LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17991, 9 April 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

His Worship the Mayor of Hamilton states that the Ladies’ Relief Committee would be pleased to receive donations of women's, girls’ and children’s boots and shoes. Those having these to dispose of may leave them at the borough engineer’s office.

The appeal has been dismissed of William Podmore against the death sentence imposed upon him on March 8 for the murder of Vivian Messiter at Southampton last year.

The Board of Lincoln College has received from Mr Job Osborne, a pioneer farmer of Ellesmere, a gift of £SOO to found a scholarship tenable at Lincoln College.

Considerable interest will be added to the Auckland Aero Club’s pageant at the Mangere aerodrome on Saturday by the appearance of Mr F. C. Chichester, of Wellington, who recently completed a flight from England to Australia. Mr Chichester will fly to Auckland in the Moth aeroplane in which he made the notable flight.

Fifty boxes, containing £250,000 in gold coin, comprised the most valuable portion'of the cargo unloaded from the steamer Maunganui soon after the vessel’s arrival at Wellington from Sydney yesterday. The shipment was consigned to the Bank of New South Wales.

Dominion pig statistics for 1928 show that in five counties—Eyre, Papanui, Malvern, Springs and Ellesmere—the swine population is greater than that of the cow. All these counties are contiguous and situated in the hinterland of the Akaroa Peninsula.

Among the private companies registered in Auckland yesterday was Station Cash Stores, Ltd., provision merchants, Puiaruru. Capital, £6OO in £1 shares. Subscribers: Lawrence Cyril Moore Wilson, of Putaruru, 300 shares; Herman Sethfleld Denize, of Coromandel, 290 shares; Mary Katrina McColl Denize, of Coromandel, 10 shares.

The financial statement of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society shows that the revenue, £3427, exceeded the expenditure by £221. In addition to temporary deposits of £I2OO there is a credit balance at the bank of £389, while £7O is owing to breeders of pheasants ordered but not yet delivered.

The Nelson system of Bible teaching in schools was discussed by the Auckland Presbytery committee last evening, and the following resolution was carried:—“That a commission of the presbytery he appointed with instructions to make every effort, in cooperation with the other Christian Churches to retain the present privilege accorded under the Nelson system for Bible teaching in school hours.”

The committee of the Hamilton Ministers’ Association met to make arrangements for the open-air service which is to be held on Sunday afternoon at 2.30 at Ferry Bank. The speakers appointed are the Very Rev. Dean G. R. Barnett and Rev. H. G. Gilbert. Other members of the association will take part, and the singing will be led by the Salvation Army Band.

The employment of more men on the construction of the South Island Main Trunk railway w r as announced by the Minister of Public Works, Hon. E. A. Ransom, to-day when intimating that the withdrawal of the party completing the survey of the line was only temporary. It was explained by the Minister that the survey party had been removed to the Lewis Pass Road survey and would return as soon as the weather became too severe for wmrking in that locality.

So conscientious is the Minister of Education in his comprehensive tour of Waikato’s schools, that he went without his lunch yesterday. At least the demands of the inner man had to be satisled with a couple of meat pies munched hastily while motoring from the Forest Lake to the Horotiu schools. Among the party there was a good deal of harmless banter over the “hunger strike” before a sumptuous dinner was partaken of at Ngaruawahia.

The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Cunard line agents advise that the Cunard line secured another record last year by carrying more passengers across the North Atlantic than any other steamship line, for the sixth year in succession. The total number of passengers carried was 202,185. The Aquitanla, Berengaria, and Mauretania carried more first-class passengers than any other three steamers of any other line, and over 41,000 passengers travelled tourist third cabin in Cunand liners, which w'as a greater number than that carried by any other company. During the year there .were 361 sailings, and Cunard ships steamed over 1,000,000 miles.

The conversion of a boat anchored on the bank of the Waikato River was responsible for the appearance of two youths in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M. It was pointed out by the police that the defendants had commandeered the boat with the intention of later returning it. The had decided to take no action. The police, however, decided otherwise, as there had been a number of similar occurrences on the river. Bach defendant was ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution.

“ It is a development that is bound to come,” said Mr. D. E. Parton, district telegraph engineer, in commenting at Christchurch on the statement of Mr. M. Laird, late superintendent of telegraphs in New South Wales, that at the end of tlje next 50 years wireless and the telephone will have superseded the telegraph. The trend of opinion among engineers, said Mr. Parton, would justify a conclusion that the development "predicted by Mr. Laird would come in less than 50 years. “ Television is coming,” added Mr. Parton, “ and I think we will be able by its means to see football matches as well as bear them described in the near future.”

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A meeting of those interested in the temperance movement will be held in St. Peter’s Parish Hall to-night, when an address will be given by the Rev. H. G. Gilbert. The chair will be taken by the Dean of Hamilton.

A young girl named Brenda Lewis, aged 7 years, daughter of Mrs W. J. Lewis, Collingw'ood Street, sustained a fractured arm when she fell from one of the horizontal ladders in the children's play ground in Collingwood Street.

Work on the new Pavilion bath house at Rotorua is well under w r ay, and with its completion before the end of the year the building will be ready in time for the next tourist season. The Government also intends to erect a new building for the Blue bath, and although work on the tw r o will proceed concurrently, the main effort will be devoted to the Pavilion bath-house.

An unusual accident, involving a dog and a car, occurred in Frankton this afternoon. The dog, a greyhound, was running along the main street when it slipped on the wet concrete, and skidded in front of an approaching car, striking the front with great force, and then falling under the body. Such was the force of the collision that the iron support of the car’s bumper was snapped off, and the bumper itself badly buckled. The mudguard and bottom of the radiator w ? ere also dented. Strange to say, the dog appeared little the worse for the accident.