LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The chairman, of the T. L. .101 l Dany Company remarked at tire annual meeting yesterday that the occasion was the first for many years on which there had not 'been an election for the directorate. The Wanganui fishing launch Gallilee, driven by oil power, put into Opunake bay late on Sunday night. Meeting, with'very .severe weatlfer'off Wanganui, the launch was forced to seek shelter and was safely moored to the Onunake wharf. There were five men aboard, who on arrival at Opunakie were very tired after their trying time with wind and high seas. The Wanganui Harbour Board is still active in its endeavour to retain the patronage of various dairy companies which have been shipping through the port, but will be compelled, under a new arrangement between the shipping companies and the . Dairy Control Board, to ship through Wellington in future. A deputation consisting of the Mayor of Wanganui (Mr AY. J. Rogers), the Hon. AV. A. Veitch (member for AVanganui), Mr J. T. Hogan, M.P. (chairman), AV. J. Gardner (secretary) and J. Patterson, of the Harbour Board and Mr A. S. Burgess (Chamber of Commerce) will wait on the Overseas Shipping Companies in AVellington to-morrow. There had been complaints in both •Month . and South 'Taranaki, said Mr A. David at yesterday’s anxual meeting of the Stratford Rural Intermediate 'Credit Association, that where loans had been applied for by members of the associations' in those districts there was great- delay in getting the money, -while in, some cases the loan proposals wore turned down. That, said Mr David, was no doubt due to the fact that in those districts there were other financial institutions working against the Rural Intermediate Credit, scheme. In Stratford there had been no delay, except in one ease, and that was due to the change-over in control from 'Hawera to Stratford.

A Budapest court recently awarded an estate manager, Ladislaw Aimassy, an allowance of £lO 16s a month because lie is afflicted with an “unquenchable” thirst. Aimassy had a constant and expensive thirst following an injury in a motor-cycle accident in which his employer, Dejoe Becker, was killed. As lie was a passenger in Becker’s sidecar, A/imassy brought an action against his employer’s heirs, claiming a pension of £lB a month. Aimassy told the judge that if be were deprived of costly preventive medicines he would be obliged to drink from 17) to 28 pints a day. The opinion that airports should be under the supervision of the Marine Department was expressed at a meeting of the Devonport Borough Council last week, when a. report of a meeting of the council in committee was adopted. It was recommended that the delegates to the conference which is to be resumed in December, should do their utmost to have the control of the proposed airport settled as soon as possible. The reasons for suggesting that airports should come under the supervision of the Marine Department were that New Zealand was essentially a maritime country, a- great deal of its local trade being sea. borne, and that all the principal airports uould therefore be situated near seaports. It was probable that many of the flying machines to be used in New Zealand in the future would be flying boats. “It is reasonable to assume that electrical development will still go on and will further curtail the demand for engineers,” said Mr. A. Black, secretary to the AVelliugton branch of the Amalgamated Engineering and Allied Trades Industrial Union of AVorkers, when speaking in the Arbitration Court at AVanganui on Monday. “I personally am convinced that many apprentices now serving their apprenticeship will be compelled to leave the trade, as there will be no work for them to do.” he continued. “A number of engineering firms in AVellington have closed down during the last few years. I contend that we have a right to expect that the number of apprentices should not exceed the number that- the industry can absorb. At the present time there is a large proportion of tradesmen doing labouring work, many not having had the opportunity of working at the trade since completing their apprenticeship. This is unfair both to apprentices and their parents, for it will be admitted that parents make sacrifices in order to give their sons an opportunity of learning a trade with a view to providing them with a reasonable livelihood in their future.”