LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19010, 29 July 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Queen Carnival. —The position today of the contestants in the st. George’s Queen Carnival was:—sports 1, Maori 2, Dramatic 3, Forest Lake 4.

Qold Quotation. —In London on Friday gold was quoted at £0 4s 3d an ounce —a fall of 3d per ounce on Thursday's price.

Next Royal Show. —The next Royal Show will be 'held in Auckland on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February, 8, 9 and id.

Parachute Descents at Te Rapa: A display of flying and parachute descents will be given at the Te Rapa aerodrome to-morrow afternoon by Mr S. J. Blaclcmore and Pilot-Officer J. S. Fraser.

Sold for Eastern Trade. —It is understood that the Union Steam Ship Company’s steamer Katoa, which has been laid up at Wellington for some time, has been sold to Eastern buyers.

Population of Otorohanga. —* At a meeting of the Otorohanga Town Board it was disclosed that the population of the board’s area is 650 Europeans and 50 Natives.

Member Under Fire —“ Does Mr. Stewart Reid know the cause of the slump and the remedy for it” was a question asked at a Ngaruawahla meeting last evening. “ There are many oauses," replied Mr. Reid. “Study Douglas Social Credit,” interjected someone amid loud applause.

Winter Show at Christchurch. — Though Inquiries are still being made for space at the Canterbury Winter Show and Exhibition, there is no more available. King Edward Barracks has been booked up, and the demand by exhibitors has .exceeded that of previous years/

Dairy Company Pay-Out. —The final pay-out for the past season of the Raglan Co-operative Dairy Company is reported to he lid per lb on all butter-fat supplied from November i. This will make the average pay-out for the season 9.425 d per lb for finest quality delivered at the factory.:/

Small Farms Boheme.— Possession will be taken next week of a block of 350 acres at Tangiterorla, which has been subdivided into five farms under'the small farms’ scheme and is situated on 'the Dargaville-Whangarei main highway. These new farms comprise about 70 aores each.

Resignation of Doctor. —The resignation of Dr. J. B. .Mao Diarmid as honorary consulting surgeon to Tauranga Hospital was received at a meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday. Dr. Mao Diarmid wrote stating that he was resigning as- a result of resolutions passed by the hoard In regard to private patients. The board accepted the resignation with regret.

Needle Enters Child’s Back. —.A needle pierced the back of a girl, Eva Thackwell, aged about 12, at her home at Auckland yesterday. The needle, which had been left threaded, was sticking In the wall-paper, and entered the child’s hack, near the spine, when she leaned against the wall. The Injured child was taken to the Auckland Hospital, and the needle was removed after Its exact position had been located by means of X-rays.

Student Editor . Rebuked. The action of the Victoria-University College Professional Board in reprimanding the editor of the Student for the unauthorised issue of the publication was the subject of an animated discussion at the College Council meeting. The action of the board was endorsed and it was also decided to set up a committee to investigate the charges and Insinuations made against the staff by correspondents in newspapers and others. Spirit of the Pioneers. — 11 Our political leaders avoid intelligent analysis of economic conditions by using slogans, one being that 1 We must cultivate the spirit of 'the old pioneers.’ This is unfair., If the early pioneers, when they landed in this colony, had been.advised that it had 80,000 unemployed, £300,000,000 of national debt, noxious weeds in every hill and vale, they would have scrambled aboard their ships again “and looked for pastures new."—Colonel Closey at Ngaruawahla. '

Intermediate Schools. —Criticism of the proposal of the Education Department to establish a new type of intermediate school in New Zealand was. expressed by Sir James Parr at a meeting of the Auckland Educational Institute last evening. The principle underlying the establishment of junior 'high schools in 1920 had proved sound in practice, Sir James said, but the department’s new proposals would mean the destruction of that system.

Levy on Dairy Produce. —lt Is notified in the New Zealand Gazette that in accordance with the provisions of section 15 of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923 fc the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control .Board has fixed the following amounts as the charges to be paid by way of levy on all dalry-procluce shipped on the exporting vessel from New Zealand after Monday, Jtily 31, 1933,.,viz.: —(a) In the case of butter", three sixty-fourths of a penny p6r pound; and (bj in the case of cheese, three one hundred and twenty-eighths *of a penny per pound.

Gift of £ISOO.— A sift of £ISOO by Mrs. Raymond Caugiiey Preston, of Auckland, will make it possible for the new Methodist orphanage in Christchurch to be erected immediately. Recently representatives of the Methodist Orphanage Board applied to the Minister of Employment, the Hon. A. Hamilton, for a building subsidy of 50 per cent, instead of 33 1-3 per cent., stating that if the larger subsidy were granted the work would go ahead at once. The Minister, however, did not grant the request. The position was explained to Mrs. Preston. who at once made a gift of £ISOO, sufficient to make up the difference between the lower and the higher rate of subsidy.

Loss On Vear's Working.—Addressing shareholders of Sanford, Limited, fish merchants, at the annual meeting at Auckland, yesterday, Mr A. F. .1 agger, chairman of directors, stated the year’s trading iiad been satisfactory and with further efforts and more prosperous times the directors hoped to be able again to place the company on a dividend-paying basis. A loss of £lOl4 in the company’s accounts was disclosed, In comparison with a loss of £9OOO In the previous year. The retiring director, Mr W. Claud Motion, was "re-elected. The appointment of Messrs \V. A. Gumming and P. Balgarine to Hie board during the year was confirmed.