LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Queensland meat interests are arranging for experimental .shipments of baby' beef to England. The Wanganui Poultry Association reports that eggs are selling at ids per gross wholesale. A six days’ cycling race is in progress at Brisbane, and will end tonight. Fourteen teams are competing. The fall in bank interest lias been welcomed by merchants and traders in Australia and is expected to give considerable impetus to industry. Under the eyes of many passersby a man broke a shop window in a busy Brisbane Street, the other day rtfid stole rive automatic pistols. The gold yield in West Australia for i lie past seven months was nearly T7o> ooo in excess of the value of the production for the corresponding period of last year. At a. con trad price of /TOO 5 the Christian Science Church authorities af New Plymouth has accepted a tender for the- erection of a Sun(lav school building. In a standard tost organised by the Federal Council of Education, Queensland children scored the highest;. marks in every branch of. primary educationThe first whitebait of the season were on sale in New Plymouth last Wednesday. The run up the North Taranaki rivers and streams is earlier this year than usual. Panama has 38 persons over 100 years of age in a total population of 467.450- Of these citizens, n arc men and 27 are women. They all live Hi small interior towns where life is anything but strenuous.

‘T don’t think T have earned more than' ios a week Since l started,” said a taxi driver of Napier carrying on business on his own account. ‘‘Last week I was one and sixpence short on the money l had paid for benzine. ”

That the whole nation 'should tackle the job of finding ways to

stimulate productive industry and i balance the Budget by other means than cutting- costs is the claim of the Now South. Wales Premier, Mr Slevetis. h A freak egg laid by a duck running on a farm at Cardiff road, near Stratford. Every egg it lays is black. It was thought that the food caused the blackness s bill as its companion lays the usual coloured duck’s egg, that theory must be- wrong. ‘•'The desire of the Government to bring business back to the railways is noticeable in the treatment one now receives from railway officials/' stated Mr D. Dustin at the meeting of the Wanganui and District Development League*. The probability of the mam railwav line from New Plymouth to Wellington being diverted at some future date so as to pass through Wanganui instead of Aramoho was discussed at the annual meeting of the Wanganui and District Development League. “Few people realise that the 47° prisoners in Mount Eden gaol and at Rangitoto represent nno-thifd of the prison population of the Dominion/’ said the honorary secretary of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society of Auckland, the Rev. G. E. Morelon. Says the football writer in the Dunedin Times: My information is that the four hardest working forwards in the All Black team which has just returned from a tour of Australia were flore (Otago), Purdue (Southland), Cottrell (Canterbury) and Clarke (Taranaki). ”1 disagree with you when you say that Chinamen take everything out of the ground,” said Mr 11. E. Leighton (Government assessor on the Wanganui Assessment Court) to. counsel when valuations of a. properly used as a Chinese garden were, under consideration. “'They put back more than they take out.” Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson, of Christchurch, first visited Mount Cook m 1862. A period of 70 years elapsed before he made his second visit, from which he returned this week. On his first trip Sir Arthur was a member of a geological survey .party under Sir Julius von I blast. Says the Huntorvillo Express: The local branch, of the Acclimatisation Society is arranging a conference at Eeilding to endeavour to arrive at an - arrangement so that fishing regulations shall be similar on both banks of the Rangitikci river. At present bait restrictions exist on this side, while there arc no stlcli restrictions on the Feilding side.