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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tarn wild farmers report, good percentages of lambs lliis season.

Tho Raugitikei County Council voted £2 2s each to the Runtoiville, A far ton. and Taihnpe Fire Brigades.

“Runtorvillo is a. clean and tidy town." said, a visitor from Taihope.

Sydney’s police are inquiring into allegations of fraud through the forging of signatures of people Gn * titled to family endowment.

“If the farmers force Mr Colson to resign from the Presidency of the Farmers’ Union, that is the end of the Union," said a Raugitikei farmer.

The Railway Department advertises particulars of train arrangements and cheap excursion tickets in connection with the Wanganui races on September 12 and 14.

Speaking at the meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club, Mr 0. E. Twist, the new President, voiced the opinion that racing to-day was a. much cleaner sport than it used to lie some years ago.

Chatting to a. New Plymouth Herald reporter a number of gentlemen prominently associated • with the meat trade expressed the opinion that the lamb market would open up the season at BJd.

Mrs Coleman, mother of Ronald. Coleman, was present at the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney the other night to hear her son speak for the first time in eight years. Ron. appeared in the talkie film “Bulldog Drummond."

The quantity of dried fruits produced in Australia for the year ended June 30 was 70,000 tens, constituting a. record. ( For the 1928-20 harvest it is expected that exports to Great Britain will reach 00,000 tons, whir A will also be a record.

“The State is the best landlord jn New Zealand" said'a. local farmer, “and Government leasehold is the best method of giving a man a start on the land, but 1 admit, the freehold gives the average man more incentive to do his best.”— Hnnterville Express.

Said the A layer of Palmerston yesterday:- About 30 unemployed waited on me this morning soliciting work. It is impossible for the borough to relieve t! h situation to any great extent. A large number of men have been discharged by the Afanawatu county and it is understood that more are to follow. ,

' A new craze in the Fast End of Lofidon is that of charabanc trips by moonlight. At 9.30. every evening a number of well appointed charabancs leave Commercial road for a tour of Essex. The -distance covered on these tours is 40 miles, and on week nights the cost is Is 6d for the return iournev, while an additional sixpence js charged on week ends.

“We will not be coerced into negotiations with a body of' Samoans who defy the law.” declared Premier Ward yesterday when the House proceeded to discuss the annual report of the . Samoan Administrator.. “We wish to be sympathetic, but while the Samoans maintain their present attitude our hands are tied.”

The number of cattle in the Dominion on January 31 last'Was 3,445,790, distributed as follows: North Auckland 487,196, Auckland 788,504, Gisborne 316,720, Hawke’s Bay 217,883, Taranaki 373,159, Wellington C55,60Q, Ncjlspn 63.261, Man'll brought #3,851. West-land 41,198. Canterbury 168,729, Otago 128.664, Southland 161,024.

The lack of knowledge of many people as to the length of time that should be devoted to reviving perfsoms rendered unconscious bv electric shocks was referred to at the meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board at To aroha. The engineer, Hr N. G. McLeod, said: “Too much publicity cannot he given to the fact that resuscitation measures in cases of accidental electrocution should be persisted in for hours at least.” Mr McLeod added that apparently many doctors wore unaware of this essential measure.

While on route to the Old Country, 1;wo Invercargill women partook of afternoon tea in an Adelaide restaurant. One of them tendered the waitress a. Bank of New Zealand pound note, and said that sixpence, exchange would need to be taken out of the note. The waitress appeared surprised, but on going to the cashier was told that such: was the case. When she returned with the change, however, she remarked that “seeing - New Zealand was part of the Commonwealth she did not think it wa.s necessary to charge ox- ■ bang© on New Zealand notes.”

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

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2305, 7 September 1929, Page 4