LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17802, 29 August 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrangements are being made to start a Pipe Band in Te Aroha.

A meeting of those interested in aviation is to be held at Te Aroha, when Mr Douglas Mills, of the Auckland Aero Club, will attend.

The late Mrs J. Ames has bequeathed £IOO to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, as well as six pictures.

Twenty-three New Zealand doctors left Wellington for Sydney by the Tahiti on Tuesday evening to attend the triennial medical conference to be held in Sydney.

Allhough all private savings banks have received notice from the Government that withdrawal forms for £2 and over which arc in effect receipts or cheques ought to be stamped, so far no action has been taken to enforce such a regulation in respect to the Post Office Savings Bank.

The practice of youths riding bicycles over the footpaths in Jubilee Park was adversely commented upon by Mr. E. Quick, at the meeting of the Hamilton Beautifying Society last evening. It was decided to draw the attention of the Borough Council to the nuisance and damage these cyclists were causing.

A dispute over the sale of the lease of the Wynyard Arms Hotel, Auckland, involving over £2OOO was ventilated in the Supreme Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Hcrdman. The plaintiff was Bruce.'Tudor, hotelkeeper, Devonport, and the defendant Ernest Louis Smith, ho*tel keeper. After the plaintiff’s case was closed, the parties conferred and reached an agreement, the terms of which were not announced.

The first anniversary of the signing of the Kellogg Peace Pact was observed on Tuesday, messages being exchanged between the Powers. Herr Strcsemann, German Foreign Minister, suggested that the day should be observed as an international holiday, and the idea has found favour in some influential quarters.