LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18257, 19 February 1931, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The aluminium from the remains of ihe British airship 11101 has been purchased by the Zeppelin Gornpany. It will be melted and recast for a new' Zeppelin.

Particulars of train arrangements in connection with a Scout Rally w'hich is to be held at A.uck.and on the occasion of the visit of Lord and Lady Baden Powell are announced. Local users of the usual 6.10 a.m. Te KuiliFraiikton train will note that this train iias been aecellerated and will run earlier from Te Kuiti to Frankton.

New Zealand honey is now being marketed in the United Kingdom, Irish Free State, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Palestine, Kenya Colony, Madagascar, India, Burma, Straits Settlements, Malaya and Manilla, according to Mr T. Winter, Government Apiary Instruylor, speaking at the beekeepers’ fleld day at Ruakura, yesterday.

Charles Piper North, gardener, aged 50, in the Police Court, Auckland, yesterday, was charged with assaulting his wife and a son, Reginald, on February 7, and with assaulting another son, Colin, on February 13. On one charge accused was sentenced to five days’ imprisonment, and he was convicted and discharged on the two other charges.

It is unlikely that any grant will be available for the purchase of school and class library books this year. Intimation to this effect was received from the Education Department at yesterday’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board. Mr A. Burns said that the board would have perhaps £6OO worth of books on its hands if the Department’s intention was carried out. “We took the risk,” he added, “and we did not get authority to purchase he hooks.”

The question of paving the Great South Road through Franklin County from Papakura to ! Mercer was again before the Franklin County Council at its meeting yesterday. The engineer cstimaled the total cost of Hie 2if miles of concrete paving and 13£ miles of bitumen paving following the grades and alignments he proposed at £105,000, which was only, £2OOO more than the Main Highways Board’s estimate involving present grades. The matter was left to the chairman, Mr ,1. x. Massey, .VI.P., to discuss further with the Highways Board.

At yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Education Board i't was reported by the Putaruru Chamber of Commerce that considerable hardship w.is caused pupils attending the secondary department of Ihe district high school owing lo Ihe unsuitability of the railway "service. The hoard agreed to support representations to the Railway Department urging that its time-table he reorganised to suit school requiremcnls.

According' to statistics furnished" lo the. Auckland Education Hoard yesterday (',8,549 scholars, 35,97 1 hoys and 32,578 girls, were enrolled at Auckland public schools at the end of last year. This represented an increase of 14 15 over the previous quarter. Tin* average attendance was 63,092, an increase of 1892. The number of schools was 701, including 38 halftime schools. This season's most Important saving event al Hooker and Kingston’s Colossal Mid-Summer Sale. The drastic price-cutting makes prices more in your favour than ever before. This week phenomenally low prices are offered in quality furnishings from our

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I The number of bankruptcies last year was not. as large as in 1927 and 1928, and ony 53 more than in 1929. The figures compare as under: — 1927, North Island, 624; South Island, 244 ; total, 808; 1928, 571, 235, .806; 1929, 457, 202, 659; 1930, 511 I 201, 712

Annual meetings of householders to elect school committees will he hel l this year on Monday, April 27. When the date was fixed at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday, It was stated that the evening would probably be a moonlight one.

Modern tramyjort! In order to assure the opening of the film, “Hell’s Angels" at the Civic Theatre, Hamilton, on Friday, the manager, Mr S. Tombs, has arranged for Its transport from Wellington by aeroplane. The film finishes a run at the Grand Opera House, Wellington, to-night.

The suggestion that’ school holidays should commence in February instead of toward the end of December was considered at a meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday. It was decided to express disapproval of the proposal.

The fiaxmill at r rorehape commenced working again recently, the twenty employees agreeing to work for the wages fixed by the Arbitration Court, and the miller agreeing to let them work longer hours so that the men could earn at least 14s a day. How long the miller will be able to keep going is doubtful, as the price of fibre fell £2 a ton on the day the mill re-opened.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board the chairman, Mr A. Burns, said that as the rebuilding programme was rapidly nearing completion consideration must be given to the position of five employees in the architect’s office. There was practically no work for them to do. In consideration of this fact the executive committee recommended that application should be made to the Department for authority to' contribute from the re-building fund the whole cost of building schools at Apata, Parua Bay and Waihue. The recommendation was approved, and it was agreed to consider the position of architects at the next meeting.