LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13670, 12 April 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The King's College annual sports were held on the Domain, Auckland, to-day.

Plato iron is now in big demand. It ia stated that as much as £40 a ton is being paid locally.

The first, ballot in Class B. oi the Scc'ond Division will take place next week

A big street procession, organised by the Soldiers' Gifts Campaign Committee, was held in Auckland to-day.

The following have been reported wounded: Privates Clark, Omaha ; Collins, Parawai; and J. Green, xnames.

Private B. H. Ourham, Thames, who was recently reported wounded, is now reported as not being a, severe case.

The old Big Pump, which is at present being dismantled, has a lifting power of 144 gals, a stroke, and will do nine strokes a minutes.

The weather forecast is as follows: — The' indications are for south-easterly ■winds moderate to strong prevailing, and squally at times. Barometer rising. Seas rough, tides high.

Householders will be interested in, learning that the New Zealand' Dairy Association has raised the wholesale prico of butter to Is 6£d per lb. This will of course be passed on to the consumer, whose only remedy is to cat less butter.

It appears "that native owners of a property adjacent to TJapc Creek in Bowen street ha.ye been cutting down trees and allowing the- l-ranches to fall into the stream, thus obstructing the water course. The matter was referred to at the Borough Council meeting last night, and it, was resolved to write 1 to ■the parties concerned.

It would appear that Wellington is not the only place where it is necessary to emter upon a crusade against rats. The Borougth Foreman, in reporting repairs with concrete to tihe footpath in front of Mrs Ensor's shop in Mary street, said the cause of the Footpath getting into disrepair was rats harrowing under it, causing it to fall in.

Ttie Auckland Education Board reaffirmed ike desirability of having swimming taught in every primary school in the education district where the exercise is possible; and, further, that the Board make the teaching o? swimming compulsory in every primary and secondary school as far as. possible, especially where facilities for the teaching of swimming obtain. .

•Sapper F. E. Smote, who died oi ill- , ncsa in England, is a son of Mrs h. J. Smale, of Newton, Auckland, and of the late Mr G. Smale, of . Karanganake. Prior to enlistment he was on the Oonsolidatjej Goldnelds of "New Zealand mine survey staff at Reefton. He Was trained at the KarajigahiaKe School of Mines, and in 1915 was o^e of two students •who gained a mining scholarship for the North Island

For Children's Hacking Cough at- night; ' Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d 2b 6d.—Advt.