LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16082, 23 April 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is St. George’s Day. A large load of frozen fish was sent to Hamilton from Thames this morning by motor lorry.

The Post and Telegraph Department advises that the mails which left .Auckland on the 18th March, via. Vancouver arrived at London on the 19tfr April.

The strike is seriously affecting the Thames fishermen. The coljd' stores are full of fish that usually is sent forward to Wanganui and other places, consequently the fishermen find time hanging heavy on their hands.

One of the Thames fishing boats returned to the wharf on Tuesday * orning with a big freight of fish, but as the strike was on and the Fisheries could not accept delivery, the launch immediately left for Te Arolia where a ready market was available.

Owing to the imported marmalades cutting into the trade of the New Zealand article, the Dominion manufacturers have cut their prices for all lines of marmalade in tins 1/-, 2/-, and 6/-, and jars 1/- and 2/- (says an exchange). This cut is not because manufacturing costs are lower, but is solely to combat the imported article.

Councillor Lamb tvaxed indignant at a proposal placed before the Masterton Borough Council that firemen attend the local entertainments and be paid for such service (says the Wairarnpa Daily Times.) “It’s pretty hot giving them 2/- per hour,” he exclaimed. “They not only get a free show, but are paid for it. It’s a perk for them.”

A careful survey of the kerosene market, coupled with high exchanges from the United States, leads to the conclusion that an upward move is not at all unlikely (says an exchange.) A new brand of kerosene, owned and packed by a British company, is now on the market, and is reported to be equal to anything that comes from tke United States.

In view of the fact that the country is now becoming a network of wires transmitting electric current, the Education Department has been requested to warn the school children (per medium of the school journal) of the danger arising from contact with live wires which may, through falling trees, storms, or some other cause, become broken.

During the recent voyage of the Athenic from New Zealand to London, an exceptionally large school of norpoises crossed the vessel’s track, their gambolling being a source of entertainment for the passengers for some time. There were thousands in the school, which at times extended out into a semi-circle of about a quarter of a mile. Many of the ablest hands on the Athenic said it was the largest school they had ever seen.

It was a fact, said Mr R. Masters, M.P., at the Plunket Society meeting at Stratford, that some of the older mothers were not sympathetic to the Plunket Society and its work. He had heard a good story of a young doctor who was attending an elderly mother and who was giving her advice on the feeding and care of her children. The lady was very indignant, and in recounting the-* matter to a neighbour said : “The cheek of the young brat—teaching me how to look after children. Why, I’ve buried eight of them!” Of course said Mr Masters, one could not teach anything to women of that sort, l ut the .younger mothers were eager to learn.

Mr E. L. Macassey (president of the Otago centre, N.Z.A.A.A.I has o-r-eived a letter from A. E. Porritt, New Zealand Rhodes scholar for 1022, who writes from Magdalen College, Oxford (says the Otago Daily Times. ) Porritt, who was well to the forefront among the athletes of Otago, and who has been chosen to compete in Die Olympic Games, states in his letter that he recently sustained a broken collarbone while playing football, and even while his shoulder was still strapped np he ran the 100 yards in 10 1-5 sec. on a heavy track. He feels confident that, with his arm in good order, he will be able to cover the distance in 10 sec. “There is practically nithing below 10 2-ssec. here.” he adds, “and T believe Cambridge is about as bfd tbi? rear. This low standard ro't nnnlv all through. Itnwo-oi- ” Durum the pact season Porritt jrriued his athletic colours and his °ollege