LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall at Hawesa for 24 hours ending 9 a.m. yesterday was 1.17 inches.

During the first year of life the human heart beats at 115 to 130 times a minute; in a normal adult the beat is 72 times in a minute.

A country lady writes concerning a deal in wool: "I pay 9d per ounce or 12s per pound for knitting wool. My husband gets 5d per pound for h:&; and while I am on this subject I would like to know why the spinners don't wind it in balls, like cottpn. Perhaps it would expose the smallness of it* bulk and the greatness of its price."

An application- for a land agent's license, jtusxde by the wife of a former 'and agent, now bankrupt, was refused by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Chriatchurch Magistrate's Court O n the ground that the applicant lacked th-e knowledge and ability required. The application was opposed t»y the ChrisJcfiurch Land.Agents' Association.

The present state of the cricket grounds at the Park shows that the recen\ 3Js<;us!?iou on the question of control has had an excellent effect. 3*e grass is now closely cut over the whole tour acres, and instead of inviting adverse criticism, visitors must now be impressed with the consideration shown ,ror sport in Hawera. • , ■

The aftermath of the war boom in farms is now being experienced (notes the Dannevjrke News). Several cases have come under our notice recently of farmers who sold their holdings during the boom and came to Danrievirke to live, who have had to resume possession or shortly will do. In one case in which a former owner is faced with this possibility the farm has changed hands five times since he quitted it, the purchase price on the last occasion having almost doubled the figure at which he sold

"Every Government in the world today is on probation," remarks the Timaru Herald philosophically. "Matters are going so ..badly with the individual that he is looking eagerly to each party for signs of a possible deliverance. No Government can live negatively. If it does not economise it ruins the country; if it does no more than economise it rums itself. If Mr. Massey is to go on leading vs —as Heaven grant that he may—he must give us something safer to do than brooding over the good old times."

"The trouble is that we don't get enough of these cases," remarked Mr. F. K. Hdnt,. S.M., in the Wellington Magistrate's Court, when referring to a charge against a man of being drunk while driving" a motor lorry. "No man;" he added, "who takes liquor should be allowed,-to drive a motor.' A Solicitor remarKed that rE" would be a pretty difficult rule to enforce. 'But you know," replied the magistrate, "this speeding up is caused by young men in charge of cars getting too much liquor into them."

Though the season for flowers is drawing to a close, the Park is not without attractive features. The asters are still making a fair show and the rows of ■ double pink godetias in the new plot, near the iafc.e, are at their best. This part of the grounds promises to gain much interest in a year or two. Fifty red flowering gums have been planted mv wl"ch have a healthy appearance, ihese trees are very rare in Hawera, and make a most gorgeous show when m lull bloom. The gums are interSl>€ nSed J witix Pungas > which have taken well and are showing a vigorous growth lrees have been pleanted so as to protect the gnms and pungas from the prevailing winds and reduce the danger trom frosts. The fernery now appears to be complete as far as the glazing and excavations are concerned, but as yet there a^e no ferns, and visitors to the 1 ark are beginning to wonder when the rernery is going to be planted and opened.

Ihe Melbourne Limited, are showing the finest lot of men's "ready-to-wear suits since before the Great "War Prices are extremely moderate and show a drop oi at least 50 per cent, on those ruling for similar goods six months ago. Suit buyers are now sure ot obtaining genuine value for their money.— Advt.

_ P£? ne y°ur order for "NO RUBBING" Laundry Help and Golden Eule two home necessities; all store."*. —Advt.

A tax of 2s each was imposed on* hearths in England in 1662 and abolish-1 S^l^ 1680 ' althou Sh it produced £1/0,000 a year. Dunedin bakers are "competing" keenly just now in the bread line, and the 41b loaf is being sold as low as lO^d in some shops, although the Board of Trade price in the city is one shilling. A sunflower nine feet high, with no fewer than twenty-one heads on it, all branching out from the stem, the top-! most one being very large, is reported by the Wyndham Herald. Another plant is ten feet high. These plants (says the Herald) would pay to grow in odd corners for fowl feed. - It was with a genuine desire to help Mr. Wilford out of his difficulty (observes the Christchurch Sun) that we invited our readers to submit suggestions for a name for the present Opposition Some of the competitors have taken rather literally our undertaking to give a, prize to the name whichj in our opinion, most appropriately describes the party. Hence such epithets as "The liainbow," "The Chamelon" or "The Tadpole" party.1 Another frankly ill-natured suggestion is "Plague Rat" party, W the ground that Its principles are pestilential and its recruits are "rats" from other parties. Another reader puts forward "Trilocular," and another "Liberal Triunity" as suitably descriptive. An Auckland subscriber of the Sun telegrapneO on Saturday so as to be in time. "Suggest name L.E.A.L.. representing initials Liberal, Equable, and Labour." There were plenty of sug-j gestions for "Democratic," "National Democratic," "Coalition Liberal, '1 "Independent," and so forth. One' reader thinks the "Required Party' fills the bill.