LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4459, 19 October 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Particulars will be fou'nd in our advertising columns in this issue of fares and train arrangements in connection with the Waikato Hunt Club Races at Cambridge.

Owing to grounds not being available, the annual Labour Day Gala in aid of the funds of the Maniapoto Distict Silver Band will not be held this year. By this time next year the Rugby Park should be made available for a sports meeting, and the function will be held as usual. The dance will be held on Monday evening as usual, the arrangements bei'ng in the hands of a capable committee. Swift’s full orchestra has been engaged for the evening.

Latest reports from Australia indicate a continuance of favourable weather in the dairying centres. Production suffered a severe set-back in the winter and early spring owing to dry weather, but the position has been relieved considerably as a result of recent rains. However, receipts of butter into store in Melbourne are still about 20 per cent, below last year’s totals.

“It will be a very real thing,” remonthly rpeeting of the Wanganui County Council when referring to the commission to be appointed to enquire into the amalgamation of local bodies. “Have you ever known a commission to be the real thing?” asked Cr. J. Kennedy, with a smile. “It will be when we have to pay for it, of course,” he added.

The subject of the conversion of local loans was mentioned by the chairman of the Waitomo Power Board. While he and the other representatives of the Board were in Wellington recently a member of the Treasury Department had explained the matter to them, and while he spoke in general terms, this had enabled the secretary to bring forward a recommendation that the Board defer going forward with a conversion now as, in view of possible legislation, better suggestions could probably be made after January or -February of next year, to become effective about August.

Through the adoption of a policy of rationalisation in the flour-milling industry in England, it now appeared to be in a very prosperous condition, said Mr. J. Cadwallader, managing director of Mungo Scott, Ltd., of Sydney, who is a through passenger by the Maunganui. Mr. Cadwallader has just completed a tour of England, the United States of America, and Canada. At Home, he explained, a number of the smaller and less efficient mills had been bought up, leaving only the more efficient in operation. Conditions in Canada were bad on account of the large amount of cut-rate competition.

“Bank clerks will soon be forced to take an interest in Douglas Social Credit,” said Mr. Marcus James at the Douglas meeting in Hamilton on Monday evening, “for in the last few years the simple adding machine has evolved into an accounting machine which is now being introduced into the leading English banks; this mechanism eliminates the work of scores of clerks in branch offices, for it not only is capable of handling 60,000 ledger entries per hour, but it also locks automatically if an account is overdrawn without the necessary authority,” he concluded amidst laughter.

“I am surprised at the Government allowing rabbits near a show. If you had had as much ti-ouble with rabbits as I have had during the last two years you would not have anything to do with them,” said Mr. J. E. P. Cameron at a meeting of the committee of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association, when the report of the finance committee, which recommended that he be put in charge of the rabbit section at the forthcoming show was read. “I decline to take charge of them,” he added amidst laughter.

Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, the husband of Princess Patricia of Connaught, was recently fined £1 at Worcester, England, for driving a motor car without having a driver’s license. He explained that his car was chauffeurdriven while he was in hospital, and that when he began to drive again he was told that his license and insurance were in order. “I have never been up before, and have had. a clean license ever since I began driving 30 years ago,” he added. Police evidence was that the Admiral’s car was in a collision and when asked to produce the license on August Ist he produced one that expired on July 24th.

The cricket season at Otorohanga opened on Saturday afternoon, under threatening weather conditions. Kio Kio first took the field against the Hangatiki-Waitomo combined team, V. Fail-brother, with 12 runs, being the highest scorei-. Grut took 4 wickets for 8 runs, and Cockburn 3 for 7. At this stage rain fell and spoiled the pitch. Kio Kio, in the first innnings, scored 51, and in the second innings 23 for 2 wickets. Waitomo-Hang-atiki made 21 in the first and 50 in the second innings. Otorohanga v. Retailers match was unfortunately spoiled by the heavy rain, the former putting up 48 for the loss of 9 wickets.

There will be a regular field day at the Taumarunui Magistrate’s Court to-day. The police have ho fewer than thirteen charges of breaches of the Licensing Act in connection with the supply of liquor in a proclaimed area. There are five charges preferred against one firm and three charges against another. A native will also be charged with taking native game in the close season. The extent of the depression in the United States could be partly gauged from the fact that 600,000 young people were at one time tramping about the country securing what food and shelter they could find, Mr. T. C. List told a New Plymouth gathering this week. One relief centre in a few weeks gave succour to 10,000 young trampers, of whom 1000 were young women.

A well-known lawyer in a South Island city is suffering rather an eclipse at the present time—-lying low, in fact. Not long ago he had occasion to address a gathering of budding barristers, and in giving them some hints on the procedure to be followed in conducting cases in Court he advised the utilisation of what he termed “eye-wash” for the Judge. Unfortunately the Bench got to hear of the indiscretion, and a sharp rebuke sent the lawyer into temporary retreat.

