LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2783, 3 December 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A farm of 150 acres in the district changed hands during the past few days; also a residence in the northern portion of the borough. Nine building permits were issued in Hamilton during November, the total price being £382. For the correspondj ing month last year 20 permits were I issued, the price being £2455. ' Mr F. S. Yealc, of Tamahcrc. was a 1 ' successful exhibitor in the Jersey section of the Thames Valley A. and P. Show held this week. J A new record of 27 days for the ( rapid transit of mails was set up by ’ the arrival of the Empress of Britain !at Southampton on October 19, with 394 bags of mail, which left Auckland , on September 22 by the Aorangi. j In the hacks section at the Thames Valley Show held at Te Arolia this week, Mr K. W. Peake was successful whilo Mr H. Peake won the gentleman riders’ class. j A loss of £12,913 for the year ended June 30 was, incurred by Harringtons, Limited a photographic; and radio sup* 1 plying company, Sydney. In the previous year the company made a profit .of £8640. . ■ The biennial conference of the Aus- t tralasian Institute of Secretaries open- J cd in Auckland on Tuesday and was ' continued on Wednesday. At the conclusion of the business the visiting Aus- , tralian delegates will commence a tour of South Auckland. Probably they will be the guests of the Mayor (Mr C. H. Priestley) at afternoon tea to morrow I (Friday). There were eight bankruptcies recorded in Hamilton during last month, compared with ton for the corresponding month last year. The occupations or those who filed last month were four farmers, a contractor, a butter merchant, a horso trainer and a service car proprietor. Keporting on business transacted in committee at Tuesday’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board, the chairman, Mr. A. Burns, said that it had been decided to give three months’ notice of dismissal of married women j teachers. Originally the positions of I 132 married women teachers had been I under review and this number had been reduced, after investigation of the circumstances to 52. Of the 52 : who in the opinion of the board should 1 be dismissed under the authority of the recent Finance Act, several had tendered their resignations and the remain- : dor would now be served with notices ; of dismissal. 1

In our report in last issue it was stated that the new Parish Hall seated 200, but this figure represented the number of new chairs that had been provided. Accommodation is provided for about 350. Since its resuscitation and reorganisation lately, the To Awamutu Band has made great progress under the baton of Mr R. H. Close. The band now has 17 old members and 20 learners, the bandmaster expressing the wish to maintain the strength at 40. Stamp collectors state that the price of air-mail stamps in Wanganui, for which the modest sum of threepence or fivepcncc was paid last week, has risen to two shillings. Very keen interest is being shown in this issue and philatcrists are confident that “very good value” will be returned for the stamps in the near future. A Wanganui businessman who returned from a visit to Ohakune said that he was astonished to see the amount of work the Chinese were doing in that district in' the way of vegetable growing. They were responsible for getting hundreds of acres stumped and put into cultivation and were getting excellent returns. He saw one Chinaman engaged in what looked at first glance like a buck-jumping competition. He was driving a tractor, to which a plough was attached, breaking up the land for the first time. It was pretty rough, but John stuck to his task and kept the tractor forging ahead in spite of all the bumps. He did not even take the trouble to look round to see whether the plough was in or out of the ground.