LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13967, 18 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thought 'for to-day ; He has <no religion who has no h.uma,nity. At Cr. Eaddy's inistanco. the B^rougih Couniciil has deoiderl tb obt.rinf ipsriceisi of rotad-mialking 1 njaahiirery. A! ballot for a Labour candidate, for Taxumarxwiiulii resulted in- Mr. F. Langton being • chosen by an overwhelming majority. Mr. R. Evains, chairman Waipara County Council, hae been fined for failing to publish-im the County' balance-sheet exceptional takeni to it by the ■Governtoenitt auditor. Owing to befter social' conditions the niumbers of children dealt with yearly by the N.S.P.C.C. has fallen to below 100,000—the lowest for 16 years. " Beibweeni three (hundred and four ; humdiTed (peopiei joiuninieyed to' Auckland ! by tlh© Waiklaltiere om Slailurday tia watcJi I tihe. injtler-umiion, foottibaiU maltcih. The , rum wag mot altogeitiher haipipy, but . tihe^ retlurtn voyage took place tund^, entdrely pleaisaintt oondiiitiiomisi.' | It is !tk> be: hoped tihia* the reomt' ; raid oaimipaiigjQ will hiaive tihe effect, of ipreveinjtJunjg jociauirrenicieis' ,of ■a tiind ; jus* reportedl. WMl© pirooeedliingl hottne.one dlay aripaa-ty of fisihermen jnotlioed to tJfeir dismay tihat one , thasrd of tiheir feirgei catch, of three I fish, hiad beiein, devoured by rate.. - ! The proposal of th« Nottingham ;U>rporation to spend £20,000 upon I statuary, to be erected in the mar- | ket-place as a war memorial, was condemned at a meeting of ex-sailors and soldiers at Nottingham. It was contended that public money would be better utilised in prosvidHine'/ for the disabled.