LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 19 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Woman in Court: 1 am afraid I cannot take the - oath. I have not my glasses with me.

One of the touring- Empire farmers caught a aolhs quinnat salmon in the Rakaia river last week.

Owing to the increase in the massage. work, the Palmerston Hospital Board has decided to appoint an additional masseuse.

The entire population of the village of 7.ude, near Belgrade, Bulgaria, answered a charge of stealing the municipal forest by using it as firewood.

How many even of the well informed are aware, says a London writer, that John Milton wrote “A Brief History of Moscovia?” It has just been published.

The , protection of hares in Wairarapa South County has just been removed by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society in response to requests from farmers in the district.

In New South Wales there are 700 mail services using motor Cars, in Victoria 408, in Queensland 304. i n South Australia 144, in West Australia 202. Each of these is subsidised at between fid and rod- per mile.

The Manawatu Rugby Union will commence the senior and junior grades on April 26 and lower grades a week later. Nominations will rlose on April 15 and for lower grades on April 22.

According to a Waipukurau apiarist, the honey crap in Southern Hawke’s Bay this year is practically a failure. Instead of drawing off about 40 tons, he estiates that his yield will be more likely to aggregate about a ton.

The silver shield offered by one of the leading yeast manufacturing firms in the Dominion to bakers’ apprentices in New Zealand for an essay on the use of salt in breadmaking has been awarded to Mr S. Brereton, an employee of May and Sons, of New Plymouth.

“There is not a car in Wanganui that travels round a corner at less than 20 miles an hour,” said a witness at the Supreme Court during the hearing of a claim for damages in connection with a motor car collision. “We are very naughty ppople here!” commented, counsel.

Throughout the harvest period this year plenty of labour has been offering in South Canterbury, an employment agent stated recently. The area in crop has not been so extensive as was the case last year, so that not so much harvest labour haa been required, but all positions have been readily filled.

Can W. E. Merritt, the famous Old Boys’ Club bowler .in Christchurch, reach his century in wickets for the season ? He now has 94 to his credit, and has only one more game to play. Seven last Saturday put him within striking distance of the three figures, and on fii's present form he has a very' good show.

I-Todder and Stoughton, of London, are publishing “The Ship of Truth,” by Miss Lettice, Cooper, of England, ft is a religious novel, in accordance with the conditions attaching to the orize of .£IOOO. Over 400 manuscripts were sent in as a response to this handsome invitation, and they came from all parts of the British Empire.

If the tests are satisfactory there is a probability that a new industry will be founded in New Zealand. A short time ago a truck of Fuller’s Earth was sent from Kamo to a large freezing works in the Wellington orovince, where it will be used in experimenting for the clarification of fats. It is said that the deposit at Tamo is of better quality than the English standard Fuller’s Earth.

A barmaid in a Sydney hotel was ‘OO clever for a man who tried to ring ‘he changes. It was the old dodge of rlacing five two shilling pieces on he counter for a half note in exhange. After chatting casually for a : ew minutes, he pushed the whole ■mount across for a £1 note. But he barmaid had been caught before, and by the same man. Calmly she pocketed the whole amount and challenged him to call the police. But the would-be thief left for parts unknown without delay.

Said Tom Heeney in a recent interview: “Af{er all is said and done I don’t know that it is worth while to be a champion. You make much more money if you are not a champion, because you get many more fights, and, in any case, championship fights are not what they used to be. The public is not nearly so fond of them now. Perhaps people would like them as much again if somebody other than an American won the premier title. I would very much like to see another nationality win it.”