LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gold has nol been coined in Great Britain since October, J 917.

The new Governor of Fiji strongly favours the making- of a motor road all round the island.

The. births and deaths in I hames for April were exactly the same in number.—it of each being- register-

The ITawkc’s Bay output of fruit for export this season is anticipated to be a little below the original estimate of a quarter of a million cases.

Miss Bebidia Hafez, Egypt’s or.lv film star, who is expected to star shortly in a British film, speaks seven languages.

There are 85 divorce rases set down for hearing at the sitting of the Supreme Court at Auckland on Tuesday

Advice has been received by the Manawatu Radio Club that, as from May q, they will be permitted -o broadcast on Friday evenings from 7 to 0 o’clock, in addition to the usual Sunday and Wednesday sessions.

The term “old identity” is supposed to have been invented in Dunedin in 18G2 in a popular topical song by Mr R. Thatcher, an improvisator.

The 50111 anniversary of the telephone in Sweden was celebrated recently, when the 500,000 apparatus was connected to the telephone lines Thanks to the cheap fees, the telephone is 'popular in Sweden, and even the simplest workmen can afford telephones. There are 84 telephones per iooo inhabitants in Sweden.

Evidently farmers as a body are fairly satisfied with matters as they are, for at a meeting called to form a branch of the X.Z. Farmers’ Union at Turua, the total attendance was five, the lecturer, his driver, a farmer, a pressman and a dog. The meeting did not consider it had a quorum.—Thames Star.

In all probability the freezing works will be operating at full capacitv for only another fortnight or three weeks in Canterbury and Otago. Then the number of slaughtermen should be reduced to about a third, and the works, if the usual course is followed, will carry on with a board of this strength until the end of June. -

Sir Henry Sogravc. (lie holder of th ( , world's motor ear speed reoord was at a Polie 0 Court in I.ondon fined £."> for driving a motor ear at a speed of 45 miles an hour. The Magistrate —Is anything known against him? The Inspector—lie lia s never appeared at this Court, but there are nin e previous convictions against him. spread over a number of years

Mr Gibson For, on? of Sydney s best-kn ,vn> business men. has a hob--I,v. It is the riding of horse? at Woik on the K.ndvvick course in the early hour., of the morning. He is

not parti • r as to the quality of his inn mi, s l->n* as ho gets a ride. One ttorniPi. 'C enf.y he was on something that was just equal to carving out three furlongs ridden right out in 455. “Phar Dap” asked someone, as hp brought 't - h the training track. “Piter From It, ' was Mr Foy’s rejoinder.

If is strange that while other folks ar,, avoiding them the authorities anti inmates of Sing Sing convict prison (Xew York) are anxious to have more parrots. They will accept green parrots and red parrots regardless of ti) 0 fact that their present owners may fear the "fever” and wish to be rid of them. Mr T.owis K. Dawes the prison governor recently stated that the inmates here think this talk about parrot fever is nonsense. “They will take all that anybody will give them.” It is explained that the aviary at Sing Sing already has ten parrots and (here is plenty of room for more.

A suggestion that medals should be worn on a brooch was made by Major-General Young at the reunion of exsorvicemen in Xew Plymouth. He said lie thought the Returned Soldiers’ Association might arrange to have this done. “And a lot of the ribbons are getting a bit faded,” he added. “Ribbon is very cheap, and w t , have rolls of it in Wellington.” He knew they were all prounci of their medals. Shabby ribbons did not look well and it was worth while to replace them.. He reminded them, too, that lost medals could be replaced at a cost that was not great. "You can get them at the pawnbrokers, too,” someone interjected.

”1 do not believe it,” retorted the General. “I know there are medals of others wars there, but I have never heard of such a thing happening to the medals of this war.”