LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3640, 8 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Only one 'bankruptcy was recorded in Wanganui during- January Price stability and economic steadiness are slowly returninß- to New Zealand. There are 100,000 trades unionists divided-’into as many as 400 unions m New Zealand. Advertising- is one of the subtlest and most powerful forces mnkinß' our modern world. So far 05 Wang-anui boys have been placed on farms through the efforts of the Mayor, Mr X. G. Armstrong*, and Mr D. MeFarlane. As from March T the Ormondville Court is' to be closed and its business transacted at. Waipukurau. The public vehicles, including* taxis, buses, coaches, and tram cars, licensed by the London Metropolitan Police; number 18,663. Several protests against the high cost of text books for primary schools were received at Wednesday’s meeting* of the Auckland Education Board. A veteran of the Turf, with a memory extending- back to the later sixties, has given it as his opinion that horse racing s definitely c»n a decline. Waipukurau anglers are securing better bags than had been the rule .since the* river flooded three weeks ago. The fish are in particularly good condition. Marrows in Otaki are fetching very low prices, eight large ones being sold for is and even at that price some folks, says the Mail, consider they are dear. Professor Arnold Wall, who recently resigned the chair of English at the Canterbury University College, intends spending a long holiday at Kashmir in India. A motor . car specially built for an American millionaire who is an aviation enthusiast has a glass roof, so- that ihe motorist can watch aeroplanes overhead. To mark his 86th birthday and show his interest in the children of Auckland, Mr John Court has given the City Council £250 for providing suitable playing equipment. for Grey Lynn Park. \ scrap of red paper, a British ’ Guiana postage stamp of 1856, | which was originally worth one cent, i s now valued at .£7343. It is the most valuable stamp in the. world. There are- 35 cooks and bakers ! employed in the gal lev of the liner I Strathnave’r.. On her maiden vov- ’ age from England lo Australia recently 1700 persons, including passengers and crew. were entered for. A returned New Zealander says a noticeable thing about Meli botirne is the number of buildings being erected, both in the business area .and in the suburbs. Thai fact alone seemed to be an indication of better times ahead. The Canterbury Trades and Labour Council has decided to take steps to combat the attitude of farmers in New Zealand who it was alleged were urging the Government to interfere with the Arbitration Court. Although 110 action has yet been taken by the Gisborne Unemployment Committee to enforce the rule that unemployed must have iheir own vegetable gardens before ' being placed on relief works, many of the men have been doing their utmost in this direction. A. fine specimen of the tree or giant begonia is to be seen growing in the lounge of a Dcvonport hotel, Auckland. L- about 18

months old, an dibs lovely foliage •is particularly healthy and vigoious, some of the branches being eight feet or nine feet long. ( “Doc's Professor Copland think (that before the finish comes it will j be inecqssary to to vise national debts all round ” was a question ! put to the Professor at a meeting j m Christchurch. <£ lf the present I trade position continues, 1 fe.ii 1 that may be necessary, was his reply. Ram is badly needed on lbo Tongariro river. There are fish iu all the pools, but. they are hnid jto catch. A good spate would clean out all the. weeds about tho pools and bring the fish up. It is. some time since tlie river has j yielded such feplendidly-conditioned .and fighting ~ fish so early in the year.