LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18169, 6 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Permission to maintain a street night coffee stall in Hamilton was refused an Auckland applicant by the Borough Council last evening. During the past four years the South Taranaki Automobile Association has erected over 1000 road signs within its territory. ■ > ; The purchase of £256 worth of British machinery and tools for the borough pumping station has been approved by the Hamilton Borough Council. Twenty building permits, amounting in value to £4385, were Issued by the Hamilton Borough Council last month, compared with 30 valued at £27,925 in October, 1929. Community lighting will be extended to Frankton and Hamilton East in the course of time, stated the Mayor, Mr J. R. Fow, at last evening’s meeting of the Borough Council. “I think he was celebrating his .birthday yesterday,” Detective A. J. White told Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.'M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning, yvhen a man aged 70 years pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. The rainfall for October in Te Aroha was 3.91 inches. At Mangaiti, only three miles from the borough boundary, it registered 4.29 inches, and at Springdale, nine miles away, 4.67 Inches. Eight cases of infectious diseases were reported in the borough of Hamilton last month. 'Two were of tuberculosis, two of diphtheria, two scarlet fever, one pneumonia, and one erysipelas. The application of a bus company to change the route of its Norton Road service so as to include the Maeroa estate was granted at the meeting of the Borough. 'Council last evening. The borough engineer, Mr R. Worley, stated at the Borough Council meeting last evening that he was very pleased with the iron pipes the Council had purchased from Nelson, and that they were equal In every way to the imported article. The directors of the Westport Coal Company, in the annual report to shareholders, recommend payment of a final dividend for the year of 3d a share, and a bonus of 6d a share from insurance fund, making altogether a distribution of Is 9d a share for the year. The old-time enthusiasm which marked Guy Fawkes’ Day was missing In Hamilton celebrations last night. Fewer bonfires than usual were observed, and for once the Fire Brigade was not bothered. With the restrictions on the use of fireworks, which will be enforced next year, there is a likelihood af the observance dying out. A suggestion that all motor-buses conveying children to and from school should be equipped with a distinguishing sign at the front and back and that no motor vehicle should be permitted to pass a bus when children were being set down or picked up, was endorsed by- the Auckland Education Board yesterday. The advertising campaign carried out at Auckland through the daily, newspapers by the Modernising of Buildings Society for the ’un-pose of providing employment for men in the building trade was so successful that it resulted in such a rush of enquirers at the society’s bureau that it became necessary to interrupt the campaign to enable the staff to overtake.. arrears of work. An indication that the recent recovery in the fortunes of the Austin Motor Company is being maintained is provided by the announcement of a dividend of 60 per cent, on the ordinary shares for the seven months to July 31. This compares with 20 per cent, for 1929, which was the first cash payment since 1918 and followed the completion of the payment of arrears on the B preference capital. The view that religious organisations holding camps and Bible class rallies in school buildings should make some payment for the use of the properties was taken by members of the Auckland Education Board yesterday, when three applications for the use of schools were received. It was decided to grant the applications on condition that a donation was made to the school committees’ funds. The Auckland Education Board had before it several objections to the proposed transference of assistants, owing to the decreased attendances. These were referred to the senior inspector, Mr J. Robertson, for report. In the cases of Horotiu, and Paeroa schools, however, the Department wrote agreeing to the retention of the present staffs until the end of the present year. If there was an appreciable falling off in average attendances at the institutions mentioned, however, the Department felt the board should transfer the surplus assistants to the other schools before that date. The board decided to act upon the instructions.

A decision that no teacher who had been permanently appointed to a position should, before the end of the following year, be granted leave of absence to visit other countries, except in special cases approved by the hoard, was reached by the Auckland Education Board yesterday. "I think that this is the right thing to do.” said Mr E. G. Banks. "We have had some difficulty lately through teachers taking up positions and then asking for leave to visit England. This will do away with that and give them notice that the board does not favour it."'