LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Boy Still Missing Notwithstanding exhaustive inquiries by the police throughout, the Auckland district, there is no trace of Charles John Raymond Birs» (9J . who disappeared from his home near Papakura, earlv on the morning of April 3. 1038. Bacon Company’s Loss A loss of £IOBS is shown in the accounts of ihe Xikau Bacon Company. Limited, for the year ended December 31. This compares with a profit of £2730 in the previous year and £2006 in 1036. It is the first loss the company has incurred. No dividends are recommended. Drowning Victims Three bodies of a party of four who were drowned in the New River estuary, Southland, a week ago were recovered on Saturday. The party left Invercargill on Friday, February 11, to spend the night netting flounders. The bodies were, those of Messrs T. V. Haggerty, James Popenhagen and F. H. Rask.

Rest Home Gift The trustees of the Flock House Fund handed over as a gift on Saturday to the Women's Division of the Farmers’ Union the large two-storeyed building set in spacious picturesque grounds at Awapuni as a rest home. The building was formerly a hostel for girls brought to New Zealand under the Flock House scheme. The igift was received by Mrs J. C. Wickham, Dominion president of the women's division, who said the home would he a great service to country women.

Ambulances Busy A strenuous week-end was experienced by officers of the St. John Ambulance in Hamilton during the week-end, four calls to accidents being answered. The smash at the Te Rapa races necessitated a second ambulance going to the course while the other ambulance brought injured jockeys to the Waikato Hospital. A call to an accident at Te Kauwhata was also answered during the afternoon and in the evening the ambulance had to take an accident victim from Whitiora to hospital. Yesterday a trip was made to the Whatawhata district while several sickness cases were attended to.

Less Butter Exported The unfavourable dairying conditions experienced in most districts of the Dominion up to December are reflected in the serious fall in exports of butter and cheese shown in the January figures. Shipments of butter at 10,429 tons were 5086 tons lower than those of January, 1938, while the despatch of cheese showed a fall of 1535 tons to 6507 tons on the same basis of comparison. For the six months of the season butter shipments from New’ Zealand are down on last year's corresponding figure by 15,411 tons to 64,731 tons, a decline of 19 per cent; In cheese the fall over the same period amounts to 3495 tons at 38,057 tons, a loss of 8 per cent.