LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 82, 3 April 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Vital Statistics. The vital statistics for Waipukurau for the month of March are as follow, the figures for the corresponding month of last year being shown in parenthesis:— Births 2 (3); deaths 2 (4); marriages 2 (1); and marriages in Registrar’s office 1 (0). Waahemo Aground. The steamer Waihemo, leaving Lau* toka (Fiji for Suva, grounded, yesterday morning in a shallow passage. Two attempts to refloat her at high water failed. It is hoped to tow her off this evening, states a cable message from Suva dated April 2. Firemen Depart. Firemen who had been visiting the town for the conference and demonstration left by train this morning for Carterton, Dannevirke, Eketahuna anA Eastbourne, being farewelled by members at the station. A Dry Month. The rainfall in Waipukurau for the month of ” March this year was 1.27 inches, compared with 2.65 inches last year, according to figures supplied by the Government meteorologist for the district (Mr F. B. Curd). There were 7 wet days, 51 points on the 9th being the heaviest fall. Large Petrol Supplies. Three oil tankers with bulk petrol for New Zealancl are expected at Auckland this week. The Svolder was due yesterday from Philadelphia with bulk petrol for the Associated Motorists’ Petrol Company, and to-day the tanker Lachlan is expected from Palembang with bulk petrol for the Atlantic Union Oil Company, and the Thordis from Singapore with bulk petrol for the Shell Company. The three vessels will unload at Auckland and Southern ports. Publicity Not Desired. An experienced vendor of art union tickets- declares there is a strong desire among purchasers to-day to remain unknown. To preserve this anonymity, he says, 75 per cent, of the purchasers, regarding themselves as potential prize-winners, secure their tickets under a com de plume. Penny Post in 1860. The penny post, is generally regarded as an innovation entitling New Zealand to fame but Mr Julius Hogben, lecturer in company law at Auckland University College, in an address recently, said that the penny post was begun by a joint stock company in London in 1860. This pioneer company delivered letters and parcels about London for a fee of one penny and insured them for amounts up to £lO. School for Mayors. One of the rather surprising new institutions of Na«i Germany is a school foi’ Burgomasters—or Mayors • —in Schonwald, near the Black Forest. For the first “term” of this school there are thirty-five Mayors from South-west Germany taking their lessons. The reason for the school’s coming, into being was, of course, the wholesale removal of experienced municipal officers in favour of raw young Nazis, who were found wanting and subsequently had to be coached a little.

Soviet Clothes. There are signs of a growing disfavour with the unattractive garb that it has hitherto been deemed fitting and adequate for the proletariat to wear in Russia. “Fitting” is perhaps a little on the optimistic side, too., The drab and ill-assorted “suits” that the stores have offered to comrades all through one five-year plan and part of another may soon be scorned and left on the shelves. For in a window display in one shop, much to the general excitement, there has appeared something suspiciously like a lady’s evening dress—in satin, too! Moreover, the “Komsomolskaya Pravda,” a newspaper for Russian Communist youth, has just published an attack on the State Clothing Institute for its neglect to provide attractive clothes. “We want to dress beautifully,” says the writer. “Soilence in the Coort!” the Bobby cried, And I really thought I should have died With the coughing here, and the sniffing there, Till the Judge, enraged, said:—“l declare, This row no longer I’ll endure, Just send for Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure!’’ 1