LOCAL AND GENERAL

Opunake Times, 26 August 1932, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A capable girl or woman' is advertised for in another column. The Basketball Club at Awatuna will hold a ball on Wednesday, September 7th. A free bus will run from Opunake. “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” which will be screened on Tuesday and Wednesday, offers to the public several songs written especially for the picture by Irving Berlin and sung by the golden-voiced richman. The second half of the programme is taken up with a real thriller “The Wickham Mystery. The standard of American newspapers generally speaking is below that of New Zealand. This statement was made by Professor J. Shelley, of Christchurch, who has returned to the Dominion after nine months’ tour of the United States. “Except for a few of the leading dailies in the large cities, the standard is far below that of New Zealand papers,” he said. “They are neither as honest nor as thorough.” Not every city had one good paper, he continued, and many cities, larger than Christchurch, had not one paper which would compare with any of those published in Christchurch. Klngslands Milk Makes are the new popular biscuit. Try them with but

The summoning of Parliament for September 22 has been gazetted. The Dutch Government has refused entrance visas to eight Soviet delegates to an anti-war congress being held at Amsterdam on Saturday. Permission to hold the congress at Geneva was refused by the Swiss Government. Mr. R. B. Bennett, Prime Minister, called a conference of prairie Premiers to confer on the banks’ demand for further guarantees regarding the £4,400,000 deficit for the 1929 wheat crop, which amount is jointly guaranteed by the Dominion and prairie provinces.

“He is a married man and has 12 or 13 children,” said SeniorSergeant J. Carroll when speaking of a man before the court at Rotorua one day recently, charged with drunkenness and theft. “I’m not sure of the number,” he added, “and I don’t think he is himself. He has not taken a tally lately.”

Douglas Fairbanks, jr. will be seen at the New Theatre to-niglxt and tomorrow in “I Like Your Nerve.” In this picture, according to many critics, he fills the niche once occupied by the late Wallace Reid, as the daredevil driver of fast motor cars —a type of romantic roles which hasn’t been seen in the cinema since Wally Reid’s unfortunate demise. Record sales are announced by British radio manufacturers participating in the exhibition at Olympia. One firm states that orders have been received for all that it can produce during the next eight months, while another claims that last year’s record was beaten and the business would probably be doubled. A third has engaged an additional staff of 700 to cope with the orders. “It pays to keep pigs,” we hear on every hand. There are many who doubt it. A.Pukekohe farmer unquestionably does. He sent three pigs to the Auckland market; two realised £1 3s 6d each, the other £1 ss, total £3 12s. The selling commission was 6/-, receiving and delivering, freight, wharfage and cartage, eight miles cartage at this end 14/3, and in addition there was and 1/- for a telegram. A laugh was raised by Hon. C. E. Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, speaking at the committeemen’s smoke concert of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company at the Alexandra Hall recently. In recounting some of his experiences as a dairy company secretary many years ago Mr. Macmillan mentioned that one supplier approached him, and was very annoyed because he had not been credited with butterfat supply for February 29, February 30 and February 31. The chairman reported that, in company with Cr. Ford, he waited upon Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., and Mr. P. Keller, district engineer of the Public Works Department, when it was estimated the job would cost £9OO. The settlers wanted the job done free of cost and pressed very hard to that effect, but, after hearing the department’s views, were prepared to modify their request. Finally, they agreed to approach the council for assistance in raising ,a loan to defray the cost of hauling metal.

The display material available at the High Commissioner’s Office is rarely idle (writes a London correspondent on July 15). At present the two windows in the Strand office are devoted to interesting displays of lamb and apples, and so an offer from Messrs Cogswell and Harrison, one of the leading sporting firms in Britain, has been accepted for an exhibit in their premises in a busy part of fashionable Piccadily, London. Here are displayed heads of swordfish captured in New Zealand waters, deer heads, stuffed trout, and photographs of New Zealand sport and scenery. To interested inquirers New Zealand publicity folders are handed by the firm, with the suggestion that further inquiries should be made at the High Commissioner’s Publicity Department at New Zealand House.