LOCAL & GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2922, 30 June 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Custom Observed A time-honoured 1 custom among the Paeroa bowlers is that the incoming president should call for refreshments for all the members. When Mr Walter Rowan took the office last evening he duly fulfilled that duty. Musical Honours An uiiusual ceremony signalised the election of a secretary for the Paeroa Bowling Club at the annual meeting last evening. The former occupant of the position, 'Mr T. W. Pye, announced his definite decision to retire and after Mr L. E. McDonald had been persuaded to accept the post he vzas accorded spontaneous musical honours. Waitawheta Bridge For the past three months the travelling public has been considerably inconvenienced as the result of the Waitawheta bridge being closed to traffic. It was thought that when the work of repairing wa& undertaken the bridge would have been completed within a reasonable period. However, it is said that the delay is due to a shortage of timber necessary for the job. Meanwhile users of the Waitawheta road have to go miles out df their way to reach Waitawheta Valley. Just “Twaddle” Referring to it as “twaddle” and “nauseating,” Cr. D. McGregor at a meeting of the Bruce County Council, drew attention to what he called the “surfeit” of correspondence from the Public Works' Department and other Government departments, dealing with the “sacred duty of local bodies as employers to their employees.” “It is nauseating,” he said after the clerk had read a circular letter from the Public Works Department, “and I don’t know if they expect us to memorise all this twaddle. It is only wasting our time and a lot of paper.” Life In The Country The advantages of life in the country, as compared with the city, were emphasised- by the Mayor, Mr J. R. Hanan, in welcoming the delegates to the Girls’ Educational Week to Invercargill recently. “In the city we have electricity,” said Mr Hanan, “but you have that. There is the telephone, and you have that, people in the city have newspapers but you have them, too. And then there is the motor car —but what farmer hasn’t got a motor car? And the farmer has independence >which is better than them all.”