LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2628, 25 January 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kind lady (to aged beggar) : And what was your last employment ‘Beggar: Message boy, missus. V British hen is just as capable of business as a Danih', a Russian, or a Chinese hen. —Sir Ifenrv Page Croft. Christchurch cycle. dealers report the. sale of a. phenomenal number of women’s bicycles. The sale of men’s machines has dropped. J A number pf Cases are reported in Auckland of ill-effects said to 'have followed ifpon the dunking of home-made beer brewed in kerosene tins. The New Zealand schoolboys who' had been taming* Australia, are passengers on the Manuganui, which arrives at Auckland to-mor-row. The historic Assembly Rooms at Bath in England designed in 1771, have been acquired by the Society for ihe Protection of Ancient Buildings, and will be handed over to a. national trust. ‘‘When the cost of shearing and incidental handling are considered .it. would pay farmers to burn their wool and pelts this year. Lambs are the only profitable line,” said a meet buyer to the iTaihapo Times.

The Department of Agriculture's certification officers have branded and sealed some 5000 sacks of Hawke’s Bay certified perennial ryegrass, coming off 1700 acres. This yield is considered quite fair.

“It is the considered opinion of the committee that to put ourselves on side as far as the outside world Is concerned we should agree not to play a wing-forward and to adopt fihe 3-2-3 scrum formation,” says Mr S. S. Dean, president and chairman of the New Zonland Rugby Football Union.

There is no part of the world which has such a sinister record for wrecks as the Russian Black Sea. The number in omo years have averaged more than one a day, the greatest number of wrecks recorded in one.tear being 425, and the smalloßt 134. About 50 per cent- of the vessels became total wrecks, all the crews being lost.

Mr E. Conrad, a bushman working for the Public Works Department at To Whaiti, was admitted to King* George Y Hospital. Rotorua, with two fingers' of his loft hand setiered. The- ti evident happened through. Mi* Conrad falling down a bank while carrying an axe, the blade of which came down on his fingers.

The N.Z. Financial Times for January is as outspoken as ever in its criticism of company prepositions and things economic and financial. It.= special articles deal with Goldmining in the South Island, the Macmillan Report, “Two Diseases of the World Money System,’ Unemployment Tax, Economic Recovery of Queensland. the Wool Situation, “What the Banks Have: Done,” the Exchange Commandeer, and “Debit iSiyttlemenU s Upset by Depression,” besides the regular writers’ columns.