“The fundamental difference between a parson and a politician is that the politician is supposed to say what people want him to say, and the parson is supposed to tell the truth, said the Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, Mr. J. K. Archer, when distinguishing between himself and the Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., at the opening of the bowling and croquet sections of the Edgeware Bowling, Croquet and Tennis Club on Saturday afternoon. “That is the difference between Mr. Sullivan and myself,” he added. “I am only a mere parson.”

The trade statistics for the Irish Free State recently issued by the Department of Industry and Commerce make grim reading, states a London exchange. For instance, the total trade of the Irish Free State with Great Britain for the seven months January to July this year has declined by over £6,500,000 compared with the corresponding period of 1932, while trade with Northern Ireland dropped by £1,500,000 in the same period. With all other countries trade has increased roughly by £280,000, so that on the balance the total loss is in the neighbourhood of £7,800,000.

Te Awamutu Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., is making a cash advance payment of 10 Jd per lb for finest quality butterfat supplied in September, and shareholders receive credit for an additional Id per lb. Owing to last season’s consignments having realised a sum in excess of the figure at which they were taken into the balance sheet, the company is also making a payment on 20th inst. of five-eighths of a penny per lb on all butterfat received during March, April and May last.

The sealing of the courts of the Te Kuiti Tennis Club has now been practically completed, the last coat of the “colax” mixture having been applied yesterday. Four courts have been treated, and the results appear to be highly satisfactory. A fair amount of cleaning up work still remains to be done in the next couple of days, and the marking of the courts will receive attention on Saturday afternoon. At least two of the courts will be available for play over Labour week-end. The official opening is to be held on the following Saturday, October 28th.

One of the greatest attractions of Northern Queensland, in the opinion of Lt.-Colonel G. H. N. Forbes, who, together with Mrs. Forbes returned to New Zealand on Monday morning by the Marama, after a six weeks’ holiday, is the animal life. At Lake Berrine, Lieutenant-Colonel Forbes had the opportunity of seeing and photographing a 16ft. python, and he had been informed that they ranged in size from 26ft to 30ft. Their food consisted of wallabies and bandicoots. The beauty of the coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef also impressed Lt.-Colonel Forbes. On one occasion he had gone from Cairns to Green Island, a two hours’ journey, and there through the crystal clear water had had the opportunity of observing many different types of brightly-coloured fish and sea plants.

That a regular and well-spaced service. of fast vessels would be of even greated value to primary producers than the recent saving in freights effected by new contracts was the opinion expressed by Mr. W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Control Board, in the course of an address to the delegates at the annual meeting of the Taranaki Federation of Dairy Companies at Stratford. Mr. lorns emphasised that this could be attained only by modifying the present system whereby overseas liners called at as many as eight or nine ports on the New Zealand coast collecting produce, by arranging that a service of up-to-date liners load only at the larger ports, produce being- concentrated there by a carrier system.

We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the 1933 Christmas number of the Weekly News. As usual, this publication is one of the finest produced locally or overseas. The cover continues the series of bird life pictures, and takes the form this year of a native kingfisher with wings outspread flashing over the tranquil waters of a lake. New Zealands native flowers —red and yellow kowhai, mountain buttercups, carmine rata, pink tea-tree, purple koromiko, ground orchid, daphne and pohutakawa —form the subject of one of the two coloured supplements issued with the number. The second plate shows a scene on the Wanganui River, where the delicate green of the bush is reflected charmingly in the clear water, a contrast being- given by the red of a moored canoe. This publication is recognised to be amongst the finest works of the typographical and photographic arts.

“Then if that was your position with the firm, what were the duties of the general manager?” counsel asked a plaintiff in the Christchurch Civil Court (reports the Times). “Oh, he was mostly sitting in the office writing letters asking for overdue accounts to be paid,” was the reply. Speaking to pupils of the Waimate High School on Friday afternoon Dr. H. Krause, doctor of rural economy at Jena University, Germany, said that in Germany 27 per cent, of the people were engaged in agriculture. It was estimated that there were five million farms in Germany, and of these three millions W'ere under five acres in area, two millions were between five and 125 acres, and there were 45,000 farms of an area greater than 125 acres. The small farms represented 6 per cent, of the total acreage of sixty-four million acres, the intermediate ones 67 per cent., and the large farms 27 per cent. Dr. Krause mentioned that Germany frpm that acreage produced 940 million bushels of grain, included in which was 200 million bushels of wheat (more than Australia’s yield), 400 million bushels of rye, and 270 million bushels of oats. “It is a crying shame that agricultural and pastoral associations should have received £IOOO and the Veterans’ Association only £250,” said the retiring president of the South Canterbury branch of the South African veterans’ Association (Mr. S. Malthus) at the annual meeting of that body at Timaru, referring to the allocation made from a recent art union. Mr. Malthus said that he did not desire to say anything against the agricultural and pastoral associations, which no doubt did good work, but he considered that more consideration should have been given to the Veterans’ Association, many of whose members were now in distress. As a matter of fact, he said, there were four members of the South Canterbury branch of the association in need of assistance, and it was the duty of the Government to make it possible for more assistance to be given to such cases.