LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left Auckland on September 23, per R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, were received in London on October 23.

An organised movement has again been made in the direction of a comprehensive scheme for developing hy-dro-electricity from Lakes Hawea and Wanaka for the Upper Clutha Valley.

New Zealand Paper Mills, Limited, have declared an interim. dividend of 3A per cent. This is at the same rate as” last year. The company paid a dividend of 7i per cent, for the year ended March, 1930; 6A per cent, was paid in 1929; and 6 per cent, for 1928 and 1927.

A free railway pass during their annual leave in return for a payment of Is a week made to the Railway Department is what the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association is asking the Railway Department to agree to. Negotiations, which have not yet been completed, are going on between the association and the department.

“This man hangs about Takapuna and does not work,” said Constable Wood, who arrested Robert Wotherspoon, aged 33, described as a cook and labourer, at Auckland. Later Wotherspoon appeared at the Police Court, when he was charged with being a rogue and vagabond, who endeavoured to impose on people by falsely representing that his mother had died at Hamilton, and that he required money to go there. Accused pleaded guilty to false pretences, and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

To introduce to the ladies of Hamilton how easily it is to make pretty Frocks in your own home with the aid of "Ale-Call” paper patterns, Messrs Hooker and Kingston have introduced "ilome Sewing Week,” which commences on Monday. Wonderful displays of aJI the latest materials for Spring and Summer are now showing in the Dress Department at specially keen prices during this great ‘‘Home Sewing Week.” The McCall Patterns, the only pattern with the printed cutting line, will he demonstrated by the saleslady in the McCall Department, showing how easy it is to make up lovely garments in your own home, both quickly, easily and inexpensively.*

The force of the gale was so great this morning that a car on its way from Auckland to Hamilton had its hood blown off.

Admiral Kayser and 15 officers of the Dutch Squadron left Auckland to-day for Rotorua. All remaining officers in uniform are the guests of the Auckland Trotting Club to-day at its meeting at Alexandra Park.

According to the New Zealand Gazette the following portion of road has been closed: 3 roods 1.3 perches adjoining or passing through Allotments 135, 162 N, 232, and 233, Parish of Karamu. Situated in Block VII., Alexandra Survey District.

Correspondence, for the following has been prohibited by the* Post-master-General: —G. Harvey, 28 Reeves Street, Carlton N. 3, Melbourne; L. Scott, Secretary, “Ever Progressive” Sweep Promoters, Melbourne; “Ever Progressive” Sweep Promoters, Melbourne.

“If the foundations do settle unequally Hamilton will at least have its leaning tower of Pisa,” remarked an Auckland engineer yesterday, when Inspecting the new reservoir. “What the town loses in water it will gain in notoriety. However,” he added more seriously, “there appears to be little chance of that.”

The president of the Mercury Bay Swordfish Club has received the following letter from Mr Zane Grey:—• “I will definitely come to New Zealand in 1931. 1 will be in my new yacht and shall fish Mercury Bay. Please thank the people who will let me camp in the hay across from Mercury Bay and say that I shall avail myself of that gracious permission.”

The debenture issue of the Waikato Carbonisation Company has been well reecived. The total series is for 1400 debentures of £SO each. Already 844 debentures, representing £42,200 have been sold to shareholders in the coal companies interested. The balance, numbering 156, are now being issued.

“In three weeks six dozen golf balls have been lost,” said the manager of the midget golf course in Auckland, in giving evidence in the Police Court, Auckland, yesterday, when Mervyn Roy Williams, aged 20, labourer, was charged with stealing a hall valued at Is 3d. Accused admitted taking the ball, but claimed that it was done as a joke. He was sentenced to imprisonment for one month.