LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20888, 21 August 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Birthday of Princess Princess Margaret Rose, second daughter of Kina- George and Gueen Elizabeth, is celebrating her ninth birthday to-day. .she was horn at Glamis Castle. Scotland, on August 21. 1930, being the first member of the Royal Family to be born north of the 'Tweed for centuries. New British Cruiser Launched The Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday launched the 8000-ton cruiser Kenya. New Radio Beacon Plans are being prepared for the installation of a radio beacon at Cape Reinga, near Gape Maria Van Diemen, slates the annual report of the Marine Department. This will be in addition to the radio beacons at Cuvier and Moko Hinau Islands, which are nearing completion. Six-legged Lamb A lamb with six legs was born yesterday on the farm of Mr A. Roland at Orere Point, Clevedon. The animal is otherwise normal and healthy and uoes not appear to be incommoded by its extra limbs, which are situated about half-way along its body, hut do not quite reach the ground. Dividend of 40 Per Cent The directors of North Broken Hill, Limited. Melbourne, have advised the Stock Exchange that a quarterly dividend of Gd a share has been declared. The dividend, which will require £70,000, is the fourth quarterly payment for the financial year ended June 30, and makes a total of 2s a share of ss, or 40 per cent for the year, against 3s, or GO per cent, the previous year, and Gs, or 120 per cent, in 1937. Auckland Show Membership A total membership of 099 and the addition of 47 new members during the year is recorded in the report to be presented at the annual meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Agricultural and Pastoral Association on September 1. The balance-sheet shows a profit of £460. There was a profit of £GOB on the annual show, of £2lB on the gymkhana, a loss of £3 on the showground account, and a loss of £363 on the general revenue account. Formidable List Stated by Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert to have a formidable list, John Fraser, 49 years, pleaded guilty of his second offence of drunkenness in the Police Court. Hamilton, this morning, and was fined £2 by Mr G. K. Sinclair, J.P. The senior-sergeant said that Fraser had been found drunk near the Waikato Hospital on Saturday night and had spent the week-end in the lock-up. He had work to go to in Pio Pio. Bus Takings Stolen Burglars stole £2O in cash when they broke into the Hastings office of the Napier-Hastings railways bus service early yesterday morning. The money had been collected from passengers on the late buses last night, and included that which drivers hold for change. The money is kept in lockers in the small wooden building which is the bus depot and presented no difficulty for the thieves once they had entered by forcing a small window at the rear of the office facing the railway yard. Money in the Seventies Speaking at the Ohaupo School Jubilee on Saturday, one of the first pupils, Mrs E. Haeusler, said she often wondered how the early settlers managed without money. “I remember my mother had only ninepence in the house for several weeks and when a priest came she gave him threepence. A local canvass of the settlement for church funds about the same time resulted in the sum total of is 9d being collected. We just gut alone? without money in those early days,” said the speaker. Decline In Profit A net profit of £42,863, a decline of £5148 on the previous year’s record earnings, is shown in the accounts of V 'right, Stephenson and Company, Limited, for the year ended June 30. The directors recommended that after the fixed payment on preference shares a final dividend of 2i per cent -hould be paid on ordinary shares, making 5 per cent, unchanged, for the year. It is also proposed to repeat the special distribution which was made last year to ordinary shareholders in Wright, Stephenson and Company of Abraham and Williams, Limited, debenture stoek in proportion of £1 of stock for every 20 ordinary shares, making the total distribution on these shares equivalent to 10 per cent.