LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 11 March 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mrs Brown: I hope you didn’t, take a. second piece of cake at (he party ? Bobby : No, ma. I took two pieces the first time.

111 the first, eight months of this year approximately 1,120,000. motor cars were produced in the United States, compared with ’,022,000 tn the corresponding- period of 1931.

The world consumption of petroleum products during- 19.31 is -estimated at 47,666,000,000 gallons, and petrol, gas and fuel oils represent about, 8.1 per cent, of tho total consumption.

Cheshire farmers in England are being- offered sd per lb. for their cheese and in many cases they are taking their produce back to their farms- At corresponding fairs last, year they were getting- is id per lb. The amount of Christchurch City Council rates collected to date is ,£136,634 or 40.95 S per. cent, of the amount levied. East year on the corresponding date there had been collected ;£i 18,066, or 35.378 per cent, of the total. The tourist traffic, an important economic barometer, appears to have reached its lowest point in Germany and even to have started upward in some places. The report of tho Prussian. Bureau of Statistics shows a greater number of tourists, both Germans and foreigners, in Cologne,, W iesbaden and Goblenz than at the same time last year. The Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Berlin, an official body, draws attention in its latest bulletin to the double advantages, economic and from the viewpoint of health, of winter vacations and recommends its member firms to further them, for their workers and themselves. It is pointed out that the air in the mountains in. winter is completely free from dust and the sun’s rays are more beneficial than in summer. A somewhat unusual course was taken by the Christchurch Presbytery this week when if. resolved not to hand to the Rev. T. Paterson, of Kirivee, the call from the congregation of St. Andrew’s, Waipukurau. The decision was arrived at after hearing a commission representing the Halkett charge (Mr Paterson’s parish), for which Mr Mulholland said they thought it would not be in the interests of the parish to tallow Mr Patterson to go. “We think wc have a better claim on him than Waipukurau.”