LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Expenditure on flax research is too high, states the Economy Commission.

During last week Stratford residents frequently noticed that Mount Ngaruhoe was active.

Jim: Why does Tom wear a beard? Bob: Because his wife knits his neckties.

The moneylender to client: I shall follow your future with considerable interest*

Ruth Chat ter ton lived on iod when she first tried to get a job in New York.

The number of electric heaters in the Government Buildings, Wellington, is considered unnecessary. A sum of .£1250 could be saved.

Public Servants who appeal to the Public Service Appeal Boards should pay a foe of 10s Gd is the advice of the Economy Commission.

No bankruptcy petitions were filed in Gisborne either in the month just ended or in the corresponding month of last year.

Frank Crowley married Katherine Crowley at Massena, New York, and the Right Rev. Mgr. C. J. Crowley officiated.

They are finding stranded trout on the banks of Nelson rivers. However, they are not the only poor fish that are stranded.

Teacher: Can anyone give me one. of the Ten Commandments containing- only four words? Boy: Yes, miss. “Keep off the grass.”

Maurice Maeterlinck, author of the “Life of the Bees,” has had the tiile of count conferred on him by the King of the Belgians.

If you have a. license you may begin to *fish for rainbow and brown trout to-day. There is no license for telling fish .stories—10-morrow.

Clive Brook, who was a major in the British army during the war, was in the second battle of Yimy Ridge and the Battle of Mescinos.

The Economy Commissioners consider that £.7000 paid to assist gold prospecting to bo carried out should be stopped.

“Wo see no reason why a charge should not bo made for the medical examination of candidates for the teaching profession,’ ’ states the Economy Commission’s report.

Rotorua hotels, licensed and private, can accommodate 1600 poisons. The tariff ranges from 7s to 22s 6d per day. The population of the borough is 5270.

Tho best run of whitebait for the season took place in Grey river on Friday, when good catches were landed. The retail price in Greymouth fell to is 3d per pint.

“A s a party/* declared Mr 11. G Welfc, the London Socialist, “the Labour Party ia 'plainly feeble-mind ed, feeble in thought, feeble ip will It i.s amazing what it failed to do.’

T understand from official sources that one of the reasons so few people are coming to New Zealand is that so many arc remaining away. “ZamioL”

A visiting Australian politician remarked that there are no pavement artists in New Zealand. The possible reason i.s that none of our is stone broke.

Tho master bakers of Christchurch agreed that from Saturday last, the retail price of bread delivered will be iod per 4Tb loaf for cash and qd rash over ihe counter.

Lincoln in Nebraska has banned funerals on Sunday. By unanimous vote the City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting Sunday funeral services and ihe Ministers’ Association approved.

If one officer instead of seven were appointed to deal with immigration and if the Immigration 'Department were amalgamated .with Labour, a saving of .£2600 a year would result, states- the Economy Commission . During the iq.3l season more, than 1,000,000 carcases of frozen lamb were exported from Southland. This season rhat number will be considerably exceeded. The winter has been one of the mildest- for many years. The. executive of the Canterbury Mia n ufact ure rs.’ Assoc ia i ion decid ed to instruct its delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, this week to- draw attention to the advisability iof making the. primage charge ap-' ply to all kinds <?f imports.