LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17626, 2 February 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thames is to have res weekly halfholiday on Thursday instead of Saturday. A message from Shanghai states that Chinese tariff autonomy was enforced yesterday throughout the country. Houses were beflagged and there was general rejoicing. The number of postal notes paid In the Hamilton postal district during the quarter ended December 31 was 37,058, and the amount £11,399 19s. Tnese figures were exceeded only in the four cities. All the New Season’s Millinery, including the whole of the Exclusive Model Hats imported this season by Hooker and Kingston, Ltd., are going out at astounding prices at Hooker and Kingston’s Colossal Sale. This, Gigantic Sale of Millinery commences today All model hats, usually 32/6 to 59/6, are clearing at 19/6; charming ready-to-wears, usually 24/6 to 37/6, clearing for 12/6; and some very smart pullovers and ready-to-wears, usuallv 12/6 to 22/6, clearing for 4/6; 150 yards of ribbons, all colours, usually 9d to i/6 per yard, are all going for Id per yard. Be early to this Big Sale of Millinery at Hooker and Kingston’s, for the bargains will create a sensation in Hamilton. *

Malls which left Wellington per the R.M.S. Makura, via San Francisco, on the Ist ultimo, arrived in London on the Ist instant. The Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band will play in the Lake grounds at 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, also in the Rotunda at Ferry Bank, at 8.15 p.m. For the first time in New Zealand the Military Forces, ine Navy and the Air Force will co-operate in a practical exercise on February 14. The play battle will represent an attack by invaders on Auckland. It was a happy train-load of picnickers that left Hamilton this morning for Tauranga for the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s annual outing. The eight carriages attached to the train wore filled to 1 capacity with over 400 passengers on board. Plans for making a model native settlement at Whakarewarewa were discussed at that village yesterday by the Hon. Sir Aripana Ngata, Minister of Native Affairs, and the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, who met a numerous gathering of Maoris. The report of the commission was adopted. A proposal “that harbour boards should afford neither employment nor countenance to any avowed Communist or member of any Communistic organisation,” was brought before the Harbour Boards’ Conference at Auckland yesterday by Mr. H. Everett (Motueka), but lapsed for want of a seconder. The departure of the Union Company’s intercolonial steamer Maunganui from Auckland for Sydney yesterday afternoon was delayed for threequarters of an hour to allow the seamen on board to put on the hatches and lower; and secure the derricks. This work is usually done after the vessel takes her departure, but yesterday the crew refused for the first time to take the vessel from the wharf until hatches and derricks had been properly secured. The New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League will hold its conference at Wellington on March 12. At the conference it is intended to crystallise recommendations from the whole of the Dominion in land-settle-ment matters for submission to 4. the Government for urgent consideration. The secretary, Mr. N. G. Gribble, has been appointed to attend a conference of North Auckland settlers at Ohinewai on February 6.