LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4811, 20 February 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of the Te Kuiti Golf Club has been postponed for a week, to Thursday next, 27th instant, as a mark of respect to the memory of the late Mrs. H. D. Cooper.

Keen interest will be taken in Te Kuiti in the summer meeting of the Waikato Racing Club on Saturday and Monday next at the Te Rapa racecourse. Special train arrangements for the convenience of Te Kuiti patrons have already been advertised.

During the hearing of an involved dairy factory claim in the Wellington Supreme Court, his Honour, Mr. Justice Smith, asked, amidst laughter, “has this case a general bearing, or is it just a private fight?” He was assured that other companies were greatly interested in the judgment that might be come to.

Probably as a result of a mosquito bite, James Jamieson, aged 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Jamieson, of Horahora, has been an inmate of the Waikato Hospital for the past 'six weeks, suffering from poisoning caused by a germ entering the bite. An X-ray examination was taken last week.

An electric power failure of fairly long duration occurred over the Waitomo Power Board’s area yesterday. ' The current went off after 2 p.m.. and remained so for an hour and five minutes, before the fault, which lay in the Public Works portion of the system, could be rectified.

'“To hear some people in the United States talk, you would think that Roosevelt and Hoover were the two biggest scoundrels in America,” said Dr. Guy H. Scholefield in an adderss to the Rotary Club on Tuesday, but I shall be surprised if Roosevelt does not get back to the Presidential chair.”

Since the inception of aero clubs in New Zealand up to 1935, flying hours totalled 48,623, while 649 licenses were obtained, 264 A licenses endorsed, and 29 B licenses obtained. The clubs had 647 pilots and pupil members and 1987 associate members. During the period the clubs operated 42 machines. These details were submitted to Ministers of the Crown by delegates from the New Zealand Aero clubs, who urged an increase of last years subisidy of £4500 to £IO,OOO next financial year, in order to facilitate the training of more New Zealand young men to meet the growing needs of aviation.

Fitted with weird and inexplicable systems of pulleys and complicated labour-saving devices, a model of a railway engine conceived after the fashion set by the famous pictorial exponents of haywire inventions, Mr. W. Heath Robinson, caused some amusement among members of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers at the exhibition of engineering models in Wellington this week. Although the model is perfectly made, it is raised from the ordinary by the provision of teapot and cups underneath the steam outlet, hot water bottles beside the boiler, armchairs for the driver and stoker, pot plants at the windows and poultry under the footplate. Numerous other attachments, such as the conveyance of coal (or beer) from a trailer by means of an intricate arrangement of pulleys, gave the engine a truly grotesque appearance.

The twenty-first anniversary of the landing of the New Zealanders at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, will be commemorated by the issue of a postage stamp specially struck as he result of collaboration between the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Postal Department. There will be two denominations; one penny and one halfpenny, in red and green respectively, and selling at twopence and one penny. Half the proceeds from sales will be passed to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association for use in necessitous cases of ex-servicemen and their dependents. The stamps will not be issued before Anzac Day next, April 25, but will be on sale for approximately six weeks thereafter.

“It seems a pity that sheep should be allowed to come into New Zealand and wander all over the country with a burr like that on them,” said the president (Mr. Roland Guinness) at a meeting of he committee of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association during a discussion on a sample of wool which the secretary (Mr. H. H. Fraser) produced and said had come off the back of an Australian ram recently imported. Mr. H. B. S. Johnstone said that the' committee had discussed burr a considerable time ago, when it was stated that the pest was growing beside the railway sidings in Timaru. He understood that burr was worse than bidi-bidi in that the mills at Home were unable to pull it out of the fleeces so easily. It was decided to write to the Stock Department asking that action be taken to ensure that in future no sheep be allowed to enter the country so affected.