LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17132, 20 June 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

New regulations under the Coalmines Act are gazetted.

Over 900 bags of mail from overseas will be delivered in Auckland early this week.

A portion of a road in Black IV., Pirongia Survey District is declared closed by proclamation in last week's Gazette.

Since July 1,192 G, it is estimated that fire losses in Palmerston North not coverod by insurance' amount lo £13,G95 (buildings) and £13,107 (contents).

Another decrease in the number of men seeking employment at the Government Labour Bureau at Auckland was recorded last week. The number on the books on Saturday totalled 538, as compared with 509 during the previous week.

The Whangarei Winter Show resulted in a profit to the Agricultural and Pastoral Association of £328, which is regarded by the committee as very gratifying.

Canberra florins to the value of £141,000 are now in circulation throughout Australia. The issue was limited to £200,000 (or 2,000,000 florins), and the dies have been destroyed so that no further coins can be minted.

The Acting-Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges receipt of "conscience money" as under: —£50 forwarded to the Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington'; £0 10s and £3 forwarded lo the Treasury, Wellington.

Mr Humphrey Bishop will be the song leader at the community sinking in Auckland on Wednesday. Assisting him will be several members of his company, including Miss Thelma Trott, Messrs John Montfort, Walter Kingsley, and "Scratcher" Ross.

The third new building erected under the reconstruction scheme at the Jubilee Institute for the Blind at Auckland—the line modern workshop block —was declared open on Saturday afternoon by the Hon. Sir Edwin MUchelson, in the presence of a large gathering of friends of the institute.

"If a man does not sign his name to a letter in the Press it is not worthy of consideration," said the Mayor of Wanganui (Mr W. J. Rogers) to a deputation of unemployed men when urging them not to pay too much attention to criticism of councillors which appeared in the correspondence columns of the newspapers.

Wanganui, fifth largest city in New Zealand, is also fifth on the list of wool-selling centres of the Dominion. Wellington tops the list this season with 10G,378 bales sold and Napier comes next with 92,380 bales. Wanganui's total is 01,033 blae« as compared with 01.887 for the 192f>-20 season and 57.547 for the 1924-' 5 season.

"Ours is the biggest dairy show in the Dominion; and we say that we take precedence of any other fixture in size and importance," said Mr J. A. Nash, M.P. (according to the T lanawatu Standard), in asking for a farmers' train to the Manawatu Show. "The same thing applies to the Spring Show, and when we find that Waikato is being advertised in the way it is we think that the time has arrived when we should secure that consideration to which we are justly entitled."

There is a lot of petty thieving going on in Hamilton. At a certain establishment during the week-end a visitor from Auckland left a new overcoat hanging in a corridor while he had dinner. On returning a quarter of an hour later he found that th« coat had disappeared. A fellow-bv arder told of a man coming to his to borrow a pair of sox, as lie said his own had been stolen. It is stated that an overcoat disappeared recently from a room attached to one of the local churches during a ssmee.

Those who have been waiting for Hooker and Kingston's sale to open were well rewarded on the opening dav, for there were bargains offering that had not been seen in Hamilton for many a day. All new goods, too. Yes i All this season's. Beautiful coats, in velours which were usually £7 19s Cd, going for 59/0. Sm&rt knitted wool coats, 'Jos to £8 Bs, are going out for 19s 7d. Five hundred pairs of Towels are being thrown away at half-price, and the evemn« frocks—well, you should see tncm. Lovely good's, just landed In the store from Paris at £0 0s to £lO 10s, going out for 59/0 and 09/0. Crepe de chinos, all colours, 2s Hid. Every day will be a busy day at Hooker and Kingston's colossal mid-winter sale*

A boat belonging to the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer, Tasmania, was conveying a party to shore at Hamburg when it capsized. The engineer, Mr Frederick Curry, was drowned.

The amount of premiums received during the past year by New Plymouth insurance companies was £19,638, as compared with £19,154 last year, according to the financial report submitted to the annual meeting of the New Plymouth Fire Board.

The second session of the 22nd Parliament of New Zealand will be opened on Thursday afternoon. Except as regards its length and the amount of legislation that will be dealt with, the session is not expected to be a momentous one.

Mr Edwin Benjamin Evans, who celebrated his 84th birthday on Saturday last, claims to be the oldest European born in Auckland. He told a Press interviewer that he erected the first hotel in Hamilton and found the best gum-field north of Whaugarci.

Rev. Joseph W. Kemp, of the Baptist Tabernacle, Auckland, preached to large congregations morning and evening in the Baptist Church, Hamilton, yesterday. Mr Kemp will deliver a series of lectures urternoon and evening every day this week with the' exception of Saturday.

A reference to secret divorce was made by the Lord Chief Justice at a banquet at the, Mansion House. The speaker said the Courts used to hear divorce cases by the score. Now they hear them by the thousand. Nevertheless a great many people in England were still undivorced.

"I wish I had some one to love me," sang a not very melodious voice in Taupo Quay in the vicinity of the Wanganui Town Bridge (says the Wanganui Chronicle), and interested spectators perceived in ttic gathering dusk the figure of a bent old man carrying his swag. "Out of work mate.?" queried a sympathetic passer-by. "Aye ! Been out two months" replied the, tramper cheerfully, "but why worry? When we've got work we curse it, and when we haven't we look for it! '1 wish I had some one to love me' l —," and on went the shuffling footsteps into the darkness.