LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are 250 million bricks im ported into Britain every year.

Since 1920, .£57,000,000 has been spent on new roads in Great Britain.

The average age of the members of the present House of Commons is well below 50. It was 52 in the last Parliament.

Witness ip Court: It was 4 p.m. in the middle, of the night. Magistrate : You mean a.m. Witness: No, sir—it was quite early morning.

The fortnightly sitting of the Feilding S.M. Court will be held tomorrow, with Mr R. M- Watson, S.M., on the Bench.

In the United States and its possessions there are roads totalling 3,010,0.55 miles, which is 13,000 more than those in practically all the rest of the world.

Bound from San Francisco to Wellington, the Makura, reported by wireless that she can be expected to arrive in the stream at 6 o’clock this morning.

A Royal decree has been published in Spain making obligatory the possession of an international motor license in the case of all foreign motorists entering Spain by car.

New York’s negro population has increased four times as rapidly as the white, during the. last 10 years. There are now more than 250,000 negroes in the city.

The possibility of a record shipment of fruit from New Zealand this season, possibly 1,500,000 cases, i 3 indicated by the Director of Horticulture, Mr J. A. Campbell.

The, Chamber of Commerce, Civic Club and Cricket Association are joining together to give Mr A. E. Sandford a farewell sqcial evening on Tuesday, 18th inst.

The apple crop in Nelson province promises to show a large increase on last year. The early rain had the effect of giving the fruit plenty o£ colour—a valuable quality when landed in the Home markets.

Mr and Mrs Peter McSkimming, jun., left Dunedin last week for Nazareth, under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, to do evaneglical work there in connection with the hospital of which Dr. Bathgate is in charge.

The Railway Department advertise in this issue particulars of special train arrangements and cheap week end fares in connection with the Sarron-Donovan boxing contest which is to be held at New Plymouth on Saturday afternoon at 2.45 pm.