LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17996, 15 April 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left Auckland on March li, per R.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, arrived in London'on the 10th. inst.

A meeting of representative citizens at Wellington, convened by the Mayor, decided yesterday that an international exhibition be heid in 1940, in celebration,. of the centenary of Wellington City and province. The Government parties in Queensland have endorsed the proposal for a tax on wages and salaries to provide work for unemployed. The amount of the tax probably will be 2d in the £1 a week. The number of cattle in the Dominion on January. 31, 1929, (the latest available statistics), was 3,445,790, compared with 3,273,769 for the corresponding date in 192,8, an increase of 172,021. Appreciation of the action of slr W. Bourne in presenting a framed steel engraving of Captain Cook to the school was expressed at the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Hamilton Technical High School last evening. Ten applications have been received for the position of senior science master on the staff of the Technical High School. A committee with power to make an appointment was set up at a meeting of the .Board of Managers last evening. The winding-up of a Building and contracting' firm, Palmer Ward Construction Company (N.Z.), Ltd., was ordered by Mr. Justice Ostler, in the Supreme Court ‘at Auckland yesterday. The order for compulsory liquidation was made on the petition of a creditor, Campbell (Traders) Limited, merchants, of Auckland. A new Cathedral of St. Martin, at Ypres—almost an exact replica of the ancient structure which was destroyed by German gunfire in the Great'War—has been built on the exact site in Grand Place. It is to be opened on Palm Sunday -when Abbe Vermaut will celebrate the first Mass. The voting in connection with the queen carnival at Tauranga closed on Saturday, and resulted in the election of the country candidate, Miss Marion Wood, who polled 19,280 votes against 14,214 votes for Miss May Graham, the citizens’ candidate. The monetary value of the votes was £4lB. The money is to be devoted to the fund for new municipal baths. Obliged formerly to transact business in the cramped space of the principal’s office, members of the Board of Managers of the Hamilton Technical High School were able to breathe more freely last night when the first meeting was held in the new block. The library, on the second floor, where the meeting was held, is a hexagonally-shaped chamber lined with shelves providing book accommodation for many years to come. To introduce to you new Hygienic Bedding specially made for Messrs Hooker and Kingston, Ltd., they have planned a “Colossal Bedding Week.” Great improvements have been made in recent years in the scientific construction of Pure Ivapoc Bedding by new methods of manufacture. In our Mattress Department you will find pronounced values in this new Bedding, and now with “Bedding Week" coming just as it does before Easter, when a new or extra inatLress is sure to l*o required, it will pay you to buy your requirements during the next six days and save considerably on every mattress. For instance, a Double-bed pure Kapoc Mattress, well-filled for 55/-, and Kapoc Pillows of exceptional quality for 3/11 each, at the Big Busy Drapers, Hooker and Kingston, Ltd.* • •••• - 1

The registration of students at the Auckland University College numbered 1-098 on April 5 last, as compared with 1090 on April 8, 1929.

Net profits of Iluddart, Parker, Ltd., for the year ended December 31 totalled £124,059, compared with £124,456 for 1928, and £143,007 for 1927. The directors recommend the same dividend as last year, namely, at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum.

Members of Parliament are again in receipt of their old honoraria at the rate of £450 a year, the Anal instalment of last year’s additional £IOO bonus having been paid at the beginning of the month.

Another lecture on the unemployment problem, this time on remedial measures, will be given by Mr P. B. Stephens, tutor organiser of the Workers’ Educational Association in the A’oorak Chambers to-morrow evening. Mr Stephens proposes to discuss the recent Government unemployment report. Puli opportunity for a general discussion will be given after the lecture.

“While we are pleased that he has secured the appointment at Timaru he desired, I feel sure everyone will regret his departure,” said Mr W. 11. Paul, chairman, at the meeting of the Board of Managers of the - Hamilton Technical High School last night, referring to the impending departure of Mr P. L. N. Tuck. It was decided to forward a letter expressing congratulation to Mr Tuck on his promotion, and accepting his resignation with regret.

It is three years sinoe the typewriters at Hamilton Technical High School have been replaced, and some of them are showing signs of wear. At the meeting of the Board of Managers last evening Mr W. Fraser, the principal, . said an English brand had not proved entirely satisfactory, although it was true that recent improvements to it had been made. The principal and chairman were empowered to make enquiries concerning whether English machines had proved successful in other technical schools.

Mr Alexander Watson, the famous platform entertainer, who , arrived in Hamilton this morning, states that he always remembers Hamilton as one of the cheeriest to>vns in Australasia. It has an air of bustle which one associates usually with large cities. He has seen most of the country’s scenic wonders many times, but not until last week had he visited ' the Waitomo Caves. The Glow Worm Cave 116 considers to be the greatest of them all, one of the wonders of the. world. It is a great pity, said Mr Watson, that it is not better known. Most travellers seem to think it too inaccessible, which of course is not the fact.

“The introduction of the principle of local uniform rates as a method of preventing the exploitation of' our low rates for certain commodities by Arms who use road vehicles for competitive transport in other classes of goods has proved successful in two way's,” states the general manager of railways (Mr H. 11. Sterling) in the Railway Magazine. “It has drawn public attention to a misuse of the railway rating system which was tending to bring about conditions likely to cause a rise in railway freights all round, and it has induced many important business Arms to decide to send all their goods by rail in order to avoid the disadvantages which the application of .this principle to their trafilc would entail. I have been very pleased to And the general good spirit and understanding attitude in which the new conditions have been accepted by the bulk of the business people affected; This has increased my conAdence that the action taken was the right one and strengthens the case for deAnite action in the one or two instances where our - representations have not been accepted.”