HAMILTON NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 7

HAMILTON NEWS

Tenders are being called for the erection of four buildings, 60ft by 16ft, to be used as sleeping quarters at the Waikato Children’s Camp at Port Waikato. It is planned to have the buildings completed in time for the next camp during the Christmas holidays. Twenty permits for buildings valued at a total of £5,717 were issued in the Hamilton Borough last month, compared with 26 permits valued at £24,832 for August, 1929. Last year’s figure included the new additions to tlie Hamilton Hotel, valued at £17,969. “The financial result proves it to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, parochial effort made since the diocese was formed,” states the parish notes of the Waikato Diocesan Magazine regarding the recent Frankton Queen Carnival. * * * Five bankruptcies occurred in the Hamilton district last month, compared with four in August, 1929. The occupations of those who filed were described as follow:—Agent, tearoom proprietor, native agent, printer and aboriginal native. The opinion that the motorists were entitled to more than one representative on the Main Highways Board was expressed by Mr. M. H. Wynyard. a member of the board, addressing Hamilton Rotarians yesterday. According to the Waikato Diocesan Magazine, Bishop Mowll, of Szechwan, South China, hopes to visit New Zealand in August, 1931. Bishop Chambers, of Tanganyika, Africa, is due to tour the Dominion in 1932. Another clothes drive for Hamilton’s poor and needy will be conducted by the Waikato Social Welfare League and the Optimists’ Club on Saturday. Funds are also being raised by means of a talkie entertainment tomorrow evening. A marked increase in the birthrate is revealed in the Hamilton vital statistics for August. Following are the returns, with comparisons for the same month last year in parentheses: Births, 70 (45); deaths, 34 (19); marriages, 16 (19).

About 600 people attended the opening of the season on the Hamilton Coursing Club’s new grounds at Whitiora last Saturday. The fixture was highly successful and augurs well for the future of the club. 4 A new division of the St. John Ambulance Association lias been formed among the railway employees at Frankton. The following officers have been elected:—Superintendent, Mr. C. E. Marshall; ambulance officer, Mr. G. Haynes; sergeant, Mr. W. Monagh: corporals. Messrs. G. Hopplestone and McDonald; secretary, Mr. H. Lee; surgeon, Dr. F. A. Lamb. The title of the 57 acres of land at Port Waikato' presented by Mr. Edward Spargo has been received by the Waikato Children’s Community Camp League from Messrs. McMullin and Brown. The firm has donated the costs of transfer, stamp duties and the costs of incorDoratinEr the society. ?