LOCAL AND GENERAL

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are 14 ruling- monarchs and 15 Presidents in Europe.

No bankruptcies were filed last month in the Palmerston area.

An Aberdonian tourist said he liked New Zealand “pats of butter at gd a pound!.”

Nearly half the total length of the new Fitzherbert bridge at Palmerston has 110 AV been finished.

In a shop: “What lovely plums! Are they Japanese plums?” “Oh, no —they were grown in Hawke’s Bay.V

The spire of a new church in England is to cost £20, 000. Rather steep.

The new florins are in circulation. A Feilding- man says he actually got as much a s 24 pence for one.

Despite reports to the contrary, there will be no increase in the price of tobacco in the immediate future.

It is the intention of Archbishop Redwood to' attend! the Eucharistic Congress to be held in Melbourne in December next year, in conjunction with the centenary.

Members of the Otaki river Board made an inspection of the Otaki river. A member stated there is a likelihood of the river breaking its banks and flowing towards the town.

At a meeting of the Oamaru Boys’ Employment Committee Mayor Cooney said 132 boys had been found positions during the year, compared with 30 last year.

Mr John Duncan of Christchurch caught the first quinnat salmon of the season in the Hurunui river during- last week end. The fish took him 75 minutes to land and weighed 24 pounds.

Doctor: Good morning, Mrs Brown. Did you take your husband’s temperature, as 1 told you to? Mrs Brown : Yes, doctor. 1 borrowed a barometer off a neighbour, put it on his chest, and it said ‘Very dry.’ So I gives him a pint o’ beer and he’s gone off to work.”

“There is no such thing- as a half holiday for the majority of workers in Chicago,” said Mr L. G. Bowen, of the Y.M.C.A., when addressing members of the Christchurch Business Men’s Club this week “Only the office people and others in such occupations as the law have that. Even the banks remain open and for most people the only free day in the week is Sunday.”

Of the numerous Japanese domiciled in California many are returning to Japan, said Mrs Jessie Pierce- of Dunedin who lias returned from a holiday in America. The Japanese would not sav why they were taking passage to their native land, but it was generally believed that they were being recalled for some political or military reason.

“I do not think the people of New Zealand quite realise the respect and affection in which the Dominion is hold in England',” remarked Sir Montague Barlow, a former British Minister for who is visiting Christchurch. “It is. very, very marked indeed,” he said, “and is due to quite definite causes. New Zealand has borne her share andi more than her share of Empire responsibility at all times, and true friends in trouble are always the friends who are remembered.”

The amount of food consumed by a crowd of healthy, hungry boys was shown in the report of the director of the camp which was held under the auspices of the. Young- Men’s Christian Association at W'ainui during- the school holidays (say s the Christchurch Press). There were 201 campers for the six weeks and during that period more than 30olbs of oatmeal f 320 gallons of milk, lyolbs of butter, i2olbs of honey, 4oolbs of jam, 2ooolbs of potatoes. 25 dozen cabbages along with other vegetables, i4oolbs of meat, 6olbs of cheese, and soolbs of fruit were consumed. Other commodities were used in proportion.