LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20679, 14 December 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Currency In London Fine gold was quoted in London yesterday at £7 9s Id an ounce (£7 8s 10Ad on Monday), the dollar at 4.66$ 4.67 i-8) and the franc at 177! 177 A).

Application for Grant Notification from the Education Department that the board's application for a grant to defray the cost of additional equipment was under consideration was received at a meeting of the Hamilton Technical College Board of Managers last evening.

Mail for London Advice has been received from the Post and Telegraph Department that New Zealand letter mail which left Wellington by the Westralia on November 24 and by the Mariposa from Auckland on November 25 arrived in London by air mail on December 11.

Struck by Milk Can Donella Souness (9), of Mungaroa. fell from the back of a lorry at the local dairy factory, in falling she clutched at a 1401 b milk can which also fell and struck her on the head, fracturing her skull. Her condition is critical.

Prisoner Recaptured Allan Roy Duff (19) was recaptured last evenin-g by detectives in a plantation behind the Wellington fever hospital. Duff escaped .from the Wi Tako prison (Trent.ham) on Monday night by removing the floor boards in his cell and making his way under the building to the open.

Accommodation Inadequate "In the inspectors’ report it is shown that accommodation at the school is totally inadequate, yet recently grants have been made to other Waikato schools while the Hamilton Technical College Is still in the mire." commented the chairman, Mr C. Nisbet. at a meeting of Hamilton Technical College Board of Managers last evening.

£30,000 Business Deal A business transaction of considerable interest took place in Dunedin this week, when Cadburv, Fry, Hudson, Limited, with the object o*f providing for future expansion, completed the purchase of the property used by A. and T. Burt, Limited, for their engineering works. It is understood the price was in the vioinity of £30,000. Power Board Stores The engineer-manager of the Central Waikato Electric Power Board. Mr .T. R. Ellis, said at the meeting of the board to-day that he hoped to be able in a month or two to present proposals to the board for the erection of store buildings on the property adjoining the board’s offices. The section was recently acquired by the board. Seagull Lands Trout A Seagull landed a rainbow trout from the Hutt River on Sunday. The fish measured nearly 16in., and was too heavy for the bird to take on the wing and it was left, injured on the beach. The struggle, which was accompanied by a -great deal of noise and flapping of wings, was witnessed by two Wellington residents, who were walking along the bank of the river at Maoribank. Male Nurses Urged Miss L. M. Croft, matron of the Napier Public Hospital, suggested the training of male medical orderlies to relieve the acute shortage in the nursing profession. She said she had had experience of the work of male orderlies during and after the war. If they were employed in hospitals they could not only relieve the nurses of work which was undesirable to them but also make good the shortage in the trained staff. Mail of Wrecked Flying-boat The Chief Post Office, Hamilton, advises that word has been received that the flying-boat Calpurnia, which was wrecked in a forced landintg near Baghdad, carried 65 bags of mail for Australia and 60 bags for New Zealand. Of these 101 bags had been salvaged in bad condition and some of the bags were incomplete. It was not definitely known when the salvaged mail would arrive in New Zealand but it was anticipated that some would reach Auckland on the Awatea on December 19 and some in Wellington on December 20. It Is believed that the flying-boat carried only English mail. Heavy Rainfall With several hours of steady rain again experienced in Hamilton last evening the figures for December are now over an inch in excess of the average over the last 21 years. The rain was very light in the afternoon yesterday, but it set in heavily early in the evening and continued uninterruptedly until a late hour, .95in being recorded up to 9 o’clock thre morning. This makes the total for December 4.6 Sin compared with the average of 3.8in., while for the year to date the recording totals 56.90in against the average of 46.32in.

Armaments and War “ Armaments mean war when the world is without law; restore the rule of law and they mean peace,” said Professor W. A. Sewell, when speaking in Hamilton last evening. It was criminal folly to isolate rearmament from a constructive foreign policy and from a determination to use these arms to enforce a policy which would bring the world back—and certainly the Fascist powers—to a respect for law in international affairs. An isolationist policy would make all the rearmament in vain.

Collective Security “It seems to me that Mr Jordan, who has been accused of being in step with Moscow, was the one Dominion statesman who saw the implications, for the Dominions, of the abandonment of collective security,” said Professor W. E. Sewell, during his lecture in Hamilton last evening. Current British foreign policy was isolat- . ing Great Britain, the speaker contended, who was left with •‘friends" but not allies. There was the danger that France, not wholly united, would be broken and defeated and that Britain would be left to defend her empire alone. Mr Jordan for his stand, should have the warm approval of every good imperialist as well as' of every lover of peace.

Father Xmas arrived at Hooker and Kingston’s at half-past three on Friday afternoon, so hurry all you children from school and see him.—The cave is a great success with ‘Ui-Diddle Diddle" and “The Crazy Schooi'/oom" it is bigger and better and brighter than ever —Remember there is a present for everyone, even Mother and Dad —Come to Hooker and Kingston's Cave and have the time of your life— Let’s all meet him at the shop—Three cheers for Santa Claus! The Xmas shopping Centre for all Xmas Gifts.* *