LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17131, 18 June 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

‘The inadequate water supply for flrf, fighting purposes was again commented on by Captain Hugo, Inspector of \ Fire Brigades, in a report to the Hamil- , ton Fire Board yesterday. ?1

< The gate takings on the first day of i the National Dairy Show at Palmerston North on Tuesday were £73 3s as ■ against £45 10s 6d for the correspond- ! ing day last year. /

It is stated that in the event of . adequate water pressure being avail- i able in Hamilton for lirc-fighting, , there would probably be a decrease •, in the insurance rates. j

The total of the fines imposed as the outcome of the detectives’ raid on Frederick William Batchelor’s gymnasium and boxing school at Auckland was £228.

“The Government is very dilatory in this matter of unemployment, and is only acting now because there is a pistol at its head.”—Mr J. Siddells, speaking at a meeting of the committee of the Wanganui District Unemployment Fund.

There are 240 men on the Wanganui City Council’s books waiting for work. The Labour Department has 67 registrations, four more than last week.

Business in the manufacture of woollen goods is brisk at the present time, and numerous outside orders are being carried out at the Wanganui Woollen Mills at Aramolio.

Strange languages are frequently required to be interpreted in legal actions. The other day, in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court, a witness was called upon to interpret Arabic.

The housing position is now not an acute one in Wanganui, and there are numerous flats and houses at rentals more moderate than those asked recently.

The people of Wellington consume .69 pint of milk per head dally. In 1917 the consumption was considered to be half a pint. The average daily consumption in Wellington is 7600 gallons.

A. W.E.A. circle of 20 met at T© Aroha to listen to an address delivered by Mr Murphy. The next lecture at To Aroha will deal with “Habitand association of ideas.”

The Wellington City Council has decided to take no further action in regard to changing the old names of Kent and Cambridge Terraces to Queensway. Owing to objections received, a former resolution was rescinded.

A suggestion that the Royal Show in future he held in the autumn instead of the spring was supported at a general meeting of the committee of the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday.

There are 2950 consumers connected to the Wairarapa Power Board’* mains, divided as follows: Masterton, 1304; Carterton, 651; Greytown, 222; Featherston, 399; Martinborough, 374.

Since March 24, 10 calls to fires have been received by the Hamilton Brigade. None of these were, however, serious outbreaks. The brigade strength stands at 25 and the attendances at the drills have been exceedingly satisfactory.

“The inspection drills were carried out in the efficient manner usual with your brigade and both station and equipment were in first class order,” was the satisfactory comment of Captain Hugo, Government Inspector of Fire Brigades, in a report of his recent inspection of the Hamilton Brigade, which he forwarded to the local Fire Board yesterday.

The last stage of the recent controversy in the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association over the appointment of a new man-aging-secretary, was reached at the meeting of the committee yesterday, when, in the words of more than one member, “the axe was buried." It was decided to retain the services of the present managing-secretary, Mr A. D. Stanley, until after the Winter Show.

General satisfaction is felt in MorJiusville that the tender of a local firm, Messrs Watts and Brayshaw, ha 3 been accepted by the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd., for the erection of a two-storeyed condensed milk factory at Waitoa. The tender was about £SOOO. As building operations have been somewhat slack during the last few weeks, the new building will provide employment for a number of men who might otherwise have had to go elsewhere to find work.

A vivid picture of hardship and suffering in and about Auckland as revealed by the activities of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, was presented by Mr J. Stewart to the meeting of the newly-'formed Presbyterian Office-bearers’ Association. He said he had been in homes where all the covering the children had was a sack for a blanket. All they had to sleep on was the bare floor. Boxes served as tables and chairs, and the only jewellery the mother had left was her wedding ring. She had parted with everything before letting a soul know she was starving.

If a resolution passed at the annual meeting is • confirmed at a special meeting of shareholders on July 4, the old-established Auckland grocery business of Smeetons, Ltd., will go into voluntary liquidation. The chairman of directors, Mr W. M. Commons, stated yesterday that the shareholders had decided upon liquidation for several reasons. The rental of the company’s premises had become prohibitive, and the same was true of* the wages fixed by the Arbitration Court for its employees. Moreover, business in groceries had been leaving Queen Street by degrees f lor some years past, and the character of the trade bad changed. The company’s capital was intact, but as there was no prospect whatever of earning interest upon it the shareholders had resolved on a winding-up.

Those who have been waiting for Hooker and Kingston’s sale to open were well rewarded on the opening day, for there were bargains offering that had not been seen in Hamilton for many a day. All new goods, too. Yes I \ll ibis season’s. Beautiful coats in velours which were usually £7 19s Gd, troing for 59/6. Smart knitted woof coats, 95s to £8 Bs, are going out for 19s 7d. Five hundred pairs Of Towels are being thrown away at half-price, and the evening frocks —■ well, vou should see them. Lovely goods," just landed in the store from Paris at £6 6s to £lO 10s, going out for 59/6 and 69/6. Crepe de chines, all colours, 2s 11 Ad. Every day will he a busy day at Hooker and Kingston's colossal mid-winter sale *

Voting cliildrt-c are very susceptible to colds, chills and feverishness at this time of the year. The safest and most reliable remedy as it gives prompt relief—is NAZOL. —2b.