LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 29 June 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Master-ton Horticultural and Industrial Society will be held in the secretary s office, A.M.'P. Building, Perry Street, on Thursday, 6th July. The Cartea-ton Tramping Club has decided to write to the Minister of Internal Affairs stressing the need of a hut on Mitre Flat, and to request an allotment of £SO from an art union.

The Carterton Borough Council has decided to apply for the regulations undeir the ’Health Act for the control of hairdressers’ shops to be gazetted as applying to the Carterton Borough. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Kennel Club last night it was decided, on account of the success of the field trial foir gun dogs held recently, to make arrangements for another similar trial on ’Saturday, 29th July. Further information regarding the police raid on the Marama at 'Wellington on Tuesday night gives the amount of silver confiscated at £l5O. No arirests were made in Wellington. The vessel will arrive at-Auckland to-day. 'A sequel to the. reconstruction of the Unemployment Board in 1931 was continued in the'Auckland Supreme Court before Mr Justice Reed yesterday. A former member of -the board, Geoirge Finn, company manager, of Auckland, who was not included in the new personnel of the board,.is seeking to recover damages from "the Crown for alleged dismissal, The hearing of legal argument was continued and decision was reserved,. > - .

Despondent over some petty accounts which he owed, a Dannevirke youth of 19 years recently dranked a small quantity of a disinfectant and had to undergo hospital treatment. • When he appeared before Mr J. Miller, S.M., at Dannevirke yesterday on a charge of attempted suicide ■ he was ordered to come up for sentence when called on within six months. The police stated that he was not likely to repeat the attempt. His name was suppressed. .Strong arguments in favour of the removal of an embargo on Australian citrus fruit and vegetables were- advanced by a deputation of fruit brokers and trade retailers to the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. It was pointed .out that the drastic effect of the embargo had been most detrimental to the trade, and had been the means of creating a. shortage in supplies and consequently an enoirmous rise in the prices of New Zealand lemons, Rarotongan oranges, and American fruits. It was also stated that one thousand people in the industry in New Zealand would be out of work if the embargo was not lifted.

The ladies’ social committee of the Solway (School will hold a dance and euchre tournament on Saturday, Ist July, at S p.m. The estate of the late Mr William Laidlaw, retired station holder, has been sworn for probate at £40,000, reports a Dunedin Press Association telegram.

There was a great response to-day at the 'Central School for the first vegetable day. The Central School Committee greatly appreciate the response and wish to thank the parents of the children who sent the vegetables for feeding the children at the Salvation Army Hall. About 6 sacks were sent in.

The ‘Wellington Harbour Board last night subscribed £IOO to Mayors’ relief of distress funds, to be allocated as follows: —Wellington, £45; Wairarapa, £l4; Manawatu, £23; Tlutt, £lB. The Minister of Internal Affairs advised that he would introduce legislation next 1 session to validate the vote. “I think the pair of them want to be smacked, and smacked very severely,’’ said Mr A. M. 'Mowlem, S.M., when the domestic differences of a voung married couple had been aired in the Napier Magistrate’s Court. 'He added that lie considered that the parties had shown a lac.k of compion sense, and he did not feel inclined to grant the application.

During an address delivered in the Dominion Farmers’ Institute at Wellington last evening, Mir H. B. Burdekin said that New Zealand was much better known on the Californian coast of America than it,,.;was on the Atlantic coast. In fact, lie said, New Yorkers often confused it with Newfoundland.

“All this talk about dumping is silly nonsense,” declared Mr L. J. du Flou, representative for products of the Soviet Union, when giving evidence before the Tariff Commission at Wellington yesterday. Russia, he said, was not out to compete unfairly, and unless the articles exported could show a profit to the factory, there was “nothing doing.” He mentioned that recently his principals had sent out samples of rubber footwear, but owing to high landing charges —duty, surtax, and sales tax—the ship was returning with the goods. The Minister of Finance (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) announced to-day that the Government has decided to resume the sales of debentures and stock on Ist July next, states a Wellington telegram. "The securities to be issued are to provide an avenue of investment for the public in the Dominion, and the proceeds will be utilised in facilitating the capital works programme of the Government, the policy of which is definitely towards works of a reproductive character, namely, land development and settlement, forestry and public works generally. The interest rate will be 3| per cent., and the securities are to have currency to 15th November, 1941.