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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 111, 11 April 1931, Page 8

Tramway revenue in Auckland showed a drop of £665 for Easter compared with the same period of last year. The proposal to establish in Auckland a junior Chamber of Commerce was approved by the council of the chamber in that city this week. The total valuation of Auckland City for rating purposes, is £10,637 less than it was a year ago. The return shows original assessments at January 15 as £2,784,893. An open-air classroom that has just been completed at the Hamilton East School is detached and has accommodation for 50 pupils. It is surrounded by verandahs and is lighted with two sets of windows on the east and west sides. One set is in the walls, and the other set is in the sloping roof. The wall windows can be pulled down to within a foot of the sill, and they permit the free pasasge of air through the room above the children’s heads. In view of the economic depression, Mr W. Goodfellow, managing-director of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., lias refused to accept any remuneration for his services to the company since January 1 last. Mr Goodtellow has also made considerable reductions in the mortgages ho holds over farm properties (states a Hamilton correspondent). Ho is at present in England investigating marketing conditions in connection with New Zealand butter.

The number of probationers admitted to the teaching service next year will probably be considerably less than usual, according to a notification in tho Education Gazette. The Education Department states that this is due to tli6 fact that staff depletion through death, marriage and retirement was, from various causes, less than anticipated. It is thought it might be necessary to retain some of the present probationers for a second year in the schools, but their period of training will still be four years, as in the case of all other teachers in training. In the House of Representatives yesterday, Mr F. Waite asked whether there would be an open season for trapping opossums in tho coming winter and if there was any likelihood of a reduction in the license fee or royalties paid on skins. Last season, he said, heavy fees were paid on low-priced skins, the royalties being sometimes so heavy that nothing remained for the trapper. Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle replied that open seasons would be declared in various acclimatisation districts. The question of a reduction of license fees or royalties payable on opossum skins was at present the subject of consideration.

Men! Do you dread tho cold bitterness of Winter ? Because there is really no need to when one can clad oneself so warmly, economically and so smartly in Jacgar clothing. The clothing that protects tho body from colds delights the eyo and caresses the skin. Don’t miss our Jaeger window displays. The C. M. Ross Co., Ltd.—Advt.

''A poll is to be taken in Wanganui on the half-holiday question. At present Saturday is the day of the early closing

The destruction of some of the aged ana infirm animals at the Auckland Zoological Park has been decided upon by the zoo' authorities.

The daylight Limited expresses, which commenced running before Easter, concluded to-day. The trains were only fairly well patronised. Within a period of two hours on a recent night four motor cars went over the edge of the Te Kuiti hill, on the main north road from New Plymouth, It was raining and the surface was slippery. A poll of ratepayers in the Poverty Bay Electric PowCr Board district taken on a proposal to borrow £78,000 for the extension of the system was carried by 1116 votes to 291. Due no doubt to the regulation that Hawke’s Bay refugees should return to their homes by the week-end, the Napier train to-day was very heavy. Three carriages were added at Palmerston North.

Fines amounting to £971 were collected by the traffic department of the Auckland City Council as a result of 1094 convictions in the Magistrate’s Court for by-law offences in the year ended March 31 last.

During the past few days several Swiss two-franc silver coins have been passed off as florins in Opotiki shops. In one case a silvered penny was passed as a half-crown. The Swiss silver coins are larger than a shilling and smaller than a florin.

A youth named L. Bader, residing at Lansdowne. received injuries necessitating his admittance to the Masterton Hospital last night, when he rode a bicycle into a stationary motor car. His ieft arm went through the rear window of the car and was badly lacerated.

In order to minimise the danger to pedestrians in the event of a severe earthquake, the owners of Queen’s Chambers, between the Post Office and Church Street, in the Square, have decided to remove the heavy overhanging ornaments. The work was put in hand this morning. A few weeks ago a Pirinoa (South Wairarapa) station owner lost a valuable bull, and fruitless efforts were made to locate it. Recently he was taken for an aeroplane flight, and in flying over the hills in a remote corner of his property ho sighted the animal quietly browsing in an area of rich feed.

As the result of the preliminary inquiry conducted by the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine on Tuesday into the cause of the mishap to the Port Hobart when off Turakirae Head, it has been decided to hold a magisterial inquiry on the vessel’s return from a round of the ports, including Port Chalmers, where permanent repairs are to be made. The executive of the New Zealand Hospital Boards’ Association, which met in Wellington this week, decided to recommend all hospital boards to endeavour to assist the Government in effecting economies. Reductions in wages will be a matter for individual boards to consider. The association has been assured by the Minister of Health, and by the Minister of Labour, that it is not intended that the value of the individual boarding allowance for nurses should be included in computing any rate of salary reduction.

In reply to the enquiry made by Mr J. Lowden, secretary of the Palmerston North Unemployment Committee, asking if time lost this week through wet weather could be made up during the week, beginning next Monday, the Unemployment Board has wired: “Regret cannot approve time lost through wet weather being made up during the suspension period of scheme No. o.” This means that work under subsidy definitely ceases for a fortnight, but local bodies have been asked to carry the men through and some are doing it.