LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12537, 2 January 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Politeness is never a loss but always a, gain; it pays itself out of its own purse.

The Banque ®redit Municipal Bayonne, closed its doors following the arrest of its director, TissierT who alleges that a. number of bank officials embezzled £2,4oo,ooo.—Paris cable.

Flares on the summit of Mount Egmont, 8260 feet, at midnight were seen all over North Taranaki. They were lighted by a party which climbed from the North Egmont hostel during the night to welcome the New Year on the summit. Answering flares were lighted on Paritutu and Sugarloaf.

“The wedding this evening,” sail Colonel T. \Y. McDonald when proposing the toast of “The Ladies” at the McKenzie-Card wedding in Featherston, “reminds me of ;? game of cards. The bridegroom has put one over ’Jack,’ robbed him of one of his ‘queens,’ and made a good ‘pair’.” Wairarapa News.

s*i: Thomas Wilford, Now Zealand’s High Commissioner, has relinquished office, and is going to New Zealand in the New Year to arrange his affairs. He is returning to London to take up a directorship of the National Bank. He will broadcast to New Zealand on .January 8, on “A High Commissioner Looks Back.”

“I am confident that wool values will not decline, and that a new era of prosperity is at hand, both for Australia and New Zealand. The bad trade cycle of the last five years is giving place to a cycle of prosperity, which in my opinion will continue for some years,” declared Mr H. Dawson, principal of H. Dawson. Sons and Co., Ltd., of Bradford, or arrival at Auckland from England