THE ROYAL SUNBEAMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 231, 19 December 1927, Page 15

THE ROYAL SUNBEAMS

COMING TO AUCKLAND The Christmas attraction at n»~ I National Theatre commencing at tht* > matinee on Thursday next, will be * ■pantomime revue by the Royal Australian Sunbeams, and a selected pi-. - ! ture programme. The Royal Sur - 'beams, fresh from Australian triumphs .* will present a novel entertainment, em - I bracing dancing, divertissements, th*j latest ballets, amazing acrobatic stunts, lilting melodies and all the items that I go to make up a first-class show. Among the novelty acts are the Roy* ; Acrobatic Wonders, the Radiant Ball©; the Tiny r Tots, the Royal Merry TWinklers, and the Bat Ballet. The Sunbeams win appear at the de luxe sessions at 2.30 and 8 p.m. The picture 1 programme, to be screened at all i sessions, will include “April Foot,*' a J sparkling comedy', based on a wellknown stage success, and starring Alexander Carr. Raymond Keane, and Baby lPeggy. The box plan is at the theatre.

SETTING UP OF BOARDS Steps will be taken this week to set In motion the machinery of the Rural Intermediate Credits Act, which was passed by Parliament this year, and which will provide short-term loans to farmers on chattels security. Much is hoped for by the farmer from this legislation, and it will be of more than passing interest to see if the prophesy of the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J.iO. Coates) is correct. He says it is the legislation most calculated to assist the farmer from the viewpoint ©f the individual man on the land. Mr Coates announced at Awakino on Saturday that the regulations under the Act would be passed by Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday and they would then be gazetted and the boards set up. It would then be for the farmer to decide whether he would go to the bank or his stpck and station agent for short-term credit under the Act. The scheme had been successful elsewhere. he said, and he had been informed that the only change from the original which wJuld be made by countries which had an opportunity of redrafting their schemes would be the inclusion of provision for individual farmers to take advantage of its operations apart from the group system. In the New Zealand Act there were both the group and individual provisions. The individual producer would be able to obtain short-term credit either with the backing of his friends ©r through the medium of the stock and Station agents or banks. In my opinion the Act contains the genesis of everything that is likely to Do useful to the farmer in giving him , flnance - and it will help in g'abllisins the land situation }n the Mr Coates concluded.