WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6827, 4 October 1883, Page 6

WAIKATO DISTRICT NEWS.

———*— ■■ — \ [from cue own corsesposdents 1 > Hamilton, Wednesday ! It appears that after your correspondent i u f the Waikato Cheese Factory, on Mond - morning, another 33£ gallons of milk W I received, making in all 153 gallons for tfc first day. Yesterday the amount was S I creased to 170 gallons. Tim managenw * has been entrusted to Mr. Thomas R \ man, on a salary of £200 a-year, with f», S honse, Captain Kunciman superintending u managing director. For this salary ju I Runciman finds all the labour required so I long as the milk received does; not exceed 60Q f gallons daily; after that the Verms are to be ' arranged by mutual consent. Although tht ! company advertised widely for the services of I a manager, but one skilled applicant replied ! and he would accept no leiis terms thaaj '■ free house, and a penny per lb. on all cheese '■ made. As the new grass begins to corns * milk will pour in from all quarters. One Whatawhata settler even, JHr. Calder, haa applied for a milk can, intending to supplj the Hamilton factory.

A special meeting of the East Hamiltoa School Committee was held last night, in : reference to High School matters. Great dissatisfaction had been expressed by many of the parents of the yonng Udies attending ; the school at recent alterations made by the Inspector, whereby they werci compelled, in ■ some of their studies, to tak<! their place in v the classes of the district school. The i parents would not have objected in the case [" of boys, bat not unnaturally did so in that o{ : girls of the ages of sixteen and seventeen, oE ? whom the High School ib mainly composed, ? ! and a persistence in the change made would K probably have broken up the High School V altogether. Tho alteration had evidently ; been made to economise teaching power, but \" the Inspector having heard that it was likelj !-■ to damage the High. School, wrote to the : teaehere—Messrs. Stevene und Bindon-~ t stating that the rule would net be arbitrarily (■; enforced. Ihe teachers then referred the t matter to the committee. There only were ''*• present at last night's meeting, Messrs. r Von Sturmer (Chairman), Bay, and Coch- I rane. It was resolved that a change '■" back to the old practice of keeping the High !"' School classes ehould be made. The com- fmittee, however, suggested tiat as such plan. [■ must necessarily cause extm work to the r. teachers, and that as the atbjndance on the \- district school was increasing, and still likely (• to increase as the fine weather sets in, aa 1 additional pupil teacher should be appointed. \: Aβ no tenders have been received for clear* > ing and fencing the five acres at the Lake, ; and building the jetty intended for the benefit of the Rowing Club, the time for receiving ; tenders has been extended to Monday next, r Cambridge, Wednesday. i Mr. J. B. Whyte, in. reply to a further < application urging upnn the Government the i desirability of going on at once with the ! Cambridge railway, has received a telegram \ from the Hon. Mr.-Johnston, saying "ten- i dera for plate-laying, Cambridge railway, will I be out in a tew days." ;

Waitoa, Wednesday. Messrs. Mercer and Manihall, the contractors for No. 1 section, some 31 miles o! the Rotorua and Thames "Valley Railway, are making good progress with tbeir work. Six miles are finished, and they have a second camp, eleven miles our, where for about four miles is the principal part of the work upon the section. All I;he timber and iron work is on the ground, and about 60 men are in full swing, forming bridge, building, &c.