LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Street appeals made during- 1931 in Christchurch produced £,7 4^1., About 31 per cent, of the Christchurch City Council's rates remained unpaid last Monday. The Mamma arrived in Sydney yesterday morning* from Auckland and Iho I'limaroa from Wellington. The total number of consumers of electricity. in Palmerston is now 56-8. A school of dentistry in America is collecting jawbones. America is a good place in which m find them.— Punch. “From Information Received” is the very apt title of a book of memoirs by-Mr Cecil Bishop, a Scotland Yard detective who recently retired. “I have lived in the Taihapc district for 30 years, and I am certain that the last four mouths is easily the driest I have ever experienced,’ ’ stated a farmer to the Times * Mr J. Burrows, 90 years of age. of Wellington, had hi s first flight at Wanganui on Saturday. The old gentleman was thrilled by his new adventure. Apples were introduced into Canterbury by Mr John Deans who brought the variety known as the Feather Coat or Common Russet front Nelson as early as 1845. Mr Deans also brought the first year and plum trees into Cantetbury. “Being* cabled a wowser will not hurt anybody. It it did I would have been dead long* ago. 1 would rather be a wowser than a souser any day.’’ —Hon. L. M. Isitt, speaking at the Sydenham Football Club jubilee church service on Sunday last. The once popular lobster bath in the Kairau Reserve at Rotorua is now a thing of te past. This hot pool, which had a depth of from six to eight feet, situated among the scrub of the reserve, wa s open to the public, and many free baths were enjoyed. It is now only a mud puddle. A Canadian, Mr F. D Ward, who had spent the past 21 years in South Africa and is now on a world tour, told a pressman in Wellington that South Africa was in a very bad way and was not exporting- on account of tlie adverse exchange rate. The only industry supporting the country at present was goldmining*. It it were not for that, South Africa would be poverty stricken.