LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160641, 3 May 1920, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Up .to midday to-day the weather looked threatening, and arrangements were made to hold the reception in His Majesty’s Theatre should rain fall. The Colonist, Nelson’s morning journal, which was established in 1857, has been incorporated with the Nelson Evening Mail, and its publication will be discontinued after Saturday, May Ist. A Press Association message from Nelson reports that the V-lute Hart Hotel at Richmond, owned by the estate of C, 8., Harley, was destroyed by iire on Sunday morning. The insurances were not available.

An agreement has been signed between Litvinoff t and Italian representatives, providing for the mutual repatriation of civilian and military prisoners within two months.—-Copenhagen cable, However, a decided change for the better set in, and by 2 o’clock all traces of the threatened storm has disappeared and tho sun w as shining brightly in a blue sky. Large numbers of people were early this afternoon coming into town and wending their way to Cook’s Gardens, where soon all the places of advantage ware occupied.

An official statement issued on behalf of the Australian Federated Seamen’s Uniofi recommends members to “go slow” if shipowners refuse to grant certain conditions up to what they are in other countries. The statement adds: "Going slow” is easy, and there is nothing hard about it. 1 simply allows a ship to take her time from port to port.

It is announced that toe Guildford Town Council has unanimously decided to invest .£20,000 in a co-partnership scheme for tho creation of a garden village on the Farnham side of the town. An estate of 646 acres has been purchased from the Earl of Onslow at an average price of £SB per acne, and 200 acres are to be devoted to houses at the rate of five to !fche acre. The Ministry of Health has approved of the scheme subject to 200 houses at least being erected within the next 18 months. It’is intended to include the site ultimately in the borough of Guildford, which will be thus increased by a square mile. The total cost is estimated at i .£1,000,000. Building is to begin in May. A correspondent writes to the Wool Record of January: Members of the wool trad© who were in London at the December series of auctions were much impressed with the splendid window show at tie New Zealand Government office in the Strand. There was a model of a shearing shed, made by New Zealand soldiers, which in its own way is just- as interesting to Bradford mill men as the mills are to the squatters who come over here. Cloths, blankets, scarves, and other samples of goods turned out by the New Zealand mills, such as Petone, Kaiapoi, Mosgiel, and Roslyn, were also on show, and altogether the exhibit from the woolman’s standpoint was considerably in advance of anything one has seen in thin line recently in the London offices of Colonial Governments.

“Incredible” profits by shipping companies are regarded as one of the important reasons of high prices throughout the world. Mr J. H. Rosseter, exDireotor of Operations of the United States Government’s Shipping Board, giving evidence before the Commerce Committee of the Senate in January last, declared that during the war one vessel, operating between San Francisco and Calcutta under the direction of the Shipping Board, made over £160,000 by a single voyage. of 110 days. Another vessel, operating under arrangement with the Italian Government, made nearly J120,000 by a voyage of 92 clays. Vessels under private management exceeded these earnings. The Senate Committee intend to inquire whether similar • excessive profits are Still being made. There is reason to believe that in some caaes profits have increased since the war.