GENERAL NEWS.

Mt Benger Mail, 7 March 1934, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

Two building permits were issued at Core during February totalling £1575. The total for the borough year 1933-34, which ends next mouth, is so far £24,500. The year has been quite a good one so far as building is concerned, and the figures for the year should m about the average total. The totals for the past few years were: .1930-31. £52,000 (a record); 193132, £39,290; 1932-33, £IO,BBO.

The following is an extract from the Manchester ‘’Suud iy Chronicle” dated December 31, 1933: New Zealand buys large quantities of linen from Cist* r and h;is recently ordered several ships from Ulster Yards. To-day Ulster launched, a campaign io spend .0100,000 a year on butter from New Zealand. A story concerning a wearisome spi aker was told by Dr Fong Foo Sic, the noted Chinese Rotariau during his stay in Auckland. It was at the Shanghai Rotary Club, Di Fong said, that the particular spi aker had delivered a most boring address. Due man, sitting between the president and the speaker, went to sleep, until the piesident, anxious that the club should show no discourtesy, tapped him on the head with his gavel. However, in a few minutes the man was asleep again and the president used his gave! a second time with greater force. The sleeper blinked for a minute and then said; “Hit me harder this time, 1 can still hear him.

An agremeiit bet Weil the combined and ‘free” Hour mills has, it is understood, been received regarding the allocation ot output for individual mills. The total output of Hour in New Zealand is m-eesarily limited, and before the new mills came into operation there was a certain limit on ‘lie output of those established earin r The advent of the new mills did not increase the total output, but had the ell cot ot reducing tin* output for individual mills. The quantities of the individual outputs have' now been

M 'ttled by agreement. The amount of w heal for each mill was rationed by the Wheat Purchase Hoard for the first time last season, l*rot'.sts were made by ‘‘free mills regarding allocations made io