LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2560, 17 April 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Star will not be published to-morrow nor on Faster Monday.

Admiral Byrd say s the temperature was undoubtedly colder in Antarctica than the northern Polar rcg.ons.

The Boys’ Brigade, which is ioo,noo strong:, was founded in Glasgow in 1883 by Mr (afterwards Sir) William A. Smith.

The most popular modern author is Charles Dickens, and 25,000,000 copies of his books have hern published.

Mr C. White, of Palmerston, leaves to-day for Christchurch as Manawatu’s delegate at the annual conference of the New Zealand Rugby referees.

Copies of a portrait of Sir Charles Fergusson, late Governor-General of New Zealand, are being distributed by the Wellington Navy. League to its school members. He was a patron of the Navy League.

In all, it) dental climes, costing ,£5600, have been or are being erected in the Auckland education district in the last 12 months, or are being erected, making a total of 28.

Harry Mangham, one of the most consistent and popular riders at Dunedin’s broadcasting speedway, leaves this week for Germany where he has received an important engagement at a handsome retaining fee.

A wether carcase in I.ondon at present is worth 255. It costs id or more to get the carcase there. Ihe cheapest meat in New Zealand to-day is about 6d per lb., and that for neck.— Wanganui Herald.

Charles Perabo, a motor mechanic, 24, married, was admitted to the Dunedin hospital last evening suffering from concussion received as the result of a fall while competing in the broadsiding races at the Dunedin speedway.

When ragwort makes its appearance next spring- plants vri'll be attacked by cinnabar moths which the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research is arranging to have liberated in those parts of the Dominion where the weed has a hold.

Rushing into a motor garage and exclaiming that he had taken a dose of strychnine! Claude \ incent* 39, a single man, painter by occupation, died in agony a minute or two afterwards in New Plymouth vcsterda\. Love affairs are suspected.

At Te Puna, near Tauranga, a memorial tablet was unveiled by Mr. C. F. Macmillan, M.P., to the memory of Tu Tangitu, a notable Rugtey player. Tributes.to the manly and sporting qualities of the late Tu Tangitu were paid by several representative speakers.

In the event of the Christchurch City Council adopting Cr. A. F. Armstrongs notice of motion to reduce the hours of work from 44 to 40 per week, the Council will require to spend an additional ,£11,983 8s 8d a year to pay for the extra labour that will be necessary.

The trading- departments of the city of Dunedin show total profits for the year ended March *3l, i93°j ,£74,487 10s 4CI, this being* an increase of ,£7781 14s lid over the total profits of the preceding: year. The greatest profit was made in the electric light and power department, viz., £36,354-

The Reform campaign in the Parnell by-election was opened by Mr \Y. P. Endean at Remuera last night before a large attendance, which gave him a good reception. Also on the platform were Messrs J. S. Dickson, IT. R. Jenkins and R. Glover Clark, who had been aspirants for official endorsement.

“The man in the back country has a hard row to hoe,” said Cr. R. Farley at the meeting of the \\ aitotara County Council. “He is not like the man who has good roading access to his properly and can go to the pictures twice a week. It is practically only once in six months that the back country man visits the city.”

Fiji is the latest country to develop an air sense, yet until Wingsford Smith and his three companions landed in Suva on their historical flight across the Pacific in the Southern Cross, many of the inhabitants had never seen an aeroplane. As the Fiji group contains 250 islands, the seaplane will be used for mail and passenger services.

Good Friday services will be held in St. John’s Church, Feilding, tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. , The preacher in the morning will be the Rev. J. O. Abbott, Vicar of Terrace End. At evensong “The Story of the Cross” will be sung- by the choir. Service will also be held in St. Andrew’s church, Colyton, at 7 p.m.,, when the Rev. J. A. Kempthorne will be the preacher.