LOCAL AND GENERAL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1896, 4 December 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is understood that a new limecrushing works will shortly be opened near Te Kuiti. A long-felt want in Te Kuiti has been a kindergarten school for children who are too young to attend the public school. A lady who has had a wide experience in these institutions has made inquiries as to the prospects for starting a school of this description, and if sufficient inducement offers will open same in a centrally situated hall. Any information on this matter required by parents will be supplied at the Chronicle Office.

On the recommendation of the the manager of the Electric Light Department, the Town Council decided that the meters would not be read in January. This action was decided on as many householders were away during that month, and it gave the staff an opportunity of concentrating on the collection of arrears.

Ther are two institutions that no public man can afford to be up against—the Police and the Press.”— The Mayor at last night’s Council meeting.

Referring to tourist matters generally, Mr J. E. Winsloe, in conversation with a. New Zealand Times reporter last week, stated as a result of his recent tour he was convinced that the time was opportune to organise a Hundred Thousand Tourist Club in New Zealand for the purpose of making more widely known the wonderful attractions of its tourist resorts. An annual membership fee of 10s would realise £50,000, and with an approximate administration of £2OOO there would be a net amount of £48,000 each year for expenditure on publicity. These clubs were in existence in other countries and had been a great success.

The election of the Dairy Control Board is now in full swing. Voting papers must reach Wellington by noon, December 13, so that dairy farmers in the Auckland District should vote immediately. The following are the official candidates approved by the Dairy Council representing all the interested dairy factories of New .Zealand: K. Dalrymple, Bulls, Hangitikei; H. D. Forsyth, Eltham, Taranaki; W. Goodfellow, Hamilton; W. Grounds, Hokianga; W. A. loins, Martinborough, Wairarapa ; W.‘ C. Motion, Waiuku, Auckland. Dairy farmers are urged to vote'immediately.—Advt

The most luxurious private railway car in is being built for Henry Ford, the car millionaire, at a cost of 75,000 dollars '(says the New York Herald). The car will give all the comforts of a mansion. It will contain tiled bathrooms, sumptuous bedrooms, and a drawing room with an electric phonograph and a broadcasting and receiving radio set. Other features will he an electrical kitchen and also a richly appointed business office and secretary’s quarters.

“It is estimated that 150 gallons of water are necessary per head of population,” said a Masterton borough councillor the other evening. “Britain uses 20 to 25 gallons per head, but 1 have heard that they do not go in for baths there,” he added, amid laughter. America, he continued, used 200 gallons per head.

New York, contains more Jews than any other city in the world, more Italians than any Italian city, and probably more Germans than any town in Germany. It is said that 75 per cent of the population is foreign or of foreign descent.

A big crossbred bloodhound gave an exhibition of speed (or alternatively showed that our trains are not recordbreakers) during last week. It was on the departure platform at the Auckland station when a train was depatched for the south. The hound started off with the train and kept up to the ginc to Parnell bridge, in spite of the efforts of the fireman to stop it by throwing pieces of coal. At the bridge it was compelled to wait until the train had passed over, but it soon regained its position alongside the engine and maintained the race to the Parnell tunnel, where, of course, it was shaken off.

The price of cement has been further reduced. Advice was received in New Plymouth last week that the price will be 4s 6d a ton less from Saturday.

There is conclusive evidence, the Te Awamutu correspondent of th£. New Zealand Herald says, that .cattle tick has made its appearance in that district, as well as the disease known as blackleg. Cattle at Mangapiko, five miles from Te Awanvutu, have recently been found infested with the tick. An assistant inspector has been asked for.

Big towns, like “big” people, are often the result of a lucky destiny. How Morrinsville just missed becoming a city is told by an old railroad surveyor (says an exchange). It appears that when the Auckland-Rotorua line reached Ngaruawaliia it was proposed to deflect it in a south-easterly direction round the edge of the Piako swamp to Morrinsville. This would have obviated the building of two large bridges over the Waikato, and taking the railway down the east side of the river instead of zig-zagging across it. A fierce controversy raged about tlie matter at the time, and eventually Hamilton influence won. Had it not been so, Morrinsville would have been a great junction town instead of Hamilton.

In the papers sent in by the school children for the slogan of greeting for visitors, one suggested for the Awakino Road was, “All conveniences, but no liquor.” For the Te Awamutu, the juvenile cynic proposed “The gateway to our only requirement.”

A Press message states that the London wool sales opened strong. Merino wool is at par, but there is an advance of five per cent in crossbreds.