LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22762, 10 November 1945, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Servicemen’s Examinations Mr R. M. . Algie (Opposn,—Remuera) in the House of Representatives yesterday asked the Minister of Defence if it could be arranged that the special university examinations now being arranged for exservicemen could be taken by any member of the forces irrespective of the date upon which he returned from overseas. Federated Farmers A request that a separate province should be set up in the Waikato for the farming organisation, Federated Farmers of New Zealand, has been made at meetings recently held throughout the district to form branches of the federation. Advice has now been received that the National Council of Federated Farmers agreed to a separate province being formed in the Waikato. Hospital Admissions A fractured right ]eg was suffered by a child aged 20 months, Dorothy Helen Johnson, of Otewa Road, Otorohanga, when she was kicked bv a horse. While he was playing with a piece of wire, John Russell Read, aged 6, of Matamata, suffered an eye injury when struck by one end of the wire. Both children were admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Rose Day Response There was a gratifying response in Hamilton yesterday to the Rose Day appeal organised and conducted by the women’s section of the Returned Services’ Association. With a few small returns yet to be added, the total sum collected amounted to £367, which was £3O in excess of the sum raised last year. Credit is due to the members of the women's section who spent considerable time in the preparation and disposal of the roses Degree Examinations The university Degree and accountancy examinations were concluded in Hamilton yesterday. Included among the 115 candidates scheduled were those sitting for M.Sc., B.Sc., B. Arch., B. Com., LL.B., stages 11. and 111. B.A. and Accountancy Professional. The university entrance and scholarship examinations will be held about the first 10 days available in December. Actual dates have not yet been decided. Prices For Eggs The Hamilton Advisory Egg Committee announces that the following prices for fresh hen and duck eggs will operate from Monday. Hen eggs: Heavy, wholesale Is llid, retail 2s 2d; standard, wholesale Is 10£d, retail 2s Id; medium, wholesale Is B£d, retail Is lid; pullet, wholesale Is sd, retail Is 7d. Duck eggs: Standard, wholesale Is 10$d, retail 2s Id; medium Is B£d and Is lid; small, Is sid and Is 7d. The following prices will operate in districts outside a three-mile radius of the Hamilton Chief Office:—Ungraded hen eggs, buying price Is Bd, selling price Is 10£d; ungraded duck eggs, Is s£d and Is 7d. Basket depots will pay the producers Is lid per dozen for hen eggs and Is B£d per dozen for duck eggs.

Compensation Court Sitting A sitting of the Compensation Court will be held in Hamilton on Thursday and Friday. The Court, which is presided over by Mr Justice Ongley, concluded its sessions in Auckland yesterday. Plant Renewal Loan A poll is being taken throughout the Raglan County today seeking the authority of the ratepayers for the raising of a £30,000 loan for the purchase of machinery and plant for county works. Dominion’s Housing Needs “There are at present 6000 to 7000 applications from returned Servicemen before the Government for houses and besides that about 10,000 civilians have also applied,” said Mr F. W. Baker, Director of Rehabilitation, recently. Unless 40,000 houses were built in New Zealand within the next five years there would still exist a tremendous demand for houses. Country Quota Legislation At a meeting of workers held in Hamilton the following resolution, was unanimously carried: “That this large and representative meeting of workers compliments the Government on its democratic action in abolishing the country quota” and that we whole-heartedly endorse the Government’s appreciation of its democratic responsibility in equalising the parliamentary representation of electors.” Auctioneer Prosecuted A prosecution at Tauranga against an employee of an auctioneering firm for conducting an auction sale when he was not the holder of a license was dismissed by Mr E. M. Walton, S.M. Evidence showed that the Auctioneers’ Act permitted the holder of a license to arrange for a substitute if the holder was ill or in any like emergency. The holder, R. Cobbe, told the Court that he had had to visit Wellington urgently and could not conduct the sale, so arranged for an employee to do so. Golf Club’s Year An indication of the increased activity at St. Andrews golf links in the year ended September 30 is given in the income and expenditure account to be presented at the annual meeting of the Hamilton Golf Club next Wednesday. Receipts from full playing subscriptions totalled £9lB, compared with £764 the previous year. Entrance, green, locker and competition fees amounted to £324, compared with £2OO a year earlier. However, the account shows an excess of expenditure over income of £B6. The main increases on the expenditure side are in wages, machinery and motor repairs, repairs and maintenance and club trophies.