LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 September 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Health Stamps. Health stamps will be placed on sale at all post offices in New Zealand tomorrow. 70th. Anniversary. St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Cambridge, has been celebrating this week the anniversary of its establishment 70 years ago. Aero Engine For School. The Wigram Aerodrome have presented the New Plymouth Technical School Avith a 12-cylinder Polls Royce aero engine. This will be used in the aeronautical class. Eggs For London Market. , When the Tamaroa left Lyttelton on Tuesday for Wellington to continue loading for Home, she carried 18,000 dozen eggs from Canterbury for tho English market. A Drink That Should Take On. Referring to a fruit juice industry for New Zealand, Mr. B. T. Turner said: “I think the drink should take on all right in Noav Zealand. Practically any type of fruit can be used in making it, although the apple is the chief source for the product of the Continent.’’ So This Is Labour! The “Observer” publishes the folloAving paragraph“ During Mr. Lee's meeting at Kingsland last Aveek a large chauffeur-driA'c.n Wolsey, OAvned by the P. and T. Department, arrived outsido the hall. It Avaited for almost an hour, and, after the meeting, Mr. Lee got into it and droA r e aAvay in state.” Coal Trade in Lyttplton. Not for many years—in fact, not since the of motor-ships and oil burning steamers, lias so much coal been handled at Lyttelton as is being discharged and loaded at present. The principal reason is the diversion of tho coal trade to Ncav Zealand through tho strike in the Australian mines.

Catholic D^nce. The Catholic dance to be held in the Majestic Ballroom on Wednesday night next promises to be a more than usually bright attraction. Music Avill be supplied by Walker’s Paramount Orchestra, and novelties galore Avijl proA 7 ide great interest. There has already been a keen demand for tickets, and those desiring to attend should lose no time in securing them. “Election Eggs a Speciality.” Those Avlio find that' Avoids are in, adequate to express their feelings toAvards political speakers Avill be interested in a display in a shop AvindoAv at Waipukurau. An enterprising businessman has placed in his AvindoAv a large box of shags’ eggs obtained during a “drive” by the Acclimatisation Society, and labelled them: “Election eggs —prices according to age.” Farmers Make Own Lime. Many farmers in South Canterbury are uoav successfully Avorking deposits of lime on their properties. This is particularly so in the Hazelburn district, Avhere there is an unlimited sup ply of limestone. The stone is crush ed and slaked in home-made apparatus, farmers thus securing ample supplies for next to nothing. Too Old To Drive? “Surely a man 83 years of age is too old to be driving a car.” observed Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in tho Waipukurau Magistrate’s Court, Avlien a retired farmer, aged 83, appeared before him charged Avith negligently driving a motor vehicle on the Waipukurau-Wai-pawa main Toad. Defendant’s license was suspended for a year and a fine of £2 was imposed.

12,470 Boy Scouts in N.Z. “I believe that in five years we can have 20,000 boy scouts in New Zeo land,” said the Dominion Chief Com missioner, Mr. H. Christie, at the an nual conference of the Boy Scouts’ As sociation. A recent census showed that that were 12,470 scouts in the Domin ion, 1347 more than the previous year. World scout statistics showed that the movement had to-day a membership of nearly 3,000,000 scouts in 49 countries Uhames Commercial Enterprise. Business enterprise in Thames is again strongly evidenced by the large volume of special advertising in today’s issue. The volume of commercial lines offered should appeal to all classes —from housewives to motorists —and includes wearing apparel, furniture, footwear, and the hundred and ono things needed in everyday life. Headers should study these advertisements carefully in their own interests, as tho prices are in every case most economical. Missing: One Organist. When everything was ready for the service to begin, and the organist had failed to arrive, no little consternation was folt by the congregation at a Napier church on Sunday evening. A search was immediately made and tho organist was eventually found making her way to church in a leisurely manner in the belief that she was early. When she was informed that it was thon well after 7 o’clock, she suddenly remembered that daylight saving had come into force and that her clock was half an hour slow.