LOCAL & GENERAL.

Western Star, 6 December 1935, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Th© demand for fat lambs is particularly good and prices are likely to reach 265.

The local fishing launches are undergoing their annual overhaul for the Christmas holidays.

Dining the part few days of fine weather good catches of blue cod and hapuka hav© been secured by the local fishing launches.

Owing to the tide not being suitable for Monday evening the official opening of the Riverton Swimming Club lias been postponed till Monday week

The annual sale of work in connection with the Anglican Church will be held in l 1 leek’s Ilall to-morrow afternoon and evening.

A recent visitor from the Old Country considers that New Zealand butter would sell mure readily if made up in half-pound pats. There are thousands of persons at Home who buy their butter in this manner.

Owing to the large number of inert employed at the Milford end of the! track, the Public Works Department id erecting a. small hospital, which will bo in charge of a trained nurse. The nurse is already stationed at Milford and has treated several cases due to accidents and utkufrsc,

In thig, issue the Railway Department advertise particulars of train. arrangements and special excursion tickets in connection with the Southland A. and P Show which is being held at Invercargill on 10th and 11th December.

The Riverton Sailing Club held a race on Wednesday evening when five boats competed. The wind was very light and every boat carried full sails. The result was an easy win for the Roseen, with Desert Gold second and Silver Fern/ third.

On Sunday evening a men’s service will be held in the Methodist Church when Rev Wesley Parker will be the preacher, and Mr J. Moss, who has recently returned from an extended tour of Australia, where he was highly acclaimed for his voice, will sing two sacred solos.

At a meeting of the Otautau Athletic Society held on Friday a provisional balance-sheet showed receipts to he £233 19s 6d and expenditure £195 15s, leaving a credit balance of £35 4s 6d. The revenue from th© dance also amounted to £4l l s Bd, thus making a total profit of £Bl 6s 2d.

An ordinary bicycle with bat-like wings attached —thi s is one of the queer flying machines on view at the _ Concours Lepine, the exhibition of inventions in Paris every year. Another tiny aircraft driven by human power is called the “pigeon plane.” It has a body like a pigeon, wings like those of an aeroplane, and is mounted on three wheels.

The Ohai Railway Board and the Southland Goal Mine Owners’ Associa. tion have entered into an agreement that all coal must be carried over the railway, except to portions of the district not served by the railway. For some time past a large quantity of coal has been carried from the mines by motor lorries, thus effecting a saving to the consumer. The new regulations come into force on Ist January.

So great is the plague of scorpions in Diarbekir, in Eastern Anatolia, that the municipal authorites have raised the price to about 2s for each dead one brought in. For twenty year§ therei have been vast quantities of these anij mals in the town, and all efforts to| wipe them out have failed, in spite of 1 tlffe fact that rewards were offered foi/ their destruction, and they were killed off at the rate of about 100,000 a year.

Dr Ralph W. Souter has been apminted to fill the position of Professor of Economics at Otago University in succession to Dr A. G B Fisher, and has formally accepted appointment by "■ablegiam from New York, where he has been stationed for several years. Or Souter will commence his hew duties on March 1, 1936. There were 14 applt. ■ants for the position.” four from Great Britain and 10 from New Zealand, Australia and tlie United States of America. and after the testimonials of all the candidates had been thoroughly examined, Dr Souter was selected.

The following letter has been received from Sir Clutha Mackenzie, director of* the New Zealand Institute for the Blind:—Dear Sir, “Hearty thanks fop your letter of November 19th, notifying us that £3O 9s 4d has been forwarded through the Bank of New Zealand,! Newmarket. May I repeat once more how grateful we are to you all for taking so much trouble over our visit! and for the generou s and hospitable treatment you gave us. We arrived back at the Institute on November 21st, after a successful and delightful tour which should result in close upon £I,OOO being added our funds, and to much indirect benefit, more valuable than that.”