LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Provision is made by an Order-in-Comicil that only barley for use as stock food shall be admitted free. Under the British preferential and general tariff 2s per cental is charge_.e on barley used for any other purpose. Formerly barley used for _any utner purpose than the manufacture of beer was admitted free.

Figures supplied by the Minister of Mines show, a marked increase in the export of gold and silver for the first ten months of this year. Gold exported was 117,937 ounces, of a value of £486,136, against 106,695 ounces valued at £438,480 for ten months of last year. Silver was 503,133 ounces valued at £40,397, against 367,760 ounces valued at £36,644. With the manager, Mr G. V. Wild, the Feilding Technical High School cricket team, which played in a Silson Cup game at Hawera yesterday, left by the south express this morning to return to Feilding. The Hawera High School was well represented at the | station, and a rousing exchange of cheers as the train departed gave indication of the cordial relationship existing between the respective schools.

'The work of the service officer of the 'South Taranaki Automobile Association (Mr J. 'McKee) was highly appreciated at the Stratford Show, where the muddy condition of the grounds and the road sides- necessitated considerable help from a service: truck which he had at the ground. A number of punctures were fixed! and cars pulled out of the mild, 73 cars receiving attention. This attention given at meetings all over the country has served l to increase the popularity of ’the association. At a meeting of the finance committee of the Southland County Council yesterday morning great disappointment was expressed that the report of the Unemployment Board seemed to indicate that the standard rate of wages paid on relief works was to be 14s- a day. The council passed the following resolution : “Taking into consideration the serious financial position of the primary and secondary industries of the country, this council is not prepared, to co-operate unless the wages paid; on relief works are reduced to 12s. a day for married men and 9s a day for sjngle men.”

During his address given at Hawera last evening concerning the recent annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand Mr If. W. Horner (president of the Hawera Chamber) referred to novel suggestions made at a dinner speech by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P. (Temuka), regarding the constitution of a reformed Upper House. Mr Burnett’s idea of suitable appointments was for those of three merchants, representing the chambers of commerce; three manufacturers, nominated by the Manufacturers’ Association; six farmers (two being sheep farmers, two dairymen and one wheat and one fruit farmer) ; five representatives of organised labour; two representatives of education; three representatives of religious bodies (one Anglican, one non-conformist and one Roman Catholic); al] ex-High Commissioners; all ex-Cabinet Ministers, having at least five years service, unless still in the House; and 20 general appointments representing those of long Government or Parliamentary service and selected as persons of national reputation. All appointments should, it was suggested, be for six yeans. The trip of three days from Sydney to Wellington, which is provided for in the time-table mapped out for the Malolo’s Pacific cruise, raised the question of the trans-Tasmans records. The Malolo makes adhering to her schedule her first consideration, and although it is quite possible she could have put up even faster time if pushed, , in accordance with her arrangements it was only necessary for her to reach Welling at 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon to be on time, thereby breaking the record by two hours. Had the Malolo been delayed lor some reason at Sydney it would have been interesting to have seen what would have been the result of her effort to pick up lost time on the way across. As it was she left Sydney at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and, allowing for the two hours’ difference between eastern Australian and New Zealand time, it was necessary for her to arrive inside the Wellington heads before 6 o’clock last evening to lower the record for the trip, which stood to tho Malolo’s credit since 1905. However, she was in the stream at 3 o’clock. The previous record was two days 23 hours for the