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Northern Advocate, 30 November 1937, Page 11

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|JNDER the will of the late Mrs , Jeanie Duncan Christie, of Mosgiel, the sum of £SOO is bequeathed to the East Taieri Presbyterian Church. Further, after the satisfaction of a number of private bequests, the residue of the estate, valued at £15,000, is to be divided between the local Salvatin Army and the Empire Cancer Campaign for research work at Dunedin. — (P.A.) ' . * * $ « than 130 applications have been received by the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union in response to advertisements for farm hands inserted by the Union in the “Sydney Morning Herald.” However, transport has raised a difficulty, and an appeal, by the Farmers’' Union for assistance in this matter is at present under consideration by the Government. — Special. £ * * 3 SUGGESTION that the shooting of deer from aeroplanes would more expeditiously and thoroughly cope with the menace does not find favour with the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, who considers that - an aeroplane and machine-guns \vould not be as practicable or efficient as rifles in the hands of experienced men.—(P.A.) ',* * * a new housing legislation, shortly to be introduced fn Parliament, the Minister of Health, the Hon, P. Fraser, indicated that financial assistance will be provided from the Treasury for slum clearance and abatement of overcrowding , He added that special provision would be necessary for agricultural housing and for flats built on expensive sites.— (P.A.) V 3 3 4 fluming of the New Brighton coal mine from the mainland to Seal Island, which was carried away come weeks ago, has been reconstructed, enabling coal again to be fiumed out to the bins on the island ready for shipment, says a Westport message.— (P.A.) , * * -r ❖ A N indignation meeting, called by the, Wellington Ratepayers’ Association to protest against the intention of the Wellington Hospital Board to raise a further loan of £159,250 for the purpose of carrying out the full rebuilding scheme, was held last night. A resolution urging an investigation into conditions was passed.—(P.A.) * * * * passing from office of the Manurewa Town Board, which is being superseded by a borough council on the change in the district’s status, was marked in pleasant fashion at the final official meeting last night—Special.

practice of men unable to support a wife ajid family obtaining a divorce and remarrying will have to be stamped out,” said Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court yesterday, when Percy Arthur Mayes sought a variation of a maintenance order in respect of his first wife and three children. The magistrate said he would send the papers to the AttorneyGeneral and see if the divorce could not be cancelled. The amount of arrears was reduced from £IOOO to £SO. —Special.

death has occurred of Captain George William Braddell, aged 59. He served in the South African War, and joned the New Zealand Staff Corps in 1911, retiring on account of illhealth. He was recently engaged as supervisor of the Forestry Reserve at Tangimoana—(P.A.)

MOTOR mechanic, Thomas William Sheahon, was fined £25 at Wanganui for being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. A pedestrian had been struck and injured by the defendant’s car, but not seriously, Mr J. Salmon, S.M., said it was a case of whether or not he should impose imprisonment, but, on account of accused’s previous good character, he refrained from doing so.—(P.A.)'

p is announced that Mr Geo. Lawn, lecturer in economics at Canterbury University College, will become economist to the Reserve Bank for a year from next March. The college council, at a meeting yesterday, granted him 12 months’ leave of absence from his work at the college.

Appointed a director of the Reserve Bank in August, 1936, Mr Lawn is a Government representative on the directorate. —(P.A.)

Minister in Charge of Scientific

and Industrial Research, the Hon. Li. G. Sullivan, opened the Meteorological Conference at Wellington yesterday. The inauguration of the PanAmerican Airways’ service between San Francisco and Auckland, and the proposed Tasman air services, to be preceded by a survey flight by one of the Imperial Airways’ flying-boats, the Ccntaurus, very soon, have necessitated the complete reclnssing of the meteorological services of the southwestern Pacific.—-Special.