LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17972, 18 March 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

After five months of summer-time New' Zealand reverted to standardtime at two-o'clock on Sunday morning.

Mails which were despatched from Auckland per R.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver, on the ilth ultimo, were received in London on the 16th instant.

A resolution urging-the retention of the Government steamer Maui Pomare in the Norfolk Island service was carried at a meeting of 20 Auckland merchants.

Enrolments at the Auckland University College for the first fortnight of the session have totalled 918, as compared with 933 for the corresponding period last year.

Particulars of train arrangements and issue of cheap excursion tickets in connection with the Bay of Plenty race meeting at Tauranga on Saturday, -March 22, are advertised.

It is the intention of the directors of the Palmerston North Y.M.C.A. to erect a large concrete recreation and assembly hall at the permanent site of the boys’ -camp at Pohangina. The camp should then be one of the. best in the Dominion.

Biblc-teaching in the public schools was to have commenced this week under the auspices of the Hamilton Ministers’ Association. As some of the ministers arc still from home oil church business matters, it has been decided to begin teaching next week.

Amongst the new companies registered in Auckland yesterday was Te Kuiti Petrol Service, Limited, garage and service station proprietors. Capital, £ls in £1 shares. Subscribers: Francis Oliver Ilewetson, of Te Kuiti, Paul John Andrew Brunn Pat-teson, of Wellington, and Edwin Thornton Tidd, of Hamilton, five shares each.

Nine weeks spent on the Eleanor Bolling as a radio operator during two trips to the Bay of Whales have convinced Mr. G. G. Samson, a student of Canterbury College, that the researches made by the radio scientists at Rear-Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic base, Little America, will, when published, disclose lo the world the solution of many of the. mysteries of short-wave transmission. For this reason alone, in his opinion, the expedition was worth while.

Alterations have been made in the arrangements for Iho annual “casual” camp for territorials, which was to have 'been held at Narrow Neck from April i to April 12. It has been decided to hold the camp a week earlier and to make the location Ngaruawahia. Territorials from Waikato and other districts south of Auckland arc already beginning, their training at Ngaruawahia, and to avoid the inconvenience of dividing lhc training material provided and making arrangements for two camps. the Defence Department has decided to send city ■'arials to Ngaruawahia.

A matinee performance on behalf of the funds of the Obstetrical Society will be given at the Civic Theatre next Tuesday.

The death has occurred of Sister Barbara, the nursing nun who contracted smallpox while attending to Hie late Mr James Sharpe, the original smallpox patient on the liner Naldera.

What promises to be an interesting address will be delivered in the Frankton Town Hall this evening by Mr E. ,T. Howard, M.P. for Christchurch South- Mr Howard will tako for his subject Labour’s attitude towards Samoa.

Fire extensively damaged a sevenseater touring car, owned by Mr B. Yercoo, of Arapuni. Engine trouble was experienced, and in negotiating the down grade of a hill the engine was switched on. The car immediately burst into flames.

i A meeting of Anglican parishioners will be held in Pearson’s Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock, when the chief business will be arrangements in connection with building the church hall. All Hamilton East parishioners are urged to make a point of attending.

When the Maunganui was about 50 yards from the Wellington wharf as it was leaving for Sydney, Mr. James Bell, a resident of Wellington, who was on his way to Sydney, lost overboard a handbag containing over £IOO, a passport and some valuable papers. On Saturday a diver went down to look for the bag, but had no success.

The 65th. anniversary of the arrival at Auckland of the ship Bombay, the passengers on which founded the settlement of Bombay, falls to-day. The vessel, which carried some 400 immigrants, left London on November 23, 1864, and in a dismasted and battered condition was towed by the man-o’-war Curacoa into the Waitemata Harbour on March 18, 1865.

Mr. 11. N. Murray, of Eltham, spent a night alone in the crater of Mount Egmont. He pitched his tent within a few feet of the trig station. The temperature dropped a litLle until about 9.30 p.m., when 30 degrees of frost were recorded. At 11 p.m. the temperature was 34 degrees, and this held until daylight.