LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hamilton Municipal Band will play at the Hospital on Sunday afternoon next.

The dredger, John Townley, which stranded at Gisborne yesterday, was hauled off the beach this morning undamaged.

A Melbourne cable message states that the Norwegian whalers Star IX. and Star X. have left there for Stewart Island.

Strawberries, gooseberries and loquats were offered for sale at the Auckland City Markets yesterday for the first time this season.

General satisfaction was expressed in Auckland yesterday by members of the clergy at the City Council's decision not to permit Sunday night entertainments.

11.M.5. Veronica, which is under the command of Commander 11. H. De Salis, returned yesterday afternoon from her 'lslands cruise. In the five months she has been away she has steamed 8400 miles.

The Te Awamutu Borough Council has been authorised by the GovernorGeneral in Council to raise a loan of £4OOO for completing construction of roads, etc.

An Order-in-Gouncil in this week’s Gazette authorises the Government Life Insurance Department to make distributions of profit annually instead of triennially as. heretofore.

Waikiti geyser at Rotorua started to play again on Labour Day and has continued to do so, somelimes sending up shots as high as 40 or 50 feet. About four year's ago this geyser played for a short period but at that time it had not played for 15 years.

The official business of the annual conference of the Federated Master Bakers’ Association of Australia and New Zealand at Auckland was concluded yesterday. The conference was marked by a large attendance of delegates at all the sessions.

Any legislation making the wrapping of bread compulsory is not likely to prove popular with the majority of bakers, according to Mr A. F. Tonks, of Wellington, who addressed the annual conference of the Federated Master Bakers’ Association of Australia and New Zealand yesterday. Mr Tonks added that in view of the hardship which would be inflicted upon the majority of bakers, it was not likely that any legislation would be passed within a decade.

Mr Allan Wilkie’s month’s Shakespearean season in Auckland came to a close last evening and the entire company was accorded a 'great farewell. At the conclusion of the play Mr Wilkie thanked the audience for the cordial reception given his company throughout the season. He had heard it said that he had contributed, within the space of a month, to the intellectual development of the city. He hoped this was the case, and if it was, it would not he entirely his contribution. Such a statement was a tribute to the., memory of the master dramatist of all time—poet, philosopher and playwright in one. Mr Wilkie said he hoped to return to Auckland in about eighteen months and on that visit to stage six new Shakespearean plays, some of which had never been staged in the Dominion previously.

Wellington must be catching up on the housing shortage, for now there are houses to let. Moreover, there are unfurnished houses, without catchy conditions about “incoming tenant to buy contents,” or long term or short term leases; the only condition is that the tenant shall pay the rent, which is right and proper. That one condition "may, however, he regarded by sonic people as rather a sticker, for a few of these rents now being asked are: —Seven rooms, 65s and 95s per week; six rooms, 50s, 555, and 80s; five rooms, 50s, 70s, and 80s. Just as one live-sealer car may sell at £2OO and another at £I2OO, so some houses bring higher rents than others, hut the garden variety, utility house does not greatly figure among Wellington’s houses to let