LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3678, 23 March 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Star will not be published on flood Friday nor on Faster Monday.

America is at the end of her troubles, says a business man . Me omits to say which end.—Pune. Birds are being- driven away from Frensham Ponds, near Farnham in England by the noise of motor cars. There were over moo cars parked at the aerodrome on Saturday for Wanganui's aviation festival. The Grey Valley collieries and Brunner mine have both ceased work temporarily owing- to lack of orders. A Taranaki paper the other day headed an article, “.Good-bye, Summer!” It has been hotter than ever since then. Over ,£2OOO hag been raised in Shanghai for the relief of dependents of victims of the disaster to the submarine Poseidon. A tit built a nest inside a pump in a g'arden at Hassocks in Sussex and reached its home by going up the spout. Ninety-three per cent, of the coal carbonised during- the making- of gas at the Palmerston city works during February was out of New Zealand mines. An educational examination for New Zealand candidates for the* Royal Air Force will be, held about the end of April, and entries close in Wellington at the end cf this month.

“Hospital maintenance expenditure for the year is below what we paid out for similar work last year," reported the secrotary to the Palmerston 1 lospital Board.

Electrical units purchased by the Palmerston City Council’s electrical department last month totalled 864,680, a s against 81(3,940 for the corresponding month last year. Sixteen nominations have been received from the Wellington district on behalf of sons of exservicemen for entrance to Flock House under the new scheme. There are 30 men prospecting for gold in the vicinity of Hokitika. This absorbs £3O weekly and leaves little for the employment of married mm under the No. 5 scheme. “This i« the first, imp in 23 years,’’ said a defaulting- cyclist t Mr Mosley, S.M., in, fthe Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. “First time in Court?” asked, Mr Mosley. "Yes, the first time I’ve been caught!*’ Miss Grace Stobbing, who has just finished a new novel called “The Laird’s Daughter" is i n her 92nd year. .She is. tjic author of over 70 books on a variety of subjects, from fiction to science. About 6,000,000 telegrams arc dispatched in the Dominion annually, but another million forms (waste) are needed for the people' who cannot write their messages ai the first attempt. The Patangata County Council ha s collected £. 15,652 in rates out of .£*9,075 struck, which is deemed exceedingly satisfactory considering the economic position of the farming community. Final lists of divorces in England in 1931 disclose that during the year 3800 decrees were made absolute. This is a record figure, being more than 600 in excess of the previous year. Down the roast near Pungarehn there lives a very good Irishman. His house roof is painted green, also other parts of the house, and on St. Patrick’s Day a. green flag flew from his wireless aerial. The Sir Francis Boys Cup, presented for the landing competition for A pilots at the' Wanganui pageant on Saturday was competed for for the first time. Strangely enough, the first winner was Sir Francis’s son. Pilot B. \Y. Boys, Hawke’s Bay. One of the best sales of cheese that has been effected by a Taranaki dairy company this season is that made by the Waingongoro Co., which is expected to return to shareholders approximately is id for butterfat Rations issued as relief by the Palmerston Hospital Board during February totalled 447 for 85 cases :n the whole district. There were io‘s rations issued to 2*o cast's in Palmerston itself.

Now that New Zealand has reverted to standard time, wireless listeners will require to remember that local time will be only one. and a half hours ahead of Australian time and not two hours, as during the summertime system.