LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18342, 30 May 1931, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Community Sunshine Association, in its street collection at Auckland yesterday, obtained about £730. To-morrow at 2.30 p.m. the Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band will render a programme at Garden Place. Every motor-vehicle in use on and after Monday should have affixed thereto the new. orange on black plates. Use of the present plates will then be illegal. According to the New Zealand Gazette the registration of the Hamilton Master Butchers’ Industrial Union of Employers will, unless cause to the contrary is shown, be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks. There will be a social re-union of members of the Ne\y Zealand Rifles, who served in the Great War, in the Tasman Buildings, Anzac Avenue, Auckland, on Saturday evening, June 6. It-is anticipated that there will be a large attendance at the gathering. Mr J. Curran, Court bailiff, at Wanganui, had a unique experience on the eve of his retirement on superannuation. lie was called upon to seize a Wanganui constructed aeroplane owned by Maoris, which has been flown of late by Captain Brake. • ; ' ' i A scheme to help country women to earn a little ready money during the winter months is under consideration by the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Farmers’. Union. Under this scheme country women will send produce into a depot in the city and the various social workers will sell the goods for them, deducting only a small sum to cover expenses. An unusual mishap occurred in Victoria Street, near Garden Place, this morning. A sedan car was proceeding toward Ward Street, when one end of the front bumper became detached, and fell on the road. The car proceeded a short distance will) the bumper trailing on the road, until the wheels caught the loose end, and tore the metal bar from its base. The car was not damaged.