ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43107, 20 June 1907, Page 1

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

E El Booth, of Otajgo, replaces) Dive in' the team for Australia.

Ait the Paeiroa Police Court, John Barrett, a prohibited person, was fined £2 for drunkenness.

In the last session of the British Parliament £200,000 was voted to assist the unemployed.

Houses to let are at a premium in Masterton at the present, time owing to the number of fresh arrivals, i

Mr G. P. Donnelly, of Hawke’s; Bay, has igiven £IOO towards a library for the Napier Old Men’s Home.

1 During last month, thef exportation of coal from Newcastle to New Zealand totalled 40,000 tons.

For the position of caretaker at Dunedin Athenaeum at a salary of £2 a week, some 50 applications have been received.

A Girls’ Hostel Society has been formed in Welliriton for the purpose of providing girl students with comfortable and inexpensive lodgings.

The members of the Ohinemuri County Council are ..now said to be quite a happy family. Some time ago they fought like Kilkenny cats, but now peace and brotherly love reign o’er the Council’s meetings.

Regarding the Auckland Technical College we note that, the Education Department has notified „ the Auckland Board of Education that the £4OOO granted for building would be available for equipment and apparatus.

Paeroa is very properly exulting over the success secured by the district at the Agricultural Show at Auckland. Two of the principal prizes were won and the butter exhibit was placed ahead of all other colonial productions. Paeroa is to celebrate the event with a social.

Dr. Macdonald, the white-Australia lecturer, told an audience of Well in oton labour men and Socialists that sugar which costs £8 10s in its raw state at, the refinery, and a further 30s to refine, is sold for £26 a ton.

The business people of Mhsterton are petitioning Parliament that the Shop and Factories Act. shall be amended so that the weekly statutory half holiday shall apply in the one instance where -a. shop and a factory are conducted as one 'business.

A Gisborne farmer is satisfied that apple growing will . pay at a. halfpenny per pound. He says that if he could obtain a. guarantee for the whole crop at the price stated he would plant the whole of his farm containing 200 acres, with apple trees.

In political circles in Wellington a general election, this year appears to be regarded as a certainty.