LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

\\ ork is proceeding- on the reconditioning of Nelson Park at Napier. Attention is drawn to the fact ihat the children’s fancy dress ball is to bo held on Friday , May 29. A club is in existence in Masterion—which is a dry area —known ns the Wairarapa Lubrication Club. Navy blue for the old grey is ihe subject of the replace of Mr B. Levy, the tailor. A statutory first offender, arrested yesterday and brought before Mr A. J. Geary, J.P., this morning, nos convicted and discharged. The Railway Department advertise in this issue particulars of train arrangements and cheap excursion tickets in connection with the Wanganui races. Auckland and Taranaki provinces account for 982,000 cows of the total of 1,440.000 cows in New Zealand. Auckland has 666,000 rows and Tamil ak i 9 1 A,OOO cows. Tin stock :n trade of the sheep industry in New Zealdand in April, 1930, was as follows: Breeding ewes ! 17,5(34,000, other sheep 19,277,000, station cattle- 1,443,681. Two years ago there were 1400 empty houses in Auckland: To-dav most of these are occupied, and t lie demand has practically caught up to the supply. Air \Y. A. Waters, chief engineer of the Afanawatu-Oroua Power Board, has received advice that he has been elected a member (M.1.E.E.) of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London. 1 I There is a good demand for eggs and prices are fairly well maintained j in Wellington. Super grade hen eggs pel a dozen, first grade 2s yd, seconds 2s sd, pullets 2s 2d, ducks 2s 7d. Mr G. Mclntyre, who has repre--1 sen tod the Kumara district on the Canterbury Diocesan Synod for 57 ' years, has announced his retirement at the age of 88. His term is probably a record for a lay Synodsman. If New Zealand is to be governed • in a sane manner, then this can only :be acornplished by the Reform and United Parties linking- up as one party and presenting a solid front: to , all opposition. -A I aster ton Linos. j The Wairarapa Federated Dairies’ Association met at Carterton to consider a. candidate for the National Dairy Association directorate. After a discussion Mr Ben Roberts withdrew his nomination in favour of Mr IT. T. Tilyard. “Why is wool so cheap when the farmer sells it, and’ so dear to buy in the shops?” asked Mr \\. J. Livingstone at the annual meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Union. ‘M’d like to see a Government inquiry into the matter.” Says the Evening Post, Wellington : Mr Coates has mistaken the enemy, and at the same time done his best to make an enemy of a party which sought his friendship, and might have been fully converted to his policy. When a case of a man who was charged with ill-treating a horse was called by the Court Sergeant McNamara withdrew the charge, 0marking that the man had left the district, and the horse was dead, and would suffer no more. —Thames Star. “lie told me that his lights had, gone out about a mite up the road, j but when I inspected them I found I that they had no bulbs in them, J said the Tlauraki Plains Inspector 'n j a case before the Thames Court. 1 The fine imposed was eight times the ordinary 'penalty in similar cases. “The might of the British Empire | depends upon the continuance of j the mineral industry,’’ said Profes- • sor Park, at the annual meeting of, the mining faculty of Otago University College. A little known fad , was that in the British Empire the I value of the productions of the mining industry- exceeded fourfold the value of the productions of the land, - including corton, jute, tobacco, wool, grain, cheese and but ter.