LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20243, 1 May 1929, Page 12

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Results of to-day's municipal elections will be posted outsido the New Zealand Herald Office, in Wyndham as they become available this evening. The first returns from tho suburbs should be complete by 8 p.m. and the result of the city mayoral contest before 9 p.m. No inquiries by telephone can be answered.

Tho seventh day of the Jewish Passover, which commenced last Thursday with special services, falls to-day„ A number of Jewish business houses in the city will be closed, and there will be services at tho synagogue.

An increase of a ponny a pound in tho prices of all classes of veal and pork has been authorised by the Auckland Master Butchers' Association, and will take effect in city and suburban butchers' shops from to-day. The new price for forecjuarters of voal will be 6d, chops lOd. and cutlets and veal steak Is. Leg of pork will now cost lOd a pound, chops Is, and pork sausages Bd. The rise in prices follows a corresponding increase in the wholesale rates.

Concussion was sustained by Mr. Lorenzo Patterson, single, aged 27, as a result of falling from his bicycle in Hobson Street yesterday morning. Mr. Patterson, who resides at 17, Waima Street, Grey Lynn, was "admitted to the Auckland Hospital, and his condition last evening was not considered serious.

An excess of departures over arrivals is shown by the passenger figures for the port of Auckland for April, the departing travellers numbering 1471 and the arrivals totalling 986. During the same month in 1928 a total of 968 passengers reached Auckland, the number of departures being 1657.

A loss on the feeder bus service from Mount Eden to St. Cuthbert's Girls' School was admitted by the manager of the Transport Board yesterday. Mr. F. S. Morton asked, at the meeting of the board, whether consideration would be given .to the question of discontinuing tho service, alleging that the loss amounted to £2OO a year. Contrasted with the position at Epsom, he said, pupils attending the Epsom Girls' Grammar School were frequenly obliged to stand in the road while trams went past with the chains up. It was decided to ask the manager for a report.

The Northern Company's steamer Waipu broke down off North Head yesterday morning when she was en route from Paeroa to Auckland. The mishap was caused by a pump in the engine room getting out of order. The vessel was towed to the wharf by the tug Simplon and the Omana, and after repairs were effected she was despatched on her return trip to Paeroa in the afternoon.

The Auckland Harbour Board resolved yesterday to make a donation of £250 toward the cost of the Auckland Advertising Club's scheme for producing a booklet on the varied attractions of Auckland and distributing it. overseas. The donation is subject to validating legislation. It was reported at the meeting that with the board's £250, a sum of £1250 would have been subscribed for the project, the estimated cost of which was £1350 or £I4OO. '■

Twenty English school boys, brought out to the Dominion under the Church of England settlement scheme, arrived from Southampton by the Tamaroa. All are destined for farms in the North Island, atid on their arrival were met by Mr. J. T. Williams, secretary of the Church of England Immigration Committee. The immigrants on board the Tamaroa numbered 80, a very small party. The health of the passengers on tho voyage was excellent and many enjoyable entertainments wero arranged.

"I first slept in the district in 1908, ;uid I have been sleeping in it ever since," said a candidate for the One Tree Hill Road Board at a meeting last evening, when apparently wishing to impress the ratepayers with his knowledge of tho district "It is time you woke up," came a voice from the back, amid roars of laughter.

" This is what the board asked for, and wo have got it," said the chairman of tho Auckland Harbour Board, Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, at tho board's meeting yesterday, when a letter was received from the Auckland and Suburban Drainage Board, stating that it proposed to send its engineer on a tour abroad to investigate methods of sewage disposal, and that on his return it, would go fully into the question of extending tho drainage district, providing in the meantime three additional fine screens at tho Orakei outfa'll. On the recommendation of its engineer, the Harbour Board decided to approve tho proposals, Mr. Mackenzie remarking that it had been responsible for raising tho whole question in tho first place.

"I am not an Oxford or Cambridge graduate," said the Minister of Mines, Hon, W. A. Veitch, at a gathering at Waihi last evening. "I was educated in the university of adversity and the great university of common sense, and claim, with all duo modesty, that my university is worth moro to mo now than the laborious acquirement of letters."

"Tho British Legion of New aland" or, alternatively, "The British Legion, New Zealand Section," were titles suggested at the annual meeting of the Auckland Returned Soldiers' Association last evening by Mr. J. Scabrook, to supplant the present designation of the association. The suggestion arose out of comment by Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Dawson, retiring president, that the present name did not adequately convey that the association welcomed to membership all men, naval or military, from any part of the Empire, who had served the nation in war. It was desired more effectively to proclaim the Now Zealand body's desire to link up in membership the interests of all who had served the Empire. It was decided to forward to the next Dominion conference of the association a remit inviting discussion on the point.

, A petition signed by practically every farmer and business man of tho Waimauku district was presented to tho Auckland district railways traffic manager yesterday by a deputation urging that Mr. E. G. Hilton, who has received notice of transfer, be allowed to remain in chargo of tho Waimauku railway station. There is a large amount of inward and outward goods traffic at Waimauku, including fruifc and dairy produce, which is very satisfactbrily dealt with by Mr. Hilton, who has been in chargo for some years. Mr. Hilton is well acquainted with the work, and is a popular officer.