LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17749, 28 June 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Concern is being felt in England by reason of the abnormally dry season. The rainfall during the last six months has been about half the normal quantity.

Germany has (says a London cable) withdrawn gold from London to the extent of £4,134,000 in the past 48 hours. Of this amount £3,414,000 was from the Bank of> England.

The attendance of children at several country schools in the Auckland Province has suffered considerably owing to the prevalence of influenza. From the point of view of a decline in attendance, this week has been the worst experienced during the winter.

The Auckland churches were visited by thieves on Wednesday evening. The safe in the vestry at St. Paul’s, Symonds Street, was opened, while the poor boxes at All Saints’, Ponsonby, were forced open and a small sum was stolen.

To-day is the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which sealed peace in Europe after the Great War. In Germany it will being observed as a day of national moilrning, and there will be a solemn public denial of the “war guilt lie.”

The Auckland Aero Club has 67 pupil members. “We must add to our flying equipment if we are to pick up arrears,” said the president, Mr. H. Merritt. “If the club can obtain another machine the Government will provide another under the subsidy scheme. We have enough funds to secure a fourth aeroplane, but it will just about swallow up our money.”

“What struck me most forcibly in the course of extensive travel throughout the Dominion is the appalling condition of the teeth of the average New Zealander,” slates Mr Alexander Marky in the New Zealand Dental Journal. “Nowhere in the world have I seen sucli an astonishing percentage of decayed, dead, and artificial teeth.”

Substantial decreases in the shipments of New Zealand meat are shown in the figures for the period, October 1, 1928, to June 15, 1929, in comparision with those for the corresponding period in the previous export year. Up to June 15 this year, New Zealand sent out 108,805 quarters of frozen beef, 1,164,277 carcases of mutton, 4,433,539 carcases of lamb and 128,396 carcases of pork. In the previous period, 216,950 quarters of beef, 1,327,721 carcases of mutton, carcases of lamb and 77,637 carcases of pork were exported.

The parishioners of Christ Church will regret that the Rev. 11. S. Hamilton, assistant priest of the parish, has been offered the parochial district of Whangamomona by the Bishop of Waikato, and has decided to accept it, says the Wanganui Chronicle. Mr Hamilton will leave for his new work early in August. Whangamomona is a large and scattered parish with much backbloek work, and many roads are impassable except on horseback. It needs a vicar who can constantly travel. Archdeacon Creed Meredith, though reluctant to lose an excellent colleague, approves of this call being accepted. Mr Hamilton has enedared himself to many in Wanganui by faithful, patient work, and his departure will be felt acutely.

A claim for the funeral expenses of a jockey who died in July, 1927, was heard In the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, when C. Little and Sons, Limited, funeral directors, of Auckland, claimed from E. P. Goldsbro’, accountant, of Auckland,, £2O 7s, the expenses incurred in the funeral. After evidence had been called to the effect that defendant had ordered the funeral, and had undertaken to pay the costs, the defendant denied that he had given instructions or authorised the funeral. He admitted that he had informed the relations of the deceased that he would endeavour to collect what he could from deceased’s friends and from those interested in racing toward the payment of the costs of the funeral. Judgment was given for the defendant with costs and witness’ expenses.

The Arbitration Court reserved judgment in the engineers’ dispute in Christchurch.

A New York message, d;*.ed Thursday, states that call money was at 10 per cent, all day.

The collections at the Baptist Chu r ch on Sunday will be given to the earthquake relief fund.

Messrs Dalgety and Co,, Hamilton local agents have received a wireless message to the effect that the lonic will reach Auckland at 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 4.

At the Franklin Poultry ■Club's show the following North Island Championships were awarded: —Fancy Minorca. \V. Bailey; fancy game other than black and red, E. Bust.

The annual general meeting of (he Hamilton Retailers’ Association will be held about the middle of July. In view of the increased activity in the town in many directions it is desirable there should be a large attendance of business people.

At the Franklin Poultry Show, held at Pukekohe, Mr J. C. Wallace, a Hamilton breeder, secured the following successes :—First prizes for Brown Leghorn cock, cockerel, hen and pullet, Black Minorca pullet, Indian Runner drake (white); second prize, Indian Runner duck (white) ; third prizes, Indian Runner duck (white), and Black Minorca hen.

That they had been busy with clients and had failed to notice the lapse of time, was the excuse ol two young Hamilton motorists, Noel H. Norris and Maurice Ilandrup, at the Hamilton Court to-day for leaving their cars in Victoria St. for a longer period than 30 minutes. Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., remarked that as both defendants apparently were on money-making business when they failed to observe the law, he had no doubt they would not begrudge a little towards the revenue. Fined 10s and costs.