LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3192, 19 August 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A lecture on Africa will be given by Brigadier Cottrill hi the local Salvation Army Hall this evening.

A cable message from London states that Bradford business is quiet, but quotations are being firmly maintained.

A boy named Daniel Hetet, aged 10, son of Mr. Hikaka Hetet, was knocked down by a car which was coming out of Holah and Hedley’s garage on Saturday afternoon last. He was taken to the hospital, but his injuries were found to he only slight, and he was discharged yesterday.

An inquest into the death of the native, Matihu Papa, who was shot in the bush near Pukemako while pig hunting on Friday afternoon, was held before Mr. J. Galbraith, J.P. on Saturday. A verdict of accidental death w'as returned. The deceased belonged to Te Kuiti. He was a married man, 28 years of age. He had no children.

The Te Kuiti Co-operative Rural Intermediate Credit Association, Ltd., will hold its annual meeting at the office of the secretary, Mr. A. W. Whyte, Security Buildings, on Wed-, nesday, August 27, at 2.30 p.m.

The Teddy Shield, successfully defended against Cambridge by the Te Kuiti District High School on Saturday, and the Northern Roller Mills Shield to be played for by primary school teams at Pukekohe this week, are on display in Messrs. Fraser and McEwan’s window.

Replying to a question by Mr. Gorton at yesterday’s meeting of the Waitomo Power Board as to whether the Board could protect its equipment against fire, Mr. Lee stated that the question had been previously dealt with by the Board, but it had not been considered that this would be a payable proposition. The secretary said he did not know of any other Board which insured against such loss.

A local medico, in responding to the toast of “Medical and Nursing Services” at the soldiers’ re-union on Saturday night, had occasion to correct himself during the course of his remarks. “We might,” he said, “become callous and a bit rough in wartime . . Realising that he was

also including the nursing services, the speaker hastily retracted the word rough from the dual association. “Of course, I don’t mean that to apply to the nurses,” he explained amidst loud laughter.

Urging the necessity for the support of their respective associations by returned men at the soldiers’ reunion on Saturday evening last, Mr. Cayley-Alexander, in proposing the toast of the R.S.A., instanced the service that had been rendered to soldiers —supported by the Association —through the Appeal Board. Out of nine cases which had been dealt with the local R.S.A., seven had been sue eessful, the other two having yet to be heard.

The question of the purchase of a new truck was under discussion at yesterday’s meeting of the Waitomo Power Board. The present truck has been in commission for five years, and the question of whether it should be traded in for a new one or whether it should be repaired was under discussion. “I heard some of the men referring to ‘grandpa’ the other day,” said the chairman, “and on enquiry I found that that was the name by which the truck was known.” The matter was left in abeyance in the meantime.