LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4033, 16 September 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A kitten and a young- opossum have struck up a close friendship at a residence in Grevtown.

the Government Tourist Bureau which has been operating in W anganui in the past seven years is to be closed at the end of this month.

Expenses £q 2s gel, income Z-'-D----ips 3d. This represents the creditable result of the Prosperity Week campaign activities of tlie Professions Queen Committee, Auckland.

“The pigs have come here to stay, and we’ve got to cater for them,” said Mr Swainson at last night’s meeting of the Feilding A. and P. Association.

Poppies manufactured in the Dominion by disabled soldiers are not exempt from the sales tax. An endeavour, however, is being made to have the charge lifted.

“There is no doubt that the winter green has been very successful,” said a loading player of the Avon Bowling Club in referring to the experiment of winter bowling undertaken for the first time in Stratford.

“I have seen a number of places where gardening is being done under the council's scheme and we seem to be developing market gardens in New Plymouth.” said Mr P. E. Stanton, (chairman) at a meeting of the New Plymouth Mayor’s Relief Council.

Unanimous was the decision of the Dannevirke Hospital Board that it would be in the best interests of the hospital boards in the Hawke’s Bay province if the Parke Island Old People's Home, which was destroyed in the 1031 earthquake. was rebuilt.

During- the period the Government’s No. 10 building subsidy scheme was in operation a total el--26 applications was received in Pahiatua, including 10 for new dwellingsThe value of the applications totalled Z749D the labour cost being estimated at £q 18.

It was mentioned at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Girl Guides’ Association that a unique event in New Zealand had been the holding of a toy parade, when B rownlees, Guides and Guiders had brought toys which later were distributed to the homes where the toys would he appreciated.

A Napier man who recently visited Tarawera. was confronted with the extraordinary spectacle of thousands of black-and-yellow ringed caterpillars wriggling- their way across the road between the hotel and the baths, or swarming- alongthe twigs and houghs of small trees and hushes- They were the larvae of white butterflies.

Says the annual report of the Manawatu Automobile Association : Notwithstanding the lack of material improvement in conditions generally. the year just closed has been a. satisfactory one, inasmuch as the association has maintained its service to members in spite of its reduced income, and shows a slight exces-s of income over expenditure.

A report says the past winter has been rather mild and consequent!v favourable for the growing of potatoes on the upper slopes of Pukekohe hill. Large areas are under potatoes this season, and crops generally present a fine, healthy appearance. Tt is expected that at least one grower will commence digging his early crop next week. *

In the course of a speech on the occasion of the entertainment of Dr. H. B. Lcatham by the Taranaki Hospital Board, on the eve of his retirement from the position of radiologist. Dr. T. H- A. Valentine, formerly Director-General of Health, said it was largely due to Dr. Leatham that the New Plymouth hospital had developed from a third class cruiser to a first class battleship.

Referring at a meeting- of the executive of the Dannevirke; Dental Clinic to the cost of dental clinics* Mr W. Dobson said that according to departmental figures published m December last there were IQO dental nurses employed hv the Government whose salaries ranged from .£64 to per annum and the annual charge to the State amounted to £3 2 >379-

“I do belieye that if we take the public into your confidence you get their sympathy and that if you keep them in the dark you cannot expect full support.” Mr D. E. Parton thus concluded a motion of thanks to' the pres s at the annual meeting of the West Christchurch District Cricket Club. Christchurch cricket owed a real debt to the newspapers, and that publicity was as essential to modern sport as it was to traders and professional men.