LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17986, 3 April 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The Borough Council has authorised the borough engineer to remove the wattle trees on the top of Garden Place. Engine trouble down the line was responsible for the Limited Express arriving 40 minutes behind schedule at Frankton Junction this morning. The Thames Valley Rugby Union has decided to protest against the proposal to refuse permission to broadcast reports of the Test matches with the British touring team.

An application for a hoarding license was refused by the Borough Council at its meeting last evening, and it was decided to instruct the inspector to take action in cases of unauthorised use of fences, etc., as hoardings. With reference to an application by the Hamilton Rugby Union the Bor- • ough Council decided last evening that so long as the grounds were available for other sports purposes without charge, the maximum amount payable for rates, excluding water which would be charged on a meter basis, the rates be £GO per annum to be paid before the penalty date. The champion Black Orpington hen, owned by Mrs D. M. Waddell, of TongapOrotu, which established a world’s egg-laying record for 50 weeks at Norman by two weeks ago, has laid an egg each day for the 14 succeeding days, and yesterday its total amounted to 36.1. eggs for 365 days—a world’s record for 52 weeks. While attempting to find the new planet reported lo have been discovered recently by the Lowell Observatory, Mr W. Hunter, of Auckland, made the interesting discovery of two bodies close lo the star Zcta in Gemini. He has observed them carefully during the past week and be finds by their movement that they arc members of the planetary system. The New South Wales Stale Ministry's scheme for raising money to help relieve unemployment by the imposition of a .stamp tax on all wages receipts, is expected Lo bo on the lines of the proposal placed before the New Zealand Government, says a Sydney paper. That proposal provided for' a special unemployment tax on all persons, with certain exceptions, beginning with male workers, aged 18 years. The Taupo district for church organisation purposes lias for several years been associated with Hawke's Bay and supervised from Napier. Sixteen months ago, however, the headquarters of the Presbyterian Maori Mission Committee was transferred to Cambridge. The General Assembly last month accordingly agreed that Taupo in future form part of the Waikato Presbytery, the Wanganui River marking the boundary between that and the Wanganui Presbytery. Alterations in the New Zealand rates of exchange on both London and Australia were brought into operation to-day. The quotations for buying bills on London have been increased by £i 17s Gd per cent, and those for selling drafts by £1 7s 6d per cent. — both movements of unprecedented magnitude, the largest previous increase having been 1 per cent, ail round in February. The rates are still substantially lower Hum the current Australian tariff, introduced on March ~25. . •