LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2588, 4 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Otakrs rainfall for the month of November was inches. Now that it is all over the election. i.s a triumph of mind over patter. The Wanganui Poultry Association advises ihat the wholesale price of eggs yesterday is 13s per gross. A week’s solid rain would do no mor e harm whatsoever in Central Hawke’s Bay.—Napier Telegraph. There were no bankruptcies recorded in Napier during the past month, compared With three in the corresponding month of last year. Ou c thing is certain, and I think it is coming next year, that there s going to be an inquiry into the cost of living. Air If. R. Young, Coalition candidate for Avon. With reference to the Motor Show, it is said the two-seaters are so small now that they have t-o hit a pedestrian ttyire before he goes down.—Punch. “No farmer minds paying taxes if he has the money to do it with,” said Mr A. Stuart at I'tiku on Monday, “but you certainly can’t pull the b reeks off a Highlander!” (Roars of laughter). “T say the worker is entitled to the highest possible wage,” said Mr Tf. AT. Reform candidate for Timaru, “and the incentive for him to earn ii should be payment on results.” Everywhere one goes in Hawke’s Bay at the present time, even away in the back country, There are to be found pronounced signs of renewed agricultural activity (says 4 ‘Jackaroo” in the Napier Telegraph. After having endeavoured to obtain ,£3500 for the Cashmere sewerage loan at 5 per cent., and having failed to do so, the Heathcote County Council applied for, and has received authority to offer 5I per cent. “Tlis Is not a wool sale, sitdown!” was the. remark with which a member of the audience at a political meeting- in Auckland silenced two men who were arguing vociferously with each other from, opposite sides of the hall. Fruit appears to-be ripening earlier this season in Taradale, U. 8., than it lias done for the last two years. Already consignments of well ripened apricots and forward plums have been sent away from the district. The* Westport primary school brick building is almost ready for inoccupation after having been out of commission for many . months, says the ■Westport Times. The damage the building' suffered during the earthquake in 1929 was 1 extensive. It was on December 1, 1863 that the line about 5} miles in length, between Christchurch and Ferrymead, on the Heathcote river, was officially declared open by the Provincial Superintendent of Canterbury, Mr S. Bealey. The first catch. In the South of England championship meetings, which began at Hastings recently, was made; by a competitor from London, who hooked his own nose. He had to bo taken to the Royal Sussex hospital to be unhooked. Som.e visitors .to the Fox Glacier recently had an unusual experience —they rode horses on to the glacier (says the Guardian). This is the first time in the experience of Guide Alack that horses have been fallen on to the ice. The! Springboks play the first international match of their Rugby tour in Great Britain to-morrow when they will meet Wales at Swansea. A fortnight later the tourists will play Ireland at Dublin. That country banks are well prepared for visits by the hold-up fraternity was evident to a client in a bank in Canterbury. Three revolvers were exhibited in readiness near the counter, and the manager, who is a deer stalker of some repute, lias three rifles in the hall. “What Is the difference between a motor lorry and a truck,” was a question put to a witness in the Dannevirke Court. “One is a little more respectable than the ether, remarked counsel, and a smile went round the Court. The Springbok cricketers ore not paid anything like. Australians who go to England to- represent their country on the cricket field. Whereas the Australians were paid £6OO, together with an allowance of 30s a week, th e South Africans receive only £3OO for the whole tour. There is no talk of any bonus and there is no weekly allowance.