LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17803, 30 August 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Canterbury Aero Club, which now has. a membership of 395, decided at a meeting last evening to order a new Moth aeroplane.

The secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department advises that mails which were despatched from Auckland on July 30 per S.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, were received in London on August 28.

An unusual sight was witnessed in Hamilton this morning. At a very early hour a queue began to form outside the box plan office for “Rio Rita,” and by the time the plans opened the queue extended for a long distance along Victoria Street.

The Marlborough Aero Club’s second batch of trained pilots were examined yesterday by Major Isitt for their pilot's certificates. Eight candidates took the air and all were successful. They include Miss P. Bennett, who is the second club-trained lady pilot in the Dominion.

“I must express my extreme surprise at the tenor of your communication, and can only conclude that you are either uninformed or deliberately deceiving yourself as to the true position.’’ These remarks have been addressed by Mr. J. A. C. Allum, chairman of the Auckland Transport Board, to Mr. G. G. Munns, Government member for Roskill, who lias attacked Hie board in the House of Representatives on the question of transport in the Roskill electorate.

The annual report of the Mental Hospitals Department, presented to Parliament stales that 6160 persons were under care and treatment at the end of the year. Of that number 5902 were detained under magistrates’ reception orders and 258 were admitted as voluntary boarders. During the year 439 patients and boarders were discharged as recovered, that being 35.9 per cent, calculated on admissions.

The view that the Anglican Church should “make haste slowly” in regard lo spiritual healing is embodied in an article headed “The Gilts of Healing,” in the current number of the Church Gazette for the Auckland Diocese. This can be taken as the official view on the matter. “Uur main contention,” the writer states, “is that, until we know more of this difficult subject, it is rather premature for the Church to hasten into a movement which at present seems somewhat capricious in its results.”

It is slated that on October 1 the Dunlop Uubber Company of New Zealand Ltd., will close its branches in Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Dunedin and will hand over the entire distribution of its goods to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd. The policy of the company in future will be directed from a smaller head office in Wellington. This step has been taken, it is stated, with a view to economising in overhead costs and lo increase the scope of distribution.

.Bank shares are recognised as being a gilt-edged investment. An opportunity to invest in Bank Shares at par is not likely to come again for many years. Investors with either small or large amounts of capital are advised to call or write for prospectus of the Australian and New Zealand Banking Corporation, Ltd., at the office of T. G. Reynolds, Public Accountant, Albany Buildings, Hamilton. _■ ■ 585

Excavations for the new Courthouse at the corner of Anglesea and .Bridge Streets are almost completed by the contractor, Mr. J. R. Simson, of Auckland, who will commence laying the concrete foundations next week.

A vacancy has occurred on the board of managers of the Hamilton Technical High School, through the retirement by rotation of Mr. J. Treloar. Nominations to fill the seat closed at noon to-day, that of Mr. Treloar being the only one received.

Charged -with riding his motor cycle without lights, and with not having a tail-light on his machine, Burton Hall was ordered to pay costs on each charge before Messrs W. F. Mason and H. J. Greenslade, Justices of the Peace, in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court this morning.

Despite his having been before the Court in July, when he w-as convicted and fined for driving a car without a driver’s license, James Wills was still without a license when accosted a month later. Before the Court this morning he was convicted and fined 10s, with costs 10s.

Two charitable institutions in New Zealand will benefit considerably under the will of the late Mr. James Molr, who lived for some time in Auckland. The approximate net value of the estate for probate purposes is £II,OOO. The Auckland organisation w'hich will benefit under the will is the Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage. The Widows’ Orphans’ and Aged Masons’ Fund of the Masonic Lodge of New Zealand will benefit in a similar manner and the remaining third of the estate will be invested for the Parish Council of Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.