LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Einstein can’t deride whether the universe is static or dynamic. Our neighbour ran—he owns a radio.

“Things in Samoa are going ahead smoothly, they have never been, better,” says Premier Forbes.

Charles Ray is to return to the /screen in ‘“The Wayne Murder Case.”

The Wanganui Poultry Association reports that eggs arc sellingin Wanganui at 13s per gros s wholesale.

Actor: And the audience, my bov were glued to their seats. Rival Ah ! That was a neat way of keeping them there.

A doctor asks: “Is golf exercise?” To which we might reply : What matter? It is recreation, and that is enough.

After many weeks of hard work a party of three prospectors in the Back Creek district of Westland secured some good samples of heavy gold last week.

A legal authority mentions that a cow has a legal right to use the road. Motorists say this -only confirms ’what the cow seems 1o have known all along.

The life.story of Florenz Ziegfeld is to be put on the screen in “The Great Glorifier.” Many of the beauties he glorified are to appear in the picture.

The Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association has accepted a tender for the painting of the old grandstand which has been moved to a new location.

There seems to he a lot of talk of late about the Dove of Pence, hut about all we seem to see of that elusive bird of passage is the hill. — Punch.

Of 2,354,000 motor cycles registered in Europe at the end of 193?, 760380 were in Germany and 640,152 in Britain, France occupying third place with 469,100.

Britain does not consume so much margarine as other countries. Denmark uses annually 4olbs per head of the population, Holland 2olbs, Germany lylh.s and Britain 15lhs.

A Canadian motorist, says he recently came abreast of a deer and accelerated to 55 miles an hour, but the anintal kept ahead of him and then turned off in the undergrowth.

Aviation in all its forms is popular in Germany, particularly gliding ; 817 gliding certificates were issued, and 241 airmen trained for their pilots’ certificate* to fly • aeroplanes, last year.

To drive from llawera to Opu* nake., a distance of 30 'miles, in a small car similar to his own without realising- that it did not belong to him, was the experience of Mr J. Spence, of Opunake. recently.

At a place six hundred miles up the Amazon river jungle land is being- cleared at the rate of a thousand acres a year. A rubber plantation has already been made of 5000

The will of Mr Samuel Gat diner, formerly of Oxford, who died at Christchurch on. September 17, provides for a bequest of £2OO to the trustees of the Oxford District High School.

An octogenarian at Perk ham, London, used to ho Charle* Dickens’ office hoy. He says he was in terror of him when he. took him his afternoon cup of tea and a bundle of proofs.

“They are as 'free as the air and they can return to Samoa when they wish,” was Premier Forbes’s comment concerning- the position of Mr O. F.Nelson and others whose term ‘of deportation is up.

A small hoy whose father had forgotten a parking by-law went to school the other day and informed his classmates that, a policeman, had called at hi s place selling blue papers and his mother had bought

The straw boa'ior, which the Prince of Wales has restored to fashion in England, once more made Itg appearance )in Auckland last Saturday. Window displays of the new hats attracted considerable .attention in Queen street.

The. shining cuckoo has been heard in a number of Wanganui gardens during the week. This bird, otherwise known as the pipiwharauroa, comes from Samoa and other South Sea Islands in the early spring. Usually it is first noticed in the Far North of New Zealand, and from there it spreads over a wide , range,