LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15894, 19 January 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Up till the recent rains fell it -was reported that the milk yield was decreasing. Now it is reported that in many cases the returns are on the increase.

By ain Order-in-Council in the. current Gazette, the date of holding the general election of the Mangawara tiiver Board has been postponed tilt February 12.

The Te Awamutu Electric Power Board has been authorised to raise i4OOO, being part of its £25,000 loan to assist consumers to install motors and electric plant, for 20 years atid to pay 6 per cent interest thereon. Some time ago it was mentioned that it was intended to erect a new factory at Mutumaoho. It is now staled that the Norfolk Dairy Co. intends making a start with the new building almost immediately. The contractor for the removal of the earthwork at the River Road subway at Claudelands has completed his contract, and the roadway is now being largely used by motor cars and tthef vehicles. The metalling of tho road has not yet been taken in hand. In the Police Court, Waihi, yesterday, a young married man, Joseph Gray, residing at Owharoa, Waikino. was sentenced to three months in Auckland gad for having used tbscene language on the Wathi-Pac-roa road.

The Hamilton traffic bridge will be closed to all vehicular traffic from midnight \to-day until mid-day tomorrow. Pedestrians arc also warned that in crossing the bridge they wlll be liable to be splashed with bitumen ipray and are asked not to * S loiter.

Ratepayers who have not yet attended to their rate demands are warned that Wednesday, the 30th instant., is the last day on which the amounts duo can bo paid without the addition of a 10 per cent, penally. The rates office closes at 4 p.m. each day.

Mr George Rox, through the courtesy of Mr Humphrey Bishop, is arranging with the matron and the Sunshine League to bring several of the convalescent patients of the Waikato Hospital to the performance Of the company on Monday next at the Theatre Royal.

Recent heavy .rains have been beneficial to many crops round about this district, writes our Morrinsville correspondent. In several instances seed which was lying on the surface was washed in, and is now coming away wOU. Much growth is in evidence on newly-cut hay paddocks, and it is an- | ticipa'ted that in some cascn another crop will be gained. The Railway Department has acquired an option over approximately 28 acres fronting Ainslie Road, Paeroa. The Borough Council decided to form and metal the road, connect the water supply, and lay a sewer, giving a man-hole for inspection. The Railway Department states that if the Council undertakes the work it will erect from twelve to fifteen houses on the site selected within four to six weeks. The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of the incometax is' on Friday, February S, 1924. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before February 29, 1924. The demands will be posted from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about February 1, 1924. Demands must bo presented with all payments, and if a demand has not been received lite Commissioner should be communicated with. As a result of its investigations in regard to the unloading and handling of frozen meat in Great Britain, the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has appointed a supervisor to watch the unloading of each vessel. The British Incorporated Society of Meal, Importers recommended that it was very essential that an inspector should bo present to watch the interests of importers and shippers. Not only will this supervisor watch the handling of meat generally, but he will also inspect the general condition of eaeli shipment and report to the Board. The. London office of the Now Zealand Meat Producers' Board has also made arrangements with the Salvage Association and the importers of frozen meat for the Board's inspector to attend every survey for damage of New Zealand meat, and thus be in a position to see the extent of the damage, and also lo locate, if possible, where the damage occurred. Since the Board appointed local supervisors to watch the handling and loading at this end. there lias been a very marked improvement, and the Board anticipates similar results at the other end. It is simply the talk of the town this stupendous sale at Hooker and King- ■ ston's, for tremendous stocks are simply being pushed out at every department regardless of cost. Every morning at nine o'clock fresh bargains are being brought forward, so shoppers every day have the opportunity of picking up goods at ridiculous prices.. The public on Tuesday simply rushcs the special linen table damask fo 2/11 yard, which Is usually sold aS? •1/0, and print underskirts for 2/1(1, Don't miss going through to tb.s' showroom when you're in, and get three of those large-size col ton vests for 3/6 for three, usually 2/3 each. You know the store—always a bargain at Hooter and Kingston's thev arc well known."

A Hamilton motorist, driving to Gambridge the other night, had ait unpleasant experience. When ncarmg Taraahp.ro one of the tyres was punctured, and on making investigation the motorist, found no fewer than seven inch-nails in the tyre. Another motorist is known to have had Ihc same experience the following night.

