LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18407, 14 August 1931, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Ruakura State Farm this morning 4.6 degrees of frost (ground temperature) was recorded.

The figures submitted to the Waikato Hospital Board yesterday in connection with the bread and meat supplies were for three, not 12, months.

Mails which left Wellington on July 14, per R.S.M. Maunganui, via San Francisco, arrived at London on August 13.

The Auckland City Council will not oppose the passing of the Auckland Harbour Bridge Empowering Bill, having secured several modifications of Hie measure.

A halfpenny swallowed yesterday afternoon by a little girl, Joyce Wylie, aged three years, was removed at the Auckland Hospital about an hour and a half after the incident occurred.

A telegram from the secretary of the New Zealand Wool Buyers’ Association to the effect that the winter wool sales In the North Island have been cancelled, was received by Tattersfleld, Ltd., yesterday.

It is expected that 70 members of Hie Ruapehu Ski Club will be present at the club’s sports meeting, Io be held in the National Park from August 21 to September 1. At the Magistrate's Court, Te Aroha, Arthur Walls was fined 40s and costs on a charge of driving a motorcar amt failing to make way for a motor-cycle ridden by Donald Steven Hill, thereby causing a collision. A suggestion that the boroughs of Mount Edon. Mount Aliiert, and Newmarket shoiLii amalgamate witli Auckland city is Io be reported on by the Einanc'' ('.ommit.ee of the Auckland City Council, in order that the subnrlian bodies may know the basis mi which Hie city will agree t<> Hie mergers. Recruiting has commenced locally for hoys for the Now Zealand Division of Hie Royal Navy. There are ten vacancies for boys between the ages of 15 and 16$ years, and to date 25 applications have been received at the Hamilton Defence Office, as headqualrers of No. 4 Regimental district.