LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17581, 10 December 1928, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There is a considerable inquiry in Cambridge for houses to rent, there being practically no houses vacant.

The New Zealand Government has to participate officially at the International Exhibition which is to bo held at Antwerp in 1030 in celebration of Belgium’s independence.

A project is afoot to establish an eel club in Te Awamutu district. Similar organisations in other parts have received keen support from anglers.

An empty W waggon on the Auck-land-Taneatua train was derailed at the western entrance to the Tauranga station yard on Saturday afternoon. No damage resulted and the waggon was put back on to the line again. The train resumed its journey after an hour's delay.

Referring to a paragraph In a morning contemporary regarding typhoid the medical superintendent at the Thames Hospital states that there are only eight patients in the hospital, all of whom have been there over a month and are convalescent. No notifications have been received by the Health Officer for over a month.

Another small increase in the number of unemployed was recorded at the Government Labour Bureau in Auckland last week, the total registntions being 672, as compared with 638 in the previous week, and 615 in the week before that.

“ The rush of holiday traffic on the railways has not set in yet,” stated anofficial at the Frankton Junction station this morning. “The school ‘break-ups’ will be the signal for an excessively busy season. We are, however, having dozens of inquiries every day.” *

The gale receipts on “People’s Day” of the Gore A. and P. Show were most satisfactory and indicated a substantial increase in the attendance as compared with last year. The amount taken this year was £254 Bs, while last year £220 18 9d passed through the gatekeepers’ hands.

Many are the schemes devised by youth to earn a few shillings. The latest is selling golden syrup tins. At the Parnell School, Auckland, there is a fair-sized pile of the tins, which the children have brought from their homes. When a good pile is collected, the tins are sold for 9d a dozen, and the money goes to swell the funds of the school sports club.

“It is just as well there isn’t a constable there always, for nine times out of ten when we jump out to post a letter we leave our engines running,” remarked Mr E. G. Levvy, S.M., in the Police Court, at Gisborne, when a motorist, Norman William ’Taylor, admitted having left his car unattended with the engine running outside the Post Office.

Mr A. W. Owlcs, Mayor of New Brighton, speaking at a luncheon held by "the Waimairi County Council recently,- to mark the opening of the new concrete highway on the Main North road, announced that he was, so far as he knew, the oldest Mayor in New Zealand. “I’m a lump over 80,” said Mr Owles, “but I've still got as much kick in me as the young ones.” ______