LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4891, 3 September 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A proposal from Pio Pio to sell the manse at Aria and to hold the proceeds as the nucleus of a church building fund was deferred by the Waikato Presbytery at its meeting on Tuesday.

Purity of water would be a good “selling point’ 7 to obtain a dairy factory at Te Kuiti, said Cr. Dobson at the Borough Council m'eeting on Tuesday evening to consider the installation of a filtration plant. The retort by Cr. Mackersey was brief but to the point. “And a brewery wants a good water supply, too!” The Council laughed, but did not pursue that phase of the question further.

Speaking at Te Anga on Tuesday night, Mr. Dan Tynan said that in the early days of settlement, they had to drive their stock to Ohaupo, the nearest saleyards. When the rivers were in flood they had to swim the cattle across, the drovers sometimes swimming alongside holding on to the horns.

At the Marakopa Dairy Company’s social at Te Anga on Tuesday night, Mr. Frank Walker, manager of the Pio Pio factory, strongly supported Mr. Thrush when he asked suppliers to take every care with their cream. “No manager can make good butter unless he is supplied with good cream,” said Mr. Walker. “No man can build a good house unless he has good timber to work with, and the same principle applies to butter.”

A defendant in the Police Court at New Plymouth admitted delay in paying for the renewal of a radio license. He. stated that he had been away when the notice arrived at his house and the matter had been overlooked. “As a matter of fact,” he said, “the license was paid with a Government cheque which was two months overdue to me.” (Laughter.)

A little “dodge” that might have meant a couple of points had it succeeded was tried by the Wellington College place-kick in the match against Nelson College last week. Wellington had scored in a slushy corner of the ground, and the ball emerged from the melee muddy and greasy. There was a ball-boy standing in the touch line with a reserve ball, which “looked good” to the lad who was going to take the kick, so he made a “fair exchange.” The referee, however, noted the manoeuvre and the balls were changed back again. No goal resulted.

Under cross-examination by Mr. Holmden, who defended in the Auckland Police Court last week a motorist charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a car, a garage propi’ietor called by the police said that accused was to all appearances sober, but smelled strongly of liquor. “If he had had any drink at all, he was not fit to drive a car,” declared witness, when this question was put to him. “I smelled drink on him, but, of course, I could not say whether he had any in him.” In answer to Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., witness said that he did not think that a man who had had a drink should drive a car. “You make no difference between one pint and 10?” asked the magistrate. “No, sir,” was the answer.

“When the cars are not sound we burn ’em,” is the slogan of a halfpage advertisement of the Johannesburg' Star, received from Mr. A. H. Hilock, of Stratford, who is on holiday in South Africa. It was set out that approximately 100 used cars and trucks would be destroyed by fire on the day announced. Although many of the vehicles were still in running order, it was considered by the firm of used car dealers which sponsored the advertisement, that in the interests of public safety they should not be resold, as they were a menace to public safety. The grand bonfire was carried out with the co-operation of the Safty First Association, the Johannesburg City Council’s traffic department, and in support of General Motors (South Africa), Ltd., road safety campaign.

“This is a beautiful country, but you could make much more of it,” commented Frau Lily S. Krug', a German journalist in an interview with “The Dominion.” More extensive advertising would, she added, be very advantageous, because people overseas often had not the slightest idea of what the country, had to offer. To demonstrate how ignorant American people were concerning New Zealand, she said that she had been informed by an official in a shipping company before leaving the United States that there was no need to take any winter clothing, because this Dominion experienced warm weather all the year, but she had since been rather sorry she had accepted that advice.

“If the employees’ requests are acceded to, it will cost the Council an extra £lB9 per annum —all the outside employees are covered under this award,” said the Town Clerk on Tuesday evening, when consideration was being given to the formulating of counter proposals to be submitted by Borough Councils to the Arbitration Court. The Council, he pointed out, was at. present working on the 193.1 award, but the requests of the employees were considerably wider and the wages greater than the conditions there laid down. The Clerk was appointed to represent the Borough Council at a meeting to be held in Hamilton to formulate these counter proposals.

A £SO note passed through two pairs of hands as a 10s note recently in Palmerston North. The owner did not realise her loss till she returned home after shopping, but she was able to recall the business place where she had passed over the counter what she thought was a 10s note. Hastily she returned, but was dismayed to discover that the note had been passed over the counter again as change, and still as a 10s note. Three persons had been in the shop since the first visit of the loser, and only one of the three was known to the shopkeeper. A blank was drawn when inquiry was made of that person, but fortunately for the loser, when the person who had the note realised its value steps were taken for its return.