LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Lambs are now fairly numerous in most parts of the W'airarapa.

1 here’s no trouble in becoming rich after you have made the first million.

Prison Governor: This work is wretchedly done. Convict: If my work doesn’t suit l can leave.

“Yes, Smith ought to talk about my being out a lot. Why, 1 see him .in the night clubs twice as often as he soog me.”

A German club has been formed in Auckland. The objects are the teaching of the language and the provision of opportunities of reading Gorman literati! re.

Yesterday was the iSth anniversary of the departure of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from Wellington for the seizure and occupation of Samoa.

Tho official organ of the New Zealand Motor Trade. Association says it is obvious that a* change of condi-

tions in. tho motor business is imminent, and the signs are that it will lie a change for the better.

There were 14 tenderers for the work of building a Presbyterian church at Killiin by, near Christchurch, the highest being ,£5lB and the lowest .£435. The latter was accepted.

; Straying from his home at Ohinemutu a child aged three years, Eric Waterman, fell into a hot pool. The child’s screams attracted attention and he was rescued before being severely injured.

Wellington’s City Council, by nine votes to six, referred back to the Reserve Committee it.s recommendation that a poll of ratepayers be taken on the question of Ihe desirability of closing the Zoo.

“Wo are not back to the profit making days of three years ago, .said the manager of a furnituremaikmg firm in Wellington, “but July was the best month we have had since the beginning of 1031Things seem to be on the turn.”

1 Quito a number of frost fish have been found washed up on the beach at Manawntu Heads during the recent cold spell. One .frosty morning a., beach resident picked up eight between Manawntu Heads and Tangimoana. The latest in schoolboy howlers wa s received by the examiners at a .Taranaki book-keepers’ test. In .answer to a request for a definition of discount one repl\ was: “Discount was something that we received for paying money honestly.” The loss of all his gold medals wa* suffered la.st week by Mr Herbert Fox, of Christchurch, a well known cornetist and for some time a leading player in the Dominion on tins ■instrument. Mr Fox wa.s away from drome for tho day, and during his •absence the houso was ransacked.

: A girl was taken to see a boxing pnatch. Coming away from the show, :her escort asked her how she enjoyed jt. “Oh,” she replied, “the boxers were all right, but these seconds arc a lot of funks. Did you notice how they .shot out of the ring as soon as there wag any trouble brewing - .-” Three pairs of shoes were placed on his front verandah to dry by an -Invercargill resident, lie bad forgotten about the* High School drive for the relief depot. The collectors quite '■naturally thought they were intended for the depot, and took them there. Auckland’s Athenaeum Cup has been missing for 20 years. No trace of it can be found anywhere. The cup, which is of silver and valued at .£-5? was competed for by Auckland debating societies until 1014, when tho contests- lapsed owing - to the intervention of the war.

When the manager of the Victorian W heat growers’ Corporation, Mr C. Judd, was asked recently whether he knew what happened to the millions, billions or trillions of mice that made a mouse plague, he replied : “You might <»s well ;sk where the (lies go in the winter.” There is an uncertainty as to the conditions that will obtain on the Auckland wharves this week in regard to the employment of waterside workers as the Dominion award under which the. men have been working ceaseg to operate from next Thursday. Probably because of the anxiety of work generally there* is more than the usual amount of activity in the ranks of those who make sales by commission, and it is alleged that there are some individuals acting in Invbrcargll as land and commission, agents without having secured the license necessary under the. Act. .