 1000 treatments to out-patients of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board. Speaking to a Hastings Tribune reporter a labour agent said there is plenty of farm work awaiting suitable men in H.B. Although no definite statistics aro yet available it. is estimated that the acreage, sown in wheat in Canterbury this season will be lower than it was last year.

No fewer than. 15 earthquake shocks woro experienced at Inangnhua Junction last Sunday, and at 11.20 p.m. a fairly heavy earthquake was felt ah Reefton.

The Aorangi, from Vancouver, due at Auckland next Sunday, has GO7 bags of English and American'mail for Auckland and even more for Wellington.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Agricultural Association it was reported that a. profit of between Cl 80 to £l9O would accrue as the result of this year’s Winter Show•

The number of calves, coming forward for slaughter at the Matauia freezing works during the week had not greatly increased, and the response has so far, been a trifle disappointing. This is due no doubt to tile fact that very few cows have calved. t . * ;.-

Reporting on the mangold growing competition of the hoys’ and. girls’ agricultural, clubs.in the Wairarapa for 1928-29, Messrs R. Freeman and F. Brockett stated that 205 entries had been received,, compared -with 110 the previous year*

, Mr. Charles Livingstone, 79, a nephew of Dr. . David Livingstone, the famous African .explorer, had jetired from, his profession, that of a mining engineer, and is spending his days in Denver Colorado. He is the last of the famous Livingstone line, and with him the stream of explorers’ blood will die, as he b'ns never married. : , .

Patrol Leader Leslie Jones, who is on the offioo*«iaff of the*;. Rangjtilcoi County Council, lias received congratulations yfrom the chairman and councillors on ,-his. gallantry in rescuing an assistant scoutmaster from drowning in November of last year. Cr; Dalrvmple read to the councillors the message embodied on ■the certificate of gallantry sent by Sir Robert , Baden-Powell and the medal which accompanied it was also the cause of favourable -comment,

A suggestion that Canadian geese wore multiplying to such an extentthat they must soon monoplise Lake Ellesmere to the. exclusion of ducks was contained in a, letter to the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation '^Society.j The wrift-ek said that very few hadidieen rjiot by sportsmen, and the- birds were fouling ducks’ nests Members agreed that Canadian, geese were increasing to an astonishing extent, and the matter war, referred to a committee to make inquiries..

Mrs E. Spro-tt, writing of a recent trip into the- interior of the island of Ysahel, in the Solomon Islands, say;: “I took with; me- a, grama-phone Most of the people had never seen or heard of such a thing. The first time I opened it great crowds gathered round me and watched the vari out; preparations. But at the first sound from it they all turned and fled! The native ipritest explained that it was not, as they thought, the spirits of he dead, and they gradually ventured back. The next day they returned and said: ‘White mother, make some, more funny noises out of that- Sox.’;’’

The. latest bulletin of the New Zealand Native Bird Protection Sociotoy records with keen appreciation the action of landholders on the upper reaches of the Grey River on the West Cbaist of the South Is-' land, in fo tec ting- that comparatively rare and very beautiful species, the Paradise duck. During January of this year, while oin. a, visit, to the head waters of the Grey River, on the "West Coast of the South Island a party who are ’ interested in the protection of our naiitve birds were surprised to igee several clutches of Paradise duck so tame that they could he aproached' within a, distance of half a chain, as well as many adult birds. The reason for this, it was ascertained, is that Messrs. Palmer Bros, and Nowcombe do, not molest the birds nor allow anyone to shoot them on their land. Tt was indeed pleasing to the visitors to find these young settlers actiug in this manner, for it is the exception rather than the rule, in this district to find canes likd thi^.