LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2497, 10 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are 900,000 Londoners who live more than two in a room,.

The Swedish State railways have bought 297,250 tons pf British coal.

Thp miners in the Waikato district are having a very lean period working short time.

Gold sovereigns are still in circulation in South Africa. They are never seen in New Zealand.

Complaint is made that the stain ed glass windows of York Minster are affected by smoke fumes from Leeds, 20 miles distant.

Solicitor in Court: As your Worship undoubtedly knows, there arc sharks who go about trying to catch pigeons.

It is proposed to form a British School of Archaeology in Iraq in memory of Miss Gertrude Bell, who left ,/Yhkio towards its foundation.

Gramophone records of the voices of famous singers, actors, statesmen and other public people are stored away in a museum in Paris. The collection was begun 18 years ago.

Out of every 100 applicants to join the British army, only about 16 pass the medical examination, the most frequent causes of failure being bad sight, faulty teeth and flat feet.

Rum is losing its popularity in the British Navy, an ever-increasing number of sailors preferring to commute the dfiily tot, which is an eighth of a pint, for the -sum of 3d-.

The sum of including a £SO donation from the City Council, has been collected by the Wanganui committee of the obstetrical chair appeal fund.

Tobacco growers in the Nelson area are taking full advantage of the fine weather, and harvesting operations are in full swing. The growth of leaf seems to be heavier than usual.

The results of a recent investigation by a British research laboratory indicate that what is known as the common cold may be any one of at least 100 different kinds of infections.

On a certain property in Australia it cost 5-3od a pound to grow wool in 1911, while in 1025 the cost had increased to 12.43 d a pound. Probably there has been a further increase -since then.

Something in the nature of a record crop of tomatoes has been grown this season by Mr John Egan at Patea. One plant has no than 150 good average-sized tomatoes on it, and many have over 70.

Trade marks were authorised by the English Parliament more than 600 years ago. Gutenburg, the inventor of printing, had a law suit about a trade mark and won the case.

A new method of catching whales provides for a metal line attached to the harpoon and whale ship, through which line, when the harpoon embeds itself in the quarry, a strong electric current is passed, thu-s immediately electrocuting the whale.

During last month 81 children were taught to stvim at the Wanganui East school. In February, 1920, when the season was far more favourable than this summer 114 children were taught the art of swimming.

The Railway Department advertises the issue of cheap excursion tickets in connection with the New Zealand amateur Athletic Championships which are to be held at Wanganui on the 14th 1 and 15th in-st.

Microphones so tiny that they can be worn in the buttonhole are now being u,sed ip Hollywood for making “talkies.” This means that scenes can be taken in streets or anywhere else. The microphones are connected by wifeless with sound-recording apparatus.

“I have been in the old cottage for 15 years and have brought the place two or three times over in rent,” said the woman to her neighbour as the carrier came to remove the furniture, says the Wanganui Herald. “I asked for a washhouse and copper, and the landlord would not spring it, so now I am off to more convenient premises.”