LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16812, 2 June 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A fairly sharp shock of earthquake was experienced at Gisborne at 4.50 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Four school teachers, the Alisses Watson, who came from schools of London County Council, and Misses Garrett and Hurst, ol‘ Tottenham, arrived at AVellington by the Ulimaroa yesterday. The Misses AVatson, who are folk dance specialists, will go to Auckland and Whalcatane respectively. Miss Ilurst will remain at Wellington and Aliss Garrett will go to Wairoa. Arrivals of persons from overseas at the Port of Auckland during May numbered 2319, as against 576 for the same period of 1925, an increase of 1443. This large increase is accounted for by the arrival of the Hororata and the Maliana with nearly 1500 immigrants. The departures for May totalled 936, as compared with 1306 for May, 19.25, a decrease of 370. The thirteenth annual report of the directors of the Dcvonport Steam Ferry Company shows a net profit, for the year ending April 30 last, of £7SO3 Gs lOd. The directors recommend a dividend of 7A per cent for the half-year ended April 30, and when this is paid a balance will he carried forward of £402 8s 2d. A Wanganui man advertised for a youth to drive a ’ motor-lorry. At 5 o-clock, an hour after publication, it young men had answered the advertisement, and 12 more were waiting on the doorstep when the advertiser arose next morning. Had ho advertised for a youth to grub furzo or blackberry (says a Taranaki paper) it is doubtful whether ho would have been rushed by applicants. Air Dalton will resume the Trade Gommissionership in Australia in April, 1927. lie expects to stay another two years, possibly longer, because he understands the Board of Trade’s new policy is to extend the Commissioner's term of service in each Dominion instead of frequently interchanging as heretofore. The purpose is lo enable tho Commissioner the amplest opportunity to acquire the fullest knowledge of Dominion conditions, and utilise it for the promotion of trade. Afembers of the Sunshine League paid a visit to tho Sunshine ward at the hospital on Saturday last and entertained the small patients. Songs wore given by Alesdames Bartholomew and Palmer and Alisses Aliddlcmiss and Paterson, while Airs Aliddlcmiss and Miss Paterson gave recitations. Airs Bartholomew acted as pianist in a very capable manner. Messrs N. E. Alikkelsen, of Kiwitahi, and Neil Dawson, had a narrow escape from a very serious accident, when a collision between Air Alikkelsen’s car and Air Dawson's motor cycle occurred on Hie Alorrinsviile-Tatuanui Road. Mr Dawson hud one of his knees injured, and is in hospital. Mr Alikkelsen escaped without any serious injury to himself or car. Air Cecil Grigsby met with a serious accident. He was on his way from Alatamata to Alorrinsville when his machine struck a loose stone and he was thrown violently to Hie ground. He was badly shaken and cut about ihe face, and is now in hospital at Alorrinsville. A nincteen-ycar-old youth pleaded guilty in the Hamilton Alagistrate’s Court tliis morning to the theft of a packet of cigarettes, valued at Is lOd, from a grocer’s shop at Frankton. His Worship, in recording a conviction, and fining accused 40s, took into eonsideration fie good character lie iiad previously borne, and said after hearing ttie evidence, it seemed lo him to have been a caso of sudden temptation. lie ordered Uic suppression of Hie youth’s name. A special tnceing of creditors in the bankrupt estate of George Charles Strong, carpenter, of Pokeno Valley, near Alcrcer, was held yesterday, Air W. S. Fisher, Official Assignee, presiding. The meeting was called at litc request of certain creditors who wished to make further inquiry into tin; bankrupt’s affairs. Bankrupt staled that lie had lost about £2OO on two contracts and had no assets. The bankrupt was examined at some length i>y tiic Official Assignee, and also by creditors. Eventually it was decided that ilto bankrupt should submit a statement of It is receipts and also of payments made, and a creditor was appointed lo go into Hie accounts. Speaking at the annual meeting of Hie Society for the Protcelion of Women and Children. Mr Bartholomew, S.M., dealt witii the criticism that Unit juvenile offenders arc not dealt will! in accordance will! the most modern seirnlific, methods, lie had seen it seriously proposed llial every juvenile brought before the Court should be dealt with by psychoanalysis. That would bo not only wrong, but mischievous and harmful, liis experience was that Uic boys they bail lo deal willi were, on Hie whole not had boys. Tho problem cases were very few. The more serious cases arose from lark of parental control. Good men, good matrons, why do they form the impulse to buy Johnston’s Tea from the Tea Shop? —17.1 Victoria Street.