LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18803, 26 November 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Orphans’ Home. —The Waikato Orphans’ Home trust fund stands at £9B 10s 7d.

The Supreme Court. —The civil sittings of the Supreme Court at Hamilton were suspended yesterday, and will resume next Friday.

Loan for Australia.— Commonwealth Treasury officials believe that lii'£8,000,000 internal loan will be fully subscribed by December 5, when the lists will be closed.

Advent Sunday. —To-morrow will be observed by the Church as Advent Sunday, the commencement of the period of preparation for the celebration of the Nativity or Christmas.

Accounts Written Off. Accounts amounting to £0531 13s 8d were written off at the last meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board. Of these £768 19s 6d were labelled “Gone — no address."

Claudelands Parishioners. A general meeting of Claudelands parishioners will be held in the church hall, Claudelands on Monday, to consider ways and means of forming a sole charge conventional district.

Steamship Services. —The executive of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association has decided to continue to urge that tliere should be adequate steamship services between Canada, New Zealand and Australia in order to take advantage of the Ottawa agreements.

Moa Bones Unearthed. Some quarrymen, working on the Otorohanda side of the Kawhia Harbour, near Te Awaroa, have unearthed a number of Moa bones in an excellent state of preservation.

Girl Stowaway. —The 19-year-old girl Marion Bell, who stowed away on the American liner Mariposa at Sydney last week and was handed over to the Auckland police on Tuesday, is on her way back to Sydney by the Union Company’s steamer Marama, which left Auckland yesterday afternoon.

Work at Ruakura. —There is considerable seasonal activity at the Ruakura Farm of Instruction at present, owing to the work entailed in ensilage making and thinning the root crops. Good progress has been made, and there should be no lack of feed in the winter months. The students are completing the shearing of the flock ewes.

Witness Summoned by Aeroplane. —lt was discovered during the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court at Dunedin yesterday morning that a necessary witness was at Tarras, in Central Otago, 175 miles from Dunedin. An aeroplane was requisitioned and the witness arrived in the city early in the afternoon.

Melbourne's Centenary. —The Victorian Government forwarded a request to the King to permit either Prince Henry or Prince George, or both, to visit this State in connection with the celebrations associated with the centenary of Melbourne in 1934-35. Unofficial advice has been received that His Majesty favours the Idea, but the date is too far ahead to make any definite plans.

Change In Theatro Management.— Formerly Dunedin’s leading picture house, the Grand Theatre is to be reopened by Amalgamated Theatres, Limited, (he headquarters of which are at Auckland. It will screen allBritish programmes. The building is lo be completely renovated and altered, and shops on the ground level are to be dispensed with.

The Horse Market.— While there still exists a keen demand for '.he good, useful type of farm horse, there is not a great deal of activity in the horse market at present, slates a local stock auctioneer. Compared with the offering or a few months hack there is not a very largo number of animals coming forward. Good prices are still being made by lots offered at clearing sales.

■Ensilage In the Waikato.— Favoured with ideal weather, most of the farmers in the Waikato have their ensilage making operations well advanced, and many have started haymaking. The fine weather and prolific growth of early grass gave the farmers an opportunity to get a good start, and judging by the activity throughout the district it would seem that there is just as much ensllago being mad 1 } this year as ever before, In fact, a stock agent moving among the farms states that there is a greater number of ensilage stacks this season than last.

Generous Bequests. —Under the will of Mrs Elizabeth Scott, of Oamaru, the following bequests are made: £4OOO to the committee of Knox College, to be applied toward the upkeep of the college; £250 to the trustees of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind; £IOOO to the aged and Infirm ministers’ fund of the Presbyterian Church. The residue of the estate goes to the Presbyterian Social Service Association at Dunedin. The total value of the estate has been sworn at £II,OOO.

To Go to Hollywood. —Mr George Wallace, the Australian comedian who appears in the film “His Royal Highness'’ and will tour New Zealand at Christmas In association with Miss Ella Shields, is lo go lo Hollywood next year. Mr Tom Holt, general manager of the El'ftee Studios, Mel-, bourne, where Mr Wallace is under contract for five years, stated that Mr Timing's Idea in allowing Mr Wallace to appear in a Hollywood picture under an American producer was that lie would gain a broader screen technique, and so enhance liis value for future production in Australia.

Mortgagors’ Relief.— The view that a serious position would lie made worse with the passing of ihe Mortgagors and Tenants’ Further Relief Hill, which was considered in Committee in the House of Hepresentaiivcs yesterday, was expressed jfcsterday by members of Ihe legal profession in Auckland. It was stated that Ihe movement of capital away from mortgage investments would he intensified ami that a further blow would he struck at the security of the, personal guarantee. Confidence generally would receive a further setback.