LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3760, 25 May 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Te Awamutu-trained horses were successful in gaining place mjoney at the Waikato Racing Club’s winter meeting on Saturday, but some tore expected .to-day to run more prominently.

Advice from Wellington states that Dr MJcMiillan, M.P. for Dunedin West, has asked the Minister of Finance whether he will give instructions that statistics of incomes and income-tax, classes by sources, classes by amounts, and sources by amounts, be again published in the annual Miscellaneous Statistics report? It was stated at Friday’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Power Board that on May 2nd, during the fierce storm that raged throughout the district, the Board’s vehicles travelled no less than 1437 miles during the 24 hours, attending to 132 calls. Some of the men worked continuously for 25 hours.

Females outnumber males by 6243 in Christchurch, according to the 1936 census. The figure for the city of Christchurch as shown in the preliminary results of the census are as follows: Males, 42,555; females, 48,898. The Mlaori population of the city ia given as 133—made up cf 49 males and 64 females.

A Gisborne tailor recently received, from a customer who some time ago left the district to take a job elsewhere, a note enclosing payment not only for an account long overdue, but also interest on the amount at a liberal rate. The amount of the sum owing was £5, and the addition of interest brought the total to £6. “This account was not forgotten, only delayed,” wrote the customer.

Advice that the New Zealand Union delegates at the annual meeting had adopted the three men in the front row of the scrum, and an appeal that ali unions should adopt this ruling, was received at Friday (evening's meeting of the Waikato Rugby Union from the New Zealand Union. A resolution that the Waikato Union expected all clubs and teams to adhere to this ruling was passed. ‘ \ v ■ A request was received at the meetJig of the Waikato Rugby Union on Friday evening from the King County Union that the Waikato team, while on tour southward in July, should play King Country. It was also suggested that two matches, one in each centre, should be played each year. The application for home-and-away matches each season was declined, and the match while on tour was also deemed impracticable.

The rise in butter on the London market has been maintained, choicest salted New Zealand now being quoted slightly higher at 97s to 97s 6d per cwt The market is firm. Oheeße values are unchanged at 57s 6d per cwt for white, and 55s 6d for coloured. The market is steady. A forward sale of butter has been made at 12 7-8 d per lb, f.0.b., for JuneJuly shipment. This is equal to 107 s 6d per cwt, London.

“Too much emphasis is always placed on the test of a cow,” said Mr R. A. Candy, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative Herd-testing Association, when addressing Waitoa district members. “We are a herd-recording organisation for the purpose of recording milk production and the butterfat production.”

The unusual sight of a dog hot in pursuit of a rabbit in Alexandra. Street yesterday morning claimed the attention of several people. The open thoroughfare provided no cover for the scurrying rabbit, whose manoeuvres to outwit its more speedy, though less nimble, pursuer were entertaining, and not a little amusing. As one looker-on remarked, a- football player could have learned many lessons in side-stepping and lying low, and such a player in a .team would bring consternation to the field. In the end the rabbit sought shelter in a shop, and if it escaped from the dog it nevertheless suffered capture in another way.

Mr A. C. A. Sexton, M.P. for Franklin, las given notice in Parliament to 'ask the Minister of Agriculture whether he will arrange to advlance money to farmers so that they may build cottages on their farms and employ married men to assist them with their work to the great advantage to employer, employee, and the State. He explained that this might be done without injustice to mortgagees by making' the amount of such advance a prior statutory charge on the land in consideration of the improvements effected to such land. Thc< question is expected to be answered by the Minister on Wednesday.