LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3791, 5 August 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

We understand the Municipal Band and a concert party is to give an entertainment to-moyrow evening at the Waikeria Institute.

The bonus paid out to suppliers at the annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Co-op. Dairy Co. Ltd., on Monday, totalled £25,789 4s Bd.

A big muster of cribbage players is expected to attend at the Parish Hall to-morrow evening, for the special challenge tourney, Te Awamutu Club v. St. John’s.

The vital statistics for Te Awamutu, during the month of July, were: Births 13, deaths 6, and marriages 5. From January Ist 54 marriage licenses have been issued in Te Awamutu —the same number as issued, for the twelve months of 1935.

The monthly meeting of the Te Awamutu District High School Committee, to have been held last evening, was postponed until next week, as members wanted to “listen in” to the broadcast of the guaranteed prices and the Budget proposals.

The appointment of Parliamentary under-secretaries with official status as assistants to Ministers of the Crown is 'authorised by the Civil List Amendment Bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives by Governor-General’s message yesterday. Each under-secretary to be appointed under the bill will be entitled to a salary of £6OO a year with travelling, and house allowances. Members of the Legislative Council as well as members of Parliament are eligible for appointment. The bill provides that under-secretaries may be appointed by the Governor-General by warrant. The appointment may be in relation to one or more Ministerial offices to be specified in the warrant, and notices of appointment or vacation of office must be gazetted. Every under-secretary appointed must take an oath of office swearing service to the King.

To meet the wishes of many farmers and others concerned with stock sales at Te Awamutu, the well-known firm of Dalgety and Co., Ltd., has decided to commence their Te Awamutu sales at 10.30 a.m., when pigs will be sold. At 11 o’clock cattle will come under the hammer, and selling of sheep will commence at 11.30 a.m:

Whether the names of the animals in question had any psychological effect on the buyers could not be determined, but at a sale of pedigree Jerseys in the Morrinsville district the top price for yearling bulls, 29 gns, was paid for "Poneke Micky Savage,” while six guineas below this figure was paid for a young bull bearing the name of “Reketi Gordon Coates.”

It is anticipated that between 7000 and 10,000 Maoris will visit Wairoa next May for the opening of the Sir James Carroll Memorial Hall, and already preliminary arrangements for their visit are being made. The preparations are in the hands of Sir Apirana Ngata. Efforts will probably be made to obtain a special permit to hold a race meeting in connection with the celebrations.

We learn that at a very representative meeting of householders last week, to consider the proposals for consolidation of schools, a resolution proposed by Mr E. W. Clarke and seconded by Mr R. A. Grace in favour of the Mangapiko school remaining as at present constituted, was carried by 39 votes to 25. The meeting was probably the largest and most representative ever held at Mangapiko.

“I appeal to you to see that your cream is protected from contamination in the milking sheds,” said Mr C. M. Alexander, chairman of directors of the Te Awamutu Co-opera-tive Dairy Company, addressing suppliers of the company at the annual meeting on Monday. “If you do not,” he continued,, “you will be penalised at the factory and the company will be penalised at the grading stores. With the co-operation of suppliers the company will be able to produce a better article, which the Government has a right to demand.”

At the Papakura S.M. Court on Monday Mr F. H. Levien fined three motorists for speeding. One of them was Dr F. (* Blundell, of Te Awa inutu, who advanced the plea that he had received an urgent call to the bedside of his father in Auckland who had suffered A very serious heart attack, and Dr Dreardon, of Auck land, had asked to see him. Inspector F. Jones said the doctor’s car reached 64 miles per hour, and at one corner the speed was 58 miles per hour. "The nature of the call was no justification whatever for jeopardis ing the Ilves of other people and the comfort of other users of the road,” said the magistrate in imposing a fine of £5 and costs, besides endorsing the license.

In the course of delivering the Financial Statement to the House of Representatives last evening, the Hon. W. Naslh, the Minister of Finance, dealt with the finances of the Employment Fund. He said reference to tha Public Account will show that the total amount available last financial year was £5,289,563, made up of: Balance carried forward, £1,332,946; revenue from taxation, £3,920,026; and interest and other miscellaneous receipts, £36,591. Of the rovenue of £3,920,026, £416,335 was received from the general unemployment levy, £2,468,019 was received from the wages tax, and £1,035,672 from the special charge on “other income.” Allowing for the reduction in the tax to 8d in the £1 for the second half of the year, the revenue prdved to be buoyant and well up to expectations. In fact, the actual collections of wages tax indicate that the aggregate amount of wages on salaries paid in the Dominion during the year was increased by at least £5(000,000.