LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are no unemployed in Hun. torvillc.

Tho schools will, reopen on Tuesday next.

Tho unemployment figures at Invercargill showed hi ,'furlher . large decrease last week.

There are 13. Rangers. 40 Guides and 10 Brownies j hi the Foifiling troop of Girl Guides.

In Canada tlferh are 11,000 square miles of national parks. Jasper National Baric, over 5000 square miles, is the largest.

The village of Bnr'lesdon. jn Hampshire, England, has 27 old lolk whose average ago is 78. and boasts that no other place of its size in England can put up. such a record.

“This has been tho worst year lor slips since I have been on county work,” said Air R. Dukcsou to the Rangitjkei County Council. Due slip cost £lO in wages to remove.

The services at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow will lie conducted by ATr Lon Whitehead, of Knox College. He recently returned from a. course at the Theological College in. Sydney.

The fact that until a short time ago large quantities of fish were being exported from Auckland to Sydney was mentioned in the Arbitration Court at Auckland during the hearing of'the trawlers’ dispute.

The day when London theatres wjll open on Sundays has boon brought a. stage.nearer by the recentdecision ■ of the London County Council to grant permission to four of tho largest halls to use their premises on Sundays.

An opportunity for the- establishment of a new industry in New Zealand was mentioned by Mr V. If. Rice, orchard instructor to the Department of Agriculture, in discussing the value of the domestic purple passion frujt in an address at Auckland.

: The sum of; £70,947 was paid to private bus owners for stock and goodwill acquired by ■ the Government. The number of buses purchased was 58 and 49 of those are now being used by the Railway Departmeurtjq

“Tin’s . finding; non .productive' work for the unemfilowd fs itsclos*.” paid n farmer to the Hunterville Express. “If they wete not put on the deteriorated land to bring it hneic to productivity Jt would he in the general interest offhe Dominion.

An anti-noidei bylaw is about to be adopted bv the Melbourne City Council. The. bylov aims at the suppression of unnecessary trec-t no.se and provide*; that for any person to sing or harangue; to- sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument, or to make a. violent outcry, shall constitute an offence. IY irelass sets, gramophones, and pianoplayers are mentioned as intruments which shall not be allowed to create offensive noises.

To save the tedious labour of chiseling away granite foundation blocks on. which rests the county morgue at Pittsburgh, U.S.A. the eontnichad the structure melted. The chiseling operation would have required two months, but the granite was transformed into molten lava in less than one month. An oxygen welder first wag applied to.the granite, eating out a small hole, alter which a. steel pipe attached to an oxygen, tank was inserted in the. hole and oxygen released into- it. When the pipe started to- melt, chemical reaction also served to melt the granite.

.Scientific confirmation of the popular notion that persons suffering from rheumatism are good weather prophets has -resulted from recent experiments for one year on 370 patients suffering from arthritis, says Popular Ale-chanics Aiagazine. For more than, ninety per cent ol tho time, doctors found, there wag a, i-e----lation between the presence. ol storms and the increase ol pain. For seventy-two per cant, of the time the patient, 5 appeared to suffer more pain as baroinferie pressure tell and experienced relief with a rise, while for twenty-one- per cent of the time the curve of pain went up when the barometric curve went down, and vice versa. In a, news item a. day or two ago it wag stated that while £8,000,000 worth of American goods entered New Zealand, only £4,000,000 worth of New -ZealamUgoods' went to.L.S.A. That is bad business for New Zealand. There ir> no adequate reason wily men should wear Ameren n hats and .socks, for instance, and AY. H. Kirk has just- received a shipment of some excellent English goods, that are only half the price of American,