LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18258, 20 February 1931, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

According to advice received by Messrs Dalgety and Company, tallow prices in London are nominally Gd lower.

The Limited express from Wellington to Auckland was an hour behind schedule time in reaching Frankton this morning. The delay was caused by traffic congestions en route.

Through falling 100 ft, Mr W. J. Comp Lon, a rigger working upon the new Courtenay Place Post Office, was so seriously injured to-day that he died later.

A party of 33 British boys who are going to Flock House and 20 domestic workers for various parts of the Dominion arrived at Auckland by the Rangitata from Southampton last evening.

About -10 members of the New Zealand Socicly of Civil Engineers attending the annual meeting in Auckland left by train this morning on a visit to the Arapuni hydro-electric works. They will rcutrn to Auckland to-night.

The desirability of cheapening the cost of road construction to meet the depleted revenues of local bodies was urged by speakers at the annual conference of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers at Auckland yesterday.

A large geyser broke out in the Wairakei Valley yesterday. The new centre of thermal activity is just east of the Pink Terraces in Geyser Valley. It plays with almost uncanny regularity and every four hours yesterday it shot large quantities of mud and stone into the air to a height of about 150 ft.

How do New Zealanders behave during earthquakes? asks a writer in the Sydney Sun. I was in a bar in Morrinsville when it was rocked by a severe ’quake several years ago. The barmen and several other guests bolted for the street. Some of them knelt in prayer on the roadside. Two other men calmly remained and settled the abandoned drinks on the counter. They continued helping themselves until the 'quakes vanished and the barmen returned. It was reported to the Wanganui City Council by the Mayor that the Council had saved £369 on the coal bills which had been due in Melbourne. The saving had been made possible as the result of the existing rate of exchange. The Council was advised by one Arm of financiers, however, that arrangement had been made to collect interest on debentures in Wellington instead of Sydney. Cr C. P. Brown: They got in early.