LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3794, 11 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The bobby calf business is in full swing- again in Taranaki.

\\ hitebait have made their appearance in some of ihe streams in the Otaki district. Several very fine frost fish have befcn found on the- Otaki beach during- the past few days. The average realised by Mr \\ . J. Ross’s herd of 30 dairy cows at Baidu tha the other day wa k => £l7 17s fid. The top price was /JlO ios. An attempt is to- be- made to have Alsatian dogs in Gisborne put liVtder rigid conirol by the. Borough Council. There are 70 children at the Otaki Health camp. There are also wo teachers and a school will soon bo in full swing.

Tho Otaki tin flic bridg'e has had a deal of knocking about of recent date, several accidents having occurred. there. Rails in five places have been broken.

The Manawatu County Council has decided to erect a fence at the corner of Leon's Lino at Kopano and paint it white. This should be appreciated by those driving at night.

“This country would not be in the state it is to-rlay if the farmers had not deserted tlie horse,” declared Cr. 11. \Y. Wise, at the meeting of Riccaxton Borough Council.

Sergeant: If you could shoot as well as you cat, you’d be O.K. Recruit: Well, I’ve been practising eating- for 2(1 years, but I’ve only had this blinking gun a fort nigh :.

It is possible that regular contests between teams of ae.ro pilots representing New Zealand and Australia will bo inaugurated at the Auckland Aero Pageant early next- year.

Two gangs of 15 men each have gone under the small farm scheme, to work in the Otaki Gorge, one lot on Messrs Grant and Corrigan’s property, ,and the other on Messrs Avery and Arcus’ land.

The estimates passed 3 by the Levin Borough Council provide for receipts to the amount of ,£20,000 and expenditure of ZhOoLb for the current year, leaving a credit balance of £573 at March 31 next. “I have addressed Rotary Clubs from Invercargill to \Vfiaiigarei,” Miss Stevenson said in Auckland, “and I know all about them. I know, for instance, that they are the worst singers in Chirstcburcli.”

“"I he main roads in Australia are wonderful” says Mr Montgomery, of Christchurch, ° n his return from a tour. “We ran 3500 miles over perfectly graded highways, many of them sealed with bitumen. Petrol varied from 2s to 2s a gallon.

Devito the cool weather prevailing, several small catches of whitebait were made on Sunday in the Grey river. The shoals were scattered, but offered sufficient inducement for whitcbailors to put out their nets.

It was gratifying to find so many New Zealanders holding high positions in 'AustralUr- said” Mr Montgomery of Christchurch, and most Australians seemed to envy New Zealand its equable climate and apparent solidarity in times of trouble. “There is no question that England h-ad turned the corner towards recovers,” stated Air j. Howie, of the firm of Abbott, Armstrong and Howie, who* returned to Auckland lhi s week from a business trip to England. To make him responsible for anything- that might happen, the mechanic who had the major part of the work of assembling an aeroplane always ig sent up on the first trial flight, according to the practice of the New Zealand Air Fort e.

“There seems to be a feeling of optimism right through the Dominion that the country has generally taken a turn for the better.”—Air A. E. An sell s AJ.P., who lias been making investigations in both islands regarding tlie problem of unemployed boys. An appeal was made by the superintendent of the Thames hospital for people willing to give a pint of block! for transfusion to a. patient lying dangerously ill. Within an hour seven offers were received and altogether a dozen people made application for the test.

Officers of the Industrial Affairs Department will shortly commence liberating trout fry for. the winter stocking .season. At tho present time 600,000 fry are being handled in the department’s hatchery at Fairy Springs, and will be liberated in. Lake Rotorua this week.