TE AWAMUTU AFFAIRS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18222, 16 October 1922, Page 9

TE AWAMUTU AFFAIRS.

MOTOR AMBULAfiCU WANTED. [BY. TKLKGEAPE. —OWN COBEESPONDBNT.J TE AWAMUTU, Saturday.

The Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce is making representations to the Waikato Hospital Board for the purchase of a. motor ambular>oe offered for sale by the Waihi Hospital Board. The Borough Council has offered to maintain the ambulance if provided and the Motor Club to place competent drivers at the disposal of the authorities. The headmaster's report to the Te Awamutu District High School Committee reveals that the attendance register is numerically greater to-day than it was a year ago, although a denominational school has been opened. The committee proposes to provide swimming baths and equipment for physical culture at the Echool. The annual installation ceremony connected with Lodge Waipa took place on Wednesday, Brother 0. G. Downes being installed in the master's chair. The ceremony was. conducted by Brother S. S- Allen and Grand Lodge officers, and was attended by over 120 Freemasons. Particular interest centred in this installation, as it was tho twenty-first anniversary of the lodge. A petition has been lodged with the Te Awamutu Borough Council demanding a poll to -o taken to determine whether the future rating system in the borough should be on the unimproved value. The netition was considered at the last council meeting, when it was discovered that the full three years since the last rating poll had not elapsed so that the councU could not proceed at this juncture. The petition has therefore been returned to the nctitioners for presentation about a month henca.