GENERAL ITEMS.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1211, 28 February 1922, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

At Giglborne the other day a man was fined 10s and 7s costs for not moving on at the request of a constable when' talking to a girl on the footpath at 11 a.m.

A Levin resident, who had between 50 and 60 acres of harvesting to do, states that he wasf swamped with appicants looking for work, upwards of 100 interviewing him with the hope of getting a job.

It came as a shock to some of the members of the Wanganui Harbour Board (says the Chronicle) when it was stated that the cost of putting the dredge Rubi Seddon on the slip at Wellington recently, and necessary repairs, was £1749.

"How much money did you get for the Princess Mary?" asked a councillor at the Stratford Borough Council at a recent meeting. " Fifteen bob," replied the clerk, and added as an afterthought, " I sent it away too. It cost me 25s to advertise it."

The grass lands adjoining the railway line between Marton and Palmerston North are showing unmistakable Signs of the recent hot weather, the grass being withered brown as far as the eye can see. Crops of turnips, and maize, however, appear to be thriving despite ithe conditions (says an exchange).,

"In the past there were on the board too many bachelors, and men without children," remarked Mr P. Thomson amid laughter at a meeting of the Stratford Domain Board the other evening. "Why," he continued, "the gates are too narrow for 'prams' to enter the park," He took it that the park was there as much for the benefit of the children as bachlors or anyone else.

The total applications for shipping space made by Newt Zealand fruitgrowers for this season's export of apples to England amount to 102,250 cases'. Nelson accounts for 79,650 cases, Hawke's Bay for 13,350 cases and Marlborough for 9250 cases. The Westmoreland, which will load at Wellington, will take 15,000 cases, and the Whangaratta and Athenic, which are due to load next month, will lift 16,000 and .16,250 cases restpectively. So far space has been secured for 77,000 cases.

The unavoidable use of the streets of Whangarei for the driving of stock gave rise to an exciitng incident on Tuesday of last week. A flock of sheep (says the local paper) was being driven down Bank Street, and became excited when they reached the business area. In addition to invading a boot stfore in Cameron street, from which they were driven through the back door, one heflty wether beat the defence of a cordon of employees of the Farmers' Union Trading Company, under the marshalling of the manager, Mr S. H. Price, and dived through one of the large plate-glass windows, smashing it to pieces. The wether was then persuaded to rejoin the flock.