LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The official count for the Raglan byelection was expected to begin to-day, and will probably be completed on Wednesday afternoon.

The Iris returned to Auckland this morning, having repaired the fault in the Pacific cable. The cable had been completely severed.

The 4th Waikato New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Waikato) will in future be known as the Waikato Mounted Rifles.

A ban on correspondence destined for the Inter-State Bank, Paris and London, and Metcalfe and Co., Amiens, has been imposed by the PostmasterGeneral.

An incipient outbreak of fire occurred in a hedge at the Seddon Road railway crossing at 10.45 to-day. It is attributed to ,the firing of dry refuse by a flying spark from an engine.

At the Auckland Labour Bureau on Saturday a total of G65-were on the roll, compared with 692 in the preceding week, and 716 in the . week ended September 17.

The Wellington City Council has decided to send Mr R. E. Herron, manaager of the milk department, to North America and Great Britain to inquire into the latest ideas and plant for the treatment of milk and factory layout.

The Auckland Summer School of Theology for home missionaries and ministers of the Presbyterian Church, will be held this year from October 13 to 19.

The rainfall recorded at Hamilton during September was 3.83 inches. It rained on seventeen days and the maximum fall of .88 inches occurred on the 10th.

The Hauraki United Drainage District has by special order, appearing in the Gazette, -been sub-divided into four, as under: Central North Area (two trustees); Central South Area (two trustees) ; Northern Area (one trustee) ; Southern Area (one trustee).

Mr E. Casey, North Island divisional superintendent of railways, is one whose constant travelling keeps him in touch with conditions in all parts of the North Island. " This year we will have peak production, multiplied by peak prices, and it will be a good thing for the country all round," he said.

In a letter to a Runedin friend, MiRichard Reti sends word from Amsterdam, that he intends travelling to Australia and New Zealand in 1928. Mr Reti is one or the word's foremost chess players and he writes for information about New Zealand chess clubs and players.

"I don't know that we'll get past this town," said Mr Clarke Irvine, an American visitor in speaking to a limes reporter of the beauty of Hamilton, which had captivated him and Mrs Irvine He was specially enthusiastic over the splendour of the river running through the town.

At the annual meeting of shareholders of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association at Christchurch, a dividend at the rate of G per cent, to first preference shareholders was announced. After paying the dividends a sum of nearly £2 2,000 would be carried forward to the credit, of the profit and loss account.

"We are suffering from a lot of men that have gone into the motor-lorry business and arc not going to stop in it. Many have bought on the hirepurchase system, and have no idea of a sinking fund. They reckon they can get so much to pay for their petrol and so much 1,0 give to the wife Lo run the house, and they never give a thought to what is going to become of the truck the vear after next." So said Mr ME. Fitzgerald, Malamata County Engineer, in discussing the problem of motor traffic and roads with a Waikato Times representative. The instalment purchase system was responsible for much of this uneconomic motor-lorry traffic, but he thought that this trouble was fending to cure itself. Dealers were becoming wary of selling too freely on a small deposit.

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 of Victoria Street.*