LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4652, 2 February 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Preparations are now being made in most families for the return to school on Tuesday next.

Forms for agricultural and pastoral returns are now being sent forward from the local Police Station to the 800 farmers in the district which its jurisdiction covers. These returns should be filled in as soon as possible, for, besides celerity expediting the work of the police, substantial penalties are liable to be imposed if the information is not supplied by the due date. Last year a number of such cases were brought forward.

The executive of the New Zealand Master Carriers’ Federation at a meeting on Thursday, passed the following resolution:—“That the New Zealand Master Carriers’ Federation commends the No. 2 Licensing Authority for the able manner in which it investigated the applications for route licenses, for its fearless interpretation of the Transport Licensing Act, and also for the straightforward manner in which it has arrived at its decisions.”

“The position is simply this: We do not need your potatoes in Australia, but you do need our oranges,” said Mr. B. Hall, a visitor to Christchurch from Adelaide, in commenting on the trade between the two countries. “The Governments might reach a compromise and agree to let in New Zealand potatoes whemthe price reached a certain level in Australia. Letting them in would only lower the Australian price. It would not enable many more to be exported from New Zealand.”

“For a time we were spending more than we were receiving,” said the Prime Minister, Mr. G. W. Forbes, replying in Christchurch to a deputation from the Canterbury Unemployed Workers’ Association which was seeking an increase in relief pay. “This year,” continued Mr. Forbes, “we should be able to make ends meet, but no more. I do not think we will do much more than we anticipatied when the Budget was brought down. However, this is hopeful and much better than in the last few years. Better returns from 'taxation mean more business.”

A reviewer of the recently published “WaF Letters” of the late Sir John Monash refers to his record of a long conversation with the King,- on the occasion of a post-war review of 27,000 Australians and New Zealand troops on Salisbury Plain. As the men passed in long array the King’s enthusiasm rose until, with pardonable exultation, he exclaimed: ‘The Germans started out to smash the British Empire!—smash it to pieces—and look, just look!’—with a sweep of his arm up and down the marching columns —‘see what they’ve really done. They’ve made an Empire of us.’ ”