LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The number of counterfeit shillings in circulation in Wellington is reported to be increasing. A farmer near Turn tit, N.S.W., was found drowned in a watercourse in which the water was only 41m deep. t Master butchers "in Sydney say that the new Federal award' will result in a saving of ,£205,000 a year to the meat industry . Snip: Shap working for all he's worth. ; . Snorum : Yes; that’s his happy way of. saying he's getting only a pound a week. “Now,” staid tlie teacher, “can anyone tell me the past of ‘is’ ?” “Was,” replied the pupil. “And past of ‘be’?” “Buzz!” CVne of the curiosities of, the fowl house has found its way t-o the Levin egg- depot, i i is an egg with a spout, gourd-like. Kitchen gardens in Waipukurauare suffering severely from the ravages of .slugs, which are particularly numerous this year. A final reminder is given to invitation of the ball, to be bold in tlie Waituna Hall to-night, A free bus leaves Bains at 7.30 p.m. Yesterday afternoon ihe Minister of Justice, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, planted a tree. in the front of the grounds near ( the entrance gate to the Palmerston Courthouse. “Tlie whole problem of measles seems io be solved once ayo have worked out a few details,” said Dr. j. Brinckner, principal medical officer in the Public Health Department of the London County Council in recent interview. An attempt was made during the last week end to burn the Chertsey •(Christchurch) Tennis Club’s pavilion. Ton towels soaked in kerosene wore found to have been placed on the floor and were partly burned. Little damage was done. The Victorian Government contemplates appointing an out-side board to control all land settlement, including that now conrolled by the Water Commission. It’ is proposed that the chairman should ri ,£2OOO a year, .and two other members .£350 each. “A great deal of my time i,s taken up in attending to animals injured by motorists and left lying on the stre ets,'' Asa id' Alf D. J . White, inspector for the Canterbury* S.P.C.A. at the annual meeting. “In very few the animals picked up and brought io thp. animals’ home for attention. ” Phil May, the’famous humorous artist, died in but it is only recently that his biography has been written. The author is Mr Jarne s Thorpe, aiid the publisher Harrap and Co. The book will contain 100 reproductions of drawings, including his work on the Sydney Bulletin. The Bank of .Nova Scotia recently celebrated the 100th anniversary of its foundation. Established in Halifax in 1832, the bank has risen from a local institution to the front rank among Canadian chartered banks, being fourth in point of assets. The bank’s operations are conducted in 330 branches. A decrease in the numbers of passengers arriving at Auckland from overseas is shown in the return for September, which is 470? compared with 574 in August. There was also a decrease in the number who sailed overseas, last month’s figure being 642, compared with 752 in August. Twelve bankruptcies were filed in the Auckland district last month, compared with nine in September, 1931, and it in August of this year. Th© total for ihe first nine months of the current, year is 88, as against 96 for the corresponding period last year, 99 in 1930, and 103. in 1929.