LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Retail draper (proposing - ): Remember. this is the last day of this astounding- offer. It is reported on pood authority tliat a 50 acre farm in the Glen Oroua district has changed hands at £x)o per acre.—Foxton Herald. A rhododendron, bearing- small red flowers and less than one inch in height, was shown at a recent flower show in London. Before the X.S.W. Government takes over the Sydney harbour bridge, a heavy train of 18 locomotives will be run over the 11 ooft. sections of the bridge. There are no ostrich farms in South Africa now. Women nowadays do not wear ostrich feathers in their hats and ostrich plume-s are no longer on hearses. Trout stripping operations at the Tongariro hatchery, on the banks of the Tongariro river, are well in hand. Over 3,000,000 eggs have been collected to date. The dangerous prat '.ice of schoolboys carrying pens and pencils in their stockings was responsible for a painful accident to an Invercargill schoolboy the other day. Ihe boy, who was carrying the pen in his stocking, was playing with a companion when the pen entered the latter’s leg, going right through in front of the shin bone. Surgical treatment was necessary in order to remove it. A. decidedly attractive lookingyoung woman was giving evidence in the Auckland Supreme Court and was acquitting herself well under cross-examination. The question ot eyesight cropped up. Counsel asked : “How are your eyes?” “My eyes are perfect,’’ came the response. “In this may 1 be allowed to agree with you!’’ remarked counsel, after a slight pause. Showing in a drapery firm s window in Dunedin this week was an enormous hat, size B.L It is claimed that it is the largest hat ever made in New Zealand, and when one con siders that the size of the average man’s head is OH to 7 such a claim is easily credible. This hat is a special order from one of the firm s North Island customers. It was made in Dunedin. A most generous offer has been made to th<v romfnitteo of the . Stratford Self Help Club by a local citizen (says the local Post). He is offering the club fre c right to work a pinus plantation estimated to contain On to too trees. Considering the milling possibilities.of logs and the value of boughs and cones for firing, this offer will enable the club to accord its members greater benefits than were" originally anticipated.