LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Matty : Hello, Fatty. Walking- lo reduce? Fatty: No. Reduced to walking.” Copies of the first edition of the famous Bradshaw's Time Table published in London in 18.39. are now worth /Too each. The Sydney Chamber of Maiiufao turers opposes any step that would jeopardise the Queensland sugar in* d us try. The Wanganui primary schools will observe the second term holidays from Friday afternoon. August iq ; till Monday, September 5. One-third of the films exhibited in Victoria for the year ended June 30 last wore released only on condition that they were not to be shown to children.

Tenders have been invited from two South Australian firms for building 1000 motor bodies for ah English firm of motor manufacturers which is commencing business on a large scale, in Australia, fho outlay on these bodies will be in the noigh--1)ourhood of TIOO,OOO.

‘‘The sooner the matter is settled the better/’ .said the Mayor of One free Mill Auckland, Mr 1. J. Gold-

sine, at a meeting of the Borough ( ouiicil when it. was decidocT to ask the Government to proceed at once

against the council in regard to arrears of rate s on properties which have reverted to the Crown.

One of the .Finest relief systems he had seen was thaj4=MU:-.operation at Auckland, said Mr S. G. Smith, ALP. T here all f%Lßfganisations had combined to work through a central depot. An unemployed man could buy a shirt costing 4s for 2s, boots costing 12s 6d fop.6s 3d, .socks lot 6d, and underclothes for is 6d. The Relief Commit tot?; made up the difference in price. The New South. Wales Government has instructed Treasury officials to prepar ea, plan of effecting economies in the railwa\ administration. It. is suggested that the retirement of 3000 surplus officials may be ; affected. T here are difficulties in the way, as the.:* law provides tor •superannuation gratuities which would involve /J 400,000 ih the first year and Too,ooo j, 1.1 Hio second year. Savings of /hcoo/oo a year in invalid and old aeg pensions and of /Too,ooo in war pensions are beingconsidered by the Federal Government in its .effort to balance the Budget. A tightening up of all pensions is suggested b> a report of the Auditor-General. The number of old age pensions now issued is 183,703, an increase of 27,255 in the last two years,’a ! nd invaldi pen&onsi, 72,660. arc considerably in exicesg of those granted two years ago. “The unemployment scheme today is robbing the thrifty atid helpring the unthrifty,” stated a Stratford business jua'n in conversation with the Post. “The solution to tinwhole trouble would have been the suspension of the operations of all awards so that things could find the it own level.” He maintained that the greater proportion of the unemployed would thereby have been absorbed. It will be of interest to Feildihg people to note that the nine year old hr-v who* is to appear under the narrU of Tad Alexander -u the Palace Theatre, Palmerston North, in “To-morrow and To-morrow,” with Miss Ruth Chatterton is a young

Californian .who has made good in the film world. The Eeilding interest lies in the fact that Tad Alexander is a nephew -of Mrs J. S. Tingey, of Kimbolton road. Although the lad has not been to New Zealand, Mr and Mrs Tingey saw quite a lot-of him when they vLUed America.