LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3929, 12 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The membership of the Greytown Swimming Club has reached 72, of which only six are senior members. Father O’Leary, the eminent Sydney seismologist, says there is no reason to fear earthquakes, provided buildings are properly built. It is estimated by banking- authorities that Christmas shoppng in Sydney put- into circulation nearly ,£4,000,000 more than for rhe Christmas of 1931. On page one Simson’s quote a few of their unequalled values in men’s and boys’ wear and on page eight they announce that they arc taking orders for suits to measure at very low prices. Based on the weekly price offered ly the Melbourne Mint, the value of £ 185,024 is given to the yield of Gold in N.S.W. in the first 11 months of last year exclusive of any bounty payable. Ngauruhoe i s active again and is playing to a height greater than on any other occasion since the eruption of 1926. The Governor-Gen-eral had an excellent- view of the spectacle. Lord Bledisloe inspected a new road to the ski-ing ground on the slopes of Mount Ruapehu, which had been built by prison labour.