LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2677, 5 September 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

l in \\'aipul<urau rain fell in 15 days! last month, the total rainfall being. ‘sl inches_ i Learning to fly costs a private pilot, an average of £l5O in- [\nielica und--8; weeks of his time. | An autograph letter written by. Chopin in Polls-1h was sold at a. re~ Icent sale in London for £3O. I The ordinary boy has been given, on extraordinary power of resistingr education of all kinds—Professor W. i B. Morton. i Sixty-three varieties of time are in use throughout the world, according to a tabulation prepared by the Royal ‘O'bservatory at Greenwich, England. Protection of surface from corrosion while at high temperatures is the chief function of a heat-resisting taluminium paint recently introduced] i \\'ithout rubber, the pneumatic tyrei 'of to-day would have been unknowni and the use of over 3,000,n0n cars ‘ and trucks impossible i The last book written by Sir Ar-i : thur Conan Doyle was ‘_‘The Edge of 1 the Unknown,” in which is recordetli - a. “conversation” with the spirit of] ' | Lenin. i I Mr John Buchan, NI.P., has been , adopted as candidate 'for the rector? . ship of Aberdeen University next No-: - vember by the University Unionist Association. i The Spanish Dance for girls over! " 16 at the \\'ellington Competitions last night was won by ‘Doris ShaD-' , leski, of Feilding. Joyce llayward.‘ _ who was third in the same event,‘ also scored a third in the Skipping | Dance. _ The boy who perpetrated a confi .‘ dence.trick to obtain £3 from a : liawera. shopkeeper on the pretext that- change was wanted for the rail ’ {way booking office came before _\l.' lll'. Tate, S..\l.v in the Stratford , Court and was placed under the con-' - trol of the superintendent of the. - Education Department. . .! While stalking in the \Vaikaia dis-, trict, South-land, Mr Perry, :of Gore, ishot a stag with a most unusual : head. Instead of a pair of antlers, l the deer had three. The antler on the i left side of the head was a normal ' one, but on the right side there were. 1 two antlers, one growing out from‘ “above the brow. l Li An English auction maximum price* L for an autograph manuscript of one‘ ' of Tennyson’s poems was attained at‘ L Sotheby’s salerooms in London re-i l. cently, when 1200 lines on ~60 octavoi ' pages: being the first of'five parts )f. “The Princess” as published in 1847, V were bought byd‘lr Gabriel \Vells. of‘ '~ New York. for £1750. l i Many Southland anglers have been. I somewhat curious as to what effect: I the, new tariff regulations would have, on the prices of angling gear, but it: is satisfactory to learn that with the; exception of American goods local; dealers are adhering to previous ‘ prices, paying the extra duty in an-' ticipation of an increased turnoverl Asays the lnvercargill Times). I Nledical blood tests are the latest means used by the Police Department of Stockholm in the case of apparv ently drunken motorists arrested for reckless driving or breaking of trafiic rules. On such occasions the doctor *of the Police Department at once I performs a blood test on the accused-,1 whereby it can be definitely proved; whether and to what extent the of—‘ fender is affected by alcohol. i There was a time, Mr Justice Blair Enbshrved in the Supreme Court at )lasterton, when the older 3 girl th; lthe longer her skirts got and there. was some guide to her age. “.—\t the present time when they have all got short hair and all got short skirts, there is not a. great deal of distinction between them, anyhow. when they are in their later teens or early I twenties I” (Smiles): 1 One result of the recent efforts of. the Auckland lVlusicians’ Union to improve the conditions among its members is the claim that Auckland! is the only city in the English-, speaking world where a professional I musician need not want for a bed orl . a meal (says the Star). The union, which has a membership of 400, andl was founded over 10 years ago, established a benevolent fund early this year. i it is evident from a letter that has been received from Miss Gladys Pid—‘geon, the Auckland swimmer, by ai I Christchurch friend, that Roy Calder.l the Dunedin diver who went to Can-i ada with the New Zealand team for the Empire Games, never had a! chance to show his true form. Calderl suffered on injury to his back than ‘made training practically impossible! and must have hampered him veryi ' considerably in the competitions, ‘