LOCAL AND GENERAL
Winner of Cake. Miss Daysh, of East Taratahi. was the winner of a cake raffled at the Masterton Horticultural and Industrial Society's Autumn Show. The cake was made by Mrs Ramsay, of Essex Street, and iced by Mrs .1. Shaw, Upper Plain. Exhibition Attendances. Yesterday’s attendance at the Centennial Exhibition was 10,846. bringing the total to more than 1.700.000. It seems probable that the second million will be attained during the Easter holiday, or at any rate before the end of the month. Charges Fail. . Henry Duggan, charged in the Supreme Court at Greymouth with having received sums of money on terms requiring him to account to the Point Elizabeth accident relief fund and fraudulently omitting to account for same, thereby committing theft, was acquitted on all counts. Centennial Service. Centennial services, concluding with the Holy Communion, conducted by the Rev John Davie, will be held in Knox Church on Sunday al 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Owing to the United Service in the Park none of the services conducted by Knox Church in the afternoon will be held. Tank Explosion. Two men had a narrow escape from injury when an explosion in Napier on Wednesday hurled the lid of an underground storage tank through 14 inches of earth and tar sealing, and about 25 feet into the air. The tank is in a lane at the rear of Stewart Greer Motors garage. Flying debris endangered two men in an adjoining building, and a bicycle standing against a wall was lifted into the air. The roofs of other buildings were scattered with debris. Shunter’s Death. After being admitted to the Wellington Public Hospital on Wednesday morning with serious injuries received when he was struck by a railway wagon. Mr William Edward Wilson, a porter-shunter, stationed at Johnsonville, died shortly after 8 a.m. yesterday. The accident occurred during shunting operations in the Johnsonville yards. Mr Wilson received a compound fracture of the left leg and thigh, and severe injuries to his groin. He was married and lived at 125 Brandon Street. Johnsonville.
Charge of Negligent Driving Reginald Gulliver, aged 20, aero engineer, charged in the Auckland Magistrates' Court with negligently driving a motor-car in Jervois Road in November’ last, thereby causing the death of Jack Woods, pleaded not guilty. He appeared in the uniform of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, for whom Mr T. S. Withers, instructed by the commandant of the Hobsonville base, watched the proceedings. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial and was allowed bail (£100). Cheque Handed Over.
A cheque for £1,000,000 representing an interest-free loan from the Bank of New Zealand to the Government for the duration of the war and six months thereafter, was paid over yesterday. It was handed to the Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash, by the general manager of the bank. Mr H. R. Chalmers, and accepted by the former on behalf of the Government. The chairman of directors of the bank, Mr A. T. Donnelly, was present at the ceremony, which took place in the Minister’s office in Parliament Buildings.
Centennial of Banking. The one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the first bank in New Zealand, the Union Bank of Australia, was celebrated in Wellington yesterday. The Governor-General, Lora Galway, unveiled a bronze commemmorate tablet in the Bank's head office, Lambton Quay. Parliamentary and civic dignitaries, prominent business and social leaders, and descendants of early settlers filled the ordinarily quiet precincts of the bank, overflowed the main public space and packed’ the tellers' boxes and clerical offices. The ceremony was a memorable one. A Minister’s Denial.
“If anyone can find my name on a shareholders’ list in any part of the world I’ll resign tomorrow," said the Minister of Public Works, Mr Semple, in Johnsonville last night, when he referred to rumours which, he said, were circulated when he took office and began to have extensive use made in his department of mechanical labour-saving and work-expediting machines. Mr Semple said it had been rumoured that he was a shareholder in a firm which manufactured tractors. “It has never been my ambition to hoard up money, to take the coin of Judas,” said Mr Semple. "I don't want to be independent; I just want enough to bury me respectably.”
Barque’s Movements. After a week's stay in port, the Finnish barque Penang completed discharge yesterday of her Auckland shipment of fertiliser from Juan de Nova in the Indian Ocean. She will leave tomorrow for New Plymouth to discharge the rest of her cargo. The Penang, commanded by Captain Karlsson. has not yet received any sailing orders on her completion of discharge at New Plymouth. She is at present under charter to a London company, and it is considered that the sea warfare in the Atlantic and the Russian attack on Finland will make any charter for a voyage outside tlie Pacific doubtful. In normal years the ship would pick up grain cargo for Europe from South Australia, after unloading her cargo in New Zealand.
Exports By Post. By a notice published in last night's Gazette precious and semi-precious stones shipped or posted for export on or after March 11. 19-10. and goods, the produce of New Zealand, posted in the course of trade or business for exportation on or after that day. will be subject to the Export Licences Regulations. 1938. At present, all goods (other than gold) exported through the Post Office are exempt from the provisions of the regulations. The Minister of Customs, the Hon. W. Nash, explained last evening that this step had been taken as a precautionary measure tc ensure that the proceeds of sale of ah New Zealand produce exported by post, and of precious and semi-precious stones exported, should bo placed on New Zealand's credit abroad. It should be noted, said the Minister, that this determination did not affect the exemption from the regulations of bonafide gifts.
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