LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ihe secondary - industries of the Dominion employ 80,000 hands. “That fellow owes me ten pouds.” ‘‘And won’t he pay it?” “He won’t even worry about it!” A police raid in Melbourne is said to have disclosed illegal bettingtransactions involving: hundreds of thousands of pounds. The cost of the compilation of the history of Australia’s part in the war i s already nearly .£70,000 and the job is not yet finished. A public movement has been inaugurated to provide cottages for the widows of the constables killed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Feed is coming- away well in the Waipukurau district, and the grass is coining" with a rush following the recent rains. Births in Salvation Army homes in New Zealand last year totalled 500 infants. Jn 60 per cent, of the cases the mothers were unmarried. The. 32nd spring show of the Wellington Horticultural Society was a record in the number of exhibits and in the* attendance of the public. An So miles an hour midget motor car to cost under £2OO is announced by the M.G. Car Co. of Abing-dpii-on-Thames, London. For the position of first assistant on the office staff of the W'aihi Borough Council 218 applications were received. Traffic constable: Hey! What’s the idea? Didn’t you hear me whistle 10 you? Pretty girl motorist: Certainly 1 did, and if you tried it again. I’ll report you. The Sydney City Council is preparing to float a loan of .£100,000,©oo, half for the electricity department and half for resumptions and inn pro vem ents. A trial shipment of dressed poultry from Perth, Westralia, to Singapore met with an excellent demand, returning r.s pd per lb. gross, better than the relative price on the Friglish market. “I have been here a. few days, but during that time I have not heard a single doleful word,” declared Mr John Payne, who has returned to Napier after an absence of 13 years in Sydney. The N.S.W. Government i s to bring down legislation to compel sons of widows who are in employment and in a position to do so to contribute 25 per cent, of their earnings to their widowed parent. The secretary: A gentleman has .called for an interview. He wishes you to tell him the secret of your wonderful success in life, sir. Millionaire: H’m. What is ho—journalist or a detective ? A League of Nations report .shows that, the British motor industry doc Tined by only 1 per cent, in 193° and 4 per cent., in. 1931. In C.S.A. and Canada the reductions were 5 and 25. per cent. during those years. Recent, developments in the markets for Australian fruit trees in the East are reflected in the fact that a, record consignment over 3000 trees left Melbourne for an Eastern destination by the Hobson's Bay last week. While carrying out the ritual of his office as W.M. of Lodge Lein-ceste-r Marine C entenary Lewis in the Masonic Temple, in Ca.sllcreigh street, Sydney, Mr Arfs A. Nassoor, a well known ciiy business man, collapsed and died. The manager of a Rockdale, Sydney, picture theatre discovered a young man endeavouring to open a safe in his office. After a desperatefight the thief, who was armed with an iron bar, escaped from the. building. A man was subsequently arrested. As regards petitions > n bankruptcy in the Christchurch district, the number last month was the fcame as in August—there was one only in each month. For the. calendar year so far there have been 45 bankruptcies, compared with 62 in 1931 for the corresponding period, a decrease of 17 during 1932. A plum tree, of a variety known In the north a,s the Christmas plum ,—which apparently corresponds to the cherry plum in these parks—was planted in Morrinsville in 1887. To-dav the tree is of magnificent proportions. Standing at' least 30ft. high, its branches spread out in dome-shaped fashion, giving a total spread of over 50ft. The longest branch extends 27ft. over the ground from the trunk.