LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21167, 17 July 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Alleged Offences The Grand Jury in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, yesterday, considered two charges alleging sexual offences. A true bill was returned in the one case and a no bill in the other. .* Gold Companies’ Loan The Emperor and Loloma gold mining companies, of Fiji, are subscribing £IO,OOO each, free of interest, to the British war loan, through the Fijian Government. These two companies recently subscribed £IO,OOO each, interest free, to the Australian appeal. i Eight Shillings a Pint First whitebait of the season occu- ; pied prominent positions on Well- j ington fishshop counters last week. They came, from the Waikato, and , sold at 8s a pint, nearly double the ( usual price in the middle of the season. • Welcome to Clipper An official welcome to the American Clipper on her arrival at Auck- ' land on Thursday at the conclusion of her flight from San Francisco will be extended on behalf of the New Zealand Government by the Post-master-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb. The Minister will leave for Auckland to-night. Heavy Rain Following a few light showers yesterday, heavy rain set in early | this morning, and a steady fall was i maintained until after 7.30. Later in j the morning more rain fell. For the j 24 hours ended 9 a.m. this morning ; .25 inches was the rainfall recording. Entertained by Choir Soldiers at the Hopu Hopu camp were entertained last night by the Hamilton Baptist Chorus Choir under the conductorship of Mr G. Salthouse. The soloists were Mrs J. Woodward, Miss L. Clark and Mr G. Ayo, and items were given also by the melody four. Other items were recitations by Miss K. Rapps. Classified Directory Discontinued In the new issue of the telephone directory, which is being distributed, it will be seen that the classified section, the familiar yellow pages at the back of the book, has been discontinued. A notice to subscribers inserted in the new alphabetical directory announces that the discontinuance is due to the need for conservation of supplies of paper. High School Pupils’ Effort Pupils of the Hamilton High School conducted a bring and buy afternoon in the school assembly hall after prayers to raise funds to buy wool for their Red Cross knitting work. The sale was a great success and £ls 6s 9d was raised. Pupils especially thanked the firms who donated goods and made the sale such a success. Child Before Dogs Mr J. Abercrombie, retired hotelkeeper, gave away his seven racing greyhounds at Kedron Park Queensland, coursing meeting and intends instead to take a refugee child into his home. “The money that I spend feeding greyhounds can be used to good purpose in keeping a refugee child,” he said. Mr Abercrombie has been racing greyhounds for 45 years. Consumption of Power Reporting to the monthly meeting of the Central Waikato Electric Power Board today the engineermanager. Mr J. R. Ellis, stated that the number of consumers was 7086, showing an increase of 30 for the last month. Water heaters numbered 2998, showing a rise of 28 over the previous month’s figures, while electric ranges rose by 24, bringing the total to 2517. Plenty of Italians Hearing that some of his men were objecting to work with two young men said to be of Italian descent. a contractor well known in Taranaki called all the staff together. On ascertaining that the rumour was correct, he first assured the men that the two members in question, whom he had known for many years, were thoroughly loyal. However, if that was the feeling of the men toward Italians he pointed out that there were plenty of rifles at Wellington and thousands of Italians elsewhere. Come and Take Us! The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Menzies, summed up the spirit of the Commonwealth in a few words in a national broadcast address recently. It was addressed to Germany and Italy, and was the Australian reply to the Dictators’ dreams of the the downfall of the British Empire. “If you want us—come and take us!” The first step for the enemy is to land a quarter of a million armed men on these shores. If and when he ever succeeded in that gigantic task, his troubles would begin. Pacific and Tasman Flights Added interest will attach to the arrival at Auckland of the American Clipper at the completion of her 8000-mile journey from San Francisco, through the fact that the Tasman flying-boat Awarua is due to arrive from Sydney at about the same time early to-morrow afternoon. Though the chances are slight of simultaneous landings on the harbour, the arrival of one even within a few hours of the othei would be strikingly symbolic of the conquest of the air. Air Travel in China A flight of 1500 miles was made by an Auckland missionary, Mr F. W. Martin Taylor, and Mrs Taylor in the course of a journey from a distant centre of the China Inland Mission to New Zealand. Mr Taylor said yesterday that leaving Lanchow, in the far north-west of China, they travelled with another missionary family all the way by air to Hongkong. on the coast. The aeroplanes used in these services were tripleengine Junkers machines piloted by young Chinese airmen trained in Germany.