REVALUATION REQUESTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20247, 16 July 1937, Page 6

REVALUATION REQUESTS.

POSITION OF CROWN TENANTS. MINISTER DEFENDS ACTION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON', Friday. The action he had taken to safeguard the position of Crown tenants requiring relief from their dlfllculties by way of adjustments In rental charges and other dehts was defended by tile Minister of Lands, the lion. F. Langstone, in an interview. To avoid, unnecessary duplication, he said, consideration of applications for revaluation had been postponed until after the receipt of those for relief under the mortgage rehabilitation legislation passed in the last session of Parliament. Any Crown settler who had not. lodged application under this legislation could apply for revaluation and have it dealt with without delay.

British War Loan.—British War loan, 34 per cent, was quoted in London yesterday at £IOO 6s 3d, compared with £IOO 7s 6d on Wednesday.

Hotel Earnings.—Net profit of £1704 was earned by Licensed Freeholds, Limited, Christchurch, lessees of Warner’s Hotel, in the year ended May 29. A dividend of 5 per cent absorb* £491, and £1985 is to be carried forward.

Frost and Sunshine.—Brilliant sunshine prevailed in Hamilton this morning after light rain yesterday and last night. Early this morning a frost was recorded, four degrees being registered at Whitlora and 1.2 degrees at Ruakura Farm.

False Fire Alarm.—The Fire Brigade was -called out at 1.48 this morning to the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s factory at Frankton, but the call proved to be a false one, due to a fault in the company's automaUo fire alarm system.

Q. J. Coles Dividend.—-Quotations for G. J. Coles shares improved sharply in Melbourne yesterday on the announcement of a final dividend of le 6d and an issue of bonus shares In the proportion of one in ten. Sales took place at £5 11s. The dividend which represents 74 per cent., is for the quarter ended June 30, which is also the end of the financial year.

Dlptherla Inoculation.—The Health Department advises that inoculations against dlptherla will be completed at Whitlora School on Monday forenoon and at Frankton on Tuesday forenoon. Parents with children of under school age who have had their first Injection's should bring the children to the schools about 10 a.m. A Wellington Need. —" Please do not misunderstand me if I say that when visitors come to Wellington I feel that I almost have to apologise to them for the Church of England,” said the Bishop of Wellington, the Right Rev. Herbert St. Barbe Holland, in urging before the Wellington Diocesan Synod the need for a cathedral. The bishop suggested that a cathedral project would be a fitting centennial effort for Wellington. Minister Impressed.—The actlngMlnteter of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, accompanied by officers of the Publio Works and Labour Departments, visited the Waikato Land Settlement Society’s blocks at Whatawhata and Roto-o-rangl yesterday, the party being conducted on its tour of inspection by the society’s honorary manager, Mr D. V. Bryant. The Minister was particularly impressed by the excellent developmental work and with the activities of the society generally. Jookey’s Theft.—Roderick Archibald Mcßae (24) pleaded guilty in the Auckland Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing £lO from John Charles McKenzie. It was stated that Mcßae, an apprentice Jockey, was employed by a Trentham horse-trainer and was given the money to bank during a visit to Wellington but he spent the money on liquor and confessed In a letter that he was too ashamed to return to his employer. "Accused will be remanded until next Thursday, when I shall requlie a report about his people and something of his prior history,” said the magistrate. Radio Debate Refused.—The statement that a broadcast debate from IYA on socialism between himself and Mr. W. J. Lyon. M.P. for Waitemata. had been refused by the broadcasting authorities was made by Mr. F. W. Doidge speaking at a National Party meeting at Mt. Albert (Auckland) last evening. “ I have been Informed by Mr. Lyon that the manager of IYA would welcome such a debate, provided it was approved by the authorities in Wellington,” said Mr. Doidge. “ Mr. Lyon telegraphed in succession to two Ministers of the Crown. In each case the reply was the same. New conditions concerning broadcasting are under consideration and at present a debate between Mr. Lyon and myself is out of the question.”