LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The report of the Egmont A. and P. Association’s show, with all awards available up to time of going to press, appears on page 10.

A Sydney cable message reports the arrival at 5 a.m. of the Manuka from New Zealand. It is reported that the Woodville tracks are in splendid order at the present time. Owners and trainers are reminded that nominations close tomorrow (Thursday) evening at 9 o’clock. Under the auspices of the Kaponga Croquet Club an “At Home’’ is being held in the Kaponga Parish Hall tomorrow (Thursday) evening. A varied programme is being arranged and an enjoyable entertainment may be anticipated. To all interested the club extends a cordial invitation to be present

An Order-in-Counoil issued on Monday night prohibits the export of butter and cheese from New Zealand after seven days from date, except in accordance with a license to be issued by the Minister. This action is taken under section 13 of the Dairy Produce Export Control Act, 1923. The board constituted under the Act has determined thiat it is necessary for the effective operation of the Act, and the fulfilment of its purposes, that the board should exercise a limited contrbl over the export of butter and cheese.

Captain I. T. Rolls, the popular commander of the R.M.S. Niagara, who was retired from the U.S.S. Company after 40 years of service, has the unique distinction of being the first man of the third generation of deep set masters sailing in Australian waters. His father was a well-known shipowner and captain in Victoria in the ’sixties, and his grandfather, a retired commander of the East India Company, came to Australia in the ship Rlioda. This vessel took the first clip of wool to London from Victoria' in 1836 or 1839. The shipment was loaded in Melbourne into the Thistle, taken to Launceston, and put on board the Rhoda, there. The East India commander returned to Australia and settled in Melbourne, being one of the earliest colonjsts. More British capital is wanted for development of New Zealand's resources. . With the idea of inducing its flow in this direction, the Wellington Chamber of Commerce will propose at the Wanganui Conference: “That following the close of the British Empire Exhibition concerted special pleasures be taken to impress on British capitalists the Dominion’s potentialities for the investment of capital with a view to inducing their active participation in the institution and expansion of secondary industries and the working of the undeveloped resources within the Dominion, and that His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand be requested to co-operate in putting forward this suggestion.”

Bankruptcies in New Zealand in the past month totalled 38, as compared with 65 for the previous month. This is the lowest monthly record since January, when the number was 37. For the ten months of the current year to date, the number is greater than in the corresponding period of last year—s 63 as against 556—-but very much less than in the same period of 1922, when 596 bankruptcies were recorded. Once again farmers .account for the bulk of the bankruptcies, their number accounting for 129, or about 23 per cent, of the total. Other sections contributing to the bankruptcies were labourers 53, motor trade 26, builders 24, contractors and agents 18 each, and carriers 15. A woman stockbroker who started life as a city typist at £1 a week, declared to a London paper that she now has a salary running well into four- figures. She is Miss Gordon Holmes, ; and, at a luncheon of . the Soroptimist Club at the Criterion she urged that in finance there lay a real opening in the future for the woman who 'wished to earn economic independence. ‘‘Big financiers think that it is an extraordinary idea for girls to go into business, and that no woman has a head for business,” she said, “yet every woman has to handle situations at home somewhat similar to those arising in finance. For instance, she has her ‘settlement day,’ when she sees to- the laundry and pays her bills. But she is not so fond of wonderful names as men are. She calls it ‘seeing to things.’ ” Miss Holmes said she knew a girl under 20 years of age who handled the entire securities of a company. Within wireless range:—Auckland: Atlienic, Baron Napier, Canadian Traveller, Hertford, Kaikorai, Kaimanawa, Koromiko,. Lingnam, Malakand, Ngakuta, Orari, Rimutalca. Tofua, Remuera. Chatham Islands: Athenic, Rimutaka. Wellington: Maori, Mararoa, Ngaio, Waikawa, Tutanekai, Tahiti, Tremere, Knoclcfierna, Sir James Clark Ross, Moeraki, Kairanga, Cumberland, Kentucky, Wingatui, West Nivaria, Mahana, Port Chalmers, Trelissiek, Waitemata, Tainui.