LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2593, 28 May 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

So far, 1212 new members have been elected to the Canterbury All tnmobile Association this year. The. Australian touring- bowlers defeated Cambridgeshire by 143 to 103. A petition in bankruptcy lias been filed by Bertram Remnant, labourer, of Palmerston. In Gislxirne, winter does not come in some years until July, the weather being- so congenial, as it has been this year. b The trout fishing-season in Taupoj and Rotorua will close next Saturday after a season which has been a disappointment to most sportsmen. A great perce ill age of people arc born with arms of unequal length, anil something like 10 per cent, of the population have, odd legs. The Religious Tract Society has issued a revision of Cruden’s “Concordance,” correcting many inaccuracies of previous editions. In a replace advertisement on page 8 \V. H. Kirk suggests that a new: overcoat, is a good investment to 1 ‘‘tip-toe through the raindrops.” He has the goods, you do the rest. t Tlie handsome new- St. Alary A Anglican church in brick at \\aipukurau is rapidly nearing completion, the tiled roof being now partly in place. Counselling viligance, Mr IT. C. Ilarlev reminded’the Canterbury Automobile Association that there was a movement in the North Island to increase the petrol tax. On page 8 Oobbe’s have a replace advertisement featuring the new improved Rotoseillo de-s cabinet sewing machine. Demonstrations are given in the furnishing department. The estimated production figure of German motor cycles now' stands at 186,000, which represents an increase of 15 per cent, over-the previous year. .... During October last year ITS.A. consumed 876,567,000 gallons of petrol—a figure which is nearly q 0,000,000 in excess of the corresponding month of 19-8. “Whatever goes on in the way of unemployed works this winter we do not want to raise the rates,” commented the Mayor off'Napier, Mr JV. Brown. “I for one am not going to do that,” he told his Council. The Byrd expedition supply ship, Eleanor Bolling, has arrived at Panama. She left Dunedin on her homeward voyage on the afternoon of April 1, thus having taken 53 days to reach Panama. Palmerston will have an important conference to-morrow, when representatives of public and local bodies throughout the district will meet Mr J. \V. Mawson, Director of Town Planning. So successful was the World Jamboree of the Boy Scouts, held near Liverpool last summer, that there is a surplus of some jCin,oon to be handed over to the association. Altogether 314,422 visitors paid for admission, the highest daily attendance being 56.000 adults. The reintroduction of the old rule of kicking the ball into touch is not relished so far as the public is concerned in Waipukurau. In a senior match played there on Saturday the line-outs proved a monotony, there being 53 altogether.

“A dastardly attack on the standard of culture of the womanhood of this Dominion,” is how the New Zealand Iron and Brass Moulders’ Federation views the application of the ironmasters for the reintroduction of female labour into the industry.

Lengthy legal argument between Bench and Bar in the Supreme Court at Wellington prompted Mr Justice Blair to remark: “I think we are a little at cross purposes. Of course, you never know—-sometimes we think alike.” Counsel: “Yes, your Honour, the more frequently the better.”

Millions of 3m. locusts passed over the Commonwealth and Dominion Line steamer Port Adelaide, which reached Auckland from Launceston this week, when the vessel was steaming through the Re.d Sea during her recent voyage from London to Australia.

Though making an excellent dish, the Canadian goose is a contrary bird in the ej-es of sportsmen, for he is too wary. Mr D. Hope, curator to the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, estimates that there are 3000 to 5000. geese on Lake Ellesmere, but. not a great many of these find their way. to the shooter’s bag,