LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18027, 23 May 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Primary schools will resume on Monday and secondary schools on Tuesday. * The date of the next Waikato Diocesan Synod has been fixed to commence on July 7. Mails which were despatched from Wellington on April 22 per Tahiti via San Francisco, were received in London May 20. Grants have been authorised by the Education Department for the erection of new schools at Honikiwi (Otorohanga) and Ngutunui (Pirongia). By Order-in-Council recently gazetted, the season for the trapping of opossums in the Auckland Acclimatisation District will commence on June 16 and continue until August 2. A decision to launch shortly a campaign to raise £25,000 for cancer research in Auckland was made at a meeting yesterday of the Auckland division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society. The Manawatu - and West Coast A. and P. Association has decided to arrange an official luncheon and an evening function on the occasion of the visit of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Bledisloe, to the Winter Show in June. With 120 applicants, the “ doss house” at Auckland conducted by Rev. Jasper Calder had a record call on its hospitality last evening. The previous record was established last year when, one night in the middle of winter 115 men were given shelter. Hamilton shivered this morning under the heaviest frost recorded this winter. The indication at Ruakura showed 11.6 degrees, compared with 10 degrees, the highest previous recording. The geysers at Whakarewarewa which had been very quiet for some months, have been very active this week. Pohutu, which had played only at rare intervals since January, played four times on Monday, and has thrown up some very fine shots daily since. Musical and elocutionary competitions are now in progress at Christchurch, Gore and Masterton, while the Palmerston North festival was concluded last week. The Manawatu Daily Times reports that the Palmerston North fetsival this year will go down as the most successful in the history of the society. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has received cable advice from the head office in London that interim dividends have been declared at the rate of 2% per cent, on the 5 per cent, cumulative preference stock, and 2 per cent, on ordinary stock, and a dividend of 3i per cent, for six months to June 30 on the 6J per cent, cumulative second preference stock of the company, all less the English income tax. Most people are not aware of the nominal costs these days for re-cov-ering their floors. The new enamel surfaced Floortex and Pabcolin Squares, in exclusive designs and rich colours in carpet .patterns arc now being shown in Messrs Hooker and Kingston’s Furnishing Department. You will be tremendously surprised when making an inspection at the moderate prices of this modern type carpet-lilce covering. Sizes for every room—9’ x 6’ 25/6, 9’ x 7’6’ 32/6, 9’ x 9’ 39/6, 9’ x 10’6’, 9’ x 12’ 52/6. This is certainly the time to make your selection, for we have many new patterns just opened, and wo are confident you'll be proud of your rooms when re-covered with this attractive lloor covering. The Store for Better Value, Hooker and Kingston, Ltd.*