LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4817, 31 July 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There continues to be a satisfactory response to the appeal by the Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. H. D. Caro, for recruits for the Territorial Forces, and the total is approaching 200. Inquiries made at the Army Office, Hamilton, revealed that since the appeal was launched 189 men had joined up. It is expected that the 200 mark will soon be reached and there should be no difficulty then in reaching the objective of 300.

New Zealand shareholders are interested in an investigation just completed by detectives in various parts of New Zealand, on behalf of the Australian police, into the affairs of the Scottish Loan and Finance Company, Limited, of Sydney, which recently went into liquidation. The majority of shares sold since a prospectus was brought to the Dominion toward the end of November of last year were sold in the Auckland Province. Some went to Waikato, others to Taranaki, Christchurch and Dunedin.

The difference that the air mail from England to Sydney has made has been appreciated by most of the residents of New Zealand. One man in Te Kuiti on Saturday morning was very pleased when he received a letter, dated July 15 at Hammersmith. The letter had been sorted at 12 p.m. on the 15th, forwarded by air mail, must have on arrival in Sydney been immediately placed on a trans-Tasman vessel, and was in Te Kuiti exactly a fortnight after being posted.

"The name of the newly-formed political party is the Socialist Educational Political Party and its chief objective is the formation of a democratic movement to educate the people socially, politically, and economically and to secure for the people the full results of their labour by constitutional Parliametnary methods," stated the chief organiser, Mr. E. H. Dalley, after the first official meeting at Hastings. "There was a good attendance of members," added Mr. Dalley. He expressed himself as satisfied with the progress being made by the organisation in Hawkes' Bay.

A remit passed by the biennial conference of the New Zealand Counties' Association sought the compulsory dosing of dogs against hydatids, and suggested that the Department of Agriculture should co-operate with county councils in giving effect to the remit. Speakers quoted examples of dogs they knew which had not yet been treated with arecoline hydrobromide, and others said that in their districts its use was practically universal. A similar remit was passed recently by the conference of the Farmers Union.

In showing that the excess of withdrawals over deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank for the year ended March 31 was £4,163,416, whereas there was an excess of deposits over withdrawals of £3,412,007 in the previous year, the annual report of the department supplies in tabulated form bearing on what is actually a drift of £7,575,423. While a setback was experienced in business in the past year, savings bank deposits are very much larger than they were in 1934, when a pronounced recovery was shown from the depression period.