HAMILTON NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 14

HAMILTON NEWS

A five-seater car owned by’ Air. J. W. Landen was destroyed by fire in Grey’ Street on Sunday morning. Air. Garrick Nisbet has been appointed secretary of the Hamilton Rotary Club. Air. R. Cobbe was initiated a member, representing tho auctioneering vocation, y’esterday. There -were nine bankruptcies in the Hamilton district in May, compared with eight for the same month last year. A memorial service to the late Lord, Davidson, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury, was held in the Lady Chapel of St. Peter’s Cathedral yesterday morning. Canon J. L. A. Kayli celebrated Holy Communion and the Ven. G. Gordon Bell, V.G., Archdeacon of Waikato, was the preacher. Charged with the theft of a winter show season ticket and £1 from a room-mate at Prankton, Alenatti Frandi, a New’ Zealand-born Italian, aged 30, was fined £2 in the Alagistrate’s Court. Thomas Edward Schou, aged 21, was fined 40s on a charge of disorderly behaviour and convicted and discharged for obstructing the police at the Alagistrate’s Court y’esterday morning. Schou took strong exception to the arrest of an inebriated companion on Saturday’ night.. An all-round increase in the vital statistics for Alay, compared with the corresponding period last year, is recorded at Hamilton. Following are the returns, those for Alay’, 1929, appearing in parentheses: Births, 72 (56); deaths. 23 (22); marriages, 28 d 8). Nineteen building permits were issued in the Hamilton borough last month, of a total value of £6,348, as against 18 permits valued at £4,474 for the corresponding month last y r ear. There were 12 wet days in Hamilton last month. The total rainfall was 2.63 inches, compared with 2.42 inches on 11 days in Alay, 1929. The Very Rev. G. R. Barnett, Dean of Hamilton, who has been on sick leave, is expected to return to Hamilton to take the services at the cathedral next Sunday. .