LOCAL AND GENERAL

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 13 July 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Plunket Society will have flowers on sale as usual to-morrow in the shop lately occupied by the Tres Bon Tea Kooms.

Mr W. P. Hicks, representing Australian Films, Mr F. J. Ansell, of Metro Golclwyn Films, were in Stratford to-day.

A total of 2801 visited the Winter Show yesterday and last night, the takings amounting to £72 3s. as against £54 16s. for the second day last year.

A petition is being circulated in the newly-formed Mid-Canterbury electorate asking the Hon. W, Nos J wcirthy to reconsider his decision not to contest the seat at the coining. general election. The lion. G. W. Russell announces his candidature for the mid-Canterbury seat as a Liberal and will probably speak at Ashburton after the Budget. No Labour candidate so far has been announced, but Mr. F. R; Cook© is probable.

Dominion vital statistics gazetted last night show that for .Tune the total live births registered for urban areas amount to 970, compared with 1099 in May, a decrease of 119. Deaths in Jnne were 532, an increase of 37 over the total for the previous* month. Of. the' total deaths males contributed 287 and females 245., Sixty-two of the deaths were children under five years of age, being 11.61 per cent of the whole number. Fifty-two of these were under ona year old.

The carelessness of some people in remitting money was well exemplified the other day, and the need, for registration ( was manifested, states the Christchurch Sun. Abetter containing a substantial sum of money.in notes and silver was posted from a country post office which has full facilities for registration, money-orders, etc. The letter was addressed to Christchurch, and addressed wrongly. The man who received it could have pocketed the money, and not a soul would have been any the wiser. Instead, being honest and deducing from the note accompanying the letter the correct address, he sent the money

Preparations are well in hand, in the Wanganui district for the handling of the large seasonal trade that is occasioned by the activities of the buyers of ' bobby" calves, or newlyborn calves (says the Chronicle). Commencing about the middle of July, the trade,' which has been developed to very large proportions In recent years, reaches its height towards the end of August, or the beginning of September. During last season the. number of "bobby" calves handled by that section of file railway between Inglewood and Waverley was these going either to the Patea or to the New Plymouth and Waitara freezing works. It is expected that during the season about to commence the number handled by the railways' in this district will be over 40,000.

Judging from, the recent experience of a Napier man on a visit to Eokitika, it might pay the municipal authorities in that town to dig up the streets and prospect for gold underneath. He happened tq be passing down the main street one day when he noticed some men at work digging a, whole for a telegraph post. In consideration of the fact that the town was a gold-min-ing, centre,- for the sake of idle curiosity he took a handful of the earth th>t they had dug up and placed it in an empty tobacco tin. Oji returning to Napier he placed the earth ill a bottle, and after washing it two or three times, found a considerable percentage of gold dust mixed with the earth. We publish the story for what it is worth (conchies the Telegraph); but until his treasured "gold" is . properly analysed we would recommend that he bear in mind that other proverb, "(all that glitter.s is not gold."

The total number of big game fish caught by members of the Bay of island Swordilsh and Mako Shark Club for the 1927-&S season was 183, against 232 for the previous season .states th eannual report. Included in last season's catchse were two world's records—a mako shark of 6301 b, caught by Lord Grhntohrpe, oil 24th January! and a broa'clbill, of 6731 b, caught by Mr H. WhiteWickham, on 9th January. The summary of fish caught for the season was: 95 mako shark, 63 swordfish, 14 hammerhead shark, 9 black marlin, 1 broadbill, 1 thresher shark. Tlie club's records for the season were: Blaack marlin, 8761 b, Mr W. A. Britton; broadbill, 6731 b, Mr H. White-Wickham; mako shark, 6301 b, Lord Grimthorpe; swordfish,, 41!01b, Mr J. W. Kershaw; hammerhead shark, 4001 b, Mr H. White-Wickham; thresher shark, 1601 b,. General Sir Tom 'Bridges; kingfish, 1021 b, Sur-geon-Commander A. H. Joy. All these anglers have had \e club's champion certificate and a letter of congratulation sent to them.