LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16096, 20 September 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Monday next, 22nd inst., will be Dominion Day, and will be observed as a.bank and legal holiday.

The assistant registrar of incorporated societies intimates in the current Gazelle that the Hamilton Taxiowners' Association has' been dissolved.

The number of persons on August •1 recorded on the registers of Employment Exchanges in Great Britain was 1.080,000. This was 32,239 more than on July 28, but 200,123 less than the figures recorded on December 31, 1923. The total includes 817,900 men, 37,100 boys, 191,300 women, and 31,200 girls. The interest of Waikato in cycle road racing is being aroused in view of the big event at Egmont next month. With the object of selecting a representative from this district for thai race and placing cycle road racing on an organised basis a meeting is called for Hamilton on Tuesday evening next, at S o'clock, at Everybody's buildings, when a large attendance is hoped for.

At St. Peter's Church, Hamilton, yesterday a very impressive memorial service, conducted by Yen. Archdeacon Cowle, was held before the interment of the late Edward John Ccmcrford. The deceased was a member of tile choir of St. Peter's Anglican Church, and also a member of St. Peter's No. 1 Troop of Boy Scouts and the Hamilton East School Rugby team. There was a representative" gathering of the church Scouts talivc gathering at the Church, Scouts from several other troops being present. The casket was draped with the Union .lack and the Scout (lag, with deceased's cap and surplice, and Seoul ha! and staff on the top. Comrades of deceased belonging to St. Peter's troop acted as pall-bearers. \rctulrnron Cowie delivered an impressive panegyric at the graveside, and the "Last Post" was sounded by two Boy Scout buglers.

The commercial travellers 'annual bag day 1 at Dunedin for charitable purposes realised £IB2B, easily eclipsing all past sales.

In the Association football match for the A.B.C. Cup, between the Y.M.C.A. and Rangers, the former won by one point to ail. The Chief Postmaster, Hamilton, has been advised that the mails which left Wellington via San Francisco on August 19 were delivered in London on Tuesday last. Tho Hamilton Town Band, under Bandmaster M. K. Mara, will play at the "Waikato Hospital to-morrow: (Sunday) afternoon. The acting Minister of Defencs (Hon. W. Downie Stewart) by notifi* cation in the Gazette, intimates the acceptance of the services of the Waingaro Defence Rifle Club. A circular issued to shareholders by the general manager of the Bank of New Zealand states that the proposed loan to the Government is to assist it "in its efforts to finance farmers who are at present protected under the Mortgages Extension Act." The issue of capital will be made at par on April 1, 1925, and, so far as ordinary shareholders are concerned, in the proportion of one new share to four existing ordinary shares. Arrangements for the annual reunion of the Hamilton High School Old Boys' Association, to be held on Monday, are well in hand. In conjunction, the Old Girls' Association are also having their reunion on the same date. Besides the annual meeting and dinner'and the regular football match between the past and present scholars, a oombined dance and, sooiai will be held in the school'* as-'

Members of Parliament are being bombarded with communications from individual members of the Post and Telegraph staffs, protesting against the reduction of the land tax, which is declared to be a "gift to the wealthy while the postal and telegraph men are being denied a decent wage/' The communications are based on one model, which allegedly was drafted by the. Postal and Telegraph Association, and sent out to all men in the lower grades of the service. As this is a contravention of the law, it being expressly provided that "no person shall directly or indirectly use influence to secure the appointment, promotion, or increase of salary of any person in the Public Service," more is likely to be heard of. the matter, sembly hall.