LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31385, 14 February 1923, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SECOND EDITION.

The Post and Telegraph Depairtment has agreed to change the name of the Matatena post office to that of Piri Piri. A Pahiatua sliooting party, who spent Sunday pursuing bunny in the Maurieevillo district, accounted, in a short time for 80. Next morning their friends shared in the distribution of fat rabbits. The N.S. Wales Cabinet decided to close tile trawling industry at the end of the month. Air Oakes stated that the trawlers were being run at. a loss of thousands of pounds weekly and tile accumulated losses of the industry totalled £212,976. The passage of 2997 ships through the Panama Canal in tliei year 1922 established a new high record. In 1921. tbe best previous year, 2814 used the waterway. The tolls collected in 1922 am Quitted, to £2,514,681, so that For the first time since the opening of the canal the monthly average exceeds £200,000. ! That the weasel is fond of chickens is proved by tbe fact that a. resident of Tudor road who bad fond hopes of rearing a fine lot of poultry, found one morning lately that the ilrn ported pest had accounted for nine. Next morning, the weasel had had another helping, bringing the total which disappeared up to 25. The New Zealand "Wireless am! Broadcasting News is the latest addition to the list of publications issued in tliis country, the publishers being I,- T. Watkins, Ltd., Wellington. The new journal, which contains 32 pages, is.to be issued monthly. It is well got up, the matter being excellently arranged, ami instructive to all radio men. Special features in the initial number are : “What is Wireless?” “Radio Telephone! or Broadcasting,” “The Amateur’s Position,'” “Regulations for Broadcasting,” and ether articles.