LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21178, 30 July 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Loan Statistics Of the loans under the administration of the State Advances Corporations at March 31, 1940, there were in Hamilton area 4600 farm mortgages for £5,890,379, and 4102 on homes amounting to £1,941,871. Severe Frost Another heavy frost of 11.9 degrees was recorded at Ruakura this morning, while the reading in Hamilton was 8 degrees. An early morning fog soon cleared and the glorious sunny weather of the first two days of the week was repeated. Insurance Company’s Surplus The year’s surplus of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Limited, £112,885, compares with £94,666 in the previous year. With the net income from interest and rents, £151,834, there is a total profit of £264,719, against £231.678 a year ago. The unchanged year’s dividend of 2s a share, or 10 per cent, absorbs £150,000. Resisted Police Eric Nathaniel Broderson, of Cambridge, appeared before Justices of the Peace in Cambridge and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, for being drunk and for resisting the police. Broderson agreed to take out a prohibition order. Cash-boxes Found The two cash-boxes that were removed from Messrs Hallenstein Bros’ safe in the burglary early on Saturday morning have been recovered in the Hamilton Borough Council’s yards in Ward Street. There is still no trace of the burglar who had the boxes. There was a little cash left, but most of the £l2O had been taken. Overseas Securities

Returns of all overseas securities or currency held by persons in New Zealand must be in the hands of the chief cashier of the Reserve Bank tomorrow. The obligation is contained in the Finance Emergency Regulations, 1940 (No. 2), which were gazetted last month.

Firearms In Vehicles A provision in recently-Gazetted amendments to the traffic regulations is that, except for police or defence purposes or in terms of a permit issued by the police, it is illegal to operate a vehicle on which is carried any firearm loaded with a cartridge in the breech or magazine.

Footballer Injured A prominent Hamilton footballer, Alan St. Clair Belcher, aged 19, of George Street, Claudelands, son of Mr A. St. Clair Belcher, chairman of the Waikato Rugby Union, received bruises to the neck while playing football on Saturday. Belcher was playing for his club team, Frankton, at Taupiri. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital, where his condition is satisfactory*

"His Lucky Day When a man loses nearly £BO and recovers it on the same day he has every reason to congratulate himself on his good fortune. Recently a man dropped his wallet, containing £79 in cash, in a busy part of the city and it was picked up by a woman who at once took it to the Dunedin Police Station. Inquiring from the police as to what would be a suitable reward, the man -was told £5. He generously doubled the amount.

Kiwis on Egmont Kiwis are stated to be apparently multiplying rapidly in Egmont National Park. Several have been seen on the Dawson Falls track at night recently and opossum trappers, rangers and others say that the call of kiwis can be heard almost any night, not from an isolated bird but from five or six foraging round about. “From my cwn experience I should say there #re now well over 100 kiwis in the reserve,” said Mr N. P. Gibson, Kaimiro, ranger for the Egmont National Park Board.

Games fer Soldiers The appeal by the Hamilton Women’s Patriotic Committee yesterday for linen met with a most gratifying response, and much of the linen sent in was even hemstitched ready for use. The committee has decided to make another appeal to the public on behalf of the soldiers who are convalescing, for games to help them pass away the long hours. Games such as monopoly, snakes and ladders, ludo, jig-saws, draughts and cards are required. These also may be left at the Patriotic Hut in Garden Place. Farmer’s War Offers An excellent example of help in the war effort has been given by a Woodville farmer, who has offered to graze up to 50 heifers on his sheep farm during the coming months and has given to a roadman who occupies a cottage on his property the use of 40 acres to run a herd of 20 cows. He has also expressed his willingness to lend two horses to the local troop of mounted rifles and has announced that any farmer needing lime free may come and take what he requires. Lime to be found on the property is 98 per cent pure. Increase of Capital The directors of Kempthorne. Prosser and Company’s New Zealand Drug Company, Limited, have decided to place before shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting proposals to increase the nominal capital of the company from £600,000 to £BOO,OOO. It is proposed to offer to members for subscription at par one new ordinary share for every four shares held at present. The Minister of Finance, recognising the importance in the public interest of extending the company's business in manufacturing fertilisers, has given his approval to the increase of capital. Mr Churchill’s Energy “Winston’s normal energy has new become dynamic,” related Hannen Skaffer in the Daily Herald, London, of May 24. “In Paris this week a conference that went on till 3 in the morning was suddenly electrified by a Churchill who, rising from his chair, exploded into a torrent of inspiring eloquence. Then, not much more than two hours later, someone who wandered along a corridor at the British Embassy heard a burst of song. It was Winston singing in his bath, nearly ready for a flight back to London at 6 a.m. On another occasion he dispelled a defeatist mood in a friend with an outburst: ‘What would I do if the Germans landed? What would I do? Why, if there was nothing else that, could be done, I’d go for the swine jf i had only an inkpot ua my haneli’ "