LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18332, 2 November 1931, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Telephone Hours. Commencing yesterday,- November 1, and continuing until April 24, 1932, a special attendance of 9 a.m. to noon and 4 to 8 p.IB. will be observed in the telephone exchange at Walhi. Presentation at Wharepoa. The winding-up euchre and dance of the season will be held at the Wharepoa Hal! on Thursday - evening next, when the trophies won by the Ramblers Football Club will bo presented. These Include the White Shield, the Stewart Memorial Cup, and gold medal for the most improved player, (presented by Mr J. W. Arbury, and won by A. McLoughlin. A large number of Thames people intend to be present at this function. Farewell to Vicar. St. George's Church parishioners are reminded of the farewell to the Rev. and Mrs. Davison at the Parish Hall this evening. There will be a short musical programme, and then an opportunity for all present to have a few minutes' conversation with the guests of the evening.

Support for County. 1 The Cook County Council decided to support a move initiated by the Haurakl Plains County Council, asking for legislation to abolish the disfranchisement of County ratepayers in "arrears with their rates," '

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Landowner's Plight. A case that, according to some members of the Christchurch Unemployment Committee, must be one of hundreds, was 'before the committee at its meeting recently. The man, who appeared as a deputation, said that he .'owned ten acres of land on Which there was a mortgage of £SOO, and his equity in which was £BSO. He had put about four acres in crops but now had no money to carry on. His object in waiting on the/committee was to endeavour to get employment under the Unemployment Board's relief schemes; he had been refused relief work because he owned land. To the suggestion that he might be treated as a single man (he is a married man children) the answer was made that there was a number of single men without any means for whom no work had been found. The committee decided that the case was one.for the Unemployment Board, to which body .it was referred. ; .-.\":.;■;«■ .;.'■•;.

Shop-Lifting in Dunedin

; : It is reported that there has of late been quite an appreciable increase in petty thieving from shops, the drapers and fancy goods stores being particularly singled out for what- must be considered a very despicable method of/obtaining coveted goods,' says the Otago Daily Times. In some of the largei 4 northern stores the practice .'of_. shop-lifting has become so prevalent as to render, necessary the employment of uniformed police to patrol the premises during sale times and busy shopping nights, and a prosecution invariably follows the detection of an offender. Wqmejr folic in Dunedin have a good name for general honesty and self-denial, but- it; is learned that the larger drapers fancy-goods dealers in the city, while not intending at present to adopt the patrol system, feel that they will be compelled to take some drastic ( means to surb this growing practice'. § ,- ■ /