LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Solid tyres for motor vehicles are now prohibited in Norway. The boys of to-day are just the name as I was fin years afro. —Sir Tan Hamilton. Yesterday, the second time this year, there were over 30 arrivals and departures at the port of Wellington in one day. I’rimo Camera earns nearly .£4OOO a minute when fighting in the ring:. Who wants to be a pacifist after that? -—Punch. Proposals are to be submitted to the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association in connection with the use of its grounds for dirt track motor cycle racing'. The night express service between New Plymouth and Wellington is proving a great convenience, and indications point to the train becoming a popular one. Teacher: Johnny, if five sheep were in a field and one jumped out how many would be left? Johnny: There wouldn’t be any left. You might know arithmetic, but you don’t know sheep 1 A Chinese scholar and an American poet have collaborated in the preparation of “The Jade Mountain, which consists of 300 poems of the T’ang Dynasty, translated into English. At the meeting of the general committee of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association, the Gov.ernment exhibits at the forthcoming Manawatu Winter Show will occupy 4000 square feet of space. A No More War meeting at Timaru took an unusual turn when the crowd passed a resolution disagreeing with the sentiments expressed by the principal speaker. The address was i marked by frequent interjections.