POLICE PROVIDENT FUND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 14 June 1909, Page 8

POLICE PROVIDENT FUND.

The Police Provident Fund report, presented to Parliament to-day, shows thai, during the year ended 31st March last two detectives, two sergeants, and seven constables were retired, with annual allowances, under the Act. At the end of the year four exinspectors, twenty-three ex-sergeants, forty-six ex-constables, four ex-detec-tives, and two widows were drawing allowances, the aggregate amount being £7529 15s 7d per annum. Three pensioners died during the year. On 31st March the credit balance of the fund stood at £31,813 7s 30d, being an increase of £1276 2s 3d on the previous year. • .

Miss Hilda O'Brien, who has been a popular member of the Dresden PianoCompany in Wellington for some time, is to be married here next week. On Saturday morning she was presented by Mr. M. J. Brookes, the manager, on behalf of himself and the staff of the local branch, with a solid silver salver and tea service, as a mark of their esteem. Mr. Justice Chapman will open the criminal session at Napier to-morrow week, 22nd inst. The Secretary for Marine has been informed- that the Hinemoa will leave Auckland for the Thames to-morrow morning, to ship the iron tower made there by Judd and Sons, for the new lighthouse at Cape Brett. The lantern and apparatus have arrived from Home, and are now stored in. Wellington. It is, expected that the lighthouse will be completed about the end of the year. An interesting relic, of 'the days of Bully Hayes, the notorious pirate of the Eolith Seas, was secured by the schooner Concord, which reached Honolulu recently. It is in the shape of a solid biass swivel gun, weighing (states the Auckland Star) at least 501bs. Several old swords, which were part of Hayes's equipment in his infamous trade, were «lso secured. The dairying industry in tho Waikato is showing considerable progress. A new company, to be called the Waikato Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., has been formed, with a capital of £5000. It is proposed that the company shall buy cream only, and have no expensive creameries or skimming stations. The manager is 'Mf> Blomqui&t, for nine years manager of the Ballance Dairy Company at Pahiatua. The annual meeting of the Wellington Garrison Signallers' Club will be held tomorrow evening. Captain Duigan, In- , structor in Engineering and Signalling, wilj deliver a short lecture on "Communications," and Lieut. Hulbert, District Signalling Officer, will speak on "Lessons of the Easter Manoeuvres." Tho work which it is proposed to carry out during the year will also be briefly outlined. At 2 o'clock to-morrow, Messrs. W. H. Morrah and Co. will sell by public auction in their rooms, Willis-street, household furniture, cabinet, carriage lamps, and sundries. To-moirow aftprnoon, at 3 o'clock, as advertised, Miss Margaret Lovcll, L.C.A., gold medallist, from the National School of Cookery, London, will deliver the first of a series of lectures and practioal demonstrations dealing with the subject of gas cooking. Messrs. C. Smith, Ltd., Cuba-street, advertise special reductions for next Saturday in tho dress and Manchester departments. Goods slightly soiled or damaged by water will, it is announrod, bo told at "bed-rook pricec." '