LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17841, 14 October 1929, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Burglaries are reported from Te Puke and Tauranga during the weekend. No details are available. Tenders for the new building for the Central Electric Power Board closed to-day. They will be opened at the board meeting on Wednesday. The free ambulance at Wellington was kept busy during the week-end conveying sufferers to the hospital, in all cases but one, motor vehicles were concerned. The 10 days of repentance which mark the opening of the Jewish year will be brought to a close to-day with the solemn fast of the Day of Atonement. Last week’s music and elocutionary competitions at Cambridge were a great success in every way, the attendances at each session being even better than in previous years. A civil disability restricting the right of Germans and Austro-Hungarians to visit and reside in Western Samoa is removed by an Order-in-Council issued last week. The removal of the restrictions is to date from November 1. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Thames Valley A., P. and Horticultural Association it was decided to include in the programme of exhibits for People’s Day a tug-of-war and wrestling on horseback. Committees were appointed to arrange these events.

Leaving New Plymouth by aeroplane on a business trip to Hamilton, Mr S. E. Neilson, secretary of the New Plymouth Aero Club and Taranaki Airways, Ltd., arrived in Hamilton two hours afterwards, after a good trip. The Government has announced that it will pay Is per snout for ail wild pigs destroyed, in order to relieve settlers in the out-districts from the depredations of the animals. Experimental shipments are being organised of wild pig hides to test their value for fine leather work. Determined efforts are to be made by the Government to find openings for New Zealand boys on the land, according to the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Industries and Commerce. Mr. Cobbe is of opinion that there are plenty of opportunities for boys to take up farming with excellent prospects of success. “My department is co-operating with the Labour Department in the new scheme,’’ Mr. Cobbe said. The acceptance of an offer to purchase the world’s rights of an offset printing plate, the invention of Mr. T. E. Richards, of Auckland, is announced by Mr. H. R. Cooke, chairman of directors of Duro Plates, Limited, which owns the patent rights. The offer emanated from a group of American financiers allied with a wellknown manufacturer of printing machinery. The figure mentioned in the offer is stated to be substantial. The purchasing group will require the services of Mr. Richards in the manufacture of the plates, and as soon as the preliminary negotiations are completed he will leave for the ■ United States. It is " announced that the British patent rights for the invention have been granted.

“It must run in the family,” remarked Mr J. H. Robertson, official assignee, at a meeting of creditors this morning. Bankrupt’s partner was a discharged bankrupt, and later the evidence disclosed that the latter’s son had recently tiled. A man with whom bankrupt had had dealings at Rotorua had also been bankrupt.

A seventeen-year-old girl, Margaret Menzies, who had been missing from Ashburton since September 29, returned home'early yesterday morning. No statements of her movements have been made, but it Is understood that she was not far away.

Delegates to the annual conference of Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand to the number of 50 arrived in Auckland during the weekend. The conference will hold its business sessions to-day and to-mor-row. On Saturday and yesterday the delegates thoroughly enjoyed a full programme of entertainment planned by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.