LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13930, 8 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

: . ' ' hi ' ■■ '■ • , ' .A dance will be held in the Mata£oki Hall to-night. The .Qhinemoiri County Council proposes raising a loa,n of £15,000 to repair Netherton roads. Hetherinigtons winter _sale is now in full swing. We direct: attention to the advertisement on. page 2. ' The annual report of 'the. Wr;!ii Gold Mining Company > gjves ilia corrected returns from the company's mine to- the end of 1918 as £12,4160,312. The committee appointed to'ra:se funds for the new Soldiers' Club <t Hamilton report 'that £4050 has been obtained toward the snum of £5000, which is the ariaount required. . ■■'.■■ ,■■'■■..■ . Applications for 'tihe position . of secretary and 'treasurer to the Thames Harbour Board to carry out the whole of the 'clerical . wort of the Board will be received! by Mr. W. Scott, the chairman, up to 4 o'clock on August 1. 'Am accident ©ccuired,' at ' Whitianga yesterday, whereby. . a ... boy named Owen Hodge, aged 13, t lost his. life. The horse ridden . toy deceased slipped and' fell, rolling over the boy. Aw inquest is being held 1 at Whitianga to-day before a J.P. Notice is given that shares m the Waitangi'. Consolidalted .Gold .Miking Co. forfeited for nonrpaiymeEit' of the 32nid ciall (pajyaible; on; May 26, will be offerted for sale; alt! Messrs HarCiour.B amdi Go's a.ueitioini rioomis,, Lamibt<fli Quay, Wellington, on July 18, uihiless the call be padd otai or before the previous day. The activity in the suburban land market conttiniuies as keen: as ever. The expected early absorption, of this area by the Borough with 'the promised works, is no doubt responsible for the active tendency. At the isame time'it should be remarked that the demand for leased houses exceeds the supply "to let" signs being very rare.