Local AND GENERAL

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

Local AND GENERAL

Tlireo building- permits covering- a value of were issued in the Manawatu countv last month.

Lambing is general ift Ilatuma district, H. 8., and good percentages appear to be "the order of the day.

A dentist declares that a short sharp walk will often cure toothache. Especially if it is irt the direction of a dentist's surgery..

Falls of snow for the first time within living- memory occurred at several places in the Auckland province this week.

“Almost any man can keep chickens in his back garden,” says a writer. We know that. What we should like to know i- how to keep the thing-g out.

“If my partner persists in calling three spades with a hand on which he should pass, what should 1 rail ?' ’ asks in, reader. Call him a silly idiot. The Wait-otara County Council has decided to adopt the 'schedule, of salaries and wages agreed upon at the recent conference at .Marion, with the exception of leading hand 15s and motor mechanic 14s fid. I he count il also decided upon the statutory reduction of rent for surfacemen’s cottages. “What am I asked the headmaster of a New Plymouth school as he was 'about to leave the infant classroom he had been visiting. “Rude !” cam© the prompt response from a small boy. lie had donned his hat before leaving- the room to te-st the infants’ appreciation of good

The foundation, df -an early Christian chapel dating- from the fourth century have been excavated in the Roman town of ‘ 'Aqsuini um, near Budapest. The chapel which belong-

ed to the military ■ camp of Aquincum has a .sanctuary which forms three half-circles—a so-called cella trichora, such as those which were built in the first, century, another example of which'was excavated in Poes not long ago..

Last Tuesday Mr J. A. Pankhurst. flew over the summit of Mount Egmont with Mrs F. Bayh- as a, passenger. Mrs llayly was a Miss Fantham, after which family Fanthanvs Peek was named, and in her younger data climbed The mountain on a number of occasions. She confesses, however, that her greatest thrill came from filing over it. Ihe ’plane climbed to 11,000 feet, where the air .was bitterly cold.