LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Three o£ the most popular restart rants of Berlin have gone bank

Magistrate: Were you drunk: Drunk: 1 was indiscreet to the ex tent of two pints of beer.

The Woodville. Examiner says that a. man looking for work as a painter visited that town recently in a well upholstered motor car.

The Makura left Sydney for Auckland at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon and the Maunganui sailed for Wellington at ; o’clock.

Only one case of notifiable infecti ous disease, as against six in April 1020, was reported to the health in spector in Hastings last month.

The preacher in St. John’s Church at evensong to-morrow will be the Rev. W. Kelly, 8.A., vicar of Rongotea.

Four burglars, one of them a woman, made .£2200 in 18 months by the. practice of their profession, and one of them has a castle in Louraine. The French police recently put an end to their enjoyment.

Famous chemists of Vienna, alarmed by the appalling number of gas poisoning fatalities in recent months, are conducting experiments to show that it may be possible to depoison

In Sydney this year the street day in aid of the unemployment fund of the R.S.A. adopted a new guise. Instead of the public being pressed to buy poppies, they were offered miniature tin hats. Good sales resulted.

At the annual meeting of the South Auckland, Beekeepers’ Association. the president, Mr \\ . J. 1 rowsson, presiding, the annual report stated that the past season had been disappointing to apiairst-s. Ihe cold and wet weather during December and January had a detrimental effect on the output, and it was doubtfo.il if there would be sufficient honey to keep the local mat lrft supplied.

while fire growing of chicory will probably never become an extensive. Industry in New Zealand, so long as tlie public tik n certain nmennt of chicory along with their coffee soma will be produce l. A tin,. paddock of this plant, is to be seen at present on Mr W. Roberts- farm at Prcbbleton (says the Christchurch Press). He is the largest grower of chicory in the Dominion.

At the original opening ceremony of the Paeroa M.aiernily Hospital Ur \V. O. Kennedy gave £2, to be banked at interest for 21 years for presentation at the end ot. that period to the first child horn at the fert (l presents on similar lines. The first birth occurred at the institution last week the roeipent of the presents being the daughter of Mr and Mrs G. Hopping of Nethorton.

April was a month of many, marriages in Auckland, 1 he official figures show an increase from 167 in April, 1020, to 231 last month. One explanation is that Easter fell in March last year and in April this year, and additional weight is given to this by the fact that 226 marriages were recorded in March, 1929, compared with 202 in the corresponding month lifts year. The number of births fell from 240 in April, 1929, to 206 last month, and deaths from 144 to 140.

Says the Sydney Bulletin editorially : The Nationalist. Bruce was rejected for the I.aborite Scullin: the Laborin'* bang was th e Nationalists Bavin : the Nationalist Butler was rejected for tile I.aborite Hill: the bnborite Collier was rejected for the Nationalist Mitchell —and so on all round th e clock. The politician promises the Millennium, fails to produce it and is kicked out. His successor, who in his turn has dangled promises which have made him 1h P successor, fails and is kicked our. So the public follow the bunch of carrots, and never reaches them no matter what party is behind them. "Man never is, but always to he. blest.”

A speed of 90 miles an hour through bondon streets was attained by otic of the bondon Police Flying Squad's new mystery ears in a test mad,, during a visit to Scotland Yard of members of the Brighton Flying Squad. The mystery ear. which is capable of a speed of 110 miles an hour, and is lilted with wireless received a call during a tour in which it was accompanied by the Brighton Squad in its car. It immediately dashed off in answer to the call, and rapidly outdistanced the Brighton ear. bater ih e Brighton men were picked up and were shown the Wireless room at Scotland Yard, where the calls to flying squads are sent out.