LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17711, 15 May 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Coal Oil (New Zealand) will put down a bore at Omala, New Plymouth, at the end of June. The site was selected as the result- of a geophysical investigation.

In the Police Court at Morrinsville, before Mr C. M. Cummer, J.P., William Leslie Yealc, charged with the theft of articles from residents at Malarnata, was remanded to appear at Hamilton on Thursday.

Although Die Auckland Transport Board yesterday declined to commit itself to a policy of preference for British goods, on a snap division decidedly pro-British sentiments were expressed by the members.

A deputalion from the Dunedin Gaelic Society waited on Ihe Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, to thank him for what lie had done in regard, to the erection of the Sir John McKenzie Cairn at Mount Puketepu. Sir Joseph said he hoped to be present to unveil the cairn when it was completed. He had instructed the Lands Department to acquire Die necessary land, or, if it could not acquire it, to take it.

Always out to find ways and means in which the busy store of Hooker and Kingston’s can give greater service to its many customers, this firm has pleasure in announcing the opening of “Home Sewing Week” on Tuesday. Planned to show you how cheaply dresses can be made at home, Home Sewing Week at Hooker and Kingston's will certainly interest you. An expert cutter will be in attendance at the store on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, and will cut any garment absolutely free of charge from any materials purchased I in the Dress Department., All you! have to do is to produce some picture i or style that you would like copied, i and your garment will be cut and de- : signed ready for sewing. In this way j you can have three drosses for the price of one, for Ihc hard part of j dressmaking is eliminated., During “Dome Sewing Week” at Hooker and Kingston’s some wonderful values will be offering in the Dress' Department, and a selection the firm claim is equal to anything showing in the large city stores. Remember, the expert cutter, who will design and cut your new frock free, will he in attendance on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday only', so select your matcriol and make your appointment early. *

The proposal to establish a children’s cinema was supported by the Auckland Presbytery yesterday. A Gazette Extraordinary last evening announces an open season for opossums in the various acclimatisation districts throughout the Dominion. Our sub-leader in yesterday’s issue may have inadvertently conveyed the impression that third party Insurance covers damage to property. This is not so. It affects personal injuries only. New Zealand will be represented at the exhibition at Newcastle-on-Tyne from May to October this year. It will be on a large scale, and cover 100 acres. It is expected \o attract 4,000,000 visitors. The Empire Marketing Board is looking after New Zealand representation. “You may.have difficulty in finding him,” observed Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s. Court this morning, when the police stated that they could not define the whereabouts of David Suttie, charged with failing to notify change of address and to attend drill. A fine of 10s, with costs 10s, was imposed. A reference by the Rev. L. H. Hunt when presenting the report of the life and work committee to the Auckland Presbytery last evening, commenced a prolonged debate on the attitude of the Presbyterian Church to science. It ended with the setting up of a committee to express the attitude of the Presbytery. What he termed "a suggestion of political chicanery” with regard to his appointment in place of the Hon. E. W. Alison, M.L.C., was repudiated by Mr E. Aldridge, the new Government nominee on the Auckland Harbour Board, at the meeting of the board yesterday. “I neither spoke a word, nor lifted a finger, nor spent a post-age-stamp over the matter," he said. “When I was approached in the first place I said I was not prepared to accept the. appointment. Then I was told that Mr Alison w’ould not be reappointed in any event, so I accepted.”

The forty-eighth annual report of the Northern Steamship Company, Ltd., shows a net profit for the year ended on March 31 of £13,161. Transfer fees amounted to £l4, and the balance brought forward was £9304, making a total of £22,480. An interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, which w’as distributed in November, absorbed £6456, and the directors recommended payment of a further dividend at the rate of 8 per cent for Ihe remaining half of the year, leaving a balance to be carried forward of £9567.

“It is a strange anomaly that up to the present lime it has not been possible to persuade our university, which is nominally the highest of our halls of learning, to give more than a casual recognition to the fact that there is a science of education. But even a nonteaching university must eventually yield to the forces of growth, and it will be strange if, long before the next half-century be passed,' a change in this attitude is not apparent,” said Mr A. J. C. Hall, of Auckland, in his presidential address at the opening of the New Zealand Educational Institute conference.