LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr J. S. Jessep, vice-chairman of the Meat Control Board, has been appointed to direct the operations at Waingawa for the Bank of New Zealand.

Trophies won during the season will be presented at a ball to be held by the Hamilton Rugby Union in the Town Hall on October 7.

A store occupied by Mr. I. Marusich, at Pukemiro Junction, was burned early on Thursday morning. The dwelling attached was also destroyed, and only a small quantity of furniture was saved. The store was insured.

Revised fares and sections will operate on the Auckland tramways from to-morrow. The change involves- the shortening of some sections, the reintrocluction of penny section fares, and Lhe adoption of less liberal but uniform fare concessions.

The Hamilton High School Board decided yesterday to support a resolution passed by the Auckland Grammar School Board, asking that Boards be afforded an opportunity of expressing their views before any legislative proposal to abolish Education Boards, is placed before the House.

During the first six months of the financial year, the net customs revenue collected at the port of Auckland has shown no appreciable advance on the amount collected in the corresponding period of last year, the figures being £1,227,936 and £1,225,322 respectively.

The chairman of the Te Aroha District High School Committee has received advice from Mr C. E. Macmillan, M.P., that the Minister of Education has authorised the erection of a High School at Te Aroha.

“The plans for the new station at Auckland are about complete, and it is hoped to make a start with building operations before the end of the year and to complete the building some IS months later,” Mr W. R. Davidson states in an article in the Railways Magazine,

Notice has been given to one hundred men in the Napier railway workshops to prepare for transfer to either Hutt or Otahuhu within twelve months. Lately the staff at Napier has been reduced by transfers, and when the one hundred men now advised are moved only twenty or thirty will be left to effect minor repairs.

The Rev. Sale-llarrison, 8.D., gave a very interesting lecture to a large audience in the Baptist Church last night under the auspices of the N.Z. Bible League on “The evolution of a monkey’s skull." He dwelt trenchantly on the attitude of evolutionists to lhe Bible. He asserted that even an evolutionist of the more moderate type must surrender some fundamental of the faith.

The number of persons arriving at the port of Auckland from overseas last month totalled 1299, compared with 100 Sin September, 1926. Departures numbered 995, as against 1124. A total of 12,471 persons has arrived from overseas since the beginning of the year, while 11,686 have departed. Arrivals and departures fo,r the corresponding period of last year were 14,154 and 11,145.

Tiie report of the executive committee of the Trenlham Scholarship War Fund for the 16 months to July 31 stales that applications for 228 bursaries were received. The following awards, applicable during 1927, worn made: —Renewals 143, representing £3047 I 0s; new awards, 73, declined,. 12. A classified statement' of the awards shows; Children of deceased men, 129, £2977 10s; children of partially or wholly disabled men, 77. £1445; children of men who served overseas, 10, £lB5. Since the inception of the fund £22,523 6s has been paid over to the bursars. The number of awards is 744, affecting 369 children.

To demonstrate the keen values in Ladies’ Frocks and Coats, Messrs. Hooker and Kingston have commenced 'a great six days’ bargain event. Over 500 garments have arrived within the last ten days and represent the last word in fashion from England and the Continent. Every garment is priced on the lowest possible margin of cost, and the firm acclaims without hesitation that the values offering will appeal to those looking for exclusive garments at the smallest possible outlay. To buy at less means to buy from Hooker and Kingston’s, the big drapers .tit Vu.'.inria street-*