LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13937, 16 July 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Governor ha s left Fiji foj Auckland. The ambulance transport Maramt is now expected to reach. Auddanc at ■ 8 a.m. to-imorrow. Mrs. DoniarisWilliams, of M;illei Point, celebrated itfer 101 st ' birthday last Thursday. The Birkenhead Borough Council's .£15,000 loa.ni has been author: sod by .Order in Council. A conference of farming and business interests at Hamilton i jided to take further action for the purpose of remedying * the railway trouble as it affect s dairying. The Whangarei Borough' Council has passed a resolution expressing disapproval of the Whaingarei Harbour Board's £150,000 harbour improvement scheme. A 1 stop.-work meeting was held by. the Ohinemuri ■engineers on Monday afternoon. It is stated thaj the trouble concerns- the wage s paic to one main. . • .. Mr. Massey thinlkis" .that Britains! industrial troubles are like'v to be settled' in the near future, and. thai ■within a year noranal conditions vril return. Alex. McQuillan, farmer and dealer, of Woodeind, Canterbury, mad* a waitten declaration on his dealtili bed, that he was innocent of z charge of stealing a cow, he 1 having been •wnvicted' of the offence aif.the Supreme' Court Jasb February. It is calculated that the Pafceem will consume 57 tons of coal or the trip from Onehxrnga -to W"illmpr ton and foaek, coimpai-ed with 3( tons coneumjed by an express loco motive on the. double Main Tnini journey. FOR BETTER CALVES. •