Local & General

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5312, 27 January 1947, Page 4

Local & General

■ 1 ' To-day's Weather Forecast , "The Government Meteorologist has issued 'the fo-llowing weather report and forecast: — • Situation : An extensive antieyclone covers New Zealand, highest pressures last night being over the Bay of Plenty ar6a. This anti-cyclone : is moving slowly eastwards and the | low pressure trough is advaneing on | to the westem Tasman Sea from TaSmania and Australia. Warm humid conditicns are anticipated and in western districts, scattered rain and light drizzle at times. Forecast for Rotorua: Northeasterly to northerly winds, some morning fogs. Weather otherwise fair to fine, with conditions warm and humid. Aucklander Di'ops Dead While talking to a frielid at his ' home, a Devonport resident collapsed ] and died less than 12 hours before 1 the time set for his marriage. He was j William Ernest Thomas, aged 54, an , insurance consxiltant. I | 70 Years a County j The Piakc County Council wlll i ceiebrate its 70th birthday on j February 8. The first meeting o'f the j council bad been held Oti February 8, ! 1877, when the county stretched 1 practically from the Hauraki (or I Piako) swamp to Rotorua.

Merchant Navy Ribbons The Minister of Marine, Mr. O'Brien, announced that the Marine Department is now in a position to make a preliminary issue of ribbons of the various campaign stars and the war medal to those members of the Merchant Navy qualified to receive them by virtue of their sea service during -the war. Applicatio-n forms and details of qualification are obtainable from the superintendents of the Mercantile Marine at all the main ports and the head ofRce of the Marine Department, Wellington. 4 Novel Answer to Complaints Many shops in America-i— which is heavily taxed, but not so heavily as New Zealand — have adopted a shrewd way of answering complaints about the high cost of living-. They display on their. goods a card which shows the price the retailer pays for the goods, the amount of tax added to that and the price to the buyer. Wha's more, the salesman tells. the eustomer how much tax is included in the price of the article he buys. Snch a practice, adopted here, would startle a lot of people out of their complacency. Portrait of King A copy in gold ink of a dry-po-int portrait of the King by Henry Rayner, who left Auckland in 1925 to study art in England, has been received by the Citj^ Council for exhibition in the Auckland Art Gallery. A fine example of a technique which Rayner has mastered brilliantly, the portrait has already caused some discussion among Aucklanders who have seen it because of its unconventional treatment of the King, who is shown with a cigarette drooping from his mouth and wearing an open-ifecked shirt. Acceptance of the print, the original of which was purchased by Queen Mary, \vill be considered by the council this week. Up In Her Room It happened in a Rotorua picture theatre on Saturday night. The scene in the movie was in the village hotel, a building the inside of which was surprisingly like many of the private hotels and boarding*-houses in Rotorua. A woman had just been murdered in an upstairs room. The body fell to the floor with a thud, and the desk clerk rushed upstairs, nearly 'knocking the aspidistras over in his haste. A woman" rushed out of her room and pointed down the passage: "It is there, in No. 9," quoth she. Came an. agonised voice of a lady holidaymaker from the back of the circle: "Oh, heavens, that is my room number, isn't it?" Income Tax Payments The Commissioner of Taxes advertises in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of income tax is February 12, 1947. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or about March 5, 1947. Demands will ' be posted on or ahout February 5. Demands must be presented with all payments, and if a demand has not been reeeived the taxpayer should notify the Superintendent of the office of the Land and Income Tax Department where the taxpayer's records are filed. If . any taxpayer is in doubt as to the location of his records, he should comniunicate with the Commissioner of Taxes, Wellington.