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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20732, 16 February 1939, Page 8

]] National Register Urged Iv The immediate establishment of a universal and compulsory national i e register for service in case of invasion )r was advocated at a meeting of the - e Auckland Provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union yesterday. j Compulsory Training A motion favouring the institution d of compulsory military training was i S passed by the Cook County Council yesterday following the reading of a report outlining what had been done in regard to the Physical Fitness Campaign, e More Pedestrian Crossings «r Three further pedestrian crossing! T. recommended by the transport coms niittee, were approved by the Hamilton fr Borough Council last evening, one to be erected over Norton Road on the. northern side of the Commerce Street intersection, another over Victoria s, Street in the vicinity of the Hamilton r- North Poet Oftoe and the third over :- Grey Street, iu the vicinity of Clyde K. Street, r, } Dairy Recovery Dairy production in the Dominion [i continues to recover from the setback received during the unfavourable period in the spring. Production flg)f ures for the six months to the end of ie January show that the but ter,-fat out- » put is about 9 per cent, lover than that of the corresponding period of ' the previous season. This represent* a substantial recovery on the decrease of | i per cent, for the first three 0 months of the season. Taxis in Hamilton '*• Reference lo the position of taxis in Hamilton was again made *t the 1 Hamilton Borough Council meeting 1,1 last evening when Mr H. M. Hammond , . it he bad n cdv< i eom--1-1 I plaints from two sources where the »’ iv- # ..-.-d to book a car to meet ,n I.i train o\er ihe Christmas period. - i m - motion it was decided to refer r " he complaints to the chief traffic in- -- spector, Mr W. U. Nicholson, to deal :tl with at the next sitting of Ue Transport Licensing Authority.