LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 3 October 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

In the ordinary course of events the general election would- have been Sold ' next month.-' Dunedin's senior brass band, the famous Kaikorai,. vinnyr of bushels of prizes, now ha%_,„Mr Leslie Borrow as its conductor. Two bankruptcies were registered in the Waitafapa* tor September, as compared with onf for the corresponding month Vast year. Man, boasts a writer, can travel swiftly on land, \a.ir and water. Ihe drawback is that his .creditors can, too. Bank foreclosures in default of loan payments by landowners in Egypt have led to an abnormal drop in pricey of agricultural land. The new regulations concerning tlie maintenance* administration, staffing and salaries of the staffs of secondary and technical schools combined are gazetted. Mr W. Ravner, of “The Cliffs,” AYairarapa, has running- on his property a calf which at two months old weighs j ißlbs, an exceptional .weight for that age. At Wellington this week fairly good, business is reported at slightly lover rates for eggs. First grade • hen eggs is ul a dozen, seconds is, ducks is. id. Owing to illness at least 463 children were absent from the second ary apd principal primary schools of New Plymouth last Tuesday, : most of them . suffering from influenza. Says the Hawke’s Bay 4 elegrnph : Why Parliament does not do the common sense thing and enact that the clock should be put back a full hour is» difficult to understand. For tlie first time in the history cf the Mangamingf Golf Club, says 'the Stratford Pqst, a player holed out in one during , the w eek end. Mr Claude Harrison, of Tfawera, drove the ball 160 yardsAt a forced sale held at Waipuku- . ,-au this week, the latest thing in new evening dress suits, after much • effort on the part of the auctioneer, found a new* owhef for tlie magni- ' ffeent sum of 50s. Although a- ton of real costs 0* fd, it costs £1 osH rod to get that ' truck of. coal rby rail from Glen Afton do\vn to. Pahiatua, according to the secretary of the Pahiatua 1 Co-operative Dairy Co. During September there were four bankruptcies in the New Plymouth district, against' one in the corresponding month of last year. For .the quartet; there were 13 bankruptcies, against five for the corresponding quarter of 1930. AU thsoe rail way men and other \ public servants « notified cf their compulsory retiirernorit under section 14 of the Finance Act terminated their service last Wednesday. Ihe ■section covers men with 30 years • service and over. The engineer of the Rangitikei 1 County Council reported that fencing and tree planting as protective work at the Bulls bridge had been .completed*, but rabbits had commenced destroying the trees. Steps (were being taken to combat the pest. An Qnam.aluUi settler remarked, to a Melborough Express the other afternoon that in all his 18 years in .the Valley he had not known such heavy and frequent falls of snow on the high country nor could he remember it continuing so late into the season. A Wanganui resident is a proud man. He got his wings at the airport, qualifying * for his pilot’s certificate and synchronising with this event, there was also an increase in the family. His friends who dabble in aviation, are busy thinking out an appropriate name for the baby. Discussing the wet weather which ruined the third* .test match between the New Zealand cricketers and England, an English critb says : “The expediences of Old 1 1 afford with test matches have been terribly unfortunateV not since 189.6 has Old Trafford. witnessed a test match that was not spo.led at some point by rain.”) * • Some* months • ago 1 ‘it was decided that the Covernrileht. Life Insurance Building, a brick '.buying in Custonhouse quay, .\S ellington, shou < be demolished, :as : hieing tinsafe from the point > of view of earthquake resistance', ft is expected the work will be put m a week or two. Spring can bo so. smart! See the replace o£ Mr. B- i,evv,