LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17786, 10 August 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Ruakura Farm of Instruction 9.G degrees of frost were recorded yesterday by the Government meteorologist. The annual meeting of suppliers to the Waharoa dried milk factory will be held at the Waharoa Hall on Tuesday, at li a.m. All the bookable seats for the New Plymouth season of “Rio Rita” (two nights) were reserved on the day the box plan opened. For the protection of aviators crossing Cook Strait a system of checking has been arranged through the co-operation of the Defence, Railway and Meteorological Departments. The late Sir Hartley Williams, formerly a Puisne Judge of Victoria, whose death in London was announced last month, has left an estate valued at £26,552. The first election of a representative of the Iluntly town district on the Central Electric-Power Board was fixed by the Gazette last evening to take place on September 21. A New York cable message states that the Federal Reserve Bank has raised the re-discount rate from 5 to 6 per cent. The increase takes effect as from yesterday (Friday). The Minister of Agriculture, Hon. G. W. Forbes, states that he has been advised from South Africa that the proposed visit of South African farmers.to the Dominion this year will not take place. Within ten minutes of the opening of the booking office for scats at the big Rugby match for the Ranfurly Shield, Auckland v. Wairarapa, at Carterton to-day, all the grandstand scats were sold.

A new record has been established by the Gisborne Competitions Society in respect of entries for the forthcoming .festival, the number received being 917. Last year the number was 88-1.

Notification of the disbandment of the Waingaro Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Waingaro, Ngaruawahia-,. and the Kawhia Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Kawhia, appears in the New Zealand Gazette.

The street collection by the St. John Ambulance Brigade at Auckland yesterday yielded about £BOO, only half the sum required for the programme of relief to which the money is to be applied.

The New Zealand .Gazette announces the land in Block X., Puniu Survey District, Waipa County, is taken as a road; also that certain additional land at Ngaruawahia has been taken for the purpose of the Kaipara-Waikato railway and for street-diversion in connection therewith.

At a meeting in Christchurch of the Captain Cook Memorial Committee, Mr M. F. Barnett announced that he was prepared to take the work out of the hands of the committee and to erect a memorial at his own expense, with-the committee acting in an advisory capacity. The offer was accepted.

At the last meeting of the Hamilton Branch of the National Council of Women, the president, Airs 11. Valder, was in the chair. Discussion took place upon various subjects, including' the need for women police in the proper patrolling of parks and other public places; the advantages of the destructor method in dealing with refuse, and tiie need of proper supervision of children’s playgrounds. It was resolved that at the September meeting special addresses should be given.

At the quarterly meeting of the Public Service Superannuation Board 26 contributors, who had retired by reason of age or length af service, were granted allowances of a total of £5830 a year. Seven contributors, who had retired as medically unfit, were granted allowances totalling £723 a year, and 22 widows and nine children were granted the statutory allowances, amounting to £916 a year.

According to calculations by the Government Statistician, the volume of exports from New Zealand in the 12 months, ended June 30 constituted a record.' According to valuation, the record stands to the credit of 192425, with a total of £56,025,345, the past season’s .figure being £55,288,407, but assessment of the exports at the same price level shows that in quantity the exports in’ each of the last three years were greater than in 1924-25, those of 1928-29 being greater by over 10 per cent.

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