LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There are no further indications of friction with the miners at Rotowaro and work is going on as usual.

In 36 tenders received by the Wanganui Agricultural Association for gorse grubbing work the highest was £l2O and the lowest £2O.

The Tofua brought seven Indians from Fiji to Auckland yesterday, and the Ulimaroa 14 Chinese, eight Italians and two Jugoslavs.

Amongst the cases of distress in Auckland is that of two married couples and two children living in one room. The room, which is divided by a curtain, costs 25s a week.

Particulars of the fares and train arrangements in connection with the Auckland race meeting to be held on Ellerslie racecourse on October 8 and 10 are advertised in this issue.

During September the Hautapu district experienced 14 days on which rain fell, one more than at Cambridge, the total fall registered being 3.57 in. The maximum fall was 1.1 Oin on the 10th.

In his presidential address at the annual meeting of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association, Mr F. Campbell urged upon members the necessity for the slimulation of production rather that the abolition of the Arbitration Court.

With judicious newspaper advertising a slogan will often be longer retained in one's memory than the name of the firm whose slogan it is. This was strikingly demonstrated this week, when an envelope addressed " The Manager, The Centre of Satisfaction," was delivered to the Farmers' Cooperative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., by our discerning postal officials.

The Voluntary Aid Department of the Reel Cross Society, Wellington, having ascertained that a number of children attending the Mount Cook School were under-nourished and illclad, and inquiries by the nurses showed that honest economic reasons were the basis of the trouble, the Society took steps to supply a hot mid-day meal to these special cases, over 1-400 such meals being served. The result has been manifest by a marked improvement in the physique and mental alertness of the pupils, and the action of the Red Cross has been warmly eulogised by the Education Board, the sJiool committee and the headmaster.