LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 11 May 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Boots and shoes to the number of 1000,000,000 pairs were turned out in British workshops dur.ng 1923.

The Agricultural Commission will probably report to the Government in the. next few days.

A line of shorn store Romney wether lambs brought 29s 2d at the Colunimba road saleyards, Masterton.

A census of summer sports shows racing and trotting, with 25,000 members, tennis j 19,351,. Bowling-; 15,055; cricket 10,831; sw .mining 6668; croquet (mostly women) 2480; and rowing 1910 says a Wellington telegram.

More than 40,000 men and youths played Rugby in New Zealand last season, according to a report of the New Zealand Rugby Union. In the 40:,000 boys at primary schools are not although thousands ofi them played the Rugby game.

An enterprising horticulturist, residing at Temuka, has a plot of ground measuring 30ft by 9ft under cultivation, which he noticed was infested w.th slugs (says the Timaru. Post). He set to work to capture the marauders, and as diligently counted his capture which totalled upward of 14,000. He is wondering whether ho is being vis .ted with a plague of slug-;.

Says an exchange: ‘The position of a Town Clerk has a humorous side,” said one of them, -when responding to the felicitations, of the Mayor. “It was only last week,” he added, “that a lady came into the office' and declared that she would like to sec myself and His Worship burning ,Yt hell fire. Her remarks were occasioned by my quite innocently conveying to her a resolution of the council “n reply to. her request for some improvements to her property. ”

An Auckland land agent, who at one tinus resided in Invercargill, received a pleasant surprise recently in the shape of notification by a vendor in ths city nearest the. South Pole that he had sold his property to a client who was introduced to him by the agent as far back as 1914 (states the Auckland “Star”). The. writer asked for the agent ’.s correct address in order that a share of the commission on the sale could be forwarded. This was sent, and in due course the Auckland agent; received the cheque.

A visitor to Masterton recently showed the Wairarapa Age. a letter he had just received from his mother in Cairo, containing an interesting reference to the graves of New Zealanders which she had seen in the military cemetery. “The cemetery is beautifully kept. The stones, which are 24 to 3ft high by ISin wide, are in straight rows, no mounds, and it is like one, big lawn. Ta? grass is kept short. There arc some bcaunU'ui trees and flower beds at each end. All the headstones are alike both for officers and men. I am sure any mother would be. glad to know how well the graves arc cared for.”

At the' Gisborne. Collie Club smokeo, in replying to the toast of the “Visitors,” Mr A. Hyde, of Napier, explained why he had regularly followed up dog trials all over the country (says the Gisborne Times). When he was farming- a few years ago he was caught in a. snowstorm while mustering sheep. His horse went over a. pr?.sipicc and was killed, and he lay for .1.14 hours with a broken log. His sheep doy had carried home a message for help, and but for that, he would not be alive today. No wonder, then, that he thought so highly of the work of the colic dog, and as long as he was able to do so lio would follow up the dog trials. Ho would always have a warm spot in his heart for the sheep dog.