LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3101, 22 June 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Cambridge Municipal Band will render a programme next Sunday from the Domain rotunda. The “500” tourney and dance evening will take place on Tuesday, June 25th, at* St. Peter’s School, Alpha Street. On the last occasion the prizes were won by Miss Waite and Mr. Jones. Tuesday evening’s function will be sponsored by the Misses Boorkc, of Hautapu, and promises to be successful.

At the annual meeting of s shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington yesterday dividends and bonus were made at the same rate as last year, the total distribution for the year being: To N.Z. Government, £244,433; to Ordinary shareholders, £570,459; a total of £314,892,

Between 200 and 300 Otago and Southland farmers and their wives arrived at Auckland last evening byspccial train. -7 Ij Yesterday (June 21st) is generally looked upon as the shortest day of the year, though the lengthening; ;; of the period of daylight is hardly noticeable for about a fortnight. Captain McGregor ’s Moth, owned by Hamilton Airways, Ltd., was by a gale at Pungarohu, TaranakfXpn Thursday night. The left wihg 1&d propeller were smashed. Tho inter-school match between ;Morrinsvillc and the local High School has been postponed, owing to the Morfinsville team being unable to come ever. The. match will be arranged on some future date. ' f• '. V; '’••• , In Hamilton a mild form of influenza is prevalent, and the staffs of a number - of business firms have;, been affected. In the Supreme Court on Thursday a case had to bo adjourned owing to the illness of five of the witnesses. - In the report to . the annual meeting of shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand yesterday the chairman mentioned that the total vteight of frozen lamb exported for the-past, year was. 9.1,432 tons, valued? ;r - af £6,711,865," against 91,864 tons valued at' £6, 494,880 for the previous year. Mutton showed a falling off in price and quantity, Me. relative figures being 47,846-tons V&luSll at £1,909,131, as against valued at £2,070,709. ?

Important alterations to provincial train time-tables will come into force.officially on .Sunday.: Actually the? changes, which particularly affect the Auckland - Rotorua and. Taneatua sections, will not bo noticeably in evidence until Monday. .' - V‘

After a year’s activity the Claudelands Boy Scout Troop has decided to disband. At the first annual meeting, held on Thursday evening, failure' to carry on was attributed to poor public support and to the departure from Hamilton of the founder of the Troop, the Rev. J. Bich. '• v .v

As advertised, a meeting of friends!. , ; and supporters of the United Party • will be held in the*Oddfellows’ Hail - on Thursday next, to meet Mr.wlw. Moller, Dominion organiser, and for the purpose of forming -a local branch-.'of *7 the Party. 7: ' ,7 '7 7,7.: Bealisation of the Dominion/s Modi 7 clip for the past year was satisfactory,. ; although quantity and prices lower than those of last the chairman of directors' of

of New Zealand at the annual meeting yesterday; 635,683 bales were ’exported to the value of £15,576,291, compared • with 723,708. bales to the value. of £16,691,385. - ' .

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Hamilton, havo received the following cablegram from ‘ their London house under date T9th in : slant (last week’s quotations in parentheses) :—Butter: N.Z. choicest salted, ? 168/- to 170/- per ewt (170/- to 172/--)"J ' market stagnant. Cheese: White, 92/per cwt (92/- to 93/-).; coloured, 94/f to 95/- per cM (94/- to 95/-) ;: market v quiet.'' • ' .

Among the discharges from bahk-o ruptcy granted by His Honour Sir. Alexander Herdmaii in the/Hamiltoh-'; Supreme Court on Thursday 7 Frederick Ernest Walker, of Te Miro, ? farmer; James Duncan Cambridge, groom; Cefeil Allan Wallace;, of Cambridge, contractor; David Gib more,’of Whitehall, farmer; Harry Hay--ward Blade, Boto-o rangi, farm hand, v

