LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Switzerland has nearly 13 million fruit trees.

Retaining a policeman to escort children across a busy street in London costs /I3QO a year.

Wrestling matches between women are the latest exhibition offered to sensation seekers in Paris.

A cojiy of the Breeches Bible, 1562, has been presented to Wakefield Cathdral Library by Messrs \V. and G. Foyle, the London booksellers.

Glasgow eats more sweets and chocolates per head than any other city in the United Kingdom. London is a good second.

Photographer: Try and look pleasant please. Farmer closer: Not me ! The picture, is for sonic relatives who want to come and stay a month with me.

A woman of 60 who applied to the Cardigan Board of Guardians in Wales for a pair of boots, stated that the pair she was wearing were 27 years old.

Nof ewer than 37,000,000 poppies and 20,000 poppy wreaths were made at the British Legion ixippy factories in preparation for Armistice Day last year.

A Swede, Flight Captain Abrenberg, will next summer try to fly from Stockholm to New York, a flight which he unsuccessfully attempted recently.

The decision of the New Zealand Government to retaliate on Canada through the Customs cannot be condemned by any fair-minded person Dunedin Star.

The sprouting of the leaves on the willows all round the Hastings district is indication that spring- is not very far distant. An early spring will be particularly welcome in Hawke’s Bay this year, says the Tribune.

What is believed to be one of the highest scores in a Rugby match in New Zealand was reported from Christchurch on Saturday, Christchurch beating Technical Old Boys by 8b points to 6.

The Daily Record of Glasgow offers as a prize for the best literary work with a Scottish bearing produced in 1931 by a Scots author, whether living in Scotland or elsewhere.

Recent excavations at Jericho, in Palestine, have uncovered the famous Avail of that city, showing the platform on which the Cananite archers defended themselves against the Israelites.

Arnold Bennett reports that the most popular' of all his books is “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, ’

first published 20 years ago. It still has an annual sale of about 3000 copies.

Counsel was examining * a witness in a motor collision case at the Magistrate’s Court in Dunedin. “Did you hit a train on one occasion?” queried counsel. “No, ] went too close to the train and it hit me!” replied witness.

“Then if he says the plough was broken on your place you could not deny it?” said counsel in the Magistrate’s Court at New Plymouth. “I could not deny it, but I would not believe it,” promptly replied the farmer witness.

Although the amusements tax ncreasc is now in operation, patrons of the Pakuranga Hunt race meeting at Ellerslie were not affected. The admission charges were not altered and the club itself will pay the extra amount.

That they had too many married women teachers in their school was the contention of a deputation from the Papanui School Committee, which appeared before the Canterbury Education Board. The board’s chairman sympathised with them, but said they could offer no redress, because they were bound by the law.

Albert Secord, of Shannon, was charged in the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court yesterday with killing imported game (a hare) and native game (a pukeko). Sergeant Whitehouse stated that defendant was out of employment and had shot the game for food. He was fined with 23s costs.

When Dr. Campbell Bebb. of Wellington, was in Canada the controversy over New Zealand butter, which promised to capture the Canadian market, was a very live question and was exercising the local producers a great deal. Mr Begg stated yesterday, on bis return, that it is interesting to find that New Zealand butter is used almost universally throughout the Hawaiian group, especially in Honolulu.