LOCAL & GENERAL

Western Star, 5 December 1933, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

—— • Strawberries are in good supply. Canterbury anticipates an early oat market.

Building activities in Invercargill continue to hold up well.

Anglers have had some good fishing in the Aparima and Orawia rivers.

Fat sheep have been selling up to 28s, and fat lambs to 21s 6d.

Four hundred excursionists arrived in Invercargill on Sunday from Dunedin.

For shop lifting at Auckland three women were sent- to prison.

Australia is sending a minister to Japan to discuss trade relations.

Stock sales take place at Winton on Thursday and at Otautau oil Friday.

There are sufficient drainage schemes in Southland to absorb relief workers for the next three years.

Money for the new British unemployed scheme is to be found by the employers, the workers and the State.

There has been a butter slump in London owing to unregulated shipments arriving from 1 Australia.

The week-end was fine, with a light westerly blowing. Motor traffic to Riverton was heavy.

. Surveys from the air have been found helpful in locating auriferous country- . .

: A poison-gas has been invented by two French chemists against which the gas mask is no protection.-

The death occurred at Dunedin on Sunday of Lady Sim, wife of the late Mr Justice Slih.

■ A violent earthquake is reported from Hawaii, where a volcano burst into eruption after being dormant for nine years.'

Mr George R. Reid has been appointed to the . school at Granity, thp present teacher, Mr Rhind, having been, transferred to Aparima.

It lias been discovered that the virus causing infantile paralysis enters the brain by way of "the nostrils through the olfactory nerves

The Gore show takes place this week, and next week the Southland show will draw the countryside to Invercargill.

Lambs have done exceedingly well, and satisfactory numbers will be ready when the freezing works open the* month. :

v Shearing is now well under way. Numbers of dry sheep have been shorn. It is expected that - Southland shearing will 1 be completed earlier than usual.

The record price at the Geelong (Melbourne) wool sale last week was twentyseven pence. It is also the Australian record for the . season.

At the Napier wool sales last week prices on the whole ’were 95 to 100 per ceiifc. better than they were at the end of the last selling season. .

A Dunedin message says milling wheat is unchanged. There is small enquiry for oats. No business is doing in seed.

During the present year the Invercargill Old Timers’ Concert Party has giver nineteen concerts, and a total sum oi £403 lias' been ■ allocated for different purposes.

V’ ' . /Mr Jesse Whippy late of Pallia, passed away at Riverton on Sunday in his eightieth year, -The remains were interred to-day in the Orepuki cemetery. , ;

Having been assured that financial provision would b_e made, if necessary, the Wallace Hospital Board has agreed to sign the Waipiata Sanatorium Agreement for a further term.

The Manchester Guardian, discussing quotas, said a restriction of da ivy. imports from New Zealand would so shake its economic life that, it- would mean the end of immigration,- and might lead to aii ultimate debt default.

A young man has been arrested in connection with the burglary at Otautau. He was before- the '.'lnvercargill. Police Court on .Saturday and remanded. He made two attempts to escape from custody. .

At the last- meeting of the Southland Progressiva League the Mayor of Bluff said he could not support the remit in favour of the Kiugston-Queenstown road. His was the only dissentientvoice.

At last week’s London wool sales aT finer growths realised full rates. New Zealand scoured merinos “Ot-ipua” secured twenty-eight pence halfpenny, and halfbred lamb slipe brought twenty-two pence and seventeen pence.

. The principal of .Cirencester Agricultural College,' advising farmers of Ashby-de-la-Zouch on milking, said that cow r s liked human, company and ‘music. They should be treated to lively ditties at milking time and not ‘such strains .as “Art Thou Weary, Art Thou Languid?”-

There is a very great deal of money in -New Zealand awaiting profitable use, and it is only necessary that greater confidence should be shown, as may reasonably be shown, in the future of the country to bring this money speedily into circulation through industrial channels.

It appears there was a connection between the niotor car removed from j.c-veii street, Invercargill, a week or two ago and the Otautau burglary. The car, which had been repainted, was found behind a hedge in a country district, and in a mud-hole nearby the safe stolen from the Otautau single profit store was unearthed. A

The death occurred at the Wallace Hospital at 1.50 p.m. on Monday of Jas McNaughton, as the result of injuries received through falling from a pony oil Saturday. The late Mr McNaughton' was 63 years of age, and was employed at Otautau as a Government rabbiter. An inquest was held this •morning before E. C. Levve.y Esq., S.M., when a verdict, in accordance with the medical evidence was returned that deceased died as the result of injuries received to his back by being thrown from a horse

With one exception, all the nursing staff at the Wallace Hospital are new appointees. The Matron, Miss Gedney, has the following under her control: Two sisters, five staff nurses, and six aids, thirteen in all—exclusive of one probationer, who is completing her training at the Southland Hospital. .The staff, with the Matron, is now fourteen. In June last it numbered eleven, so that there has been an increase of three since then.