LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 704, 2 December 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rotary Address jArrangements have been made for Lieut. Commander Nichols, R.N., to address the' Rotorua Rotary : Cluh at its weekly lunchelon gathering on Monday. Licensing Bench j As .there was no business to be brought forward the quarterly meeting of the Rotorua Licensing Bench, set down for yesterday, was not held. • Tramping Cluh Visitors i It is understood that a party of members of the Auckland Tramping Club will visit Rotorua over Christmas and will go into camp at Lake Okareka from which expeditions will be organised to various points of interest in the district. The camp will commence on December 23.' Unsiatisfactory. '"The administration of .this Act — I hesitate to use words which perhaps I should not use — Ibut it has been far from- satisfacitory," said Mr M. H. Hampson in the course of the hearing^ of a case in the "Rotorua ' Magistrate's Court yesterday involving the scope of the Tiiansport Licensing Act, 1931. Mr. Hampson was referring to the fact that although a decision was made 'by the Transport Appeal Board, this did not come into effect until it was lnade formally operative ;by oiie of th'e licensing authorities. "To suggest that the Appeal Board is not the final -STithority, is in my view m'ost improper," said counsel, "and to> suggest that it is necessary for an authority to confirm the decision of the Appeal Board seems to me monstrous." The State jand the Individuali "This type of almost Socialistic legislation is becohiing more and more frequent nowadays and it may be that it is an indication of intent on the part of the Legislature to gather into the hands of the State the control of various formfe of triad)ing," said Mr. S. L. Paterson, S>.M., in the Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday when commenting upon the provisions of the Transport Licensing Act. "It may be that it is the intention of the State to limit the common law rights'of the individual and to' consider th'e interests of the ■State to the detriment of the interests of the individual." Action Discontinued When the matter of Cottrell versus the Rotorua B:orou(gh. Goi^ncil was . ■mentioned in the Supreme Court at Haanilton on Thursday before Mr. Justice Herdman, Mr. M'. H. ' Hampson for the defendant council, intimated that notice of discontinuance had been filed by the plaintiff. Costs were accordingly allowed de- " fendant council according to scale. ' Dairy .Payout

■ On December 20 the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co., will distribute to suppliers the sum of £46,;!887 18s 4d, being an additional 3d "JJper lb on butterfat received during 1933. It was estimated that this extra payout would .amount to .280d (|d) ibut it has been found possible to increase this by 2|d', to hring the total as stated, up to 3d per lb. The total payout for the season for superfine butterfat will be 9.7765d or 9.8908d for suppliers with direct delivery of cream to the faotory. Pui'pose iof Legislation "W)e cannot get away from the long view that any legislation granted hy the State in a democratic country must be for the benefit of the pujblic and 'not for that of any partici^Jiar individua/1," siaid counsel in the, course of a damages claim heard » in the, Rotorua Magistrate's Court yesterday. Sunday Fimerals The question of Sunday funerals was discussed at a meeting of the MSnisters' Association (says the J South'land News). The frequency of ! Sunday afternoon funerals was coni- | mented on, and several speakers ex- ' pressed the opinion that a' habit was growing upon the community of leaving funerals over until Sunday whereever possible. It was agreed that

wnile every consideration and sympathy must he shown for those in trouble and no ahsolute refusal to take Sunday funerals could he entertained, still the practice- should be j rigorously discouraged. It adds greatj ly to the minister's burden on a day ialready very full. and, in addition, it iinvolves Sunday work for the cemetery and undertaker's staffs. The association agreed to notify undertakers that in future funerals would he conducted on Sunday only in exceptional circumstances, where there is a real necessity; and that where such ■funeral is unavoidable it shall take place not later than 10 o'clock on the ■Sunday morning.