LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Aorangi arrived at Auckland yesterday from. Sydney. Good Friday was cold and wet throughout F.ngland Anzac Day, April 25, falls on a Saturday this year. On relief works the Christchurch City Council employed. 555 men on 35 different jobs last Thursday. The price of milk has just reduced by one penny per quart by the milk vendors of Port Chalmers. From all accounts the dry weather lias had its effects very markedly upon Hawke’s Bay's maize crops. Parliament reassembles to-mor-row and will deal with earthquake legislation. Building permits with a total value, of .£2382 14s were issued in Wanganui during March. 1 lawera and its country districts chad not experienced such a dry March for many years. Accused in Court : I am r>° per cent, teetotal. The other 10 per com. allows me in have a glass of beer. The average American film takes eight weeks to produce and costs anything from .£50,000 to .£75,000. Faster holiday traffic on the railways compared favouraby with that of other years. W ife to S-M. : When my husband came out of prison I took him back, but now he says he wants to live his own life, and he is in prison again. Maurice Chevalier started life as an apprentice carpenter, electrician, printer and doll painter, and at 1 3 was a salesman for a painting shop. Despite the depression, the enrolments of new subscribers to the Dunedin Athenaeum library far exceeds the withdrawals. Moscow’s consumption of vodka is more than two and a quarter million pints yearly. No other city in the world con = umes so much alchob ; ‘ f Dunedin is still the best place in New Zealand for business,” said a commercial traveller -who has been on the road for 30 years. The wrecked Malabar at Sydney Heads was insured in London for .£loo,ooo.The underwriters value the ship and cargo at ,£250,000. An official list of commercial pilots issued at Wellington contains 22 names. It does not include pilois of the permanent Air Force. Mr N. A. McKenzie for years sole selector for the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, was again re-elected to the position unanimously. The erection of chimneys under the Waipn.wa borough scheme has proceeded so rapidly that the majority of the applications have nowbeen dealt with. A report from Tongariro National Park indicates that an early winter is expected. Already there have been several falls of snow, and Hie steep slopes of Ngauruhoe are covered. The number of marriages which have taken place at Napier since the earthquake is considerably -n excess of the normal number for the same period in former years. Mr J. Mackenzie has been elected to represent the Umutoi Riding on the Pohangina County Council, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Mr 11. Knight. There were about 1050 pupils attending the various schools, including 281 at the Napier Central, 327 at Clive Square and nearly 500 at Te Awa, at the end of last week. Last week’s hold up of Parliament by the stonewalling of the Labour Party cost the country about .£16,000, sufficient to provide 25,000 married men with a day’s work ! Very beneficial rains have fallen in southern Hawke’s Bay district and although the ground is by no means soaked, there are signs already of renewed growth in the grass. “We have decided to take some risk and go ahead with the work,” said Mr J. S. Barton, discussing the intention of the Napier Commissioners to undertake the demolishing of the upper portion of Dr. W. W. Moore’s private hospital.