HAMILTON NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 7

HAMILTON NOTES

' The excursion train from Hamilton to Auckland on Sunday was particularly well patronised. 110 persons making the trip. There was also a large number of passengers on the excursion train from the City. There are 820 benzine pumps in that part of the Labour Department’s district controlled from Hamilton. The district extends from Pokwo to Raurimu, and embraces Hamilton, Hikutaia, Rotorua, Tokaanu, Matata, and intervening territory.

Several hardy souls were seen swimming in the river at Hamilton on Sunday, though the day was no warmer than usual.

The three persons who were called for the grand jury yesterday at the Supreme Court and failed to answer their names, Seymour Pope Treloar, James B. Pomeroy and David Andrews, and who were each fined £5, offered explanations to Mr. Justice Smith later As a result, Treloar’s fine was remitted and the other fines were reduced each to £2.

“Trade suicide” is the term used by Mr. F. J. Farrell, president of the South Auckland Motor-Traders’ Association, to describe the benzine war now raging in Hamilton. Mr. Fari-ell considers the running costs of the average petrol station are £l7 a week at a modest estimate, and the price for petrol being asked by those dealers not members of the association would not pay them a legitimate margin of profit was 3d a gallon, he thought.