LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4565, 5 November 1937, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Members and friends are reminded that the opening of the Riverside Tennis Club will be held on Sunday.

A church parade of Returned Soldiers will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday evening. Members are asked to parade at the R.S.A. Rooms at 6.45 p.m., and medals and decorations are to be worn.

At the annual Military "Smoko" to be held to-morrow night, and advertised elsewhere in this issue, interesting talks on military and defence matters will be heard. All those interested in the defence of this country are cordially invited to attend this function.

The work of clearing willows from the bed and banks of the Waipa River from Ngaruawahia to Otorohanga will be started very soon by the Public Works Department. Camps will be established at various points and about 300 men will be employed over two or three years.

On the casting vote of the Mayor, Mr. G. Spinley, the Te Awamutu Borough Council decided not to grant permission to the Te Awamutu Tennis Club to use the courts in Victoria Park for Sunday play. The matter may be raised again as one member of the Council was absent.

A largely attended general meeting of the Otorohanga Tennis Club was held on Tuesday evening to consider the matter of affiliation to the King Country Association. Mr. A. C. Wilsheir presided. After a full discussion the meeting by a large majority decided to affirm the decision of the annual general meeting tha.t the club should not affiliate to the association.

With the money obtained from selling land to the Jews entering Palestine the Arabs bought homes and expensive cars, said Lieutenant J. F. Thompson, of H.M.S. Leander, in an address at New Plymouth on Tuesday. The money quickly went and they were then faced with moving into the arid trans-Jordan area. It was this having to leave their country and the loss of more and more land to the Jews that caused discontent.

Herd testing figures for this district during September read as follows:—Te Kuiti group: 985 cows tested averaged 6801bs. milk, tested 4.39, and averaged 301bs. of fat. The two best herds averaged 401bs. of fat per cow, and the best cow's production was 70lbs. Pio Pio group: 764 cows tested averaged 7951b5. of milk, tested 4.62, and averaged 371bs. of fat. The best herd of 62 cows averaged 451bs. of fat, and the best cow 821bs. Mokauiti group: 497 cows tested averaged 7391b5. of milk, tested 4.42, and averaged 331bs. of fat. The best herd of 29 cows averaged 531bs. of fat and the best cow 871bs.

The New Zealand Cricket Council, in its annual report, states that the tour of the New Zealand team to England will show a substantial but at present unascertained loss. "In future," the report continues, "the council will have to consider very carefully the financial outcome of any tours, particularly by foreign teams in New Zealand."

"If I were lecturing 80 years ago I would be able to tell you exactly what a picture is," said Professor J. Shelley (Director of Broadcasting), in an address to the Society of Imperial Culture in Christchurch. "But in these days I think it could be summed up in the phrase, 'God only knows.'" He had been asked to speak on trends of modern art; but the direction taken by modern art might be compared with a cycle wheel, in which the trends would be represented by the spokes—in other words, there was no direction at all.

The monthly meeting of the Church of England Men's Society was held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday. In the absence of Bro. Isaac, the Rev. Bro. Hancock presided. After routine business Bro. Sanders, of Otorohanga, gave a most interesting narration of his experiences on the Gold Coast pi Africa. A church service was arranged for Sunday, November 21st, at 7 p.m. The evening concluded with supper served by the stewards.

In a letter just received from Wirth Bros.' advance manager, Mr. R. C. Mannington, we learn that Wirth's Mighty 1937 Circus will arrive at Bluff on November 7th, by the Union Company's Maunganui, which has been specially chartered by Wirth's to bring the circus from Australia. Giving one performance only at the Bluff, the circus will work up by daily stages through the Southland and Canterbury districts, after which it will cross to Wellington and after playing a short season there, the company intends to make a complete tour of the North Island. It is claimed by Mr. Mannington that with the many new imported European acts that have recently been added to this famous circus, together with a super menagerie of performing wild animals, Wirth's Circus this year surpasses even the mightiest efforts of its own unequalled past.