LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3930, 13 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Four Featherston sportsmen who spent the week end at the coast are reported to have shot no less than 150 rabbits between them. There were 26 petitions for divorce filed in the Supreme Court at New Plymouth during last year, compared with 19 during the previous year. Big' gooseberry season : Goosberries of outstanding- size have been grown this season in the garden of Mrs \V. McGilvray in Palmerston. Five gooseberries together weighed a quarter of a pound. Enumerating hi s liabilities to Mansfield llench a man mentioned an item of 4s a week by which he is paying- off a loan secured to defray the cost of his marriage certificate and wedding- expenses. Rats and mice during- the holidays over-ran the offices of the New Lynn Borough Council, Auckland, and chewed up portions of the documentary records. A nest of 50 baby mice was discovered in a corner of one of the rooms. At Patea an unusual sight was witnessed at the heads last Friday ovening at high water when three vessels were seen leaving- the port a few ship’s lengths apart, and another vessel waiting- to enter until the three vessels had crossed the bar. An unusually heavy crop of fruit, especially plums, is being- harvested by settlers in the Ohura district, Taranaki, the trees being- laden so heavily that in many cases branches i have been broken or bent to the ground. There appears to be no market for this fruit. The sum of ,£2659 was paid to the Government a s a result of tlie twodav meeting- of the Stratford Racing- Club on January 2 and 3. This amount was made up of .£124 15s 4d in amusement tax, ,£1320 in dividend tax, and £1214 tqs 3d in totalisator tax. Tlie fruit supply in Auckland was replenished thi s week by nearly 3SOO cases of bananas micl 25 cases of pineapples, which arrived from Tonga by the steamer Waipahi. The shipment will be acceptable because fruit is not so plentiful now owing to the embargo on fruit from Australia. During- 17 days of arduous travelling, the heart of the the Urewera country was traversed, the remote headwaters of river s were visited and two mountains climbed by three members of the Manawatu Tramping Club, Messrs B. A. Buller, L. Seymour and L. Inglis, in a*holidav expedition just completed. During the time there were thunderstorms three days running. Two members of the crew of the steamer Canadian Conqueror, which arrived at Auckland from Montreal the other day, were taken ill on the voyage and had to be landed at Panama. No substitutes wore available to be engaged in their place, but a passepger on board volunteered to fill the vacancy of one. lie worked throughout the remainder of the voyage. The presence of two coastal vessels, the Hauturu and Totara, besides the overseas liners Northumberland and Taranaki, at the port in New Plymouth this week meant work for nearly 250 waterside workers. The Hauturu was discharging general cargo from Auckland, the Totara coal from Grcvmouth and the two liner s loading dairy produce and meat. A bottle of water from Wainui-o-mata, the s°urce of the Wellington water supply, was taken to Auckland by a Wellington man on his holiday, lie declared that there was no water in New Zealand like it. He used it for the dilution of* whisky. ITo said ho can get plenty of the latter in Auckland, but he like s it only when it. is mixed with the sparkling water of his native city. A very fast exhibition of scoring was given by F. Clark, Ponsonbv, in tlio senior cricket match against Y.M.C.A. at North Shore, Auckland, last Saturday. In the second innings Clark compiled 101 not out in 50 minutes, including 16 fours, four sixes, two braces and nine singles. Three sixes were scored off successive balls. Clark was also unbeaten with 45 to his credit in the first innings, including eight fours. Under the organisation known as the Canadian Pacific Railways there are 23,000 miles of railroad, 12 passenger liners on the Atlantic and four on the Pacific, freight steamers on the Atlantic and the lakes and rivers of Canada, a chain of 14 hotels, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 150,000 miles of telephone and telegraph line, as well as many private farms supplying the hotels, steamers and restaurants.