LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15999, 30 May 1924, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New South Wales loan of £lO,000,000 will be offered at par at 5 per cent., and will be redeemable in 1935-55.

At a meeting of directors of the Exhibition Company at Dunedin it was decided to accept the tender of Messrs Fletcher and Love, Dunedin, amounting to £57,318, for the six main buildings in conenction with the exhibition. New Zealand timber will be used. When the Hon C. J. Parr (Minister for Education) was on a visit to Cambridge a few months ago, representations were made to him by Mr F. Lye, M.P., for a new teacher’s residence for Kaipaki. The Kaipaki school committee and residents will be pleased to learn that Mr Lye has just received the following telegram from the Minister for Education: —“Pleased, to inform you that I have approved of a grant for new teacher’s residence at Kaipaki.” At Auckland yesterday the creditors in the bankrupt estate of Albert Wilfred Small, builder, of Auckland, passed a resolution that the facts facts of the bankruptcy be laid before the Crown Solicitor with a view to a prosecution. It was stated that the debtor at a previous meeting gave certain undertakings, which apparently he had made no effort to full'll. Hence the decision of the creditors. A fur coat for half its usual value seems too good to be true, but nevertheless that’s the actual facts. Messrs Hooker and Kingston recently had the opportunity of purchasing 23 sample fur coats from a manufacturer at considerably less than the cost of production, and are offering the whole of them during Show Week at practically half their value. They comprise Marmot, Coney, Kideon, Seal Coney, Natural Rabbit, etc. ' All arc in this season’s latest styles, and are very little more than the price of a good velour Sea the big window at Hooker and Kingston’s this week, showing these fur coats. It’s an opportunity the lady motorist should not miss.* For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cars,

A first offender for drunkenness was fined 10s and costs by Mr H. A. Young, S.M., at Court this morning. The stone walls at the River Road subway, Claudelands, which have been under construction for several months, are now completed. They present a very pleasing appearance. The appointment of a curator to the Auckland Zoological Park was made by the Auckland City Council last evening. The Parks Committee recommended that Mr L. T. Griffin, F.Z.S., assistant curator of the museum, he appointed curator of the Zoological Park, at a salary of £250 per annum, the board of the New Zealand Institute and Museum having agreed to release him each morning up to 11 a.m. and on the whole of each Saturday morning. Reference to the Main Highways Act was made by the Mayor of Te Aroha (Mr Coulter) on Wednesday evening. He said correspondence from the Board indicated that boroughs would be excluded from the provisions of the Bill. Mr Coulter contended that as all traffic would come through Te Aroha, some consideration would have to be given the borough; in fact, he resented any oversight on the part of the Board. He resented it, for it meant giving a mile and a-half of road for the use of the Board. However, he thought it right to wait a little and watch developments, as all boroughs were similarly affected. After we went to press yesterday evidence was taken in the case in which Cecil William Whyte was charged with (1) theft of £4l 12s, which amount was in his possession as a servant of the Mutual Life and Citizens Assurance Co., Ltd.,; (2) failing to account to the same company for £2 Is received by him on its behalf from Cissie Lewis; (3) failing to account to the company for £3 10s 4d, received from Richard Beaver; (4) failing to account for £ll 8s paid to him as a representative of the company by Ernest John Smith. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. Bail was allowed Accused earlier in the day had been committed for trial on several charges of obtaining money by fraudulent representations.

A protest against the conduct of certain of those who attended the Empire Ball in the Auckland Town Hall on May 15, on the occasion of the visit of the Special Service Squadron, made by Mr F. W. If. Brinsden, at the meeting of the Auckland City Council last evening. Mr Brinsden mentioned that on going into the hall he was shocked to see "bits of girls" in the gallery with their feet on the seats and smoking cigarettes. They had young men with them. Mr Brinsden said he was a member of the Boxing Association, and a number of other decent organisations, and was anything but a "wowser." Women sometimes attended boxing matches, but he had never seen any of them behave like some of those at the ballThe treasurer, Mr F. Wild, submitted a statement to the Te Aroha Borough Council showing the estimated amount of revenue for 1924-25 totalling £15,879. The largest items were: Taxation, £605; Government subsidies, £430; sale of crushed metal, £3500; stone on street, £950; water supply, £1040; electric lighting, £4850; interest rates, £269. The estimated expenditure is computed as follows: Administration, £1525; public works, £2547; hospital contribution, £2BB 15s; interest, £1069; quarry, £3200; water supply, £546; electric light, £4327; contingencies, £6OO. On the figures it shows an estimated deficiency of £2853, and it is proposed to levy the same rate as last year, viz., is iOd in the £.