What might have proved a serious, accident occurred during the early pad of this week. Two children from Lesa#*

ington were cycling into Cambridge., the smaller of the pair—a little fellow • about six—riding on the same bicycle 1 as his brother,' and. in descending the--.' “zig-zag” cutting by Mr. Jenkins’ property they lost control of the machine and wero thrown heavily. The-smallest of the two children escaped with a Je?v. ; bruises, but the elder boy was rather . severely cut about the face. He was taken in a dazed condition into a, residence near by, where, his cuts and bruises were attended to. A similar, accident happened to another boy, at-.,., the same cutting a few weeks ago. -

In the roport of the directors to the annual meeting of the Bank of_ New - Zealand yesterday the chairman congratulated the Minister o.f finance on . the successful flotation o£ the tWo loans. which he placed on the London market last January. One for £7,000,Q00 ..w.as new money, the other for £12,510,000 was for conversion of part of the 4 per . cent, consolidated loan of £29,000,0(10 maturing on November Ist next. cash loan was raised at 4J per 95, due 1948-58, and. thMonycmon' *||p| o'n practically similar terms./xir:. IriCW : ■ of the present outlook of the London monoy market a somewhat higher rate may have to be paid on., the conversion of the balance of £ll-12,000,000 of the maturing loan, but there should, be little’:; or no difficulty in raising some millions vof the amount in the dominion, at: a,.; ; cost approximating that in London. Woods/ Great Peppermint , ’ "For ,J_

: | Parliamentopehs on Thursday next. ' The j3sth anniversary of the birth of the Prince of Waled falte to-morrow. ' ;Oyster-picking will be commenced • Hext Wednesday/ - " . Auckland's “cat” burglar, who has , been responsible for a scries of daring burglaries, has been arrested by the police, in the person of a young man, ■^: T ngo& y 23 • years, who hails from WhangnIt is stated that he has made a to the'police, who caught hiding on Thursday evening.

. .Jn his review ,at the, annual meeting jof shareholders of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington yesterday, the . chairman of directors. Sir George Elliot, said:‘‘lt may interest you to know that the revenue derived by the Go- ,//■ yerhinent from, this Bankfor the year amounted to £533,289, made up as follows:—Dividends on share capital, £244,433; income tax, £164,494; land F'; tax, £17,633; note tax, £106,729."

The Rev. Jas. Hay will officiate in .Trinity Presbyterian Church to-morrow, preaching at 11 a.m., when his subject will be “The Vital Question"; and at . 7 p.m., .when ‘ ‘ The Judgment of the ; Son " will form the theme. There will be an address to children at the morning nervics©* the topic being "When Jesus Angry." Miss Jessie Richards will .be the'soloiat at the evening service. .thesOvSeryices the public are cordiinvited. ;

to the new railway time-table : coming into force..on .Monday,, next, mails for Auckland, Thames, Tauranga, iibtc., will close at 10.30 a.m., and for •'Auckland again at 1.15 p.m.. Mails for rural deliveries will close at 1.45 p.m. l , -:Mails from Auckland will reach Cambridge at 1.30 p.m., instead of 1 p.m., as at- present, and those from the Bay : Of Plenty, Rotorua and Thames will not reach us till 3.50 p.m. The Rev. L. H. Hunt will deliver a / lecture'-entitled “ Wit and Humour" in the Peace Memorial Hall on Tuesday P evening, the 25th ‘inst. Those desiring an everting’s real enjoyment should not ■misr this opportunity of hearing one of New Zealand’s foremost speakers, in lighter vein. The proceeds of tho lee* ; ture go to the Presbyterian Bible ' classes’ library fund*. ..

•;4. . " The'quality of New Zealand ’s butter in bulk has gone up, and continues . to go up, " declared Mr. C. J. Pollard, - w .a; partner in the firm of Samuel Pago MjjKuA Son, Tooley Street,. London, soiling Praagqnts in the United Kingdom for New butter and cheese, when ads'v dressing dairy factory delegates at the {' National Dairy Show at Palmerston North.; y* 1 Mora and more the tendency .Is for grade to become higher. The' futility. on the whole has gone up." W/*‘ New., Zealand cheese is of-the highest J / Standard"’'he added. "It has its de- % r . feet, and there is’no doubt it is a defect —we' cannot get away from that. I V;> refer to the'loose and holey texture of ' - New Zealand cheese."" '