LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A well read paper means well read advertisements. An advertiser in the Star reaps the benefit of this confidence.

Boiled sweets are to be supplied to the women in poor-law institutions of Romford, England, to balance the tobacco given to the men. The ration is 402. a week.

The tinin in q of the London metropolitan police is so thorough that they are even required to master the art of properly blowing: their whistles.

Messrs Chamberlain and Watson, of Papakura, on one day caught the limit permitted. 15 trout each, at Taupo last week. Only four of the fish could be called poor. The remaining- 26 were goon fish.

The last four months of iqzq have shown a marked increase in the amount of bread consumed in Britain as a result of an advertising campaign conducted by the millers in the newspapers.

At the annual conference of the South Island Federation of School Committees’ Association, held in Timaru last week, a remit to the effect that all homework be abolished in classes under Standard IV. was passed.

“During the month some attentionhas been given to the everlasting trouble with motor cycles and the careless turning of corners, and several cases were brought before the Court,” reported the borough inspector to the New Plymouth Borough Council.