LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18850, 21 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Light Rain In Hamilton. —At the Ruakura Farm of Instruction ,10in. of rain was recorded in the 24 hours up to 9.30 this morning.

Band Concert on Sunday. —The Waikato Regimental and (Hamilton Municipal Rand, will render a programme on the Ferry Bank, at 8.T5 p.m. tomorrow.

Income Tax. —The Commissioner notifies that the income lax is due on Wednesday, February 8. If unpaid on March 1 additional tax will be imposed. The demands will be posted on February 2, afld these must be presented when payment is made.

12,000 Pupils. —lt was stated at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board in New Plymouth that the population of the board’s district was 70,000. The board had 174 schools containing 12,000 pupils controlled by 363 teachers. The estimated population of the Dominion at present was just over 1,500,000.

Intoxicated Motorist Imprisoned.— A sentence of two months’ imprisonment was imposed on John Charles Padget, aged 44, a farrier, who pleaded guilty in the Police Court at Invercargill to a charge of being found In a state of intoxication while in charge of a motor-car. It was bis third offence.

Butter Prices Raised. —The price of butter in the local retail market has been increased by Id per lb. in sympathy with the premium for export to the'London market. The new rates will be Is Id for finest and first grade and Is for second grade. The respective wholesale prices are lid and lOd.

A Cheap Business. —Offered for sale •by public auction by Fow, Cobbe and Company, yesterday, one of Hamilton’s oldest-established butchery businesses changed hands at the low figure of £9O. This modest lay-out secured to the purchasers plant, stock, fittings and goodwill. In the boom years (about 1917) the machinery and installation alone cost approximately £3OOO.

Land Settlement. Messrs W. J. Broadfoot, M.P., Messrs A. H. Cockayne (Assistant-Direotor of Agriculture), and several officers of the Lands Department have been In the Otorohanga district during the week engaged'in Inspecting suitable properties for the extension of the small farm settlement scheme.

New Church In Auckland. —A new building for the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Auckland, is shortly to be erected at the corner of Symonds Street and St. Martin’s Lane, hear Grafton Bridge, at a cost of about £BOOO. Plans t'or a structure in a modern version of the Georgian style have been prepared, anti a tender lias been accepted.

Woman 'Assaulted.—Mrs. Nellie

Harris, aged about 20, stated that she was struck on the head by an unknown assailant while she was cleaning a gas stove in the house at Green Lane in which she was employed. Mrs. Harris was alone In the house at the time and when her employer arrived home for lunch he found, her lying on the kitchen floor with a wound on the back of her head. She was not seriously injured.

Burglars at Patetonga.— lntruders entered the post office and store at Patetonga, Hauraki Plains on Thursday evening, and stole a safe containing postal notes to the value of £lO3, silver amounting to £2O, and a few cheques totalling £2. A large quantity of stamps was also taken. Goods from the store, which adjoins the post office, were rifled, and the intruders stole flour, raisins and tobacco to the'Value of £lB.

Picture Theatres Closed. —The extent to which the depression is being felt, by the picture theatres is referred' to in the annual report of the New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association. No fewer than 104 picture shows have gone out of business within the last two years and a-half; of these, 96 were in the smaller towns. In the year just ended nine theatres were closed, as compared with 33 the previous year, this seeming to indicate that the point of stabilisation has been nearly reached.

Central Reserve Bank Although ■ the Prime Minister, Mr. Forbes, and the Minister of Finance, 'Mr. Coates, repeated yesterday that the Government Intends to proceed with the Central Reserve Bank Bill when the 'House of Representatives resumes next week, It is considered in some quarters that the establishment of the bank, which was expected to be brought about within a year of the passing of the Act, may now be postponed for a longer period, if only on account of the raising of the ex l change rate.

Charitable Bequests. —Several bequests, amounting to £I2OO. are included in the will of the late Miss Elizabeth Horrell, formerly of Green Lane and latterly of Wirt, who died on December 9. Miss Horrell left an estate of a net value of about £20,000. Under the will, the following charitable bequests are payable:—• St. 'Mary's Orphanage, £500; St. Matthew’s Church, Morrinsville, £200; general fund of Dr. Rarnardo’s Home, £SOO. The Guardian Trust and Executors Company of New Zealand, Limited, is the executor and trustee in the estate.

Hastings Shopkeepers Victimised:—■ A number of Hastings shopkeepers were victimised during the holidays by the passing of spurious coins, which were passed on in good faith to the banks before detection. The majority were shillings, but (here wore also florins and half-crowns, some of which were made of such poor material that they broke to pieces in tiie hand. A number <jf half-crowns with large pieces cut from them were also tendered for payment of goods, and, concealed among other coins of a similar denomination. they escaped notice until tiie cash was being checked.

Gold The price of gold In London on Friday was the same as on Thursday, namely £6 2 s 10d an ounce.

Film Classification. Regulations providing uniform methods for mo-tion-picture exhibitors to notify the public that films being shown are passed for adult audiences or for universal exhibition are Notification of the nature of a film's certificate is compulsory, and a notice about a foot square has to be placed in a conspicuous position. W ords to be used in advertising are also provided for.

Waikato Waste Iron for Japan.—Over 800 tons of old iron will be consigned from tlie Waikato by the 'Hamilton Waste Metal Stores to Japan by the Riora Maru, which loads at Auckland on February 18. The consignment includes miscellaneous articles of steel and wrought iron, the value of which runs into four figures. The Riora Maru will bring out an additional Japanese cre%v to take the Waitemata, recently purchased by Japanese Interests, back to Japan.