LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4029, 11 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The price of geld in London is now £b ios iid per fine ounce.

The Cambridge Press, England, will shortly issue Bibles with zipp fasteners-

Britain’s motor car manufacturers have obtained a definite ascendancy in world markets.

All the people who get things done, 1 notice, have a mania for destroying things.—Robert Lend.

It is generally admitted that abandoned farms are the most prolific nurseries for the spread of ragwort. Settle them 1

Whitebait is running more freely in the Waikato river, and large quantities are being sent away daily to Auckland.

The unusual course of electing U lady as an official was adopted by a male sporting club in New Plymouth last week.

Ho: Here, what do you mean by telling Jones that I was a blockhead? Ski: Why, it isn’t a secret is it?

The Tauranga Citrus Growers’ Association shipped 140 cases ok lemons and oranges last week for Christchurch and Dunedin.

A woman tenor was a feature of the Free Church Choir Union’s festival in London recently. She took second prize in the tenor class.

Instructor: Your son has a great thirst for knowledge. Where did he get it? Mother: He gets the knowledge from me, and his thirst from his father.

Australia claims to have a larger percentage of listeners in than in any other Dominion. It ranks sixth in the world for proportion of radio licenses to population.

“So the specialist put restrictions on you, did he? Which of the things he made you give up do you miss most?” “Tlie three guineas he charged me.”

Professionalism in sport was strongly condemned by Dr. R. Lawson of Otago University in his Wilding Memorial Lecture delivered at Canterbury College, Christchurch.

Applications lodged at Palmerston under the building subsidy scheme now represents a total value of .£105,114, including .£30,098 for labour.

A returned Aucklander reports that one Chicago firm tfcat came under his notice increased its staff by 400, and other large firms also put on extra hands as a result of the Roosevelt code drive.

Amounts due to depositors in the New Plymouth Sayings Bank (not the post office) reached the record figure last week of ,£600,30°, the first time the amount has exceeded _£ 600,000 .

The short view of all the markets in which New Zealand is intereted is more satisfactory that it has been for some time,” states the latest bulletin of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce.

Marie Ney, the New Zealand actress now in London, has the leading feminine role in the first phase of “The Wandering Jew,” in production at the Twickenham Studios with Conrad Veidt in the title role.

For 15 weary years conferences have failed. This time everybody is willing to admit the fact and it re-

mains for our Government to profit. by the experience.—Yorkshire Post, on the W'orld Economic Conference.

A lengthy discussion ensued at the monthly meeting of the North Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union with reference to the serious financial position of many Crown and returned soldiers settlers.

An old water wheel near the Wilton road entrance to Wilton’s Bush, Wellington, attracts considerable attention from visitors. 'The wheel; between 60 and 70 years old, was the property of the farmer after whom Wilton’s Bush is named.

The opinion that the present serious shortage of farm labour was aggravated by the continuance of camps for single unemployed was expressed by the South Taranaki provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union at Hawera.

Mr R. B. Hardy, ex-president of the Auckland Tennis Association has received a cablegram from Jack Crawford stating that he and young Victor McGrath were prepared to play exhibition doubles while the Mariposa wa§ in port on Friday, October 6, 4