LOCAL AND GENERAL

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1937, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are 211 cases of honey awaiting grading in the store at Greymouth, and the Government grader is expected to carry out the work during the next week or so. The quantity for export is much below the average, as a result of the poor season experienced, which has been general throughout New Zealand, and the keen local demand.

Results for the year of municipal trading departments were presented at a meeting of the Dunedin City Council, states a Press Association message. These showed profits totalling £50,392/11/3, a sum which was contributed to by all departments with the exception of the Roslyn and city sections of the tramways department, which showed a total loss for the year of £2563, compared with a profit last year of £3,339. Last year’s total profits were £56,925.

An average of £9 per week is being deposited this ydar in the. savings bank conducted by the pupils of the Grey Main School, in conjunction with the Post. Office Savings Bank. There are over 400 regular contributors to the bank, and it. is likely that last year’s total deposit of over £4OO will be exceeded this year. When pupils reach school-leaving age, their deposit is transferred to form a nucleus of a private account, in the Savings Bank.

Referring to the Vegetable Committee’s suggestion that the thumb prints of Chinese and other Asiatics engaged in fruit and vegetable trade should be taken to simplify identification. the Chinese consul. Fetig Wang, said to the Wellington “Post”: —“The committee actually recommended to impose on my countrymen resident in this fair Dominion, an act. which in all civilised countries is associated only with crime. But. I have not the slightest doubt that the New Zealand Government will not even consider the Committee’s suggestion, because it would be most unfriendly to China, and is contrary to the British sense of fair play.”—Press Assn.

For your reading for Winter evenings, join the Westland Rook Club. Latest books of Fiction, Travel, biography, Philosophy, etc., await you. Subscriptions payable quarterly, half-yearly or yearly, terms at reasonable rates. Country clients specially catered for. Particulars at B. Dixon’s, Ltd., Tainui Street. —Advt.

The Coronation of King George Viand Queen Elizabeth is being looked forward to, throughout the world, with great expectancy. Loyal toasts will he honoured and it goes without saying that their Majesties’ health and long reign will be drunk with the world’s best quality Spirit—Dewar s Imperial Whisky. Messrs Griffen and Smith, Ltd., Distributors, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Westport. —Advt.

Regulations issued under the Infants Act, 1908, provide that fees for filjng an application for adoption ami for an order of adoption shal be 10/ir each case.

A section of the left wing of a Gipsy Moth aeroplane, which was washed up on Island Bay beach last Monday, is now stated to be presumably a further section of the aeroplane which disappeared off the Makara coastline a few- weeks ago. The wing section, which is covered with fabric and painted silver, was left on the beach by the receding tide and was found by the custodian on his morning rounds about 50 yards to the west, of the surf club buildings.

A quantity of Australian hardwood for bridges in the Grey County was unloaded from the Kalingo at Gieymouth this week, but the amount was below that required to complete the four bridges in hand, Waterfall, Moore’s Cragieburn and Tube Creeks, and the completion of these bridges will be held up pending the arrival of another shipment of timber. In most cases, however, the contractors have sufficient work in hand to prevent them ceasing work on the bridges to await the arrival of timber.

The appeal for books to build up the library of the Grey Main School, organised by the Home and School Association, in co-operation with the staff and pupils of the school, has met with an excellent response, the Secretary of the Association (Mr. C. L. Thompson) stated to-day. Over 600 volumes have already been received. Ninety per cent of the volumes received are suitable for the Library, the Headmaster (Mr. J. Graham) stated, arid the Association and staff desire to thank donors for their response to the appeal, particularly Mr. R. R. Dawber, for 80 copies of the National Geographic Magazine and Rev. F. A. Parry for 15 very suitable volumes. The books, after approval by the staff for inclusion in the library, will all be covered.

The figures of the State Placement Office at Greymouth this week are the lowest for a considerable time, only ten placements being made. The Placement Officer (Mr. F. R. PalliserSmith) states that the decline can be attributed to the approach of winter and the cessation of seasonal work. During the week four men and three youths were found permanent employment, two men casual work and one temporary work. In addition 30 men were placed on State works, making the total in this category, since the inception of the scheme, 775. Since April 1, 73 private placements have been made, in the following classes: Permanent: 33 men and 7 youths; casual 18 men and 2 youths; temporary: 12 men and one youth.

“'This is a business which must be stopped. There is a maximum penalty of £5O. You will be fined £2 on each charge, but if there is any more of this I will make it the maximum,” said Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. The remarks were made to Irene Merineza Bolton, who was convicted on charges of mischievously using the telephone service for the purpose of irritating one John McGregor, and of using a telephone without paying the prescribed fee. Sub-Inspector D. A. MacLean said that Mrs. Bolton’s husband was a taxi proprietor at New Brighton, and that the complainant, McGregor, was also a taxi proprietor. Just before Christmas, 1936, McGregor had installed a telephone, and received malicious rings at all hours of the night. Some of these calls had been traced to a public slot telephone outside the New Brighton Post Office.

Another instalment of the Unemployment levy is due to-morrow, so don’t forget. On May 14, the Blackball Oddfellows’ Coronation Ball — don’t forget.—Advt.

An outline of the progress in connection with the elimination of dangerous railway crossings, was, given by Mr Semple, in an interview: to-day, at Wellington. Of the 250 selected for elimination on the main highways, nine have been completed, 59 contracts been let, and work is in hand. Two tenders have been called and proposals are ready for calling ten more. Sixty-eight proposals are in course.of preparation, and surveys and foundation investigations are in hand for 45, a total of 193. In 126 cases, elimination is by overbridge, 50 by highway deviation and 17 by subway. Mr Semple said that this progress must be regarded as highly satisfactory, considering the high pressure at which the officers under his control are working. Reinforced concrete has been adopted: for overhead bridges, and except in special circumstances, the minimum curve, is ten chains radius, with 500 feet vertical sight distances. —Press Assn.

Smashing reductions are offered for the final days of S. Burnett White’s Closing Down Sale. —Advt.

People are asking everywhere in New Zealand why are eggs dear? (says the Evening Post). Wellington wholesale quotations are 2/7 to 2/9 per dozen for first grade and 2/10 for special lines, which, means that a. retailer who sells one egg at 3d is not making much out of the transaction. But Mr A. E. Knowles, chairman of the Auckland Egg Marketing Committee and, a member of the New Zealand Poultry Board, assigns two causes for the dear egg (1) reduction of flocks, and (2) inferior wheat. He explains that each year about this time there is a shortage of eggs in the Dominion and their price is high. This year the shortage is more acute than usual, ,wholly on account of the two .factors mentioned. It is quite possible that, the price of eggs will go higher still. Poultry farmers are reaping little or no benefit because production, is limited. In former times when eggs wore, scarce locally they were imported, many from Canada. The only eggs in shell imported in recent, years have come from China and then only a few dozen of them.

Wages and Time Books, suitable for all trades and businesses, with all the latest rulings and in all sizes and prices from 1/- to G/- each. Delivery Books in all sizes 1/- to 4/6 each. Cash Receipt Books in duplicate or singles 4?.d to 3/- each; Account Form Books 9d to 2/- each; Account Books in Ledger, Cash. Journal, and Balance Book rulings in all sizes and bindings. Prices range from 1/- to 50/- each at B. Dixon’s, Ltd. —Advt.