LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 March 1934, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A movement is on foot t.o hold dog trials at Tinui.

The Okarito Five Mile Beach Gold Dredging Cd., Ltd., report a return of 4(50z for 117 hours’ work last week. A Suva cablegram reports that a man named William Guy cut his throat at one o’clock yesterday morning. He leaves a wife and two children.

A Greymouth telegram states that it was decided, after an: inspection, to resume work in the Ijobson mine tomorrow with 120 men. The mine has been idle following an explosion on sth January.

A slight increase is shown in earnings by linddart, Parker, Ltd., for the year ended 31st December, net income being £72,902, compared with £71,030 for 1932. A dividend of 0 per cent on preference capital requires £30,000, and ordinary shareholders again receive 5 per cent, which takes £37,500, leaving £57,500 to be carried forward, against £52,102 brought into the accounts. ‘‘What is your opinion of the position in which the licensing trade has been placed as the result of the depression?” asked Mr J. Humphries of a witness —an hotel furnisher —in the Supreme Court at Napier. “The trade lias fallen back very considerably, not only in Napier, but throughout the Dominion,” was the reply. Asked what percentage would represent the drop in trade, the witness said that he would place it at approximately 50 per cent.

“Freights generally are 100 per cent, higher than in pre-war days, and nothing is justifying such an increase. We should light against this state of affairs,” said Mr V. E. Hamilton at a meeting of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, when making an interim report on behalf of the Freight and Imports Committee, the Christchurch Times reports. Information was being collected concerning freights, said Mr Hamilton, and when complete would be supplied to business people, especialy to English exporters.

Edwin A. Tanner, a partner in the firm of Tanner Bros., warehousemen, Victoria Street, Wellington, was found dead in a Dunedin hotel about (5.30 yesterday morning, lie was a married man aged about 5(5 years and was on a visit to Dunedin in his capacity of traveller for his firm. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before Air 11. W. Bundle, S.M. Dr. Evans, who Had examined the body, expressed the opinion that death was due to heart failure, and a verdict in accordance with this evidence was returned.

While fishing at Mayor Island on Sunday morning, Air William Williamson Livingstone, of Matamata, collapsed and died. Air Livingstone, who hooked a swordfish, played it for ten minutes and then complained of a pain in the chest. He asked a friend (Mr C. B. Daveny, of Morrinsville) to take the rod, and as he was handing it over, collapsed. The party proceeded to the island, where Dr. Wallis, of Rotorua, pronounced life extinct. Mr Livingstone, who was (59 years of age, was a well-knoAvn deer-stalker and angler. He was a director of the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company. He is survived by a widow.

George Mclvor, draper, of Queen Street, Masterton, has been adjudged a bankrupt on the petition of a creditor. A London cable states that Princess Lina Yousoupoff was awarded £25,000 damages against the Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr Film Corporation.