LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3645, 13 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Additional amounts received by the Prime Minister for the Earthquake Relief Fund bring the total to .£388,882. Short selling-, is the sale of stocks you don’t own. Most of us would be delighted if we could sell the stocks we do own. A Wanganui aviatrix, Miss Jane Winstone, has qualified for a certificate endorsed for passenger carry ing. She. is the youngest lady pilot in the Dominion. The cremations at Dunedin to date number qo. Tho increase comes about naturally, without any persuasion or argument from the Cremation Society. \ copy of ‘‘.Moana of the South Seas,” an artistic. film depicting native life and customs in Samoa, has been cVonated to the Auckland Museum. It will be. kept as an ethnographical record. A new dahlia, of the hybrid cactus variety, has been grown by Mr \V. W. Wright, of The Drive, Epsom. The dahlia was much admired by her Excellency* and it is to bo named “the Lady Bledisloo.*’ Bald student: “You say you can recommend this hair restorer?'’ Barber: “Yes, sir. 1 know a man who removed the cork from the bon lei with his teeth, and within 24 hours lie had a moustache. 7 ’

In addition to giving the borough of Otahuhd four acres of land for a park, the late Mr James Murphy, who died on January 30, has made a number of charitable bequests. Ilis estate was sworn for probate purposes at £14,000. The Ell ham Argus reports the sale of a farm of 100 acres on the Eltham road, close lo Kaponga, at £45 per aero, also of a farm of 220 acres on the Upper Dm hie road which was bought by the first mortgagee for £I6OO. “Have you ever gone Lo a lawyer to borrow money?" asked counsel for plaintiff when cross-examining a defendant m a civil action in the Magistrate’s Court. He retorted: You have never seen me go up to you, have you? lu Wellington the supplies of eggs are further decreasing with the corresponding rise in quotations- Special grade hen eggs are 2 S a doze, first grade, is iid, seconds is iod, duck eggs is iid a dozen. Littleton Reservoir on the outskirts of London is the lagest body of water made by men in the world It measures some 4$ miles in circumference., and would provides anchorage for a fleet of battleships. That New Zealand motorists are paying- about £2,245,000 a year in taxation, which does not include heavy traffic license fees paid by motor lorry owners, was a statement ma.de by Mr E. A. Baft, chairman of the Wellington Automobile Club.

A few days ago a strange motorist in a handsome car drove up to a Blenheim petrol station, filled jp with 12 of petrol and waving- his hand airily to the pump attendant said, fie would pay for his purchase “at. the office." He didn’t.

A large native pokai, attended by natives from all parts of the King Country, is being held at the To Kuiti pa- King Te Rata, Princess Te Puea and Mr Taite to Tomo, M.P.. are present. Matters concerning- the welfare of the race are being discussed. \ carpenter who bad spent some weeks seeking- employment put an advertisement in an Auckland paper seeking farm work and offering his services as a. carpenter. He received 1 replies from districts as widely separated as Kaitaia and Tauranga. Not only did the liner Norfolk have all her holds full when she left for London and west of England ports from Auckland this week, but she even had 135 bales of wool piled on deck. In addition to wool, tho Norfolk took a big cargo of frozen meat, butler and cheese. Asked whether Gandhi had much influence among the 60,000,000 outcast natives of India, the Rev. L. F.vitt, a visitor to Christchurch from the Indian mission field, said Gandhi had lost most of his popularity with these people. He. had promised them all sorts of things, but bad been unable, to keep his w r ord. Forge!: the Depression! says Mr B. Levy, the tailor, in his replace.