LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3742, 10 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Wanganui Gas Department has six months’ supply of coni on hand, so it is not likely to. he affected by the strike. About 60 single unemployed men arc to be engaged shortly in treeplanting at Karioi, where a camp is to 1)0 established. Approximately 25 men will be gent from Wanganui. The Christchurch Tramway Board, with a view to improving its service, is considering- the use of pneumatic tyres for cars running on rails. “Women form 75 per cent, of the passengers on excursion trains,” said ai railway official in Christchurch. “Tluy seem to have more go in them than men, and they are, in a sense, more adventurous than men.” While Mr IT. IT. Tocker, of Napier, was using a screw driver in. attending to his motor car, 'the tool, over which he was bending, slipped on a nut and penetrated his left eye, which subsequently had to lie removed. The fact that two itinerant unemployed had once. succeeded n | obtaining bed and breakfast for seven niglitg in succession, one from each of seven bodies in New Plymouth, was mentioned by the Rev. R. B. Gosnell. To date this season more than 136,001 ,ooolbs of butter have been produced in the Auckland province, an increase of io,iS4,ooolbs, or more than 8 per cent., on the returns for the corresponding period in the 1030-31 season. Famous as a wartime armed merchantman, the Cunarder Carman ia . (20,000 tons) has been sold for breaking up for ,£20,000. She was the first armed merchantman to attack and sink a German vessel of superior speed and armament, the Cap Trafalgar during the war. Miss Betty Nut hall, tlie tennis player, who reached the age of 21 years on May 23 received .£IOO from her mother for not having smoked before her 21st birthday. She said that the money had been easilv earned, because she had never wanted to smoke. A movement is on foot in Australia to have Sir Charles Kingsford Smith appointed Director of Civil Aviation in succession to Colonel Brinsmead, whose health, it is feared, since his injury in an air crasli near Singapore, will not allow him ‘to continue his duties. Three small boys were passing along the street in Now Plymouth one week night and observed Wliiteley church brilliantly lighted tip. This was evidently something which the boys were not accustomed to. One inquired : “What’s on in the church to-night?” The smallest of the three answered: “Oh. Mass, I suppose.” Bv an ingenious method an expert was able, to bring out the numbers on two motor car chassis which had been obliterated by thieves in Sydney. The numbers had .been filed away, the number plates replaced, and the cars repainted* The expert took only two hours to discover the correct numbers. A man walked into his club mopping his brow and looking distinctly ruffled. “By Jove,” he panted, “I've just bad a narrow squeak. I was almost run into by a beastly baby car.” “You weren’t hurt." asked a friend. “Oh, no,” said the alleged victim of the near thing, c ‘thanks to the fact that 1 happen to be bow-legged.” Miss -Hilda Nelson went to the Money C ler Office in Auckland to transact businew, and just a.g she was passing ,£3l over the counter a man grabbed the money and dashed off Eventually ho was run to earth at the top of \\ ynyard street. Miss Nelson is employed by the New Zealand FI ax millers’ Association. i “Do von mean to sav that you married again with your prospects?” said the S.M. to a divorced defendant at the. Wanganui Court. “When did you get married?” asked counsel of the defendant. “I can’t say exactly,” replied defendant. Counsel for defendant was then appealed to, but he, too, could not supply the date of the happy event. J “They say that the ago of miracles has passed,” said Mr R. j. G. Collins at the meeting- of the 1 Canterbury Rugby Referees’ Association in Christchurch. “But a miracle happened in the game i • was refereeing on. Saturday. A | player was struck in the back I y ' the ball and hurt. Tie groaned, and [ although the ball was still in play, I both teams immediately ran to his | assistance.”