LOCAL AND GENERAL

Inangahua Times, 24 December 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Golden Terrace Dredging, Com pany. Southland, washed up on Tuesday ter 46ozs 15dwts gold, for 170 hours’ dredging.

The Inangahua Times will rot be published on December 25th and 26th and on New Year’s Day, January Ist, 1932. Will advertisers kindly note the fact.

Masses will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church, Reefton. at midnight on Christmas Ere and on Christmas Day at 7 a m. and 11 a.m., and on Sunday at 7.30 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. 2

A united service will be held at Knox Church to-morrow evening at 7 o’clock. Ensign Liddy, the Rev. T. Parson and the Rev A. Ashwln, will assiet in the service.

McCaffrey’s cars will run to Weatport to-morrow afternoon at 2 30 p.m. and on Friday and Saturday at j 3 a.m. if sufficient inducement offers.

The. Inangahua County Council office will be closed from the 26th December until the 9th January. Interments can be arranged for with Mr W. G. Day, Main Street, Reefton.

The Railway Department advertises in this issue particulars of time table alterations and additions in connection wi»h the Trots at Reefton on 30'h December and Races at Omoto on Ist anl 2nd January.

What promises to be a wealthy gold in«- is the Go'den Progress Mine in Central Otago Since cnmmenc'og

iterations a short time back, consistently good returns have recorded, but what is the highest return from an Otago mine for many years is now reoort*>d by this enmpiny. F«-r the period from November 17 »o Dec mber 19 the min** returned 522 'Z retorted g Id from 175 torn* of ore Two tone of concentrates from the Wilflev table are estimated to produce 38 nz*. and one ton of middlings i« estimated to produce 7 nz« of gold. This makes a total return of 567nz from all sources, and with the present price of gold the company is a sure dividend payer.

Employees of the Poet and Telegraph Department at Auckland raseed a resolution stating, smong other thing*, that Civil Servants are carrying more than a fair share of the country’s burden No doubt we all feel most the sacrific we ourselves are called on to make bat the Public Service would be well advised rot tom Ice comparisons and so provoke a return in kind. Its members have suffered a 10 per cent reduction in staffs. But the great majority are still secure in steady, regular work with their future provided for by superannuation. Workers in private employ have had to accept an equal, if not a greater reduction in salaries or wages, have suffered by los* of overtime, short time, rationing of work, widespread unemployment and the constant worry and axiety for riis future. Farmers, business and professional men, manufacturers and producers of all kinds have almost all suffered far greater than a 10 per cent reduction in income ; many have suffered total loss. As a matter of fact, many in these days wistfully regard the comparative security and certainty represented by what they regard, rightly er wrongly, as the haven of the Public Service.—Dominion. i

The Swimmire Carnival to be held at the Reefton ba> hs ha« been postponed from to> morrow until a later date, probably next Wednes* day evening, Gift* for gentlemen and ladies, children and infanta, at Misa Cohen’s. 8 A Dividend (No. 1) of one shilling per share has been declared on all the shares in the • Alexander Mines Ltd. free of Income Tax. This represents a sum of £3,750 distributed to shareholders. Dividend is peyab’e on 16th. January 1932, and Transfer Books close from 13tb. to 16th. January, 1932.