LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Several skeletons of whales are to be seen on the beach between W harekauhau station and Orongorongo station, Palljser Bay, Lower Wairarapa. An appeal for funds i s being made by the Young Women’s Christian Association, and, by way of assistance, a rinks or pairs bowling tournament, will be played in Christchurch to-morrow. An eel about eight inches long in the water supply pipe of a Hokitika hotel blocked the pipe and cut' off the supply for nearly two hours* The eel was located in the stopcock from the. main and had to bo cut before it could be removed. Visitors to the Tongariro National Park last Tuesday were afforded a magnificent spectacle when increased activity by Ngaruhoe was signalised by an immense column of smoke issuing- from the crater. The column reached a. height of 1 oooft. There was snow on the ground when Miss D. Moore, infant mistress of the Stratford primary school, visited Jerusalem in the early part of last year in the course of a sight-seeing- trip. Thi s was a most unusual occurrence, she stated in the course of an interview on her return home. A resident of Christchurch secured two pounds of mushrooms in a paddock adjoining his residence h Thursday morning of last week. Although their presence is unusually early compared with tlie most usual season—February jmd March—there have been many similar incidents recently. Many campers during the Christmas and New Year h< lidays report having obtained mushrooms. Showers at night and a warm morning following cause their growth. The notion that all the old motor cars were s°urces of more trouble than amusement was dismissed by Mr S. .Edge in a lecture at the Automobile Association rooms, Christchurch. “We really had some interesting machines in the old days, getting- great amusement and pleasure out of them,” he said. Although many people now trade in their cars at- 15,000 miles, Mr Edge said that he gained double that mileage in two years from one clever little air-cooled machine he had.