LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16072, 5 April 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is understood that some 700 men are now being employed at the hydroelectric works at Afangahao. In certain instances three shifts are working.

A very fine crop of iron-bark pumpkins havo been grown at tile Boys’ Training Farm, Weraroa, this year, a number of specimens reaching over 60lbs. whilst one giant turned the scale at BGl'os.

An exhibition of divining for oil was witnessed on a property at Dannevirke the other day. The diviner claimed to have located five channels of oil on one place and other streams on another.

By a majority of one a meeting of Palmerston North retailers held recently decided in favour of keeping the shops open Easter Saturday, and to substitute another holiday in place of Easter Saturday.

It will no doubt surprise many leaders to learn that darying land in Southland is dearer than in Denmark (says the Southland Times). Mr Moller, of the Clir. Hansen’s Laboratory, Ltd., who is at present on a visit to New Zealand, considers the high prices ruling for land one of the principal drawbacks to settlement in New Zealand. Overseas immigrants find the price of land in the dominion, too high for them.

Wliat looked like a picture “stunt” occurred in Emerson Street. Napier. A horse attached to a baker’s cart fell to the ground, and two men on the vehicle simultaneously sprang into the air. They rose several feet above the cart and then descended, one on each side. Both succeeded in falling on their feet and they remounted the vehicle and drove away as though tlie incident was one of daily occurrence.

A recipe for home-made flypapers was given by Professor J. 0. Johnstone in a lecture at Auckland on flies and mosquitoes. The adhesive mixture could be made by using five parts of castor oil to eight parts of resin. Treacle or honey .should also be added. Owing to the nature of the mixture it was a very unpleasant operation, and, luckily, had now been commercialised. He advised everybody to have a fly-trap or some adf?* »+■'•Hon.

There was an unusual sight in Ormond road recently (says the Poverty Bay Herald), when a horse was being led behind p motor car. The horse appeared quite used to the procedure, and tlie driver had no difficulty in le-’diug lorn. Crouched on tlie running bocals were several dogs, all enjoying their ride, and it certainly epneared a novel method of inter-station travel. On nearing a corner. Ti, 1’ ; • seemed to know what was required, of him, and turned inwards with a graceful sweep, reminiscent of a racing motor cyclist negotiating a difficult bend. I

The frequent inhalation of Nnzol hv the month and nose effectually checks and destroys the power of infectious germs, which produce sore throats, hoarseness, running at the nose, watery eyes, coughs and bronchitis. —Advt.