LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXXI, Issue LXXXI, 15 May 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Permits for new buildings and additions, to the value of £9011, were issued by the Engineer to the Borough Council during the pa*t month.

The directors of -the Bank- of New Zealand have granted a general bonus of 10 per cerct to all members of the staff, and an additional 5 per cent to all married men drawing £400 per annum and under.

The following stock were slaughtered at the Borough Abattoir for th« montk ended April 30: 15 bullocks, 75 cows, 2o heiefers, 23 calves, 370 sheep, 52 lambs, and 48 pigs. Or.c cow and one sheep had been condemned. The fees amounted to £79 18s 6d, and the rents to £8 16s Bd, the fees being £3 Is 6d more than for April last year.

During the month of April 158 Chinese, including 11 females, landed at New Zealand ports. The departure of Chinese from New Zealand during, the month numbered 9. Fifty-three of the Chinese landed in Wellington and! 105 in Auckland.

A meeting was held in the Christchurch Trades Hall Jast night (reports a Press Association message), when it endorsed the resolutions recently carried by Auckland unions, and also decided to ask the local members of Parliament to urge the Minister of Internal Affairs to suspend the issue of totalisator permits till the dispute is settled, and that suspended jockeys be reinstated. ;

Services for the Hawera Methodist circuit are notified in to-day's issua. In the evening, at Hawera, Rev A. Liyersedge will preach on Foreign Missions and their work. On Wednesday next, in Hawera, at 7.45 p.m., there will be a missionary "at horn* " when the Rev W H.- Cox, of NewBritain, will be present and will give an address.

An Auckland telegram states that there were 119 mild and 10 severe influenza cases reported for the 24 hour* ended at aooJa yesterday, and from then till midday to-day the number shows an increase, being 132 mild and 9 severe over the whole of the Auckland health district. The schools are to remain closed indefinitely.

The monthly meeting of the Manaia W.O.T.U. was held in the Methodist Church on Tuesday, when there was a good attendance. Mrs Patterson presided. Miss Patterson was appointed to take charge of the L.T.L. to be started next week. It was: also decided to donate £10 to the Women's Re«t Room. Arrangements were made to hold the Provincial District Gonvention at Manaia onj June 16. There were two babies 1 names for the Cradle Roll. The meeting closed with the Benediction.

Reporting on the sanitary conditions of Nojantown to the Borough Council last evening, the Inspector (Mr Givfen) stated that if there were no prospects of a greater Hawera scheme being ser» iously considered, he would be forced to compel fully two-thirds of the owners and occupiers of houses in Nolantown to go to considerable expense in taking out present sanitary fittings, filling up wells, and altering the course of drains. This would be quite unjust if in the near future amalgamation took place and they were provided with water and drairaage, which would mean further alterations. The residents were eager for amalgamation, and so also, would the borough residents be, if they had the same knowledge of these facts as he had.

The arrival of a shipment of 4500 tons of sulphur at Auckland by the Port Melbourne, marks an interesting stage in the importation of this mineral. Until recently the Dominion depended upon its supplies of sulphur, used in the manufacture of superphosphates, on the markets of Japan. Recent operations in the industry have made the markets of America a better commercial project. The sulphur laaded m Auckland came from Texas. Describing the method of obtaining the sulphur, which is 99£ per cent pure, a* officer of the ship stated that it is raised from 3000 feet below the suijfac* by means of a shaft, into one end of which are placed steam pipes which convey steam to the deposits, and this melts the sulphur rock. In a molten state the sulphur is pumped up th« shaft, and run into bins, where it solidifies and is ready for shipment. The method provides commercial sulphur of high purity.