LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3851, 6 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

.The cost to New Zealand of the last general election is set out. in the Estimates at .£55,971.

There have been no further slips on the roads from Napier to Wairoa or Taupa, cars on both routes continuing- to keep their timetables.

Vital .statistics for Otaki for September were: Europeans, births 8, deaths 4; Maori, births 2, deaths nil. Marriage notices issued, one.

Motor freight .services in New Zealand ran an aggregate of 1,062,890 miles during- the half year ended last July,

The All Groups index number of retail prices for August, 1932, shows a considerable decrease when compared with the corresponding figure for February, 1932.

“I smoke it a.s a pipe tobacco m preference to any other,” said l ord Rledisloe when referring to New Zealand tobacco in the course of the Cawthron lecture at Nelson.

A trial shipment of 150 cases of New Zealand grapefruit sent from Auckland to the London market some weeks ago arrived in good condition.

Provision made in the Estimates for the settlement, of unemployed workers, involves an estimated net sum of .£500,000, increased by crc-dits-in-aid to the amount of £lO,000.

The first, strawberries of the season made their appearance at the Auckland mart s this week. They were an excellent sample for the time of the year and realised 4s 2d a chip.

The first of the season’s hothouse tomatoes, a consignment of 17 cases from St. Martin’s, Christchurch, reached Dunedin on Monday" and were disposed of at the satisfactory price of 2s yd a pound.

Eggs are increasing in favour m Britain. The English production is increasing yearly and so also is the importation of eg-gs- The total consumption in 1030 rose from 464,333,000 dozen eggs to 477.275,000 dozen.

. So far this season approximately 6000 calves have been collected by the lorries operating from Shannon, and although the price paid to farmers is very- little, per calf in the aggregate it amounts to over X.-3°o locall v.

An adjudication made last- week prevented the Christchurch district ■ from having a clean sheet a*; regards bankruptcies for the month of September. The previous bankruptcy occurred on August 22 and it was the only one recorded in Christchurch in that, month. So far ibis year there have been 44 bankruptcies in Christchurch, compared with 63 in the corresponding period of last year.