LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4638, 11 May 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A fine of £l, costs 12s, was imposed upon Jack Giles Carter in the Court yesterday, on a charge that he was found upon premises upon which a search warrant was executed by the police and a quantity of liquor seized. The charge related to the raid on H. M. Young's premises on December 23. Charged with operating an unregistered trailer in the Awakino Gorge jn January 19, S, Hildred was in the Te Kuiti Magistrate's Court yesterday fined 10s, costs 12s. The old canoe which carried the body of Tumate Mahuta down the river to the Taupiri burial ground was chosen because it has been connected with the Waikato peoples through many troublesome days. On one occasion Major von Tempsky endeavoured to destroy it, and in the Maori mind i" was linked with the events which resulted in the confiscation of tribal lands. It was in the settlement of the long dispute between the Waikato tribes and the various Governments of New Zealand that the late Tumate Mahuta played such a prominent part, end therefore it was most fitting that his body should be conveyed to Taupiri in the historic canoe.

Mr. R. W. Joseph, Maori representative on the King Country Rugby Union, has received word that the Prince of Wales match which was to be played at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, on the 26th inst., is definitely off owing to the flood. The match will now be played on the 25th June at Opotiki, Bay of Plenty, and the Taihauauru team will be selected on the 28th inst.

"I know how the compensating price could be brought about in a day," remarked a farmer's wife at a meeting at Hamilton. "Farmers should simply feed their milk to the pigs and refuse to allow any town supply." There was a burst of laughter at the remark, Colonel Closey stating that farmers were "quiet, peaceable sort of chaps" who could not be persuaded to take direct action to secure their demands.

Mr. A. F. Moncur, M.P. for Rotoraa, ou Sunday afternoon paid visits to the Waimiha and Punga Punga native development scheme settlements, and was much struck with the progress made in both places. After visiting the Punga Punga settlement the party drove out as far as the car could travel over* the new road which is to connect Taumarunui with Tokaanu. At the end of the metalled portion of the road the party saw the results of the good work that is being carried out by mechanical methods. At the present rate of progress it is anticipated that the road will be completed in about 12 months' time. The party was conducted by Mri W. Seator.

"Throw the candidate out," went up the cry at Mr. H. T. Morton's meeting last evening. However, the "candidate" was not one on whose election the people of Te Kuiti are called to vote to-day—it was a large white goat in which some elector had apparently found points of resemblance with those standing for local bodies. It had wandered into the State Theatre last evening, and thus interrupted the policy speech of one budding Councillor —he had to wait until a member of the audience had chased the goat to the back of the theatre, and then ejected it amid the plaudits of an admiring crowd. The goat had previously done worse than this—it had actually interrupted the speech of a budding Mayor, Mr. K. W. Low, who was speaking at the Ritz. It had even tried to join the speaker and Mr. Carroll on the stage.

A London business man visiting New Zealand is surprised at the amount of drinking permitted in New Zealand dance halls. "Nowhere at Home," he said, "would a girl coming out of a dance hall and putting a bottle to her lips in the street be seen. The police would not allow it." Young people here did not seem to realise that drinking in public in such a manner was undesirable. Drunkenness seemed to be more noticeable here. There were not sufficient New Zealanders to fill one large English city, yet drunkenness was a more frequent sight here. It was possible to go all day in London and not see a drunken person; Australia compared unfavourably with England in that respect.

Non-payment of heavy traffic license fees by farmers in Taranaki is tc be made the subject of further inquiries, according - to Mr. G. L. Laurenson, Commissioner of Transport, When application for a sine die adjournment of proceedings against a farmer was made if. the New Plymouth Police Court, it was said that steps were being taken to legalise the position. The statement was referred to Mr. Laurenson by telephone. The object of the adjournment, he said, was merely to permit further investigation of the situation in the province. "We don't want to penalise one man when all the other farmers are not paying," he explained. The subject was mentioned in Court by Mr. E. S. Summers, highways inspector, when asking for an adjournment of a charge against James Allen Budden of not having a heavy traffic license for a motor vehicle operated by him on the New Plymouth-Te Kuiti highway at Bell Block on March 28.