LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3758, 29 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"White-bait is being netted at Ohau but only in small quantities.. A headline in a weekly paper asks: “Can Fish Smell?” Wo can only say they often do The banks' arc giving* to 'every baby born in Metz, Franco, a savings bank account and 5s i- placed to lus or her credit. ATr George Blake, assistant town clerk of Levin, has been appointed assistant county clerk of Pia.ko from 425 applicants. It is just one of life’s little ironies that a temperance institute 4 in Scotland should have gone into liquida tion. Totalisator investments in Victoria since the inception of the machine in. September total /?Bqo,oQO, and will closely approach £1 ,000,000 by the end of the financial year. Foot- rot in the sheep flock has been loss troublesome in Hawke’s Ray this season than for some years, although the wet weather in the autumn saw a few bad outbreaks. The Prince of Wales set a new fashion this summer by wearing a straw hat. An American paper facetiously states lie will now be able to see which way the wind blows. The whaling season in the vicinity of Tory Channel, Cook Strait, began with this month. Two large whales were captured last Wednesday. Inclications are that the season will be profitable. The Director of N.S.W. State Lot teries announced the other day that in 10 months (up to the 56th consultation) ,£2,200,000 had been received from loiters tickets and over £\ ,200,000 had liken' distributed in prizes. “We have suffered a good deal of 1 rouble through the breaking of insulators on lines in various parts of tho district,” reported All* \V. U. Buswoll, engineer, to tho Poverty Bay Power Board’s meeting*. The police are on the “watch for culprits. It was stated by the general manager, at New Pl> mouth, that the Farmers’ Co cp. Organisation Society of New Zealand did not cell up a single farmer in the year ending March 41. It had had to be hard on s°rne, but all had been fSffly t rented. Xot\yi ih s t and in g 11 ie unp ro Fi t able nature of tlio Orient Steam Navigation Co.’s operations during the pro sent financial year, it has agreed voluntarily to reduce the contract price for the pa triage of mails between Australia and Britain bv a sum of .£20,000 for Hie next financial year. “If the New Zealand delegates go to the Ottawa Conference placing New Zealand first in their aims and tho Empire second, we don’t deserve to gain anything at all,” said Air C. Trotter, general manager of the Farmers’ Co-operative Organisation Society of New Zealand. “They must approach the subject as partners, not as rivals.”