LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

More prison accommodation is be ing prepared for income tax default ers m. Britain.

Si 14- ns of better times in Victoria are shown- by> the. trade balance,

which is ,£4,000,000 higher, and also by the increased building- and fewer bankruptcies.

Under tho will of the late Mr Michael Wall the following Christchurch institutions each receive a bequest of £100: Nazareth House and Mo un t Ala gd al a ,1 lame.

It was reported at a meeting of the New Zealand University Council that the letters and journals of Samuel Marsden. contained in tlie ITocken Library would be published towards the end of- this month.

The sale of 15 farms in tlie Waikato in ten week§ has been effected by one firm of land agents in Hamilton, while other Turns have also bad a good deal of success in meeting th e lequire me nt asnoU pu rch a sets.

The Dunedin Jpckey Club passed a resolution that representations be made to the Government to permit of double totalisatprs being used and of bets being telegraphed to the course..

“I. am not a batting man, but those who like 1 a Tittle bet can wager that next session of Parliament will •see the taxation for unemployment raised still further.”—Mr Harry Atmore, M.P., at Stratford.

“New Zealand rennet compares more than favourably with the foreign article,” stated the manager at the meeting of the Tataramoa factory shareholders. “Well, it must have been improved,” commented a shareholder.

A Chinaman when passing the Customs was asked his name. ‘•'Sneeze,” he replied. Tlie Customs man, in. a. puzzled voice: “Is that vour native name? “No,” replied the Oriental. “I had it translated into English. Tt is Ah Choc!”

Mr Ernest Goudge, of Washington, when told L>y his doctor that he must have his foot amputated and his appendix removed, insisted on ha\ing the two operations performed simultaneously, lie said that ho was a busy man to whom time meant

Radio message* to Chateau Ton* gariro National Park, and to tho Hermitage, Mpunt Cook, were -sent out through the. Australian station 2UW. The. speaker, Captain F. Charfey, Chief Secretary for New South Wales, spoke from Koskinsko, the famous Australian alpine resort.

“Gold is the ’least useful of the metals,” remarked Mr Harry Aunoro, M.P., in an address at Stratford. He added: “They”‘dig up out of the bowels of the earth —where we can’t see it ! Then they put it in the vaults of the banks —also where we can’t see it!” (Laughter and applause).

The city Coroner exonerated the husband and friends of the woman who swallowed strychnine in a powder, reported on July 7 from Sydney, from the of which she died. The Coroner, in returning an open verdict, said : “The extraordinary thing is how did ‘the poison get

“Dentistry in England has made astounding- progress during recent years,” .said Dr.' WV Stewart Ziele,of Sydney. “Whereas*'in the past the world looked to- America in problems of tho teeth, it is now, as in other sciences;- looking to England. And it i.s not looking in vain.” The advance in dental science in England was astounding.