LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17585, 26 March 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Auckland track work notes will he found on Page 8. The re-licensing of motor vehicles for the year 1929-30 will commence on April 15 at post offices throughout the Dominion. In addition to the usual licence fees payable premiums will be collected in connection with the third party insurance scheme. It is the intention of the Publio Works Department to shift men from the Taupo" line beginning from Monday next in batches of 20 daily, to their new scene of labour at Waikokopu. The Postmaster General is en-, deavouring to allow for the interchange of postal notes between New Zealand and Australia. The donation of £25 has been made by Sir James Wilson to. provide an annual medal for the sheep farming course at the Massey Agricultural College. In making representations to the Minister yesterday about the Coromandel Hospital electric lighting scheme. Mr. Samuel, M.P., referring to the fact that operations were often carried out by candle light, said that |t was a terrible handicap to the surgeons. "Why, they may take a man's heart out by mistake for his liver," said Mr. Samuel. The brightest contribution yet to the vexed question of the observance of the half holiday in Thames goes to the credit of Mr. Arch. Bums, at the meeting of the Thames High School Board this morning. "I see they've decided on a universal half holiday for the town/' he remarked, conversationally. Three members bit at once. "What day?" was the query. "Oh, they're all going to observe Sunday afternoon," was the reply. A generous offer was made at today's meeting of the Thames High School Board by Mr. John Rowe, who offered to donate to the school three volumes of history of the Crimean War and a steel engraving of the historic charge of the Heavy Dragroons at Waterloo. These, said he, had been the property of his father and unfortunately the first volume of the history had been lent to someone who had failed to return it. The chairman (Dr. J. B. Liggins) thanked Mr. Rowe on behalf of the school for his generosity.