LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17995, 14 April 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The usual seasonal increase in the price of milk has been deferred for at least a further three weeks, so far as the Auckland Milk-vendors’ Association is concerned. The reason is keen competition due to abnormal conditions in the trade.

At the annual meeting of the Auckland Orphans’ Club it was stated that the membership was 673, including 80 orchestral and associate members, amd 16 life members. The receipts, including last year’s balance of £sll, totalled £1872, and expenditure, £1429, leaving a credit balance of £443.

‘•There is far too much of this saparation of married couples, especially young ones, and the court is not going to make it easy for them,” said Mr Mosley, S.M., during the hearing of a maintenance case in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. "I am not in favour of separating young married couples, and I am not going to make it worth their while to get separated.”

Economic depression has hit property owners in Sydney. In the workingclass suburbs, the districts of cheaper rents, landlords and agents report that families which formerly occupied a house to themselves are sharing a home with another family, cutting the rent bill in halves. A feature of the property position, however, is the slump in flats. Some say that the slump is due to the depression, that flat premises have been overbuilt and now exceed the demand, that flat dwelling was only a passing craze, and that people are now tired of this form of community life. Hundreds of flats are to let in the big flat districts of Darlinghurst, Cremorne, Mosman, Neutral Bay, McMahon's Point, and at the various seaside resorts. fl CONSTANT FRIEND. The longer you carry a Rolcx the more you regard it as something greater than a mere embodiment of wonderful workmanship. Here a companion to consult many limes every day of your life, a companion ready to serve you with tireless constancy. Year after year a Rolcx watch ticks confidently away, marking the passage of time with almost uncanny accuracy. _ .

Summertime was inaugurated in Great Britain yesterday morning.

“ The Last of Mrs Cheyney ” will be repeated at the Civic Theatre to-night, instead of “ Salute ” as announced in the entertainments column on page 3.

Owing to Good Friday falling this week and Anzac Day on Friday of next week the late shopping night will be held in Hamilton on Thursday of both weeks.

There was a large attendance at the opening of the Spiritualistic Church in Alexandra Hail, Anglesea Street, last evening. The service,'which included a trance address “ In Tune With The Infinite,” was conducted by Mr and Mrs Mills.

The Mount Albert Methodist Orphanage will benefit to the extent of £SOO under the will of Mr Daniel Daily Hayes, of WaJuku, farmer, whose death took place on March 29. For purposes of probate the value of Mr Hayes’ estate is estimated at £20,000.

A heavy cargo of New Zealand produce was taken away by the Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer Pakeha, which left Auckland for Rotterdam and London yesterday morning. * The vessel loaded over 5000 tons at Auckland, the largest quantity of produce loaded at that port for a long time. The Auckland cargo included 4000 cases of milk powder, 10,000 freight carcases of meat, 24,000 boxes of butter, 1500 crates of cheese, 24,500 cases of apples, 1500 packages of gum, as well as tallow, hides, stuns, and other general cargo.

An incident probably unique in prison history in New Zealand occurred at the Church of England prison service at Mount Eden gaol yesterday morning, when a resolution was passed by the prisoners protesting against a theft from St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, Dunedin, last week. ‘The Cathedral was broken into and two chalices, six bottles of communion wine, a curate’s suitcase, and small coin from the collection boxes were stolen.