LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3870, 29 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New South Wales produces oyer 50 per cent., of (he wool grown in A usti alia. Invercargill enjoyed hours’ uninterrupted sunshine on Labour Dav. German motor manufacturers are. placing* about 60 different inode If? on the market. Small fours predominate. Motorists travelling - distances are commenting upon the. absence of •swaggers. Possibly this is an indication df improving conditions. A prolific matron of the feathered world was discovered b.v a Limehills (Invercargill) boy recently when, he- came across a. thrust’s nest containing* 10 eggs. A message from Adelaide says Grimmett’s ankle is still giving him trouble and there is a possibility that he will be unable to play against England on November 4. The express train last Wednesday morning took away from, Hokitika for Christchurch about So tins of whitebait. Catches in Grey mouth are declining, and the price has advanced again to is bd a pint. Scotland Yard has accepted the offer of the London Automobile Association to place hundreds of patrols and telephone boxes at. the disposal of the police to deal with motor bandits! “A young maitiks legs may not get as far as an °lder man's iac.t, ’ said a member of the Huntorville Rabbit Board in reply to a remark that young inspectors were more suitable. The trustee* tYfothe Moule estate forwarded to tfhey Finance Committee of the North-Canterbury Hospital Board a cheque for £OBS, being the income from, the estate applicable to the Tautrartgi Home for the year ended August 31. There were oyer .20,000 attendance ..at the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society’# Spring Show on Thursday la-st (People’s •Day) The gate takings for the two days oi the Show were .£c)o4* compared with ,£1037 last war. Norman Brookes says that should ' Australia not challenge for the Davis Cup next year, he thought, it certain that a team would bo sent to Japan .and he believed that \ • McGrath, the boy wonder, would bo selected. The increasing popularity of Morere as a resort has induced the Government Tourist Department to commence, extensive alterations and additions for increased accommodation to the baths at the Morere hob springs, TLB.'

Thu bunkering trade at Westport has fallen away very considerably. The number of vessels calling at the port to replenish "their coal bunkers during the past seven years was as follows: 20, 44, 1, 54, 57, 24, 10. “I caught a splendid specimen of black rabbit recently,” said a member of the TTunterville Rabbit Board, on Tuesday.. ‘"That . must be one you imported from tjie South Island,” was the rejoinder of another member. The examination of .the poisonous katipo spiders is a spare time hobby of a Christchurch boy. They have become numerous in the district where he lives and being an expert on their habits he - hunts for them in Ihe fences. A lfne-d Johnson. 1 assist ant-post-master of William street post office, Sydney, who was attacked by bandits who th'rewJ Afmmonia in his eyes on September' 2r>, is now totally blind. Doctors made desperate efforts to gave the sight of one eye, but without avail. Disappointment at the number of suitable boys [coming* forward for farm work was expressed by Mr N. G. Gribble at a meeting of the Auckland Boys’- Employment Committee. ‘T could place. 26 boys tomorrow on good farm jobs if they were A landlord "Whose la>st three tenants of a. house at Northcote, Auckland, had each promised to pay 10* a week, but practically nothing, was granted remission ot half tlie rates for the. past year at the last meeting of the Northcote Borough Council. The house had not been occupied for a year. The works of Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland Cement, Ltd*, a t Portland Whangarci, will be opened next Monday, after having been closed since October 8, owing to shortage of orders and teh feat that all storage bins ware full. AH the employees, numbering about 120. will •be re-em.ployed.