At the last meeting of the Auckland education Board, it was decided to recommend the department In apprint Mr L. I. Hay to the position of scienei; master at the Hamilton Technieal Mr Day is the holder of a '.--'Bachelor of Seierce degree, and i 5 qualified in electricity and magnetism, physics, heat and light, chemistry, mechanics, mathematics, and geology, 1 and is science master at the l'ukekohe High School. < The Auckland Education Board has recommended the department to appoint Miss B. Buck to the position of comnw-rekvl instructress at Ihc Hamilton Technical School. Miss t Buck holds the Bachelor of Com- .: mcrcc degree, is a registered .accountant, holds a speed certificate in Shorthand, has had eight years' ou>c \ experience, and is commercial in- *• structrcss at the Westport Technical High School. *' Waikatoites have a reputation in i other parts' of the Dominion for opu- ? lence, but an incident which has recently come under our notice would v indicate that money is of far less value to someone, at any rate, than even the generality of folk up this way arc 5 given credit for. About a week ago a local resident picked up a consider- ■ | able sum of money in one of Hamil- : ! ton's thoroughfares, and although the i owner has been advertised for and - I the matter has been put in the hands 1 j of the police, nobody so far has come j forward to claim it.

I \n adjourned meeting in the bankk ! rapt estate of Alfred Arthur Brooks, 'r* I builder and fanner, of Hautapu, was ■"'- ! held yesterday at the office of the ..'i i deputy official assignee, Mr V. H: San- / i son. As there was no quorum no ■N I resolution could be passed, but a crcdi- '■" I tor expressed the opinion that bank-Zi-J, rupt's discharge Should he facilitated. •■ 'Debtor's schedule showed liabilities lo ; " i unsecured creditors totalling £025 and '' ! assets estimated to realise £353. He •: ; attributed his failure to the loss of h : £3OOO on a building contract, and to :■! i bis reduced income owing to the slump. ■'.', i The theft of a case of benzine from ■> : the Takanini railway station on Dct ■! comber 6 last, was preferred against • ; ; two employees of the New Zealand ! Railways, Burnett Claude Huckstep, > ! an engine-driver, and John Walter ■k i Johnson, a fireman, at the Ponce v ; court, Auckland, yesterday. The facts f i brought out by Mr Hammond showed ; ! that Johnson removed the petrol from '1 ; the Takanini station, placed it in the f • cab of the engine, and on arriving at * i Papakura emptied it into his car and i i threw the case away. The label was |- i thrown into the flre-toox. Johnson was sentenced to a month's imprisonl i ment and Huckstep was discharged ':. i under section 92 of the Justices of the f. Peace Act, on payment of £1 5s costs. His- Worship said it was technical theft \ on the part Of Huckstep. In the case t of Johnson, security to appeal was ,- I fixed at £SO. The fourth annual conference of the A'ew Zealand Chiropractors' Associaf tion (Inc.) was held at Wellington, when amongst those present were Miss E. K. Washer (Frankton Junction) and Mr J. G. Yerkey (Hamilton). Inter alia it was decided to extend the association's activities to Australia. The election of officers resulted: — I Resident, J. A. Scott; vice-president, f J. Williamson; secretary, J. A. Scott; \ treasurer and assistant secretary, J. | Craig; executive committee, J. P. Colf will, H. Olterholt, T. Giles, J. Fletcher, | and A. R. Nicol. At the conclusion of ' the proceetings, on the courteous invitation Of Mr J. A. Young, M.P. for WaikatO, members of the conference visited tho Parliamentary Buildings, and greatly appreciated the many interesting features brought under notice.

In respect to Anniversary Day holiday, whiob falls on Tuesday this year, the Labour Department has replied to the Morrinsville Chamber of Commerce that the holiday would be "Mondayised" as far as the shopkeepers and grocers' awards were concerned. The Borough Council has been communicated with, and a request forwarded asking Monday, January 28, to be declared a public holiday. There is a difference of opinion about the matter, however, and several business men state they will observe Tuesday, January 29. The banks will observe that day, and it is probable that legal offices will also close their doors on the date in question. The factories' award says that • Anniversary Day shall bo the holiday. Then again, the Municipal Fire Brigade intend holding their annual sports on Monday, January 28. Thus there is a "bit of a mix up" as far as Morrinsville is concerned.

A most peculiar accident happened to one ■' of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairying Co.'s electric trucks about noon on Thursday. It was on. the road between Waitoa and Waihou, and had commenced the ascent of a hill When a bolt In connection with the stceringrorl came adrift. Without warning the truck turned at right angles to the road and was precipitated into the nearby swamp, where it stood up on end. Fortunately the driver, a man named McLeod, had the presence of mind to .jump, landing in the swamp up to his waist. lie pulled himself out unhurt. Meanwhile the truck sank into the soft mud past its electric battery box. Soon three other electric trucks from Waitoa factory arrived on the scene, and after attaching ropes and chains herculean efforts were made to pull the "lame cluck" out, Passing motorists on the read to and from Te Aroha were held up for some time, and when the job of placing the truck on terra firma was -completed a long string of cars were set in motion to their various destinations.