LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9025, 3 November 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The election for tho Maori electorates in the Dominion is being held today. The local booth, is at the Goionation Hall. ” Applications are invited by the Borough Council for the position of inspector. “A magnificent tree,’ said a visitor to Tauranga this morning as he admired the splendid aspen opposite the Post Office. “Yes,” replied a local resident, ‘‘it is beKevcd to- be the largest of its kind in New Zealand.” "Probably it is ‘be largest in the world,” rejoined the visit or. Tlie election results will be screened from tin? verandah over Mr P. F. Carter’s shop to-morrow evening. Score cards will be issued by tins office, on wliich each electorate is numbered, and also each polling booth in the Tauranga electorate. As the returns are screened the slides will be numbered -to correspond with the numbers on the cards, and so facilitate finding Die particular electorate of booth. According to its- usual custom, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will provide refreshments to-morrow for all workers and friends at the Salvation Army Hall, where mothers may leave their children while they vote, A statement has Ibeen issued by the Alain Highways Board showing that the approvimaia mileage of main highways in the North Island is 3488. There are ten areas, consisting of North Auckland, 583 3/4. miles; South Auckland, 4271 miles : Tauranga, 407 miles ; Gisborne, 2491 miles; Hawke’s Bay, 438; King Country, 280; Taranaki, 126; Wanganui, 3294; Wellington Vest, 318 3/4; and Wellington East 328*. The mileage of the South Island main highways is given as 2620, made up of Nelson 2701; West Coast 3301; Canterbury North, 3151; Canterbury Central 3721; Canterbury South, 4,49 3/4; Otago Central, 243; Otago South 217 3/4; and Southland, 4211. There are eight areas in the- South Island, Tenders are invited by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency G<x, Ltd., for dismantling and excavating and the erection of new yards at Judea. Mr S. G. Willcock notifies that the auction sale of boots and shoes at Messrs Beale Bros.’ shop will be continued on Thursday next. The Tauranga County Council inserts notices relative to the recent polls of ratepayers in the Katikati and Maketu Hidings. “The amount of buying and selling of land in this country is so great that £238,000,000 worth of property passed through the Stamp Duty Office in three years,” a Southern candidate stated. The annual effort of the Ladies’ Guild of Holy Trinity Church is to be held on Wednesday, November 11. Work has been going on steadily during the winter with the result that the various stalls will he well stocked. An interesting musical programme has been arranged, when several well-known performers will be heard, including the Hey. Alfred Lb Hall, M.A., the newly-appointed Vicar. At a sitting of the Court yesterday, before Messrs C. C. Norris and B. C. Bobbins, J.P’s., a country resident was charged with working a' horse that was suffering from sores. A fine of £5, with costs, was imposed. Local bodies were expecting to receive £23,000 subsidy from the Main Highways Board for paving roads near Wellington, but the Crown Solicitor has raised doubts as to whether, on account of technicalities, the subsidy can be claimed. He has suggested that the parties had better go to the Court for a declaratory judgment. Already Wellington has had to pave seven miles of the Hutt Hoad without subsidy, although a similar road out of Auckland receives one. A' Wellington message says an experienced sheep farmer estimates that a wet and backward season will cause a shortage of two pounds per fleece. He reckons that the. North Island will be sixty thousand bales short, and the South Island forty thousand bales. A further reduction of 10/- a. ton in f the price of sugar is announced by the j Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd. i This reduction will apply as from yo«- j torday. and to all grades of raw and J refined sugars. Hie wholesale price ot j No 1A sugar is now down to £22 a t r >n. ■