LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3759, 30 June 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr A. Worrall, of Auckland, is stated to have established a record by being- a member of the Epsom School Committee for over 48 years. The free ambulance in Palmerston North had a record day yesterday, responding- to qo fewer than 10 calls for help, including- three motor car and cycle accidents. With the wattle coming- into bloom now in Hawke’s Bay, a num ber of districts prevent a very beautiful aspect, says the Napier Tele graph. No trace has yet been found of Thomas Phelan, who jumped into the Grey river from the Kaim-i.ro. on May 11, although a daily patrol is being carried out on the North Beach by the police. The whole of the 50 acre block of Victoria Park, Christchurch, which was planted with forest trees a few years ago, including- the area which was burned over last year, i s being prepared for replanting. Tn order to preserve the secrecy of their medicines, some West End specialists in London have been prescribing' by using- numbers, ibe meaning of these being understood by one chemist only' Under the will' of Mrs Adelaide Stephen, of Dovonport, Auckland,, who died on Match 10,, the residue of the estate, estimated at several hundred pounds, is left 10 the Presbyterian Social Service Association. Young SiribUng, having fought both Schmeling and Shrkey had no hesitation in telling a Sydney inter viewer that the beaten man, Schmehng, was the better of the two. The result was a complete surprise to him. The Kawarau river, Otago, remains at a remarkably low level. Some of the miners have been fos sicking along tire banks, in one or two cases with good results. One man’s return included a Odwt. nugget and another of ;'>d\vt., while in one-third of an ounce won by an other in a day was a 3dwt. nugget. When Premier Ramsay MacDonald left the nursing home after Iris recent operation in London he was seriously warned by his medical ad visors that he-must not do so much flying in future. I ravelling in carefully sheltered-ealoon aeroplanes will not be absolutely barred to him, but there will liavq /to be no more journeys in the open R.A.F. fighters, of which he is so fond. “During the past year we have had numerous faces where we have had negotiations between the mortgagee and mortgagor with a view to making arrangements bv Which the occupier of life land can be enabled to carr/ on, and this is the only case in my knowledge where an offer made by the mortgagor has been refused,” said the represent;) tive of a large stock firm at a meeting of creditors in Christchurch. The tomato season is getting under way once more and already some of the growers are planting their glasshouses down Christchurch way. “I’m not planting my houses yet, said one grower in Bowenvale, “as it costs a fortune in coal to keep them heated to the required tom- . perature. If you wait a month or so the air is much warmer and the difference of a few- pounds that you get on the market- by early planting does not compensate for the big out lay on extra coal.”