IN TOW AND OUT

Southland Times, Issue 21735, 22 June 1932, Page 4

IN TOW AND OUT

NEWS OF THE DAY Demand for Coal. Although, following the resumption of work by the miners on Monday, supplies of coal being received in Invercargill are now normal, the orders yesterday from householders were practically as usual, for even during the strike supplies were available. * * * * Broadcast of All Blacks’ Match. The opening match of the All Blacks Australian tour at Sydney on Saturday will be broadcast from Station 4ZP. The game is due to commence at 4.30 p.m. New Zealand time. The operator of Station 4ZP requests that listenersin refrain from telephoning the station for results during the time the match is being broadcast. « . » * * The Life of the Party. “Were you at the party?” asked counsel cross-examining a witness giving evidence in an affiliation case heard before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Maintenance Court yesterday. Yes, was the reply. “It was a pretty hvely one, wasn’t It?” pursued counsel. No; it was dead,” replied witness. What do you mean ‘dead’?” he was asked. “There was no life in it," was witness s reply. And the Court broadly smiled. ♦ • * * Albatross Appears. With every manifestation of kindness, there was brought to the Southland Times Office yesterday, a fullgrown, light, sooty albatross, found alive and well on a farm near Kennington. “Toroa Pango” is the Maori name of the bird, which breeds in the Auckland and Campbell Islands and which is sometimes seen in Foveaux Strait. It may be that the albatross in question was carried to New Zealand by high winds. ♦ * * ♦ Ratepayers Satisfied. “I am pleased to be able to announce that now they have been met and have heard an explanation of the position, these ratepayers have agreed that the board is acting in a reasonable way, and the deputation of protest has been withdrawn,” stated the chairman (Mr E. Bowmar) at the meeting of the Southland Electric Power Board yesterday. The deputation referred to was the outcome of an advertisement in which Messrs T. J. Garvey and William Hanning convened a meeting of ratepayers to protest against any increase in Power Board rates during the present financial year. It was explained on behalf of the board that this year’s rating had been' so arranged as to afford a very substantial reduction in respect of the rates on farming lands. There would be a general rate and a special rate. The special rate had to be introduced in order to equalize matters because of the fact that certain portions of the board’s district had been revalued, while others had not. Mr Hanning’s rates this year, it was stated, ’would be approximately 40 per cent, below what they were in 1930-31. The rates on Mr Garvey’s interests would this year be 28 per cent, below what the rates were in 1930-31.