LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A majority of the Ministers of the Crown will return to Wellington for a meeting of the Cabinet -to-morrow. In the Ambulance Art Union, Mrs P. O'Connor, of Morrinsville, was amongst those who wo-n a £lO prize. The Hamilton Agency of the Automobile Association decided last night to protest against the provision in the new regulations requiring motorists to obtain separate licenses where they drove different types of vehicles. The following 44 cases of infectious diseases have been reported by Dr. J. Boyd in the South Auckland district: —Scarlet fever, 15; diphtheria, 10; tuberculosis, 5; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 1; pneumonia, 4; erysipelas, 1; puerperal fevgr, 3; hydatids, 1; opthalmia neonatorum, 1; trachoma, 1; dysentery, 2. 'At a -meeting of the Hamilton Automobile Agency last night, Mr Staines drew attention to the bad state of the Frankton railway crossing. It was decided to call the attention of the Railway Department to the matter. The danger that exists at the junction of Commerce Street with Lake Road was referred .to at a meeting of the local Automobile Association, last night. It w r as decided to ask the Hamilton Borough Council to place a silent policeman or directional lines at the spot. The report and balance-sheet of Abraham and Williams, Ltd., for the year ended September 30 shows a net profit of £15,686. The directors recommend payment of a further dividend of 2£ per cent, on the ordinary shares, making 5 per cent, for the year and leaving £18,278 to be carried fonvard. The Auckland Automobile Association is adopting the practice in litf.leknown districts in the back country of erecting locality signs in addition to direction signs. The Hamilton Agency of the Association last night expressed approval of the Association's action, which was prompted by a letter from the Agency. Creditors of Bernard Sidnev Spencer, a bankrupt accountant, met at Auckland yesterday. Bankrupt’s schedule showed £1393 owing to unsecured creditors, and his total assets were estimated at £375. Two creditors were appointed to assist the assignee in having an investigation into Spencer’s affairs made with a view to having them placed before the Crown Solicitor. The directors of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory, Company report for the 12 months ended October 6 that operations for the year have resulted in a satisfactory balance being shown. The balance available this year is £15,605 12s sd. The directors recommend the payment of a final dividend of 4 per cent, and a bonus of 2 per cent, which will absorb £5722 16s, making a distribution of .10 per cent, for the year. Owing to the lateness of the summer season and the imperative necessity of reducing stocks, Messrs. Hooker and Kingston are commencing on a Big November Intense Selling Campaign. The object is to make this month of November a big purchasing month and to catch up arrears of business—two months’ trading will be done in one. Lower prices will operate from to-day throughout every department of the store. Crowd all your Christmas shopping into November. Ail the Christmas ' novelties and stocks are now in store —don’t delay—purchase during November and get the advantage of your Christmas shopping at Reduced Prices. , Hooker and Kingston Ltd., noted for quality. ***

“That is a very unfair statement for the police to make,’’ remarked counsel in a case in the Police Court at Wellington. The magistrate, Mr. W. W. Woodward: “If it is unfair it is very unlike the police.”

In Hamilton all cyclists are now compelled to have the rear mudguards of their machines painted white. The local motor association, at whose request the by-law was passed, last night commented on the wonderful help the new rule had given motorists, in distinguishing cycles on > the road at night time.

“ England has seen the worst stages of the present economic depression and is now probably entering a period of industrial revival,” said Mr M. Salmon, managing director of the largest catering firm in the world, Lyons, Limited, of England, who arrived at Auckland by the Niagara' yesterday on a short visit to New Zealand. “ Conditions in England at present are far better than they are in the United States,” he said.

Orders on judgment summonses were made in the following cases before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., at the Hamilton Court to-day: Mullan and Noy Ltd. v. L. Watson, £2 9s 6d, payment ordered forthwith, in default two days’ imprisonment; J. J. Niven and Co., Ltd., v. R. G. V. Garrett, £2 18s 3d, forthwith or three days ; J. J. Craig Ltd., v. N. Frost, £l2 2s Bd, forthwith or 10 days ; A. E. de Lacy, v. W. Jackson, £9 ss, forthwith. or seven days.

“ The policy of Empire trade, being put forward in England at 'present by Lord Beaverbrook and his supporters-, can be viewed from more aspects than most people in England believe,” said the Hon. T. Shailer Weston, M.L.C., who arrived at Auckland by the Niagara yesterday, after an extended tour abroad. “The policy has certainly captured the public imagination to a very great extent, but I am inclined to think that too great a degree of importance is being attached to it by people in England.”

Ten of ,28 New 7 Zealanders and Australians who were refused permission to land in Canada from the Niagara on her last trip arrived at Auckland by the vessel yesterday. With them were eight other migrants, who had been excluded from Canada when they sought to land from the Aorangi 'a month previously. They complained bitterly of their treatment at the hands of the Canadian immigration authorities and at the irony of being on parole in Vancouver during Canada’s “ Prosperity Week.”

Asked what he thought about Italy, Mr J. M. Samson, who recently' returned to Dunedin from a two-years’ world tour, said: “So far as I could see, Mussolini is Italy, and I think it might be a good thing for New Zealand if we had a man like him to run the country, or, in default of a Mussolini, we might have three Commissioners to l follow on his lines without any interference by Parliament. Italy' is without unemployed. That is one great advantage she enjoys. A thing about Italy, however, that does not commend itself to the visitor is the suspicion that she - Is creating a great army. Everywhere one meets squads of men drilling. They are said to be policemen, but they are uncommonly like soldiers in the making.”