LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tlfr Foxf.nn Bowling Club Has decided to officially open the green, for play on. October 1. Two or three dairy factories in North Taranaki, have sold their September make of butter at Is od per lb. With a tally of 40 captures for tho season, compared with od last year, tho Tory Channel whalers have now ceased operations till next year. A schoolboy, Dennis Guttery, of Briefly Hill, in Staffordshire, won tho first prize in the Kings win ford wild (lower show with a> collection of .030 varieties. The accompanist has no light task at the Wellington Competitions for Up to last night be had played bOO accompaniments, and ibis apart, from rehearsals.

Recent wills probated in England include those of two women novelists, Mrs \V. K. Clifford, who .left £1570, and Mrs Flora Annie Steel, whose estate amounted to over £13,000.

The total amount of coal, timber and general merchandise' railed from the West Const to Canterbury during last week was 14,233 tons, compared with 10,888 tons for the corresponding period of last year.

Cabled advice bias been received at Napier that the New Zealand Boy Scouts will leave England on the return. journey next Sunday by the s.s. Orford, via Suez, and should arrive hack in the Dominion about November 11.

Deck armour moro than six inches thick protects two British warship)?, recently completed, from aircraft bombs and also from high angle fire from oilier vessels. This armour on the capital ships Rodney and Nelson is more offiicient than that built into, any other' vessels. In. addition. the ships have a main holt of armour, 14 inches thick, around Vital parts of the boats and the arimour protecting the gun platforms and magazines is even thicker.

An illustration of the Samoans’ ■love of speech-making war, given by Sir George Riichardson at the annual .reunion of the Samoan ex-Sorvice-men’s Association in Auckland. .'“About, four days after 1. arrived in SaVioa as Administrator a large number of natives gathered to wel'conm me,” Sir George said. . “The spokesman was a notable chief, and for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour ho tspoke with barely a pause. I turned to an official and asked what tho chief as talking, about. ‘Nothing much vet,’ was the reply “He has only said ladies and gentlemen.”

Complaints of women usurping men's positions in business are common but, in an© field at least the mere male feare getting back into their owu in Autralia. Theatre attendants here were once almost exclusively female, but following experiments in American theatres—Amemican influence one again—more men are being employed at this work which, at first blu'd 1, does not seem a man’s work at all. All the big theatres that have been opened recently in Australia have a specially trained corp -of attaches, as they are. called, young men who have been (Specially selected, very often after examination, and specially trained for their task.

A little while back a log of>Queens land maple went astray, and was dis covered in London by an American timber buyer. So impressed, was he by the appearance, grain and figuring of the wood that he traced, it back to ate; place of origin, near Cairns. The result has been ’ that within a few months' T7.S.A. and Canadian concerns have spent £l,2of),000 in North Queensland on maple and black walnut, the figuring of which i:; ideal for veneered furniture For this, purpose the sturmps are sought as well as the logo. One hip in May last took 979, logs and 201 stumps and crotches, weighing 4000’ tons, and nearly 60,000 super feet of sawn timber, the cargo consisting mostly of * walnut.

Mr J. H. Thomas, ffjp new Lord Privy Seal in the Labour Cabinet, speaking in London at the diamond jubilee celebration dinner of the Cooperative Printing Society, said ho wanted to’ utter a protest against the Prime Munster (Mr Ramsay MacDonald) getting him into trouble. He added: “When I got home and t-old Mrs Thomas wFjat my reward was for long and faithful service,, she said, ‘Jim, wba-t in Heaven’s name does Lord Privy Seal mean?’ Later, as I was.coming up in (be ear from another function. I never' felt so elevated as T was when the chauffeur turned and said ‘Where- now, ray Lord?’ I said to myself, ‘What have I done to : deserve this punishment?’ All I can say to you is that we must- find another name for that office.”