LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3086, 7 December 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Time-table alterations affecting the Main Trunk Limited express trains become operative on Monday next.

Te Awamutu-trained horses were again successful - at. the Taumarunui races yesterday. . Mr' HT L. yßussell's: Rose Lupin ran second to. Abbess in the Taringamotii" llack v.Mr 3. H. Burns' Joy Geijfti won ti.; M-atapuna" Hack, withNair's ■tfH&usr*gti third. Ml':]M Iljß le Knted for Kjh. BfempbeU*^ A; 9 B \ Kg.- sef °° a M K

The Consul for Norway (Mr Alexander Newton) has been informed by the Norwegian Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Oslo that under date of June 14th, 1929, a law was passed to the effect that the city now called Trondhjem shall be named Nidros as from January Ist, 1930.

As the field was racing up to the back stretch of the Taumarunui Cup yesterday, Sir Burnett fell and Ohinemuri came down over him. Hector Gray, rider of Ohinemuri, had his collarbone broken, and also received abrasions to the face.

Solar activity is very marked at the present time. An almost continuous series of sunspots stretches across two-thirds of the visible disc of the sun in its southern hemisphere. Several of these spots are of average size, but one is of exceptional dimensions. There is also a small group of spots north of the solar equator.

The enormous quantity of petrol imported to and used in New Zealand was refererd to in the annual report of the Wellington Club, presented at the annual meeting, it being stated that the amount used for the twelve months ended 30th June last totalled 56,000,000 gallons.

A district farmer passes on a useful hint for adoption by his fellow dairymen. He says that after washing out the cowbails daily the application of a thin coating or dusting of quicklime will remove all unpleasant odours and banish effectively insect life, besides assisting greatly to keep up the grade of cream.

The Alexandra Racing Club holds its annual non-totalisator race meeting at Pirongia on Boxing Day. The programme to be brought off comprises seven events, with the Alexandra Cup of £3O and a trophy of the value of £lO as the principal race. Nominations for all events close with the secretary, Mr W. McCarthy, on Monday next. For the convenience of owners and trainers, nominations may also be left at Mr G. M. Blair's shop or with Mr Tom Steel, Pirongia.

At a local body meeting in Wanganui the other day the secretary asked permission to write off certain accounts. Members were inclined to smile when the list revealed items like these:—"Mr —, sd; Mr —, 7d." Smiles vanished, however, when the secretary announced that 3d in stamps had been expended in each case in an endeavour to collect the amounts. " I move that they be Written off," a member said hurriedly. The chairman put the motion quickly, and the " ayes " were unanimous.

At a recent meeting of the Farmers' Union in Wanganui, members Were asked to quote specified cases of fences which had been destroyed as the result of fires along railway lines. Mr Blair: Does the Railways Department pay for the damage? Mr D. McGregor: Yes, but they do nothing about the grass. There is more damage done to grass than fences. The request for information Was passed on to branches.

Agreement with the proposal to permit the telegraphing of totalisator investments to racecourses was • expressed by Mr H. F. Johnston, Reform candidate for the Hutt, in reply to a questioner at his Petone meeting recently. " I have advocated it for many years," he said, " and I can't go back on it now.—(Applause.) I don't wish to. I think it should be allowed. The present restriction, I believe, is unjustifiable and harmful in many ways." The candidate said he could not see why, since betting on the totalisator was allowed by law, a man in the backblocks should be forced into the hands of other people when he wished to have a bet on a racehorse —perhaps his own—because he could not transmit his money for investment on the totalisator.

Advices received by the last Sydney mail state that the Australian National Airways ltd. are about to inaugurate their hitherto contemplated passenger services between Sydney and Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne, and Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane. The first plane is already in operation in Sydney and is of similar type to the famous Southern Cross —a threeengine monoplane from the Fokker works in Holland. The Australian National Airways Ltd. is the company created and sponsored by Captain Kingsford Smith and Flight Lieutenant Ulm. Both Kingsford Smith and Ulm are now in Australia in connection with commencing the operations of the company. The types of planes adopted for these services will create a great amount of confidence in the minds of the-travelling public, for the Southern Cross, the original of the type bought by the company, has created an amazing reputation for reliability. It is the intention of the company to make all their flights on Union super spirit and Atlantic motor oil exclusively.

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The usual Saturday sale at the Mart next week has been altered to Thursday, owing to Saturday being observed as a half-holiday for the races.

A Morrinsville farmer has discovered a simple method of combating the dust nuisance during hay-making. To keep dust and perspiration from getting into and inflaming his eyes he has started wearing motor-cycle goggles. These have proved just as effective in the hay field as on. dusty roads, and the fashion is spreading rapidly among harvesters. Storekeepers in the district report a brisk demand for goggles, and anticipate even better business in this new line when the advantages of protecting the eyes with close-fitting celluloid instead of rubbing them with dusty fingers become more widely known. One farmer immediately bought a couple of pairs when the new idea was explained to him. —Morrinsville Star.

" Just brimming over with good things" aptly describes this week's issue of the " N.Z. Sporting & Dramatic Review " with its generous array of the most up-to-date pictures gleaned from all sources. The double centre pages are filled with the most attractive items from abroad, deer stalking in Scotland, Ancient Fair in Shakespeare's town, speed supremacy on land and sea, Crystal Palace Dog Show. The great event of the week, the official opening of the War Memorial Museum is recorded in an impressive series forming a beautiful souvenir of this memorable event. Very merry and bright is the" page of smiling snapshots of the Auckland Inter-house Girls Sports at Carlaw Park, showing the happy young athletes in their various events.

There was a time when the works of Annie S. Swan enjoyed extraordinary popularity with misses and matrons throughout the Empirespeaking world, who followed eagerly the adventures of the heroes and heroines of these sound old romances. With the advent of a more lurid type of fiction, however, this popularity has waned considerably, but at the twenty-first anniversary celebration of the Dunedin Public Library last Monday night, Mr W. B. McEwam told a story which indicated that loyalty to the well-known authoress is not altogether a thing of the past, A buxom Scots lassie, said Mr McEwan, visited the library regularly with her mother and the pair invariably asked for the works by Annie S. Swan. On one occasion, not a book by this writer remained on the shelves, and he asked them if they would not care for a work by some other auther who wrote stories of similarly type. "No, no," was the firm reply. "Ye ken, I read a passage tae mither and she greets, then mither reads a passage tae me, and I greet; then we baith hae a greet thegither."