LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17804, 31 August 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Westfield railway deviation will be opened to goods traffic to-morrow night. The first train will leave Campbell's Point for Wellington at 11.50 p.m.

In the Pitt Street Methodist Church, Auckland, to-morrow evening a- memorial tablet to Hie late Rev. W. Ready (formerly of Hamilton). will be unveiled.

The Auckland Operatic Society commenced a season of “Florodora” at Auckland last night, before a packed house. The papers to-day are very complimentary regarding the production.

At a meeting of the creditors of Henry Wensley Piper, a former manager ' of Dainties, Limited, Christchurch, and recently a restaurant proprietor, the statement showed debts totalling £9OOO and assets of £l-451. The property was put in the hands of the Assignee to realise.

The statement of a contemporary that Mr W. S. Glenn has no desire to offer his services again to the Rangllikci electors is given an emphatic denial by the Marton executive of the Reform Political League. Mr Glenn has made no such statement, and no efforts are being made to find a new candidate for the next general election.

On the petition of the Medical Cooperative Company of New Zealand, Ltd., Dr. Ramsay Smith, of Takapuna, was adjudicated bankrupt in the Supreme Court at Auckland yesterday. Evidence was given that judgment •had been obtained against the debtor in Hie Magistrate's Court for £32 15s.

In the Magistrate's Court at Te Awamutu, before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. J. Mathers of Te Pahu was fined £5 with costs 12s. for failing to cut ragwort. Inspector Melrose said the farm was a menace to the adjoining farms, as this year the weeds have been allowed to seed. He would like to stress the seriousness of the ragwort having been allowed to seed in what is a clean district.

There was a large attendance at the funeral yesterday afternoon of the late Mr George Nicole Douglas, constable at Mercer*! An escort of police, comprising Superintendent W. G. Woliirnann, Inspector Mcllveney, DetectiveSergeant Doyle, Sergeants Cown and Daly, ten constables from the city and ten from country stations, represented the police and detective force. Six constables acted as pall-hearers.

A splendid tribute to the work of New Zealand graders of dairy produce/ was paid by Mr. \V. Grounds, speaking at Tatuanui last night. He admitted that occasionally cheese graded “finest” here might open up as only “first” grade at home, hut usually the grading was upheld. He had heard a prominent Toolcy-street buyer In London say: "I take my hat off to the New Zealand graders. They do their work well.” That opinion was borne out by three other big buyers present.