LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20921, 28 September 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Grant of a Week’s Pay The Whakatane County Council has decided to grant one week’s pay to employees who have enlisted. Estate of Four Million Dollars The late Mr C. Laemmle, film magnate, of Hollywood, left an estate valued at 4,000,000 dollars. Final Dividend The directors of the New Zealand Guarantee Corporation. Limited, recommend a final dividend of 2d a share, less social security tax, payable on October 26. Street Appeal Succeeds A street appeal in Te Kuiti in aid of the St. John Ambulance Association exceeded expectations. The receipts amounted to more than £4O in cash, and a radio set was also donated. Elderly Woman Assaulted At Thames yesterday Neville George Moran was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting a woman, aged 80, who lived alone between Kopu and Kirikiri. Gaol For 'Wearing Mask Dave Peri, a Maori, was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment by justices at Rawene. Wearing a mask he visited a house at Pawaranga and knocked. A girl who opened the door was so frightened that she collapsed. The Bench described the offence as a serious affair. Car Destroyed by Fire When a small motorcar overturned at Rototuna late on Tuesday night the occupants, Mr M. E. Beaumont, of Frankton, and a companion had a narrow escape from injury, as the vehicle caught fire and was destroyed. The two men had barely time to extricate themselves before the flames gained control. Child Injured While standing on the back of a motor-lorry which was being backed into a shed at Matangi, yesterday, a child, Joyce Ellen Olsen, aged 8, daughter of Mr A. A. Olsen, of Matangi, was struck on the head, and the lower part of her face injured. She was admitted to the Waikato Hospital last evening, and her condition to-day is satisfactory. Light Court Day The only case to come before Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day was that in which a statutory first onender for drunkenness appeared. The man was convicted and discharged. It is usual on a Thursday for up to 30 cases to come before the magistrate, and the business often occupies a full day. This morning’s Court lasted only a few minutes. Unofficial Mascot A fox-terrier which attached itself to the Waikato Regimental and Hamilton Municipal Band in Knox Street, acted as an unofficial mascot to the advance party of troops who marched through the town yesterday on their way to the Hamilton station. When the band struck up, the dog provided a canine accompaniment, punctuated with barking. Efforts to remove it failed and it followed the detachment right down the main street.

Sale of Mutton

A suggestion that profits to be secured from the sale of last season’s ewe mutton, which would be exported now because of war needs, should be devoted toward the cost of the war was made by Mr J. W. D. Hall at a meeting of the North Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union. If the profits were not going to the farmers then they should not go to the companies, he said. The sale of this ewe mutton was dependent on the war, and the proceeds should go to the cost of the war. It was agreed to make an inquiry about where the profits from the sale of such mutton were going.

City Grows Vegetables A practical move made by the Invercargill City Council for growing vegetables on some of its spare land was characterised by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, as a local body effort meriting high commendation when additional supplies of foodstuffs were as necessary as they were desirable. The council had shown foresight and enterprise, he said. Already in Invercargill the preparation for vegetables (potatoes, swedes, cabbages and carrots) has almost been completed of some 45 acres of the parks and reserves.