LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bramwell Bros. advise on page one that they have full stocks of all spraying- materials.

Mails which left Wellington on rath July via San Francisco arrived in London on the gth inst.

Despite industrial depression some 2000 companies in Britain mack net profits of Rjioo.ooo.ooo in 1030.

A colleg-e professor says the price ol" civilisation is insanity. If he thinks tho present brand of it .? worth going-- insane over,’ he’s crazy.

To deal with consumers who are lax in paying" their accounts, the ITeathcote County Council is contemplating- the purchase of some, prepayment electricity meters. A Chinese, Chee Lung-, was prosecuted in the Magistrate’s Court in Auckland on a charge of failing to pay an instalment of the unemployment levy. £1 and costs was the penalty.

In spite of the cold weather that has been experienced in Auckland during the past few weeks, jellyfish have made an unusually early appearance in tho Waitemafca harbour. Fairly large shoals'have been seen.

Taxi drivers at Nelson are among those who have suffered seriously as the result of the prevailing conditions. “There are about 25 taxis c gistered here and not one is making a living at thc=* present time ’ said one of the drivers.

The condition of leading- Aircraftsman J. Simpson, who was injured in an aeroplane crash, has slightly improved. The injury is not likely to result in the loss o-f his sight. Squad-ron-Leader Findlay ig also off the serious list.

The grass grub has made its appearance in force in the Miranda district. about six miles from Waitakaruru, on the property of Mr Cl. Findlay, who has had the lurthcr .misfortune to lose.about iou acres of grass feed through the recent severe frosts.—Thames Star.

“\\'o have seen some wonderful scenery in other parts of the world, but nothing has surpassed the 100mile trip from Christchurch to Greymouth. It delighted us, and wo would have been very sorry had we missed it.”—Mr R. F. Anderton, financial manager of the English. Rugby League team.

Orders for eggs were received last week in Otago from England. If reports are true, the. quantity in store in Holland and Belgium i s smaller than usual and the new British taiiff does nor stimulate the supply from Ireland. These factors encourage the Dunedin promoters of a scheme for reviving the regular export of eggs from New Zealand.

Says the Thames Star: At the recent Hikutaia stock sale one farmer entered a line of 20 young- pigs, expecting to get about 10s a. head, as he had not taken much care with them. There was a large entry m the pig section, but, to the farmer’s surprise, his pigs topped the sale ait 19s.

Says the Dunedin Star of 50 years ago : The Australian cricket eleven met the Players of England on the Oval. Scores—Players: First innings, 310 (M. Read 1.30, Barnes .87). Australians: First itinings, 150 (Murdoch 35,. Horan 47) ; second innings, 138 (Massie 31, Giffen 23). The Players thsu won by an innings amd 32 runs.

“If we- don’t, meet the position shortly we will reach a time when Air Coates and Mr tfoVbes will go to inspect an unemployed* camp containing Ministers of the prown. Every one would be workings.” Mr A. F,. Robinson, provincial secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, in an address at Whangarei.