GENERAL NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XLIII, Issue 3947, 26 January 1944, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS

Meeting of Parliament.— Parliament is to be called on Tuesday. ’February 22. This was announced on Monday by- the acting-Prime Minister, Hon. D. G. Sullivan.

Farewell To “Harvesters.” —A reminder is given of the grand dance to be held in the town hall this evening. It will be in the nature of a farewell to the Territorial “harvesters.”

Alleged Theft. — At the Hamilton Police Court yesterday Stanley James Hill, aged 34. labourer, of .Karapiro, was remanded until Thursday on a charge of stealing £lO. the property of an overseas serviceman, on January 21, at Hamilton.

Broadcasting and Education. The importance of the educational size of broadcasting was emphasised byf the Chancellor of the University! of New Zealand, the Hon. J. aJ Hanan, M.L.C., when addressing thl Senate in Christchurch last wee® Far too little attention was paid hi the authorities, in his opinion, ifl said, to broadcasting scientific sulfl jects. “Tremendous development have been made scientifically sincl the outbreak of the war,” added till Chancellor, “and wherever it m possible, the people should; be tol" about them.” .•• >

Golf Clubs In Demand.—Within a few hours of an advertisement in a newspaper the owner of a set of clubs in Hamilton had received 11 offers over the telephone. Subsequently the total rose to 17. It was a set of women’s clubs and the owner, who is retiring from the game, said that she could have sold them three times over. Had they been men’s clubs there would have been even less difficulty in disposing of them. The lowest offer received was £l2 and the highest £lB. The owner remarked that she had paid 12 guineas for the club new but they had not been subjected to a great deal of use and still bore a new appearance. Many golfers lost their clubs when the Hamilton Golf Club House was destroyed by fire recently.

War Damage Premium.— Regulations giving effect to the recently announced reduction in the amount of premium necessary to be paid under the War Damage Act have been gazetted. The reduction is, as announced by the Minister of Finance (Mr Nash) - some time ago, to Is per cent. One new clause alters the amount of premiums to lie paid by mortgagees, the clause reading as follows: “The proportion of the war damage premium or premiums payable by the morgtageee under any mortgage shall not exceed the amount of interest payable under the mortgage for the preceding year.” Another clause grants to tenants and others bound under contract with a mortgagor the same rights of recovery as held by the mortgagor.

High-priced Eggbeater.—Just how the demand of goods which have gone off the market through war conditions affects the price which the public are willing to pay when an odd article of this sort comes under notice is frequently shown in the auction marts. In this category are eggbeaters, which have been unprocurable for some months past and which, when they were procurable, cost only a few pence. In a Napier auction mart spirited one shilling bids ran the article up to 17s at which price it was knocked down. A jocular remark passed by a spectator caused the auctioneer to interrupt his selling to ask the purchaser to hold the article up for rub lie inspection. “Just show them it is an eggbeater,” he said. “Some one over here thinks it is a lawn mower.”