LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I'iic Farmers’ Union conl'cienco M-** terdav, at tue request of tlie Women’s Division, uccided to support the iNurses’ Association in its opposnton to tne proposed legislation permitting uie registration ot nurses trained, in private nospitals. As tike bank was holding more gold than was really necessary tor the con-, auct of its business, we shipped, durmg the vear, gold coin to London to the amount of £500,000. —Extract from the chairman’s annual report to the to the annual meeting at Wellington to-day of the Bank of New Zealand. Customs' duties collected in New Zea-

I nmtli during the quarter mat ended uni march dl totalled ±;2,0U1,4bd, compared j witn ±a,9y<,ii2 ior me corresponding perioui or last year. Jtxeise duties amounted to ±;23&,90/ and ±1214,(524 respectively lor the March, quarter ot i odd and 11(29. The total Customs revenue tor the financial year 1929-30 was £8,(546,/t>4 and excise duties £912,923, compared with £7,807,744 and ±1610,247 respectively for the x>revious financial year. In reply to a statement made at s Wanganui that the Kailway Departr meat had done nothing to protect crossings, the department challenges its accuracy. It is stated that the Trans--1 port Conference had before it a few i months ago a design for a portable p notice with the word “Stop" in reflecting letters. This was ajiproved by ' the conference, but material nad to be 3 sent for to construct these notices and s has not yet arrived. So far from doing _ nothing, the department contends it has been very active in the matter. , With the object of gaining an insight into the agricultural conditions of thei South island a party of farmers from i Poverty Kay, Hawke's Kay, Wairarapa i. and Manawatu will leave Wellington r on Saturday night by the Maori. Their ’ itinerary is. comprehensive and em- *" braces all the important farming disn tricts between Christchurch and Duneclin. Visits will also foe paid to Lincoln Agricultural College and the Ka°i warau dam. The tour will occupy 17 r days and is being arranged by the f- Railway Department in conjunction f l with the Farmers’ Union o 1, £ Lt if is j ;r jfcs tel n •d IS a[j r . « sh ra it >n >n ,t----in in