LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2558, 20 August 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rotorua Hunt Club met at Ngongotaha on Saturday and had one of the best meets of the season, - The hounds were put over the country at the back of Mt. Ngongotaha and had several good runs, including one of about three miles.

Objection to the requirement that the unemployment wages tax should be imposed upon the value of nurses’ board as well as upon their actual salaries was raised at a meeting of the Auckland Hospital Board the other day. It was decided to make representations to the Minister of Health.

The result of the postal ballot for the election of delegates to represent the Auckland district on the Electoral Committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board resulted in F. R. Seddon, of Hamilton, and 11. E. Worsp, of Whangarei, being elected. The committee will meet in Wellington on August 27. As advertised friends and supporters of the United Party are. invited to meet the Dominion organiser, Mr T. Buxton, at a meeting to be held this evening in the Oddfellows’ Hall. It should be noted that the meeting will commence sharp at 7.30 and will conclude promptly at 9.30 to enable those present to attend the Cambridge School’s fancy dross ball. In the near future telephone subscribers will no longer be able to ascertain the time merely by dialing a certain number at the exchange. This privilege, as a measure of economy, is to -be abolished. The abolition will not take place simultaneously throughout the 'Dominion, but will only come into force as each centre has its new telephone directory ‘issued, due notice of the change being given a few days prior to the issue of the directory.

“I have no time for the person who obstinately says, ‘No, it’s no good,’ for a true musician must recognise that good jazz is clever and exhilarating,” said Mr V. C. Peters, of Christchurch, upon his return from England. “I would rather hear a popular time well played than u classic mutilated. The British Broadcasting Corporation’s dance band, under .Tack Payne, has a line musical sense, and ; dvery artist is a highly-trained musician. The whole things is to discriminate.”

*“A professional 'footballer in England, after working for two days a week and drawing £B, can obtain the ‘dole’ for the rest''of the week,” said Dr G. H. Robertson when addressing the Wanganui Rotary Club the other day at the weekly luncheon. The speaker considered that the abuses' of the system of the “dole” were running away with the money allotted f6r the purpose of relieving the unemployed.

At the end of the last half year, 30th .Tune, New Plymouth retained its place as fifth port of .the Dominion in respect to the tonnage of cargo handled. Wellington was first with 940,842 tons, then Auckland 823,813 tons, Lyttelton 298,7)82 tons, Otago 180,219 tons, New Plymouth 80,133 tons, Nelson 73,429 tons, Wanganui 72,720 tons, Napier 70,301 tons, Bluff 05,941 tons, and Tim'd ru 63,552 tons.