LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

New Pop© 1 The College of Cardinals at Rome | has decided that the name of the new i Rope will not be broadcast before the announcement from the Vatican ! balcony. ■ Nurses from Spain j Nurses Shadbolt and Dodds, who J recently returned from Spain, will j speak on the crisis in that countrv in • the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Tuesday. The public is invited to participate in paying tribute to these brave women. Britain and New Zealand Centennial j The British Parliamentary Secretary : for Overseas Trade, Mr R. *S. Hudson, I announced in the House of Commons that £SOOO had been alloited as a preliminary to Britain's participation in the New Zea land Centennial Exhibition. The sum of £75,000 would appear in next year's estimates. Mails in London Letter mails dispatched from Wellington by the Awatea on January 31 arrived in London on February 15. Mails by the fOronsay from Wellington ana by the Aorangi from Auckland on February 6 and by the Awatea from Wellington on February 7 arrived in London on February 20. ER SB Car Stolen at Hill crest The theft of a light car at Hillcrest last night has been reported to the Hamilton police. The car, which is the property of Mr D. H. Gower, school-teacher, of Hillcrest, was removed from a garage between 10.30 last night and 6 a.m. to-day. Alleged Conversion Arrested in Hamilton last evening on a charge of converting a car at Bulls on February 22, Thomas Samson Evven Callender, a labourer or no fixed abode, appeared before Mr F. McGuire, J.P., in the Hamilton Police I Court to-day. On the application of Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert, accused was remanded to appear at Wanganui on March 1. Herd-testing Grant ''The total grant for herd testing which the National Dairy Conference will consider seeking from the Dairy Board and the Government will be 2s per cow,” said Mr C. M. Hume, herd recording supervisor to the Dairy Board. “The hoard will be asked to provide Is a cow and the Government Is a cow.” New State Colliery The new State coal mine at Nine Mile, West Coast, has been named by the Mines Department the Strongman j Colliery, honouring the name of the superintendent of State mines, Mr C. J. Strongman, of Greymouth, a former inspector of mines. The mine is now producing 40 to 50 tons of coal daily and the coal has been placed on the market. Minister's Tribute “All the information I possess about farming was learned at Ruakura,” remarked the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, when speaking at the field-day luncheon at the Ruakura Farm homestead yesterday. When he arrived in the Waikato he had been a veritable “greenhorn” as far as agricultural knowledge was concerned, and had it not been for what he learned at the farm he did not know how he could possibly have made a success on the land. Opticians Confer Prominent Australian opticians wfll be invited to attend the next annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Opticians, which will be held in Wellington, probably in February, 1940. The decision to hold the conference in Wellington and to invite overseas opticians was made at the annual conference of the institute in Wellington yesterday. This year there was one of the largest attendance for many years, nearly 50 delegates being present.

Dividends Declared The directors of Milne and Chovce, Limited, Auckland, have declared interim dividends for the half-year ended January 31 at the following rates: —Preference shares, 6 per cent per annum; B preference, 7 per cent per annum; ordinary shares and debenture stock, 5 per cent per annum. The rates are unchanged and the distribution will be made on April 10. The directors of the Mil burn Lime and Cement Company, Limited, Dunedin, /have declared an interim dividend of 35 per cent for the six months ended January 31. It Is payable on March 17.

Customs Delays Delay in getting goods through the Customs Department is causing concern to Wellington business men. One importer said during the past few weeks it had taken five times as long to obtain clearances as it had in the past. He blamed what he described as the cumbersome licensing regulations. “The delay is no reflection on the department’s officers,” he said. “In fairness to them it should be stated that they are being sweated by the Government. There is no 40-hour week for them, and some are working until 10 o’clock every night of the week.”