LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17222, 4 October 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Waikato Hospital Board acknowledges receipt of an anonymous donation of £2.

Mails which left Auckland on August 29 last, per R.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London on the 2Slh ultimo.

Another stolen motor-car has been found burned in Auckland. This makes nine cars stolen and destroyed since the end of April.

Two Scout huts on the property of St. Paul’s Methodist Church have been purchased by the Young Men’s Bible Glass of the Church and have been converted into classrooms.

In thanking the press for the reports of his lectures, Rev. Sale-I-larri-son said last night that he fully recognised the power of the press, and he could not help but offer a special tribute of appreciation.

Rev. A. J. Seamer and his party of Maoris will visit Hamilton.in the interests of Methodist House Missions this month. During the visit the Chief Wh.arehuia of Rotorua will refer to the remark of the Bishop of Waikato on liquor licenses in the King Country.

The Waireka, one of the smaller vessels of Messrs A. Hatrick and Co.’s river fleet, sank at her moorings at the company’s main wharf at the junction of Taupo Quay and Somme Parade, Wanganui, on Saturday night. The vessel was successfully refloated yesterday morning without damage;

A meeting of those desirous of joining men’s and women’s first-aid classes will be held in the Y.M.G.A. on Saturday. Applications for membership in the classes will be received by Mr 11. Beebe, the lion, secretary of the St. John Ambulance Association.

The second express which left Auckland for Wellington on Sunday evening was delayed for nearly an hour and a-half at Hunterville yesterday morning, owing to an axle on a truck of a mixed passenger and goods train breaking shortly after the train had passed Rata, nine miles north of Marton. No damage was caused to the rails or sleepers.

It is ten years ago to-day since the New Zealand Division made its memorable entry into “ The Battle of the Ridges,” a term embracing the many epic struggles in the fighting around Ypres in the Great War. The New Zealanders arrived in the area on October 2, 1917, and made their first attack on October 4, remaining in the sector until toward the end of the month.

In the eight months ended August 31, there arrived in New Zealand S2SS immigrants. The principal countries from which they came were: England and Wales. 4006; Scotland, 2256; Ireland, 704; and Australia, 470. During the same period eight Chinese and 21 Indians arrived and 22 Chinese left. Tiie tourists who came numbered 5629.

By adopting the directors’ report, the annual meeting of shareholders in the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association, held at Timaru on Friday, sanctioned proposals to the effect that, to obtain a dividend-paying basis on ordinary shares, a writing down of capital should take place, and that, to stabilise finance and put all shares on an equitable basis, shares at present paid up to 15s and £2 10s be called up to £3 15s each, the calls to be made gradually.

At the end of the present month an improved passenger service is to be run to Rotorua. A train' will leave Frankton for Rotorua at 7.20 a.m. daily, reaching Rotorua at 11.55 a.m. It will stop at all stations and connect with the morning train from Paeroa at Morrinsville. The service from Rotorua to Auckland will also be augmented by a train which will leave Rotorua at 4.57 p.m. daily, arriving at Frankton Junction at 5.15 p.m. It will connect with the express which leaves Frankton at 8.34 p.m., and arrives in Auckland at 11.2 p.m.