Local and General.

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18606, 15 September 1932, Page 2

Local and General.

Thames Goldfields Revenue. The Treasury notified" the" Thames Borough Council last evening that its proportion of the [ goldfields revenue for the month of August was £2O/2/3.

Money For Land. That there is money lying idle. in many hands was demonstrated this week when a Thames firm of solicitors put a land deal through, in which £2500 was paid in cash.

The "Jay Walkers" "One hears a lot and reads a lot of the negligent motorist," said the president of the North Island Motor Union (Mr D. A, O'Callaghan) at the annual conference of the union in Palmerston, "but very little is heard of the negligent pedestrian. Unfortunately there is present in our midst what our American cousins call tho 'Jay-walker'—-that is, . the man or woman who walks across the road without looking up and down the street to see that it is clear. Thanks to some extent to. pur school safety propaganda and to the school safety lessons that are regularly given in the schools, the children in this countrv are not the worst offenders in the

Thames Municipal Abattoir-!. Stock slaughtered at the Thames Municipal Abattoirs during August comprised: Cattle 127, sheep- <li7, calves 1, lambs 27, pigs 47.

August Butterfat Payment. The Te Aroha-Thames Valley Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., notifies that the usual monthly payment was made yesterday to shareholders at the rate of 113 d per lb butterfat (farm gate), in respect of the August supply.

Labour Day Sports. The application of the Thames Labour Day Carnival Committee for'permission to close Mackay. Street, between Sealey and Richmond Streets, to traffic from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on the occasion of the sports carnival on October 24, was granted by the Borough Council last evening, subject to the usual conditions.