LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3792, 9 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The price of oil is about to rise, T shall abandon fny petrol lighter for matches.—“Zamiol.” Clerk: 1 heard you had some mofiey left. you. Cashier: Yes. It left •me ar long* time ago. A set of the original parts of cho “Pickwick Papers” fetched £3OO at a recent said irt London. A memorial to- Lewis Carroll, the creator of “Alice in Wonderland,” is to be erected at Rugby School, where he was educated. Britain now imports more butter (by value) tha-n any other single commodity and New Zealand supplies nearly one-quarter of it. A panel of Flemish, tapestry valued at £ 1350 fetched only ,£2B at a recent auction sale at Brougham Hall, near Penrith. England. Good supplies of now potatoes are being* received aL .the city markets in Auckland from northern districts and selling- tinder brisk competition at.lid*to 2td per lb.

“It costs as much' to instal a new churn in a factory nowadays as it does to build a new house; there must be something 1 wrong- somewhere,” remarked M-r R. B. Sutton, chairman, at the meeting- of the Moa Dairy Co., Taranaki.

Tho suggestion that- part of the Auckland City Council’s farm at ■'Harkins’ Point, near Riverhead, should bo cut up into small farms for tho relief of unemployment will 'probably be reported upon by a special committee at next Thursday’s meeting- of the council.

One of the largest udcl finest oak trees in New Zealand is on the farm of Mrs A. M. Hodgson, of Tmnahere. The free ip 60ft. in height, and its branches have a spread of 34ft. The trunk at. the ground is 21 ft. in circumference and the first limb is 13ft. Gin. from the ground.

While appreciating- the generous offer of Archbishop Averill to give up the use. of Bishopscourt and a largo pair-t of his stipend, the Standing Committee of the Auckland Diocese has concluded - that ihe acceptance of the sacrifice would not be in .the best interests of the diocese or the province of New Zealand.

A diarv written by a boy of 11 years was b.anded*m as evidence and' emoted in the course. r>l\ a case hoard in the Supreme Court in. Auckland. The young diarist, also.' gave evidence in person. In the same case a newspaper containing an advertise-

ment concerning- a circus was ten derod as evidence.

It is an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt and evidently the manufacturers of clay targets for New Zealand sho’otist's agree with it. A case of targets lving in the Customs goods shed in the railway yards, Christchurch, doe's not bear the usual warning., “Fragile—Handle with Care.” but is labelled, “Fragile —Handle Like Eggs.”

A rather good story was told by Mr C. M. Hume in Ekotahuna. In company with a. dairy breeder he attended a sale of marked calves. The ‘breeder, who had an entry expressed nervousness and stated he could not sell a penny below £3 ssTor marked heifers, as it had cost that to rear them. Mr Hmno predicted that the sale would justify itself. When tho breeder’s stock; was offered, the bidding went up to £7 ss, and. the auc-

tioneer asked: ”\Vhat about it ? : The breeder considered and then rc olied with apparent reluctance “Oh, well, I suppose I will have i meet, the market.”