LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Over 50 metals are known to exist. Four hundred years ago only seven were known. In 1914 there, were 158,000 prison sentences in Britain. A recent year’s figure was 43,000.

A motor agr.nt in New York is giving a wireless set to every purchaser of a second-hand car selling- for ,£35 or more.

“I think there is an undoubted connection between sunspots and the weather,” said Dr. K. Kidson, director of meteorological service.

Pressed steel frames and British engines are common features of the motor cycle models for 1950 produced in Germany.

During April the Waipukuraji borough water pumps pumped 646,000 gallons of water, utilising 5021 units of electricity, at a cost for power of .£lO 9s lid.

All the Kaipara Rugby matches were postponed on Saturday, as, owing to a disagreement between the union and the referees, the latter resigned.

It was reported at a recent meeting of the Waipukurau Borough Council that there had been no reported cases of infectious diseases in the borough for the past 39 weeks.

The Rugby visitors from overseas were loud in their praises of the fine playing fields which New Plymouth has. One said : “A jolly sight different from Home, where sometimes a poor beggar has to go five miles . ut before he can kick a ball.”

“The inspector grades the teacher on Iris results. This begets the re-sult-getter, not the educator,” said Mr I*. M. Jackson in his presidential address to members of the Public Schools Assistant Masters’ Asociation in Wellington. “New Zealand swarms with result-getters. Fducators are not encouraged.”

Trotsky, who next to I.enin, was the overthrow of the Tsarist Empire, has been writing his memoirs on the tiny Turkish island of Prinkipo, where he is virtually a arisoner. They will be published in English by Mr Thornton Rutterwotth, of London, who says they make “an amazing, ■almost fantastic, narrative of adventure.”

Because a cattle dog given to Mr G. Seawert, of Mulgoa, Australia, was taken into the family circle, a pet cat and her five offsprings left home. Recently Mr Seawcrt’s horse bolted with his sulky, which ran over the dog, killing it instantly. A few hours later the cat and her kittens returned and re-established tliem‘selves in the home, instinctively knowing that their enemy was dead. Madame Krupskaija, Lenin’s widow, who directs the activities of the Bureau of Political Education in Moscow, has ordered the libraries in Soviet Russia to destroy all copies of many philosophical and religious works, including the Bible, the Koran and the Talmud, the works by Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Herbert Spencer. Recent investigations showed that many libraries had acquired religious works through confiscation. These must now be burned. How well Auckland’s rat-catching campaign has kept the pest down in the business area of the city is revealed by the fact that the daily activities of the trappers during the year which ended on March 31, resulted in the capture of an average of only about 10 rats a day. All the rats caught are sent to the pathological department of the hospital for examination for signs of infection or disease. Last year’s capture totalled 378°, against 4633 in the previous year. The number of cases of diphtheria in the Wellington city and suburban districts last year was 395. There were 20 deaths from the disease. The Medical Officer of Health in his annual report says : “The importance of early medical attention and the. administration of anti-toxin, 'where necessary, in all possible cases of diphtheria is again apparent. Parents and guardians should also recognise that great care is necessary in' convalescence after diphtheria in the matter of restricting the movements of the patient.”