LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr Edgar Wallace’s next novel is called, “The Lady of Ascot.”

Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography will be published shortly by Allen and Unwin, London.

Approximately .£111,774 is to be spent on medical and dental treatment for London school children during 1930-31.

At a recent oyster feast in Colchester, England, 400 guests consumed over 12,000 oysters, which took 17 men all the morning to open.

“Some day,” said cx-Prcmier Stanley Baldwin in a recent address,

“when I am free of my responsibilities and can write, I am going to write a book on country life.'’

The' Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages at Foochow, in China, which is more than eight centuries old, is I ; s°^ '• lonfr and is built of slabs of granite, some of them 45ft. in length.

Motorists driving away from petrol stations may be seen wearing a virtuous air. They have been helping to improve the backblocks roads. “Zamiel,” in the Auckland Star. A double, event was staged at the East Gore golf links on a recent afternoon, when two players holed out in one. Both were scored at the sixth hole (The Elbow) and the first player lo distinguish himself was Mr James Allport, his feat being equalled within a few- minutes by the club’s president, Mr R. Fisher.

Mr W. Tunstall. 11 coal rliviner. of Whangarei and Hikurangi accompanied h.v several experienced miners, visited Pargaville recently and conducted a thorough examinatown and the West Coast (says the Northern Advocate). Mr Tunstnll holds the patent rights of an eleetrical mineral divining instrument, which lie used in the investigations conducted It is stated that the investigations revealed reliable indications of very large quantiities of coal at a depth of between 25 and 30 feet below (lie brown sanding, irom Mount Wesley towards (he cor st. The large and growing demand that is being met by the supply of fre meals at Manna Hous e under (lie auspices of the Presbyterian So-

cial Service Association is shown by figures covering 111 ,. last two months. Tile number of meals served during the first week in June was 1300. and for the succeeding weeks 1400. 1418 and 1710. The total for June was 5888 and for May 5401. making a grand total of 11.280 for th e (wo months. No fewer than 200 ladies connected with virions Presbyterian congregations have assisted in serving men with hot meals daily. On Sunday mornings coffee, toast and pies and provided.

Not on account of. its prayer, hut because of th e unusual nature of its presentation, does prom inert efc attach to a petition presented to the House by Helen P. Lowry. of Ha win’s Bay, for the retention as

a scenic reservation and sanctuary of Balls Clearing, a patch of native bush situated near Puketitiri, 35 miles from Napier. Through the

use of a paste brush the papers containing the signatures were converted into a single scroll. measuring 41ft Rolled up. it is an impressive document. It addition, it happens to be the fort.v-first petition presented to Parliament this session. The sisrna ories total 1222