LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Recently an order to make 4,100,000 British razor blades was placed with a Sheffield firm. The municipal roll for the elections to he held at Palmerston closed with a total of 10,825 names. A new private radio station in Christchurch was heard on fusts during last week. Bramwell Bros. Faster bride is attracting a great deal of attention in Fergusson street. Dame Clara. Butt’s tour of Australia has been postponed until September, as it is necessary for her to undergo an operation. An asphalt road tSO miles long is to he built from Adrianople to Constantinople. It will he the first road of its kind to he built in Turkey. S.M. : How long is it since you have been in a police court? Accused : Teu years, your Worship. S.M. : And where have you been since then ? Accused : Tn gaol ! Work on a. new radio station to replace- the present tYA will he commenced within a year. This is known, in spite of the reticence of the Broadcasting Board. Australian-made instead of Amerk can plant will operate when the new 3YA conies on the air. The contract for the new station has been let t° Amalgamated Wireless, the Australian firm in which the Commonwealth Government holds a majority share. A bountiful season for apples pears and grapes is reported by fruitgrowers at Te Kamvhata, where orchards, vineyards and packing sheds present a scene of great activity. To Kamvhata grapes have always been ost- popular on the Auckland market “There is nothing better for fhc youth of the country than football in these times of depression,” said Father Murphy at the annual meeting of the Celtic Football Club in Timaru. “So many of our young men are out of work, and there is nothing like kicking a football about to keep the lads Horn getting the depressed feeling* which is ro prevalent.” The Patea newspaper tells this one: A Patea resident has a dog which is in the habit of going off to Wellington for days at a time and returning to his home in Patea. Ihe way the sagacious animal manages is to take a run. down to the local wharf. If a boat is there, ho goes on board and makes the journey to Wellington, returning by the same means when he is tired of the empire city.