LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The primary schools of the Auckland province will re-open on Monday with approximately 65,000 names on the rolls.

There were over 22,000 visitors to the Dunedin Exhibition on Thursday, br.'nging the grand total up to 1,313,369.

Notices revoking the prohibition of (lie importation of wheat, wheat flour, wheat meal, and ground wheat, and revoking the Board of Trade (wheat futures) regulations, are gazetted. The total number of postal notes sold in the Hamilton postal district for the quarter ended December 31 was 86,577, of a value of £26,173 6s lOd. The postal notes paid totalled 30,901, of a value of £9819 2s 6d.

Mr Zane Grey hooked his first sword-fish at Russell yesterday, but was unfortunate in losing it. It was a fine fish and kept him busy for some time, when the hook came out and it escaped. Captain Mitchell, of Mr Grey's party, caught a 3501 b hammerhead shark. The excursion train to Waihi on Anniversary Day was well patronised by the Morrinsville people, some 72 passengers joining the train at the Morrinsville station. The train consisted, of 8 carriages, and by the time the train reached Waihi there were 200 passengers. The day being beautifully fine the outing was a most enjoyable one. It w ; as announced last year that Messrs John Fuller and Sons, Ltd., intended to build a £140,000 theatre in Christchuroh. s lt is now stated on reliable authority that the building will be a motion-picture palace, surpassing in size and design the Majestic in Auckland.

Anxiety is being felt for the safety of Mr J. W. Hall, indent agent, of Auckland, who has disappeared from Karekare, on the West Coast. It is stated that Mr Hall, who is' about 60 years of age, was a visitor at the Ktrekare boarding-house. At about 4 o'clock on Thursday afternoon he left to go surf-bathing, but failed to return to the boarding-house.

Arrested early this morning, and described by the police as a "bird of passage," a middle-aged man named Jack Wilson appeared at,the Hamilton Court this morning on a charge of alltged carnal knowledge at Ngahinepouri. On the application of Senior Sergeant Sweeney a remand until February 5 granted. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute, held in Dunedin, the election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as' follows:—President, Mr B. C. Aston; lion, secretary, Dr. P. Marshall; lion, treasurer, Mr M. A.' Elliott; lion. Editor, Mr Johannes. C Andersen; hon. returnng officer, Professor H. W. Segar. The trustees of the trust accounts, the president and treasurer, Grant Committee, and. the Library Committee were reappointed. It was decided to hold the next annual meeting on the last Thursday in January, 1927, in Wellington.