LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21367, 11 March 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Estate of £1,802,989 The late Duke of Northumberland left an estate valued at £1,802,989.

Shortage of Fish With no settlement reached in the dispute between fishermen and fish merchants in Auckland the fishing fleet again stayed in port yesterday. A shortage of fish this week is inevitable. Bigger Tin Dividend Rawang Tin Fields (Malay States) has declared a final half-yearly dividend of 9d sterling a share, making Is 3d sterling a share for the year, payable on March 27. This compares with a total of 7id sterling a share for the previous year. Horses For Waiouru The last special train, conveying horses to Waiouru military camp for use by the Waikato Mounted Rifles in their territorial training, left Claudelands today with approximately 220 horses, which had been brought from Bay of Plenty districts yesterday. Child Stamps Out Bomb Examples of great courage and presence of mind were shown by children in a recent bombing raid on Bristol. Twelve-year-old Barbara Horn, dressed for a party, saw an incendiary threaten a house. She ran inside and extinguished the bomb by stamping on it. Then she helped to put out seven others. Huge Output Instancing the great development of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, at a staff social function last evening, Mr C. J. Parlane, general manager, said the company’s output for overseas and local consumption in 1920 was 11,652 j tons, and in 1940 it was 75,611 tons. ! The latest list of suppliers to the ‘ company totalled 12,759. Plunket Appeal A street appeal organised by the i Hamilton Plunket Society was held j in Hamilton today. From an early | hour collectors were stationed at i various vantage points in the town j and most passers-by who were; stopped contributed cheerfully to the j appeal. I Blackout Commences Auckland appeared a drab city last ! night when the blackout scheme was j inaugurated. Although the scheme j was not comprehensive all commun- j ity lighting schemes in the city and ! suburbs were extinguished as were j most of the illuminated advertising j signs and the glare in the sky was j considerably reduced. j Farmer Injured A Matangi farmer, Mr James j Killen, had a narrow escape from ; serious injury yesterday when en- j gaged in topdressing on his farm. He i had stopped the team to adjust part | of the harness when the horses took ’ fright and bolted, the topdresser j passing right over him. Mr Killen j suffered'a compound fracture of the; left leg. Sydney’s House Shortage j Sydney needs immediately 30,000 j new houses and 30,000 more to re- j place existing sub-standard dwell- ; ings, says Sydney Sun. Rented j houses are almost unprocurable and j the home seeker who wants to build , is lucky if he can secure the neces- ■ sary finance. j New Bridge Recommended The replacement of Farmers’ j Bridge on the Ohinewai-Tahuna ! main highway, was recommended to ] the Waitato County Council today by ; the engineer, Mr A. A. Woodward, ! who said that some repairs had been effected during the month. A new bridge on a better alignment was urgently required. 50,000 Conscientious Objectors Fifty thousand conscientious objectors are registered in Britain. The age groups producing the greatest number of objectors were those of 21 and 22, each with 2.1 per cent, of • the population. Thirty per cent, of I the 50,000 were ordered to perform [ non-combatant duties, 37 per cent, j are doing national work, such as j farming, 27 per cent, had their ap- i peals rejected and six per cent, were unconditionally exempted from service. Resignation of Members Failing to get a quorum at the last meeting of the executive of the Papa- j kura Patriotic Society, the members present decided to tender their resig- ! nations to the Papukura Borough ; Council, and they were received at I the council meeting last night. The resignations were tendered as a protest against the lack of enthusiasm | and interest displayed by the rest of j the members. The Mayor, Mr S. Evans, said he would call a public meeting early next week to fill the vacancies. “If what is threatened comes to pass, these people will soon show their interest,” he added. Vocational Service

The place of vocational service among the objects of Rotary International was the subject of an address given by Mr H. Valder, at the weekly luncheon of the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday. To secure the new social order which was one of the ideals of the present world struggle there would have to be a complete readjustment of men’s attitudes to industry and business, said the speaker. By bringing into daily practice the principles of Christianity and democracy, Rotarians could help in building the new world order.