LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Statistics show that 50 years ago there were 748 schools in New Zealand. To-day there are 3508.

“People fishing in Carnsley Reservoir, one; fish caught, none.” The foregoing is an extract from a report to the Kettering; Northampton, Council.

Canadian corporations in iqzo paid in dividends to their stockholders about £sn, ooo.ooo, and it is estimated that about two-thirds of this money stayed in Canada.

One of the most brilliant of England’s chess playres, Mr M., E. Goldstein, 28, is visiting Wellington in the course of a tour prior to settling down in Sydney as the resident director of the Bentima Company.

an opportune time for many men comes the announcement that a lot of manufacturers’ sample suits have been secured by W. H. Kirk at a big reduction. t These bargains will be passed on to menfolk.

There are about 2,500.000 fewer workers employed in agriculture, factories, railroads and mines in the United 'States • than there were 10 years ago.

There is a lot in knowing how to advertise. A daily newspaper in Nice recently contained the following advertisement: “Millionaire, young, good-looking, wishs to meet, with a view to marriage, a girl like . the heroine in M———’s novel.” Within 24 hours the novel in question was sold out.

“One result of the Byrd Expedition,” said Mayor Black, “has been to place the city of Dunedin definitely on the map of the world. Practically every newspaper in the world will have, a reference to Dunedin in the news announcing the return of the Byrd Expedition after its great achievements in the south.

A decayed Maori canoe has been found in the bush near Taupe, about 10, miles from water. It is possibly 60 years old, arid was never launched on account Of the troubles at that time. The year 1868 is the year Poihipi' seized the canoes on the Waikato by direction of Captain St. Georgfe.

According to the January issiity of the Bulletin of the Imperial Chemical Industries, Germany is facing a condition of “economic discontent and uncertainty.” It is stated that the burden of taxation is particularly heavy, and that many branthfes of industry have had to face numerous bankruptcies.

Mushrooms are very scarce. this year in the Thames Valley. At this time last year there were any ambunt in the paddocks, hut so far this season they have been few and far between. It is considered that the wet summer drowned the spores and that this will be. an exceptionally poor season for the succulent fungi. They have been very scarce also in the Feilding district.-

In his younger days the new Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe* was a larvyer. Tie was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1804. and for 16 years practised as a chancery barrister SUd conveyancer. But even when he was a busy lawyer he maintained his interest in farming, and took a pride in developing the family estates in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

W'hen asked why he did not reply to a solicitor’s letter asking payment of a sum of money a defendant at -the Timaru Magistrate’s Court stated that his action, in view of the facf that he had already paid the amount, had been prompted by the possibility that the sender of the letter had been “trying to bluff him.” The Magistrate, Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, said that such a course was not a wise one to follow. Soliietors did not bluff in such cases.

Signor Mussolini and M. Briand both began their career as working journalists. Before joining the staff of a newspaper in Paris at itio a month, M. Briand risked his whole fortune of £IOO on founding at St. Nazaire a weekly journal. New machinery became necessary', and M. Briand bought for £36 some second hand plant in Paris. Not only is that newspaper, which M. Briand sold long ago, still flourishing, but the printing machine is goihg strong.

“The growth of the dental division of the Health Department and its activities has been a feature of national life during the past few years,’ says Colonel Hunter, the retiring director, to-day there are 166 school dental clinics throughout New Zealand, while the schools receiving regular treatment number 738. Some 60,200 school children are under systematic treatment, qoOo of them being dealt with at the training centre of Wellington. The dental operations performed last year totalled about 370,000.