LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Within the past few days four ships in ballast have left England for New Zealand to load. A farmer in Bromley told a Christchurch reporter that he kills 120 head of poultry every day winter and summer for city customers. The next Napier wood sale of the present season will be held tomorrow. The League of Nations appears to have, (he bull 111 the China shop by the horns. —Christian Science Monitor. Much moio calculated to disturb the world than any money development is Japan getting off the golden rule standard. Payouts this month on the part of Central Taranaki dairy companies will probably be on 1 lie basis of Bid for butter and rod for cheese. Wallace Reid, son of the late star of silent films, has undergone a screen test- with a view to adopting a film career when lie leaves school. The estimated population of the Dominion, with its dependencies and the mandated territory of Samoa, on December 31 totalled 1,584,006. Applications for free books wore made for 14 pupils attending* the Wairarapa High School, and 26 attending the Mast orton Technical School. Advice that Air Commodore Kingsford Smith is almost certain to ti > from Australia to New Zealand in the- Southern Cross at an early been received by Mr S. E. Nielson, secretary of the New Plymouth Aero Club . Said Mr McCombs, M.P. : ‘‘There is only one real way to help all the producers and that ;s by guaranteeing’ them a stabilised or standard pi)tce for their produce, based on five or seven-year moving- average. Such a policy would add to the total purchasing power of the people,” ho concluded.