LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A. world’s record for continuous dancing is claimed by Willy Gagavvzuks, of Vienna, who recently concluded 74 hours continuous dancing.

“I move that we accept liability—especially in view of the fact that we have no option.”—Mr Brenan, at the meetinrf- of (ho Wai'hi Hospital Board.*

The registrations of students at the Auckland University College numbers 1098, compared with 1000 in April, 1929.

At the Salvation Army Citadel on Good Friday there will be a service at 7.30 p.m. The special service s called “Memories of the Crucifixion. ’’

Under tho Mental Defectives Board a beginning has now been made in Auckland with tho establishment of a clinic for the examination of children. Rook agent (to farmer): Yon ought to buy an encyclopaedia, now that your boy is going to school. Farmer: I'Cot on your life. T.et him walk the same as I did ! The revival of old fashioned dances which is steadily finding favour in Birmingham, reflected in the. large number of family groups which nightly congregate in the halls there to foot the military two-step, the polka and the veleta. Last year was the best Selfridge, and Co.’s shops in T.ondon have had in their 22 years’ experience. Their profits amounted to 1 >3 12 - I n th e boom year of ipro they made £?,T2--400. This firm does a great deal of advertising in the daily papers.

The German Steel Trust has restricted the 2000 men employed in its rolling mills at Wissen, Rhineland, to four days’ work a week. Short lime has been worked in olher rolling mills belonging to the concern for some time.

Careful attention has been devoted to the provision of efficient life saving appliances on the motor ship Rangitiki now in New Zealand waters. The outfit of lifeboats includes eight of 30 feet in length, with accommodation for 83 persons, two of the same size fitted with wireless apparatus, and two emergency boats of 22 feet in length. They are constructed on the covering principal. Features of the equipment of the boats are the patent hand-propelling gear and shock-absorbing lifting hooks.

“A glimpse of the extent to which the coal strike affected Australia :s given by an experience I had during my visit there,” Said a New Zealancf-

er who returned the other day. “I rode in the cab of S3OO, one of the biggest locomotives in the world, which hauls trains on the road to Adelaide. This engine, which attains a speed of 70 miles per hour on the flat between Bradford and Tallerook, was not being run with American coal. I asked the driver if he had Westport coal on board. ‘I wish I had,’ he said. ‘I used it in the navy. This engine is being run on Yorkshire coal.’ ”