LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13936, 15 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The stocks at Hetheringtons winter' sale are varied, and , the price cuts are said to be, solid. One 1 of their. sale catalogues may be had on application. Notice is given, that Messrs Koope Bros., accountants of Auckland, are ' solely authorised to collect outstanding accounts due to J. M. Mennie, y Thames branch. t Notice is given that. - all aceoni'tJitj J duo and beoaming due toi the Thames * Harbour Board must ba paid ait the Boiaaxl'^ office. Curremit.acooiura.ts will be received by the acting secretlary, Mr 1 J, Kerniick, Albert. Street. . -j Paeroai has deciided to re-eshabl'sih. 1 a miunicipol band. A committlee. ckih- < sLsltdng of three members 1 of tlhe, ] Boroiuigh Councdl a/nd two to be elect '• ed by tihe bamd wea*e aippodnted to . .giavem. tin® finamces. While branding cattle at the sale at Turua yesterday, Mr. W. E. Hale, of Kopuarahi, received a nasty kick in, the face and body from a heifer. Mr. Hale was, taken 1 to a house opposite the sale ; yards, where.his injuries were at- 1 tended to, and later on was able to agairu assist in the ring. : The usual fortnightly sitting of. the Magistrate's and Warden's Court at Thames, which should have been held to-morrow, has been poet- t poned for a fortnight, owing 'to the , absence of the magistrate, who has had to go South "on, (private bam- : ness. . ; . "A.axumiber of womien■have been ' alppiyiiinsg for <& Peace bounty,- in tiie shapo of a foiur-weeks' railway pacts to tihe neodMxf-kin. of soldiieis-wno loiat their lives during the war," .■ stated the Minister for IMence,, Sk- ! Jameis Allem, by a Wellingtomi Times j l-eportcr. "Oabineiti ha® com&idea-ed / the miatitier, bulb we -very mTicih re- ! gire* tihat we csanwoiti gvaint their re- j quest." - ' j As a iresulti of the war the mcrohaai:t shipping., of the. world is 4,000,000 toms gthicwib of w'ha.t it wais in 1914. At the beginning of the -war the wodd> . mercihanib tonaaag'e dtot&lled about 50,- : 000,000 tomia- The'war, chiefly lihrougjj iSiubmiar.ine ipitfaicy, destroyed; 15,000,-: 000 (tons, while tlie irnew sihiipipmgi ; oomsitruioted aamouiiited- to> -aboimt 11 s - I 000,000 .tons. L - ! i■■ ' - With regard to the supply of hot' cocoa for the school children, the chairman of the Paeroa School Com- : mittee at the last •meeting, gaid that the urn had been ordered, . but; so far had not come to hand. Mr. Hamilton had suggested the proctor- , ingl of a caiifont as it. would be a quiciker mean s of heating' tfie wa,ter. It was decided that fk& headmaster be allowed to prooua'e a caiifont. at- . a cost of £5 ,10s. ■ ' . .•[ Messrs. C. A. Hopping, J. M..; Millers <and J..W. ''Treadajwiay have '' been; nominated! ais candid'atesi for the two vacancies of trustees on* tne Hauraki Drainage Board. As tne n-umibeff of candidates exceeds the number tff ,^vacancies, >a poll for the election of Wo trustees will be held a,t the Board's office, Turua, and at the residence 1 of Mr. Joel Fisher, Jnr., Turua, Ne'therton Bx>ad, on Monday next, 'between 9 a.m. Amd 6 p.m. Two colliers carrying approximately 6500 tons of coal between them, have arrived- at, AiK'lda.Tidl The Wanaka has about 3900 tops' from Newcastle, and the Katoa lias about the same quantity from■ We-"st-port. The arrival- of thesa. two steamers will enable the Auckland Gas Company's stock's, which aye again almost exhausted, to be replenished. Im addition, tfie Kaiarr.ii is due aiti Onehunga from Greymouth with about 500^ totis, and the C. and D. steamer Port Napier is due a£ Auckland from Newca.->+lc at the end of the week witti about 3000 tons from tihat ■ port. ' I-b is tundeir'sitldod (says the Hawke'si Bay Herald) -ttat Messas Nelson, Jims.' mealt. works at Tf>rnioanai (Haiwke's Bay) and Ta,ri.ilu?,ra (Gisibomse), which were r*eoenitiy reported sold, verei purchacS'Bd by M&ssrsi Veisitey Bixus., of the t?fniioia Cold Storage, tradiinlgl in New. Zealand aia W- and 1 R. Fletoher, L*d. ■wfitih head office inu Aucklam«L The price paiyaible is £600,000, of whiobJ £500,000 is repreisietnited % 6 pen* cenit rmortgaiges. alloicalteid arnicn^r itiho. different proipertiesl, alntT '£100'.U0O by 6 per oipinit, prefereriCe sihaire© in. tibie Unaon OoilS Storage OomKpamiy, Ltd. Messrs 1 Nelson. Brosl.. are. also im4:ereisited m tihe Colonial Consignmciil!:; • and Distributing! ■ Compaiiy to ,\h& extent of ~£224,49'5 of the "225,000 [ oliidimaaJy ■sih.'ar'es of the oomip?.in|y. "j ;