LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“World’s Biggest Dam Proposed.” Conditions demand it.—“ The Devil,” in New Plymouth Herald.

The Zealandia from Wellington arrived at Sydney at 6 o’clock yesterday morning.

Boy messengers on motor cycles are now employed by iho British Post- Office for the deliver;, of ieleg] a ms.

Although ther are 1000 girls born in England for every 1045 hoys, there, are twice as many women as men over the ag*e of 86.

Once again ! A financial writer says ve have turned the corner. We must now be just about hack where we started from.

Conscience money and gifts received by Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer have amounted to as much as ,£10,009 in one year.

There were five, bankruptcies in the Dunedin district during the past quarter. During the corresponding quarter -of last year there were eight.

Theatrical manager: Now, in the third act you eat a four-course dinner and drink a bottle of wine. Hungry actor (out of work for six months) : .Splendid ! Er—when do we start rehearsing?

Southern Hawke’s Bay farmers,more particularly those in the dairying district in the vicinity of Dannevirke, are now in the course of recovery from what has undoubtedly been one of the worst periods of feed shortage in the memory of old established settlers.

Building permits issued in Napiei during the past, nine month* were of a total value of ,£349,092, compared with £250,996' in the same nine months of last year. For the past quarter the total was £172,171, which constituted - a record for any similar period since the earthquake

The first big run of whitebait took place iii“ fbe ; Grew river last Sunday, when some of the fishers had very big catchc.s. There was a glut in the market, and, starting at is per pint, the price gradually declined during- the day until the fish were being sold as low as 3d per pin!.

“We have all learned much through this depression and have become better men because of it,” declared Mr H. W. Heslop at the annual meeting of the CanterburyWestland branch of the Real Estate Institute. “It remains for us to exercise greater care in advising clients regarding their buying.”

Rabbit shooting at night time from motor cars is a popular pastime in the Lower Waikato. Last week one man bagged 99 bunnies in a little over an hour, hut could not reach hi* century, although he battled on for another half-hour. On one occasion last spring he shot as many as 257 in a night.

Sir George Elliot, who has just EC-turned from a visit to Australia, had the opportunity of meeting the director*, of several large warehouses "over there. They all stated that business was on the increase, and they were of opinion that the tide had turned as far as Australia was concerned.

The abnormally dry conditions which have prevailed in Hamilton for the past few months are indicated by the fact that the rainfall for last month totalled only 1.38 m., as compared with 5-5 lin - f° r September, T 931. The total fall for the past quarter i* 5,7.7 m., against 15.44 m. during the same three months of last year.

“I don’t know whether our athletes are pin-heads or not,” declared Mr C. S. Thomas at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Amateur Athletic. Club, “hut most of them certainly don’t realise that they have to learn to run.” Many of our most promising athletes were being spoilt through not having their faults corrected early enough.

The famous Philadelphia Award founded by Edward Bok as a kind of Nobel Prize for "his. city , to be awarded each year to the person who has done most “to advance the best interests of the community, has this year been given to the city s fund for the relief of the unemployed. It w r as found that this fund had done, more than any one individual during the past difficult year to help the citizens to fare hardship with courage and faith.