LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18242, 16 July 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The next best thing to a girl's arm around one's neck is a nice woolly scarf. You can get the scarf at Jorgensen's.* Value of Dehorning. "I.'oherning is worth 201 b of butterl'at per cow during the season," said Mr C. Hume, supervisor of the Dominion Group Herd Testing Association, in an address to Bush district farmers. Remembering Old Supporters. The Canterbury Rugby Union has mad© arrangements whereby a limited number of deserving cases among the registered unemployed who desire to witness club matches at Lancaster Park may obtain free passes. Fossicking in Southland. One hundred men, mostly unemployed, are at present searching for gold on beaches along the Moynneux River, at Southland, and the river for some distance is fully pegged out. Some are reported to be doing fairly well. If representations now being made for the close of' the Kawarau dam gates are acceded to, good returns should be secured by the fossickers. Bride Robbed at the Altar. While Miss Alice Mackay was at the altar of a Toronto church being married a thief entered the vestry and stole her handbag. It contained £lO4 and the bride and bridegroom's tickets to Montreal and England. History Repeats Itself. The 10 per cent cut was troubling the civil servant of half a century ago, just as it is to-day, but, judging by this paragraph from an issue of 7th July, 1881, the old-timers were more seriously affected. We find this item among the Wellington Parliamentary news: "Mr P. Buckley moved for a return of all civil ser.vants whose life insurance policies had lapsed owing to their being unable on account of the reduction in their salaries to continue the premiums. He stated that many of the poorer civil servants had been obliged to allow their po'icies to lapse on this account."

Coloured Petrol. "In America, 90 per cent, of the motor spirits in use are coloured," said Mr P. M. Neall, of the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia. "Of course, it is only a fad," he said. "To colour a barrel of petrol (42 wine gal'ons), all that is used is a teaspoonful of analine dye dissolved in benzol. So you see the foolishness of the often-heard remark that coloured petrol is injurious to an auto engine. In South Africa the petrol is coloured for another reason. In the Union only the railroad petrol is coloured, so if any is stolen it is a simple matter to locate it."

Scouts Eulogised. Lord Baden Powell, the Chief Scout, who has been on a tour visitnig New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, has arrvied at Southampton. He said the Australian Sea Scouts were the best he had ever seen. He paid a tribute to the fortitude of New Zealanders during the earthquake, and stated the scouts had rendered noteworthy help during that strenuous period. All Joined in the Party! A Dunedin amateur .broadcasting station provided its listeners with two amusing interludes on Saturday night. One, however, was not intended to take the air. The men in the studio were expatiating on the merits of various receiving sets, and one of the debaters advanced a theory which met. with a silencing retort, in the vernacular, from another radio salesman. Suddenly the studio controllers awakened to the fact that their little chit-chat was being broadcast, and without any apology or explanation, the station closed down for a minute. Then the announcer said ho had a pleasant task to perform. Mr was entertaining his male friends at a party at Jackson Street. Appreciating Mr 's taste for good music, the station would broadcast, "Lay Your Head Beneath a Rose," with hopes that the members of the party would not be compelled to lay their heads beneath the table before the night was over.