NEWS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF

More Radio Licenses

Radio license figures showing the number in force on July 31, demonstrate further substantial increases, particularly in the number of listeners’ licenses. The grand total has reached 166,671, which is 31,715 more than at the corresponding date a year ago. Receivers’ licenses total 164,411, having increased bv 31,550, and there are, in addition, 1046 dealers’, S3O experimental amateur, 3 experimental research, 2 special, 357 free, and 22 broadcasting licenses.

Fall From Bicycle. Slight concussion and a lacerated wound to his right eye were the injuries received by Mr. G. Smith, 2SB Rintoul Street, furrier, yesterday, when the fork of the bicycle he was riding snapped. The accident occurred at the corner of Harris Street and Jervois Quay. He was taken to the hospital by the Free Ambulance. Many Married Men.

„ “Of a total of 31 members of the* staff, only six will be unmarried at the beginning of next term. I understand that still another member is to be married at Christmas time.” stated the headmaster of Wellington College, Mr. W. A. Armour, in his report to yesterday’s meeting of the board of governors. Only 6 Per Cent, Voted.

In a poll held yesterday on a proposal that St. Kilda Borough join in the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire District, only 6 per cent, of electors exercised the vote, says a Dunedin Press Association message. The proposal was carried, there being 193 votes for and 28 against.

National Provident Fund. The principle of a compulsory national provident fund was reaffirmed at the meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union last night. The meeting urged upon the Government the necessity of .giving the question serious consideration, with a view bo the early establishment of a suitable scheme.

Another Fanners’ Tour. There are 72 members of the New Zealand farmers’ touring party now in Europe. Such are the reports from these and other parties' that Messrs. Thomas Cook and Son have received sev'eral requests to organise another party for next year and have agreed to do so. This party will be organised in time to leave Sydney for England by the Strathaird iu March next.

Soccer Players Suspended. Two Association football players, A. Leslie (Petone) and J. La racy (Marist), who were ordered off the field at the Basin Reserve on Saturday for fighting, were suspended by the management committee of the Wellington Football Association last night for the rest of the season, and for three playing Saturdays next season. When the players were advised of the penalty, Leslie said that he was finished with the game.

Hotels in the Dominion. “There are lots of poor hotels all over the world that have uncomfortable beds. New Zealand hotels are as good as anything we have struck, the service is excellent and the beds are very comfortable,” said Mr. S. W. Jarvis, a British pen manufacturer, who arrived in Christchurch the other day. He is making a world tour, accompanied by his wife and daughter. They had visited many small towns in Australia and New Zaland, said Mr. Jarvis, and, as far as speech and national sentiment were concerned, they felt they might well have been in England. Carrying Mails to the Fanner's Gate. Wherever motors are run regularly through New Zealand, mails are also transported. The Postal Department has been a great factor in stimulating the development of motor transport along routes not reached by the rail. It has sent mails regularly to places where never before has the motor run to a time-table, and this regular, usually daily, mail connection has assisted in no small degree in the development and well-being of a great portion of the farming community. Out of approximately 80,000 farmers in New Zealand, 23,000 receive and dispatch their mails at their gates by the mail motor every day.

Railway Fences. The rapid deterioration of fences along railway lines owing to repeated burning-off by the railway staff, was referred to in a West Coast remit carried by the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union last night. It. was stated by delegates that the deplorable state of many railway fences was giving cause for much concern, as farmers found it difficult to keep even their own fences in repair. On rhe motion of Captain H. M. Rushworth, M.P., the executive also expressed the view that the safety of the travelling public should not depend on Mie financial capacity of the farmer owning land adjoining a railway, but that the Railway Department should in the interests of the public maintain its fences in a satisfactory condition.