LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3677, 22 March 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Star will not be published on Good Friday nor on Faster Monday. “lie says he’s a self-made man.” “That's just like him—always taking; the blame for everything - .” A limit of seven street collections for this year has been decided upon by the, Auckland City Council. Mme. Teresa Gloticha, of Lodz in Poland, accused of bigamy, was charged with having 13 husbands. 111 Canada, where- the. cost of a wireless receiving license is only 4s a year, it is estimated that one person out of every 19 owns a wireless set. In the olden times, they used to dig gold out of the ground in Thames, but nowadays they try to dig it out of the ratepayers.—Star. The Labour Department in Auckland says that men of every trade and profession are registered at the. un employ men 1 bureau. “What does ‘O.H.M. S.’ mean?” asked the young wife as she brought her husband a sinister-looking envelope. “Oh, Tlades. My Screw,” replied the gloomy male. A former Fnglish soldier has sent to Frau Ruiz, widow of the late Burgomaster of Oberammorgan, the iron cros. s her son had handed to him before he fell mortally wounded in<. the war. Owners of parks in some parts of Cheshi re in England are being com- I polled to close them to the public owing to the damage done by “litter louts.”’ We have them in New Zealand. Robert Austin, of Raleigh m North Carolina, was dealt a perfect hand in a bridge game, lie received 13 hearts and ran the bid to seven hearts. The bid was doubled and redoubled. Austin won the game “That the time has arrived when penny postage for loters should bo reverted to,” is the text, of a remit to be* moved at the conference of Chambers of Com.ln.erch' for Franklin and adjoining districts.

An Auckland box soprano, Desmond Casey, who has been a prominent performer , in Auckland for some time, is going to Sydney to have his voice recorded for gramophone reproduction. Many South. Canterbury anglers agree that there are two main runs «f quinnat, that taking place new being- the largest, while a second run of considerable proportions takes place early in June. —Press The number of unemployed in Great Britain ha* decreased by 400,000 since October. No wonder - there is a returning-' feeling- of confidence and a revival of the hope that conditions are mending- in Great Britain.—The Star, Regina, Canada. Protest was made at the meeting of the Wanganui Executive of the Farmers’ Union against, the practice of convicted men being sent out into the country. Mr R. Campion said the roads were swarming with swaggers. The ladies’ croquet competitions at the Redding Bowling Club’s gala day on Saturday resulted a s follows : French, Airs Alscp (Oroua) ; golf, Mrs Pearson (St John’s): clock. .Mrs Simpson (St. John’s) ; ladder, Mrs McMurray (Takaro). Mr W. S. Lam be-, a noted English angler, has just terminated his month’s annual visit to the Delta Camp, at the mouth of the Tongariro river, where his total catch of 235 fish weighed nearly half a. ton, the largest being qlbs weight.

“1 paid £l, lost five balls and turned it up!” remarked a member of the Stratford Golf Club at the annual meeting, in relating his experience of summer play last season. “I would not play again!” he added amid renewed laughter. Details of the allocation of the flaxvke’s Ray earthquake relief fund of ,£392,006, which with interest thereon brought the total amount to £402,367, show th’at Dannevirke received the- sum of £552 as a contribution towards its relief work efforts for food, clothing, l sustenance, etc. Six well known British distillery firms are suing a. German company to enjoin it from calling its products whisky. The plaintiffs maintain that whisky is purely a British product, dependent for its proper manufacture on the British climate, and cannot be made anywhere else. Txvo Italian inventors, the brothers Trignani, have constructed xvhat is probably the smallest aeroplane in the world The machine is to be placed 011 the market and called the Dwarf. It is under 15ft. across the wings. The trials made at Turin have given every satisfaction.