LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18170, 7 November 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Mawson expedition ship Discovery has arrived at Hobart. She will leave about November 22 for the Antarctic.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Company, Limited, has (says a London cable) declared a final dividend of 2 per Cent.

At the weekly meeting of the Fabian Club Mr Eastwood gave an Interesting address, entitled “Some Objections to Socialism.” Mr Prenlon presided.

The past month has been for the country as a whole the coldest October experienced in New Zealand since accurate recording of temperatures commenced, states the Government Meteorologist, Dr. Kidson.

Delegates from three new branches of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union —Huntly, Rangiriri and Waerenga—were welcomed by the president at the meeting of the Waikato subprovincial branch of the Union to-day.

Under the will of the late Mrs Ellen McCombe, a widow, of Oamaru, £3O is bequeathed to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, £25 to the Otago Bible Society, £l5O to Waitaki High School, and £250 to St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church, Oamaru.

A total of 813 settlers have been placed on the land by the Crown in the Auckland Province since April 1, 1929, the total area selected being 130,500 acres. The area includes about 17,000 aores purchased under the Lands for Settlement Act and selected by 80 men.

A fine of 20s, with costs 10s, was imposed on William J. Scotchard, in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning, before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on, a charge of riding a motorcycle without a' proper and efficient silencer attached.

The Waitaki Boys’ High Sehool Memorial Committee 'has accepted the tender of Messrs Lawton and Osborne, of Onehunga, at £2IBB, for an organ for the Memorial Hall. It is hoped to instal the organ by the end of next year.