Brief Mention of Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.
There will be special singing by the scholars at the Matamata Methodist Sunday School anniversary services on Sunday.
" Consistency is the refuge of fools," claimed a member of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, during a discussion at Tuesday's meeting.
There's a rare outing in store for Hinuera and folk of the adjacent districts on Saturday afternoon, as will be noted by the advertisement of the great, jumble sale by the Hinuera Tennis Club.
Caotain W. R. Burge, M.C. and bar, N.Z.S.C., area officer 28, Gisbornc, has been appointed to the position of adjutant of the Ist Battalion Hauraki Regiment, vice the late Captain H. Peacock.
Next Sunday will be a red-letter day among the Roman Catholic community of Matamata district. The Church of the Holy Angels, which has recentlv been practically doubled in size, will be blessed and reopened by His Lordship the Bishop.
The Matamata Jersey Breeders Club has the important matters of the revision of the show schedule and the deal in?; with certain correspondence from Paimerston headquaneis to occupy the close attention of memmors at the meeting to be held on Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gregory, who recently returned from Fiji and who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Coote at Matamata, left on Tuesday for a trip to North Auckland. Later they will go to Wellington, Mr. Gregory having been appointed to the head office.
During the -storm, last '.Saturday evening the lightning proved dangerous to stock. At Te Poi Messrs. McNab and Davidson lost a fat pig from this cause.. As there were nine pigs in the same paddock the owners thought themselves fortunate that " the wrath of the gods" was appeased by the sacrifice of one of the swine.
It seems to be a penchant of the new arrivals to grumble at everything in the Dominion. A noteworthy exception has been found in the person of a farmer (of six months' standing) residing near Okauia. This gentleman, a retired Imperial army officer, considers New Zealand a wonderful country for well under a century old. The opinion held by him is that the early pioneers must have done excellent work blazing the trail for those who followed.
There was a good attendance of school children at the interesting lantern lecture given in the Matamata Town Hall on Tuesday night. Probably on account of the failure to use the ordinary advertising medium of the local paper to make the affair widely known the attendance of adults was not large!. The lecturer (Mr. H. H. Faston) was a most voluble speaker, possessing a touch of humour, and was an enthusiastic advocate of alpine scenery as a holiday resort. His lectures should help the people of the North and the South Islands of New Zealand to realise that they all belong to the one country.
In connection with the Thames Valley Electric Power Board's suggestion that the Power Boards throughout the Dominion should each take an electrical student into its employ in order that the students might gain some practical knowledge, the chairman (Mr. F. H. Claxton) stated at Tuesday's meeting that he had had a conversation on the matter with Mr. F. M. T. Kissel (chief Government electrical engineer), who was of the opinion that it was an excellent idea, and considered there should be a cooperation between the Department and the boards. The boards could give a lot of tuition that the Department could not give, and the Department could impart a great amount of knowledge that the boards could not and were not in a position to give. The Public Works Department is sparing no effort to make good its work on the Mangaiti deviation. A big party of workmen are again employed on it. Slips have been removed, fillings raised and widened, drainage improved, and some metalling and much sanding done. It is on this latter work that the men are stifl employed. The boon that this piece of road improvement has proved to the travelling public justifies the public agitation for its undertaking. A fui-ther improvement to the PutaruruTaupo road is the formation of some three miles of the old road from tho deviation to the Rotorua-Atiamuri road. Up to the time of this formation this three miles has been both literally and figuratively a " washout " of road—from nine inches to two feet below the natural level of the ground. Now it is a broad road of excellent formation and is already consolidated.—Record.
Mr. N. Horscroft, formerly well known in Tirau as a high-class baker and pastrycook, has resumed proprietorship of his old business. Mr. Horscroft is specialising in white and brown breads and Christmas ami birthday cakes and guarantees same made from the best ingredients. Motor deliveries are made to all parts of the district. A trial is solicited.*
Another new business is opened in Matamata. Mr. Geo. Menary announces that he is calling on families frequently where required daily with fresh fish direct from the sea and smoked fish, and what could form a better item in the Christmas fare than fish.*
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Matamata Record, Volume VII, Issue 587, 4 December 1924, Page 4
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