LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The average daily population of Britain’s '‘local” prisons h;is decreased to nearly half in the last 20 verb's, while the number of inmates in Borstal institutions has practically doubled. The first Southland wool sale will he held at Invercargill on Februaty 2. Tho limit is 30,000 bales. Fast year 19,430 bales were offered and this year’s total is expected to be about the same. A surprisingly large number of motoring parties from all parts of the country visited West port during the holidays, camping, on Patterson Park, where every facility is provided for visitors. : With increased orders coming in; the party of 56 men who took over Willsons (N.Z.) Pbrtiand Cement "'Company’s mind at Ilikurangi, hear Whangarei, under the co-operative system, has been Increased, and n further 21 mpa have been put oh. The birth ratCMh Sydney during 1932 was 14.95 pet 1000 of the population, the lowest yet. recorded. Fast year the figure was 16.25 per 1000. The number of births was 18,822, of which 965-2 were males and 9179 females. “I have never seen organisation like this before,.” said Mr Wilfred King'sford Smith to a Taranaki Herald reporter. Sir Charles had had some wonderful receptions at many places, but at no place had there been such splendid organisation and general arrangements as those made at Bell Block for the arrival of the Southern Cross. The Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company for tho year ended Juhe 30 made a gross profit of ,£5,190,119. The tonnage crushed wag 8,858,000 tons and the yield 3,151.029 ounces, valued at £13,380;000, or approximately £4 5s an ounce. The working costs were iSs iOjd a ton of ore crushed and thfi recovery 53s id a ton. By the death of Lord Henry Somerset, the Marquis of Hlintl\ . who i s father of the House of Lords; becomes the ’senior Privy Councillor. None ha£ previously held both positions. Lord Hunrly took his seat in 1868, on attaining his majority; he had succeeded to his father as eleventh marquess five years previously. Ho was created a Privy Councillor in 1881. An Aucklander who has just made' a tour of the Coromandel Peninsula is enthusiastic about the scenery, especially on the eastern side. He says that when tho road is continued from the Quarries, round Cape Colville, and eventually right down the Fast Coast side past Port Charles, Kennedy’s Bay, Mercury Bay, Tairua, Whangamaia and so on to Tauranga, it will be the finest drive in New Zealand. There is no finer camping country in the North Island. A NcwPlymouth resident not far from the centre of the town was disturbed at 4.30 a.m. on a recent morning and on getting up discovered a visitor in his garden stripping his plum tree. The intruder realised he was discovered and with his basket quickly cleared the fetich and got away on his bicycle. “Prowers with a basket so early in tho morning should bo suspect during the fruit season—in Feilding as in the Taranaki town.