OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 16 August 1932, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Settings of purebred White Leghorns are advertised for sale in another column. The series of crib parties held in life Bowling Chib social room will be continued to-night. All are cordially invited to attend. Bring yeur knitting and join with the merry crowd of songsters at the “community sing” in the Town Hall on Wednesday, the 17th, at 8 o’clock. “Central; Is that central? Given me number X.Y.Z. Hello ! Is that you Bill? How about taking me to the “community sing” on Wednesday?” “Certainly dear, and I’ll be on time.” A Zurich message says Professor Piccard has postponed indefinitely owing to unsuitable weather his ascent in a balloon into the stratosphere. Trebitsch Lincoln, a former member of the British Parliament, a German spy and now a Buddhist monk, is going to Europe, where he intends to found a Buddhist monastery.

Mr. Ronald Mackenzie, the author whose first play, “Musical Chairs,” is running successfully at the Criterion Theatre, London, was killed in a motor accident near Beauvais, France. The extremely rapid growth of air travel is shown by the fact that whereas 13 years ago only 20 passengers left Croydon in an average week, now 2000 leave the airport weekly. The increase promises to be rapidly exceeded.

The famous Schneider Cup airman, Flight Lieutenant Stainforth, had a remarkable escape. He was flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet near Reading when the propellor broke off his machine. He glided 14 miles and landed safely.

“Britain was never more solid, more patriotic, or more resolute than she is to-day” said the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at a luncheon of the Royal Empire Society at Christchurch. “She is setting a magnificent example to the world,” he said. Australia has secured the British Army frozen meat contract, amounting to nearly 1000 head of cattle a week for six months, from next September to March. The prices are considerably above the present levels and will have an important uplift in the Australian meat trade.

The usual weekly Catholic euchre party was held at St. Patrick’s Hall last Friday night, the prize winners being Mr. Holmes Ist and Mr. Elgar 2nd while Mrs. B. Crofskey and Mr. Couagriu were successful in the euchre tournament. The organisers were Mesdtmes Riley :nd Conaglen.

North America is threatened with a coffee famine, though Sao Paulo is full of coffee and the United States Grain Stabilisation Corporation owns more than a million bags, acquired by tin wheat exchange. The shortage is due to the Brazilian Government closing all ports of Sao Paulo since July 11 following the revolution.

The unpopular tax on births, which lasted only 11 years, was invented by the Earl of Godolphin, in 1695. Ordinary parents paid 2/- at the birth of each child dukes £3O for the heir and £25 for other children, baronets and knights £5 and £l. All the clergy, from archbishop to prebendaries were lumped together with squires and doctors of law, divinity, and physic at £l. Anyone with £SO a year or £6OO in the Funds paid 10/-. On a recent occasion a Wanganui firm advertised for a boy for office work and received 69 applications. The boy selected for the position had persistently called on various firms in quest of employment and incidentally had included the office of the firm several times in his rounds. When he appeared among the other applicants he was at once recognised and told that as he had been so keen in following up the trail in quest of work he deserved the job.

“Tobacco growing- in New Zealand is an industry which is increasing greatly, almost without our knowing it,” remarked Mr. A. H. Cockoyue, Assistant-Director-General of Agriculture, lecturing in Hamilton. Mr. Cockayne remarked that the production of tobacco could be accomplished at remarkably low cost except in the case of labour. Tobacco growing and pedigree seed growing were particularly adapted for small holdings. The average return per acre in Nelson for tobacco was not less than £BO.

How to throw a boomerang was something M).’. E. Holder, West Coast, representative in the All Black team, learned while he was in Australia. The other day on Victoria Square, in Westport, he gave an entertaining exhibition of its use. The All Black, with the deftmess of an Australian aboriginal, threw the boomering some considerable distance and, reaching (lie end of its rno-

entum it returned with uncanny accuracy to within a yard of the thrower. The exhibition was the first of its kind seen in AVestport and was watched by a fairly large gathering with keen interest.

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