Bay of Plenty Times. FRIDAY, APRIL 1ST., 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10831, 1 April 1932, Page 2

Bay of Plenty Times. FRIDAY, APRIL IST., 1932. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The amount paid to the unemployment fund in wages tax is exempted from income tax for the consolidated fund, a Land and Income Tax Department official explained to a Wellington reporter last wek. A case quoted was that of .a man earning £IOO. Under the new tax he would pay £2O a year unemployment tax. This, the reporter was told, comes into the same category as premium on a. life insurance policy. It is exempted from income tax. In this case the man would pay income tax on the taxable balance of the remaining £3BO, assuming that he had no other exemptions.

The common practice of unauthorised persons removing parts from motor cars which have been left on the roadside on account of tire or accident was emphasised by an insurance assesor in the Police Court at New Plymouth, during the hearing of a charge of alleged theft of such parts. The witness said he knew of a case in which parts to the value of £l7O had been removed from a Buick car which had been partly burned and left on the road until arrangements could be made for its removal.

The Bay of Plenty Methodist Bibleclasses held their annual camps at Whakatane during Easter. The girls’ camp was held in the school, while the boys’ was at the freezing works. A combined service, conducted by Mr W. Donnelly, was held In the Methodist Church on Sunday morning. Saturday afternoon was devoted to sports. The Opotiki boys were successful in wresting the .sports banner from Whakatane. The'girls’ banner was retained by the holdes (Whakatane).

Gift coupon schemes in trade will become illegal in New Zealand on and a.fter May 1, when the Trading Coupons Act, 1931, comes into operation

The Palmerston North municipal buses continue to carry fewer passengers and to, return decreased revenue. For February the decrease in passengers was 1150, and in revenue 131 2s 3d. The total number of passengers carried for the month was 30,081 while the revenue amounted to 1423 17s 9d.

There is now a prospect of hollow reiuforced-concrete poles, manufactured in New Zealand being available for overhead line work, according to a report submitted to the Christchurch City Council by its electricity committee. The general manager of the municipal electriity department recently witnessed a test of such poles and the results suggested that when experiments are further developed. and details of design determined, the possibilities are of definite interest. The chief feature is that instead of the concrete being placed in the ordinary' way it is compacted by spinning at high speed, as with concrete pipes.

“If there was a strike to-morrow and men now in work were to- come out there are plenty of other fellows looking for something to do and they would take the job. They would not mind what names they were called if they had been looking for a job and had been going short for some time,” Mr H. McKenzie, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, warned those who talked about taking action at a, well attended public meeting at Ohakune.

“Some people look upon golf as a luxury,’ 1 said Mr Malcolm S. Holmes, the newly-elected president of the North Otago Golf Club, at the annual meeting, “but it is nothing of the kind —it is a necessity.” Mr Holmes went on to say that if he were a doctor he would advocate golf as a cure for many complaints, and all members present at the meeting showed by their applause that they were of the same opinion.

“Christchurch is one of the most courteous places in the world,” said a visitor from overseas to a reporter. “Tram guards are only too pleased to give one information, while the pass-ers-by are quite willing to spare a moment to point out the whereabouts of a street or shop. In Auckland the people are often rude and uncivil, if they are asked for a direction, while in America the stranger is openly abused in many towns if he stops to ask his way about.”

A party traversing the old pack track leading from Blackball to Croesus Knob a few days ago was surprised to find the bridge across the Black ball Creek in good order, especially as the 50ft spans are of rimu grown on the high levels (says the Grey Star). It is usually considered that rimu. rots after a few years, yet this bridge was built by Mr J. Higgins (county engineer) more than 40 years ago. The rimu spans are 14 inches by 10 inches, and 50 feet long.

The Tauranga Lawn Tennis Club will hold its annual closing da.y and presentation of trophies to-morrow. A match will also be played between

The largest consignment of hemp to leave Foxtou during the past two years was despatched by rail for Wellington recently (stales the Foxtou correspondent of the Manawatu Evening Standard). The consignment comprised 13 trucks, the whole of which is being shipped to Australia.

“Primary school teachers are no longer encouraged to lake Nature science subjects at our universities,” said a city headmaster to a Christchurch Sun reporter. “Ours is primarily an agricultural country and. at the present lime, when the cry is ‘Back to the land,’ 1 consider that there should bo teachers in every school qualified to teach the children Nature study, which is really very elementary agriculture. Lectures at the college are so arranged that no teacher has a chance of gaining a science degree within the usual period if he is teaching during the day.”

A discovery that may have an important bearing on the research efforts to find an enemy of the blackberry has been made by Mr J. 11. James, of Sales, North Auckland. He says that a disease is rapidly spreading on the blackberry bushes in that district, and doing a considerable amount of damage to the plants. The leaves first show small yellow spots and then, underneath, become covered with a powder or dust of the sa.me colour. This, in a short time, spreads over the plants and causes them to die.

In New Zealand 12,600 hoys leave school ever}* year. One-third of these are in the Auckland province. Pc-.- hi -, c> per cent, of these go to a grin luue and 60 per cent, to Government posts, professions and town jobs.

The average blended butter is from five to ten per cent, of Swedish or Argentine butter, a,nd the balance cheap Russian butter (says an exchange). This mixture is then made up into pounds, in wrappers bearing some well-known English name, and customers coming in for butter think they were getting the finest English article and cheerfully pay 2s Od a pound for it, while the pure New Zealand article is selling at Is 3d.

The Public Trustee inserts a notice to-day calling upon the owner of Allotment 302, Parish of Te Papa, to establish his title to the land mentioned.

Two punts laden with 1500 totara posts were taken in tow by Messrs Faulkner Bros.’ launch Reremoana to Motiti Island early this morning. The posts were from Putaruru and were consigned to the Native Lands Department for work on the Island, where the Maoris are doing a considerable amount of fencing. It is understood that a further similar consignment is expected in the near future. On the return trip from the Island the Reremoana will bring a quantity of maize and - produce for transhipment* at Tauranga into the Northern Steamship Company’s Motu tor the Auckland market.

The annual meeting of the Taura.nga Hockey Association will be held in Mr Foster’s Rooms on Friday, April Bth., at 7.30 p.m.