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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 16

About £4650 was collected ,in City rates yesterday. The proportion of rates levied to rates collected to date is 39,58per cent., as compared with 39.44 per cent, on the corresponding day last year. The actual amount collected on Thursday was £4953 10s Id, the proportion being 39.18 per cent., as with 37.92 per cent, on the corresponding day last year. Before . the 10 per cent, penalty is imposed seveli days and two half-days will elapse. Two conversations between New Zealand and London by radio telephone were carried out byJVIr C. Le Maistre director of the British Standards Instil tution, during his tour of the Dominion in the interests of his organisation and the British Board of Trade. One was a six minutes' talk froiji AVellington to London, the other a three minutes' talk from Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, to London. In both cases he spoke from a telephone in bis -room at a hotel.. . .. Three stowaways were discovered' in the steamer Maunganui shortly after the vessel left Auckland for, Sydney yesterday afternoon. The Vessel,return-.: ed to port to land the stowaways, but when they were about to be put \ into the launch which had ■ beeir- despatched I to take them ashore, the men paid their passnaie money and the launch returned to Auckland empty. .The Maunganui then resumed her trip, having been delayed for over an hour.—Pbessi Service,