LOCAL AND GENERAL

Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4180, 1 March 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Zealand miners down tools again. What a bore !

Local bodies in Great Britain control. the. spending of some £330 millions a. year.

The world’s 1 goo million inhabitants are estimated! to speak some 3420 languages.

During England’s recent drought a Berkshire village was without water for six weeks.

An insomnia correspondent says he tried sleeping with the electric light turned on, but it gave him a headache —when the bill came in. Napoleon’s carriage which was captured, at Belle Alliance has been presented by descendants o-f Prince Bluecher to a Berlin museum. The Royal train to bear Prince Georg'e throughout Victoria will be painted in white and gold! and will have the Prince’s crest on it. The coastline of Australia is 10,000 miles- England, Ireland and Scotland could be placed-' almost 25 times inside Australia. Stan McCabe of Sydney who- was operated upon for appendicitis recently, w ill make a reappearance on the cricket field next Saturday for Mossman against St. George. He will bat, but not bo-wl. A lady was asked concerning her daughter who had been educated on the Continent: I suppose she is quite a linguist. The fond mother: “Yes, she speaks all languages. Friend: Esperanto? Mother: “Oh, yes—like a native!” One of the largest buildings in the reconstructed; area of Napier is soon to be erected, the contract having- been let for a structure to cost in the vicinity of ,£13,000 at the corner of Hastings and Browning streets.

Says a Wellington critic: No praise is too high for the splendid musical programme rendered by the Jubilee Choir of 200 voices under the conductorship of Mr Frank J. Oakes at Archbishop Redwood’s reception at the Town Hall.

Should high fences be permitted in cities? A resident- of Christchurch, Major R. Ashworth, thinks not. He has petitioned the City Council to forbid the erection of a six foot galvanised iron fence along the frontage of a. section at the corner of Heaton and Circuit streets.

A bread war has bro-ken out at Coogee, Sydney. One shopkeeper was dloing- a roaring trade last week selling bread at ijd a. loaf. He declared that he would lower the price to id, and even g-ivc it away unless the other storekeepers sold at a recognied price.

Charged with having failed to furnish an income tax return, Jimmy Kelso, the lightweight champion of Australia, was fined £lO at the Central Court in Sydney last week. The Taxation Department submitted! that Kelso had not submitted a return fo 1-1931-32 until requested.

A motorist who stopped his car to vender help to an apparently injured man was attacked and robbed in Kent recently. He saw- two men with a motor cycle-, one of them leaning over it as though injured. He lay unconscious for some threequa rte-rs of an hour after being attacked.

George Loader the man with the giant appetite, passed away recently. He thought nothing of eating 50 pork pies at a sitting or five dozen eggs and a loaf or two of bread. He gave an engineer a pound of ham and 13 eggs start and won easily a £SO a side challenge match.

An increase in revenue by £50,000 a year will result, according to the Sydney Hospital Commission, if a permit, as submitted to the Government for taking over control of the share sellng of lottery tickets s adopted. It is estimated that the vendors of share tickets are at present making £BO.OOO per year.