LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20987, 14 December 1939, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

King’s Birthday Today is the birthday of King George VI. but as the official observance falls in June there will be ho particular functions to mark the occasion. Flags are flown on all Government buildings. Nautical Inquiry The Court of Inquiry into the stranding of the Waikouaiti in Foveaux Strait will begin its sittings on December 21. Director of Broadcasting After a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday it was announced that Professor James Shelley had been reappointed director of broadcasting. Facial Eczema Three officers of the Department of Agriculture are in the Gisborne district, engaged in research work in connection with facial eczema. Resignation From Council In line with action vtaken by other leaders of the Auckland Farmers’ Union, Mr A. Briscoe Moore, president of the Whangarei sub-province of the union, has resigned from the Whangarei Primary Production Council. Concert at Camp A concert party organised by the Hamilton Citizens’ Band on behalf of the Hamilton patriotic entertainment committee visited the Hopu Hopu camp last night. The programme included: Band quartette, Messrs J. MacDonald, E. Houlton, G. Greig, I. Taylor; elocution, Miss Williams; songs, Misses Whittaker, Owen and Winter; cornet solos, Messrs Houlton and Greig; song and dance, Miss G. Forster and V. G. Roberts. The accompanist was Mrs F. Kear.

School Scholarships The May Allen scholarship fund sponsored by Hamilton High School Old Girls stands at £145. No award was made this year. The Eben Wilson Memorial Scholarship fund, administered by the Old Boys’ Association, stands at.£3so, £75 having been added this year, according to the annual report of the principal of the Hamilton High School, Mr H. D. Tait, which was presented at the annual prize-giving of the school today. Doctrinal Teaching A member of the commission from Auckland which attended the Waikato Presbytery yesterday, in emphasing the need for doctrinal teaching in church pulpits, expressed the opinion that to the lack of it could be described the dwindling interest in church attendance. The member quoted an old lady as saying, “a church service is now a place to suck sweets—and they are bad for the kidneys.” Patriotic Appeal Thirty seals for sticking on personal correspondence have been sent to every householder by the National Patriotic Fund Board, of which the Governor-General, Lord Galway, is chairman. Householders have been asked to forward 2s 6d in stamps or by postal note to the board in order to supply comforts and recreational facilities for our armed forces and mercantile marine. Those who have not yet responded to Lord Galway’s appeal are asked to do so now, as funds are urgently needed by December 22. Revered Headmaster “A ceremony of great note to the school and to our Old Pupils’ Associations was the unveiling of the Eben Wilson Memorial. The esteem and respect in which the late Mr Wilson was held was disclosed by the great number attending the ceremony, the Assembly Hall being unable to accommodate all those who came to pay tribute to his memory,” said Mr H. D. Tait, principal of the Hamilton High School, in his annual report presented at the prize-giving ceremony to-day.

Court Lacks Jurisdiction In a reserved judgment delivered in Wellington yesterday, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, held that the Supreme Court of New Zealand had no jurisdiction in its capacity as an Admiralty Court to decide an action brought by a New Zealand subject against an American ship. The ruling arose from an action against the Monterey. Mrs Rose Mabel Hamilton, of Wellington, widow, alleged in a writ that she was assaulted by Michael McDonough, an American steward on the Monterey, on the high seas between Honolulu and New Zealand, on May 12, 1938. An application was made to the Court to dismiss the action for want of jurisdiction.