LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Coal amounting to 140,000,000 tons is burned every year in Britain.

By heating' the soil of seed beds with electricity tt American horticulturist is speeding- up the production Of crops by as much a.s six weeks.

A suggestion that the New Zealand coat of anus should be used on railway carriages instead of the British coat of arms has been made to the Railway Board by the Now Zealand Tourist League.

I'lte Back to the Rail Movement is noticeable in various districts among football clubs. A report from the King- Country mentions the players' warm appreciation of the railways’ helpful co-operation. While fishing in Foveaux Strait a party of fishermen hooked and landed a stingray about four feet long', says tlie Southland Times. The stingray i s well, though not favourably known in warmer waters. There are 300 farmers of N.S.W. attending the agricultural conference at the ITawkesbury College. Three and sometimes four discussions are going on at once. The subject of droughts in particular is receiving close attention. An amalgamation of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches in the Federal capital, Canberra, is proposed. The combined churches, if tho proposal is finally approved, will probably be known as the United Australia Church. During this season the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has handled over 3} million brown .troutova, all in an excellent condition, with a very high percentage of hatching. Tll addition, the society expects to liberate about 300,000 Referring fo the value of publicity at a Southland League luncheon Mr M. 11. Mitchell said he did not consider the sending out of folders by the league was of much value. It was newspaper advertising that brought the best results. “It may interest you to- know that several of the large West End cinemas have now changed over to variety and dispensed with films entirely,” writes Mr William Elmer, London manager for Charles Begg and Co-., to his principals in New Zealand. With a view to encouraging working men to play golf, the Hastings Town Council in England have voted .£125 annually to the Hastings Golf Club on condition that the burg-es-ses of the borough are allowed to play at half the usual green foes charged for non-rnombers.

The killings at the South Otago freezing- works were a record last year and this year that record has been eclipsed by 5-170, the increase being to a certain extent accountable by the fact that this season the works opened a fortnight earlier than previously. The figures are: 19.32, 35G790; IO3G 346.311.

“Tell me tlie name of a. .single person in Blenheim who could produce £5 at short notice!” thundered counsel in ai cross-examining a witness at the Supreme Court. “Don’t give him too many names,” interposed his Tlondur. “Tie seems to be anxious to find someone with .some money.” The fcanna which sailed the oilier day from Gre-ymout-h for Melbourne carried a freight of (100,000 super feet of timber. The Kartigi is loading 700,000 feet for Sydney, and this week the Karepo is due to load 1 ,000,000 feet for Sydney. A steamer is scheduled to load a further i ,000,000 feet- early in August ior Australia. A Sydney paper reports that New Zealand lost the- benefit of a substantial amount of trade recently when an English merchant with thousands of pounds to spend on the purchase of dairy produce called at an Auckland merchant’s office and was kept waiting on the doorstep, being told thta the merchant was too busy to see him.

An unusual occurrence was witnessed at the Grey Power Board’s power house at Kaimata. A number of wax eye after a hasty meal from a piece of lard that had been discarded, found themselves incapable of movement. They remained motionless for some time, and no- trouble was found in gathering them up for examination purposes.

The easy way the Reofton public is taken down is more surprising (says tlie Inangahua Times). Some seven or eight weeks ago a young man canvassed the town for suits for men, and coats, etc., for ladies. He was eminently successful, and it is computed that he secured more than 50 orders, each being accompanied by a deposit of not. lesg than £ t. But no suits have turned up.