LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 22 August 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The installation of an automatic telephone exchange in Whangarei is being- carried out. The first totalisator in Victoria was opened at ,|tlgL£>;.jVlooncc Valley racos this week, and resulted in the bookmakers being. neglected. A train erashed TiTtd a motor lorry at Guildford Crowding*, Perth, Western Australia, and -the driver of the lorry was severely^jnjtired. Overseas visitors to Great Britain this' year are exported *0 exceed 250,000; last yearN total was 245,565. A plebiscite is T td be taken in Victoria. to decide Upon a wild flower as an emblem for the State. New South Wales has the waratah and Western Australia the poinsetta. The discovery of rich petroleum deposits on Argentine soil near the Chilean frontier has been reported to the Argentine by a Chilean mining- eng-ineer named Castillo. Supplies of eg-g-s are fa.- improving- in Wellington and there has been a small drop in prices. 1- irst grade hen eggs is 5d a dozen, second grade is 4d, ducks is 3d. The number of cremations at the city crematorium in Dunedin during the year was 2t, as compared with ip for the previous year. The expenditure was .£62 and the revenue .£ll4. Magistrate: You say tin’s man stole your coat ? i)o I understand that you prefer the charge against him? Complainant: Well, no, your Worship. I prefer the- coat, if it’s all the same to you ! Much research work into wireless waves is being undertaken by the New South Wales Department of Scientific Research, and as a result it is expected that wireless failures will be overcome.

It is calculated by an authoritative Swedish statistical society that, including losses from revolution, famine, and pestilence the Great War deprived the world of no fewer than 40,000,000 lives.

In another column the Aorangi Ping Pong Club arc advertising a dance to be held next Wednesday. A good orchestra, has been engaged and both young - : and old are assured of having a good time.

The basic wage in South Australia lias been reduced by the Board of Industry from. 12s 6d to 10s fid .a day, and is now; £.y 3s a week. This means a loss to ihoi worker of /A 2s a week.

•The New Zealand Tennis Association is negotiating for a team of Australian ladies to visit the Domin-

ion in the summer; also for a visit from the Japanese players, who are going to the Olympic Games.

There is # an old established oil industry in the Lothians (Scotland) where some fijtei workers are employed, involving a wage bill of £\ B,ooo a week. The industry produces 40.000,000 gallons of crude oil annually. ’ '

Cricket bats that have “made history” in the hands of famous players arc to be exhibited in the pavilion at Loughborough. Sir Julien Calm. the president of the Notts C.C.C., has acquired I*so of these historic pieces of wood.

When a man was charged in the Onehunga Police Court with damaging with an axe an iron box secured to a post on a dividing fence, the police stated that defendant might have been killed, as the box was used for storing detonators and contained several at the time.

The prison system in New Zealand receives much praise in an article in the July issue of the Empire Review, London, by Mr J. L. Weldon, M.A., housemaster of Feltham Borstal Institution, England, who visited the/ Dominion last year on a world tour of research into penal methods.

Mr Caradus, cricket writer of the Manchester Guardian, stated in a radio conversation broadcast last Wednesday that the New Zealanders had made a great name for themselves because of their sporting character. In the match at Liverpool they had played some of the most delightful cricket he had seen this season. English.-cricketers would be only too pleased to welcome New Zealanders again. “Striking the Right Note m Style.” See the replace of Mr Levy, tailor.