IN THE NEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 4

IN THE NEWS.

SAVINGS BANK FIGURES. The following are the Dominion’s saving's bank figures for the year: Deposits, £30,667,000; withdrawals, £27,042,000; amount, to credit of depositors at March 31, 1937, £58,065,000, compared with £59,916,000 on R. 31, 1936, an increase of £5,149,000. EUCHRE PRIZEWINNERS. Prizewinners at the Stratford Forestcis’ Hall weekly euchre were:—Mrs S. Reader 1, Mrs Lennon 2, Miss Saggee s special and Mrs Jans consolaition, Mr Kermode 1, Mr Kasper 2, Mr Hancock special and Mr N. Kelly consolation. Miss Saggers and Mr Linn 11 won a Monte Carlo dance. PROCEEDS FROM WOOL SALES. The total gross proceeds from wool Solid by aue ion in New Zealand during the 1937-37 season, including the final sale at Dunedin on April 20. amounted to £14,903,257, compared wi'.h £9,840,527 last season, and £4,401,010 in' the 1934-35 sc'/son. This season’s proceeds are the highest ’.ecorded since wool auctions resumed after the wartime commandeer.

DAMAGE BY WHIRLWIND. A wirlwind at 8.45 o’clock rt Greymouth last evening, partially wrecked residences in ChapU Street. A verandah was torn from a residence when the owner was absent. Two balconies were blown off another residence and the occupants left the building. A third residence had the windows : hat ered. There was no elsewhere. POST OFFICE REVENUE. Pest OffijCe revenue for he Dominion. for the year ended March 31 was £3,884,000, compared with £3,550,000 in the 1935-36 year. The main totals and increases were: Postages, £1.366,000, £10’5,000; telegrams, £334,000, £26,000; tolls, £565.000, £63,000; telephones, £1,339,000, £86,000. Toll traffic in March was £1,268,500—he highest on record. Communications revenue was £55,000. and the number of 'telegrams, 467,000, was the highest for seven years, ex-cep'tini-r February, 1.931, the month of the Napier earthquake. Rev. C. H. Isaacson, who has been the vicar of St. Luke’s, Greytown, for the past 5 years, has retired on pension, and he and Mrs Isaacson will make their future home at Khandallah. Mr Isaacson, who took his decree at Queen’s College; Cambridge, in 1893, and was ordained in 1900, has served nearly the whole of his ministry in New Zealand.