LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21304, 24 December 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Holiday Season The Waikato Times will not be published tomorrow, Christmas Day, or on January 1. For the convenience of advertisers, the office will be open tonight from 7 o'clock till 8.30. Christmas Lambs The transport of this season’s lambs is now in full swing from the Cambridge district. On Sunday a special train left Cambridge at 7 p.m. with 3000, and during the day many truck-loads were sent to Horotiu. Pacific Air Services Pan American Airways’ operations superintendent from Manila, Mr A. L. Lewis, formerly airport manager at Auckland, completed a survey of facilities at Singapore in view of a proposal to extend the company’s Pacific Clipper services to Malaya. He was favourably impressed. Good Year for Marriages. Although 1940 is not yet quite at an end, marriage licenses issued by the Wellington registrar this year already exceed the number for last year, when a new high level record was established. The figure for 1939 was 2561, and to date this year the number of licenses issued is 2747. What a Girl! At least one Cambridge soldier, who has been in training at Trentham, has a girl he should feel very proud of, for ske was on the station at 4 a.m. on Monday to meet him. The exceptional circumstance is that before walking on to the Frankton station the girl had cycled all the way from Cambridge, doing the journey of nearly 16 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Wife Assault Charge. Charged with assaulting his wife on December 23. with trespassing and with resisting arrest. Thomas Donaldson Ferguson, jockey and labourer, aged 25, of Frankton, appeared before Mr S. L. Paterson. S.M., to-day in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton. He was remanded to January 23 on bail of £25, provided he kept away from his wife in the meantime. Dying Under Injustice Boer farmers in the vicinity of Johannesburg report that some of the storks arriving there in their annual 7000-mile migration from the Netherlands are carrying written messages on the condition of the Dutch under Nazi rule. One farmer said he untied this scribbled message from the leg of a migrating stork: ‘‘We inhabitants of Bergenop-Zoom tell you German occupation is terrible.” Another said: “The Dutch people ar,e dying under injustice.” Christmas Bonus A special cash payment by way of a Christmas bonus to those directly in receipt of regular outdoor relief from hospital boards is to be made again this year by the Government. The rates are the same as those pail in the past, £1 each for one or two adults, and 5s for each additional member of the family affected by relief. Payment is to be made on similar conditions to last year—xo those who received relief of a regular character in rations, fuel, rent, etc., or in cash, in respect of the week ended December 7. Care In Motoring. The Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, stresses the need for special care among motorists over Christmas and New Year and draws particular attention to the fact that large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists will probably be using our roads at this time. ‘‘l would only ask motorists, in their own interests and in the interests cf every road user, to drive at reasonable speeds and refrain from driving when over-tired or after having celebrated the festive season,” says Mr Semple. Centennial Film The Government is making available the film “One Hundred Crowded Years,” which commemorates New Zealand’s Centennial and is a tribute to the pioneers of this country, to the National Patriotic Fund Board in aid of the National Patriotic Fund. The film was offered to the board by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser. Arrangements are being made with a special committee representing the film industry for early distribution of the film throughout New Zealand. The film, which was well received when given its first screening to an official gathering in Wellington last month, was produced in the Government studios at Miramar.