LOCAL & GENERAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12538, 27 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Consumers linked up with the P.B. Electric-Rower Board’s system have increased by 179 during the past 12 months. Of the total of 5035, domestic users number 4045 (3047 town and 998 country) and commercial . users 990 (838 town and country 152). Town consumers number 3885 and country 1150. Units purchased by the P.B. Elec-tric-Power Board from the P.AV.D. Inst month . numbered 926,704, 'compared with 980,994 in March) 1934; in addition 670 units were generated as against 19,384 a year ago. This represents a decrease of 72,944 units or 7.29 per cent. During the financial year ended Alarch 31, a total of 10.496,400 units were purchased from the P.W.D., an increase of 802,800 on the previous year, Units generated locally numbered 49,515 compared with 6-4,559, a decrease of 15,044. Summarised the units used totalled 10,545,915, an increase of 787,756 or 8.07 'per cent, on 1933-34 The following mayors of Wairarapa towns have! been re-elected unopposed:' Alasterton, T. Jordan; Carterton, W... Fisher; Featherston, J. W- . Card;, Eketahuna, R. Simpson. There are three nominations for 'the Grey.town mayoralty. Polls will he’ necessary for' the Alasterton, Featherston, and Eketahuna. borough councils. Eighteen ' candidates have been nominated for eleven vacancies on the Alasterton ; Borough Council. The Grey town council i*s three short’ of the required number. The only contest for AVairarapre Hospital Board 'representatives is for Alasterton borough, where " there arc four candidates fon the three vacancies. There are ' several Con-, tents" fc-iq AVhirarapaPower .Board seats. -Three' nominations “have" ‘been received for two- Wnirarapa district representatives on " ' the : Wellington harbor-hoard—Afessrs !T- R. Barter; Hugh Morrison, and Ben Roberts; — P.A. ’

Owing to the second day of the cattle fair taking place on Friday, May 3rd, there will he no sheep sale at Matawh'ero on that day. ; .

New Zealand Paper Mills Ltd. have advised' the Stock Exchange Association that'the directors have declared a final dividend of 4 per cent., making 7 per cent, for the year- ended March 31, 1935, an unchanged rate. The dividend is payable on May 20.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co-., Ltd. , has received the following cablegram from its London office' under date loth instant: “Batter, ’N:Z., choicest' salted, 765; cheese, white, 44s to 44s 6d; colored 45s 6-d'to 465. Market quiet.”

St. Andrew’s Women’s Guild will hold its annual jumble sale next Friday afternoon in the Sunday School, Cobden Street. The guild hopes to offer a large quantity of second-hand clothing at reasonable prices. An added attraction to the sale will be a miscellaneous stall where various oddments will be sold.

When fans were switched on t<o relieve .the heat in the university hall at Calcutta, where students were sitting Ifor the final of the bachelor of arts examination, a moustache was blown -off the face of one of the candidate!';, revealing that he was not a student, hut his tutor. The imposter dashed from the hall hotly pursued.—P.A.

A brief account of the history of the Bank of Australasia in New Zealand was given by Mr C. G.' Hamilton, chairman of directors, at the annual meeting in London. “We .opened in New Zealand in 1864,” said Air Hamilton. “Our connection with New Zealand has always been a very'satisfactory one. We have suffered from earthquakes, especially at Napier, and we are still feeling aggrieved at the terms on which our gold holdings were,commandeered by the Now Zealand Government.”

At the request of the Department ■of Health, the question of any increase in salary to members of the -staff of the Christchurch Hospital has been held up. The department liar; asked that any action by the board on the question he delayed pending an examination -of tlie board’s estimates by the department. The board had previously decided on a 5 per cent, increase of wages. If is understood that similar letters have been sent to -other boards.—P. A.

At a broadcast Empire service in Canterbury Cathedral (England) on June 15, the Archbishop of Canter, bury will dedicate gifts for 90 cathedrals within the Empire, and for two in the United Stater; G'f America —St. John the Divine, New York, and Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Tiie deans of chapters are giving pieces of ancient slope, while friends of Canterbury Cathedral are responsible Ifor their carving and tor bronze replicas of the eight century cross, with an inscription beneath, which will be placed upon these wall stones. —P.A.