LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3646, 15 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

This world must conquer poverty or poverty will conquer the world.

The. Monowai. arrived at Sydney on Saturday morning from Wellington.

Several hay stacks in the Foxton district have been burned lately rs the result of the hay being put in before it was properly dry.

Mr John Fuller, of Fuller’s Theatres, Ltd., is again in New Zealand. This was his 76th irip across the Tasman.

“Come out of that wafer! Bathing’s not allowed there.” “Pardon me, Fm oof bathing. I'm drown-

Beginning yesterday the Sunday afternoon sessions at all the YA radio stations will commence at 2 o’clock instead of at 3 o’clock, as in the past.

The D'oh-Jon coalmine, which is situated near Grey mouth, and which has been closed for nearly five months, will probably reopen early next week.

Many trout have died as a result of the l loro rata river, Canterbury, diving up lor some miles near the intake of the flaldon wa-

Mr Zane Grey, the American author, lias planned another extended fising trip to New Zealand. ITe expects to- arrive in it ho- Dominion on November 1.

The Finnish full-rigged ship Grace TTarwar is leaving Auckland in ballast for England. To meet her needs m this respect she is shipping Soo ton of earth.

Bowls is recommended as an ideal woman’s game for beautygiving recreation in the open air, We have often bee n struck by the athletic grace of its male exponents.—P unch.

A decision to proceed immediately with the. building of the proposed new Maori church at Paeroa was reached by the Waikato Diocesan Maori Mission Committee which met at Hamilton. A freak marrow is to be seen at Mr R. Haddock's garden in \Yaerenga road, Otaki. From the- parent plant there s a wide, long stem, at the end of which are in marrows of varying sizes. Mr Charles Stewart, who left Te Aroha some years ago for California, has written to a friend in Te Aroha saying that business in Los Angeles is very bad, and financial oo.nd.it ions are “absolutely shocking.” In Los Angelos, California, there are 05,000 unemployed with no sign of any improvement. The city has a population of 1,238,338, so the percentage of unemployed is much higher than that of New Zealand.

Lovers of the bush are. delighting in the. exceptional I \ fine bloom of the rata on the West Coast this year. Many, indeed, have made special trips into Westland and the Franz Josef region to see its brilliant colouring.

Ten quinnat salmon have been caught this season by Mrs A. Gillanders, of Dommett, Canterbury. Some exceptionally fine fish have been included in the bags. One of them weighed 2Q.}lbs. and another 26 Mbs. The directors of several cheese factories in Southland have turned town the 6 f.o.b. now offering, as they have visions of 6&d on the horizon in the near future, basing their actions on the expectation of an advance 111 the rate of exchange on London. A visitor from abroad tsaid -of New Zealand: “I found the. country beautiful and I find its people genial and ? friendly, and what is evetn more important, amazingly patriotic to the Old Country, which As always! referred to as Mljorne/ dvein by those who have never been there.” Though the A. and P. Show itself was the* usual success, the receipts this year, compared with those of 1030, show more than a 50 per cent, decline, due not to any loss of popularity, but to the influences of tlie adverse weather and the prevailing economic depression.

To keep a record of each day s happenings is no mean effort. Mr J. O. JI. Nowbery*, cf Redcliffs, Christft church, can boast of this feat. He has kept a record of his life, for 56 years, beginning in IS7O when lie was about 11 years of age. It is a personal record, but includes a weather report for each day, and comprises 50 volumes.