LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17980, 27 March 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Te Aroha Athletic and Cycling Club invites tenders for stalls at its Easter Monday sports meeting. •In the absence of the Bishop of the Diocese, Bishop Anderson, formerly of Riverine, Australia, will administer confirmation in St- Peter’s Cathedral on Sunday, June 22. It is proposed to hold a threehours’ service at St. George’s, Frankton, on Good Friday, which will be conducted by the \ en- G. 11. Gavin, Archdeacon of Taranaki. A young labourer, Alfred Kennedy, who was charged with having made an attempt on his litc at Waitomo on Sunday, has been remanded to appear before the Magistrate’s Court at To Kuiti. Alexander Zoubkoff, widower of Princess Victoria, the ex-Kaiser’s sister, appears to have overcome his infatuation for a Luxembourg barmaid, and now announces that be will shortly marry I-lerta Sandmann, a German dancer. Meanwhile, he is still mixing cocktails in Luxembourg. A record altitude for aviation in Auckland was established by Mr T. Philcox, of Epsom, at the Mangere aerodrome yesterday morning, when he ascended to 18,000 ft. .Mr Philcox,. who was trained as a pilot by the Auckland Aero Club, was flying for 90 minutes. The New Zealand record altitude is 19,000 ft., which was established in Blenheim. A decision to set a definite limit upon the number of pupils to be admitted lo the grammar schools next year was made at a meeting of the Auckland Grammar School Board yesterday. When it was reported to the hoard that the Epsom Girls’ Grammar School was overcrowded the opinion was expressed that the roll numbers at the four grammar schools in the cily were too large, to allow of efficiency in administration.

The second frost experienced this year was recorded at the Ruakura Government Farm this morning, when 5.4 degrees were registered. The annual general meeting of the Hamilton Rugby Union will be held this evening at Tooralc Chambers. The chief business will be the election of officers and the adoption of the report and balance-sheet. A five-s-eater car, the property of Mr E. L. Watkins, of Claudclands, which was removed by some unauthorised person from Colllngwood Street, between 7.15 and 10 o’clock on Tuesday evening, was recovered, undamaged, in Norton Road, at 5 o’clock yesterday morning. The annual competition between the 15th Coast Battery (Wellington) and the 13th Coast Battery (Auckland) for the Hudson Cup resulted in the Wellington unit, the present holders, retaining the cup. Out of a maximum of 600 points Wellington gained 408 and Auckland 388. In the opinion of Rev. Jasper Galder, Auckland Anglican City Missioner, a “doss bouse” will be necessary again this winter, and preliminary arrangements are well in hand for filling the need. “There were about seventeen thousand people at Carisbrook ground, Dunedin, on the last day of the Band Contest, and 16,000 of them were judges,” remarked Captain G. Buckley at the welcome home to the bands at Wanganui. To avoid a glut in the wool market through the carry-over stocks coming forward at the November sales, it is suggested that a sale be held in two or three months’ time. This proposal was made at 'the meeting of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Seventeen large overseas vessels are scheduled to load New Zealand produce for Continental ports and Great Britain during April and May. Between them the vessels will take away over 100,000 tons of produce worth millions of pounds. “ Waikato farms look beautiful at present,” remarked a Napier resident who has just returned from a motor tour to the north to a pressman. He stated that the pastures in the Waikato still retained their spring freshness, while there was so much feed that the land-owners found difficulty in getting it eaten down. He commented that the farms round Hamilton contrasted strongly in appearance with those in Central Hawke’s Bay, (here being no sign of “ drying-up ” in the Waikato. “Of course, they manure the ground, heavily up there,” he remarked, in explaining the fertility of ttie Waikato lands.