WAIMATE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 39

WAIMATE.

March 18.—Mr Wemyss, the caretaker of the local baths, is leaving Waimate for same months to take up an engagement in Christcluuch. On Wednesday the boys of the local school presented him with a silver-mounted pipe. Master Lewis- Wills made the presentation. In the afternoon, on behalf of the girls of the school and the members, of the ladies' class, Mrs Akhurst presented Mr Wemyss with a set of military brushes, razor, strop, and a tobacco pouch. Mr Wemyss made an appreciative response. During the day the members of the local School Committee attended to see an exhibition of swimming, diving, and life-saving by the school boys. The space of the baths was somewhat severely taxed, as some 60 boys took part in the performance. Hospietl Election.—For the local Hospital Committee Messrs E. D. Sanders and R. W. Hutt have been elected by the

borough, and Messrs Franklin White, Edwin Atwill, John Bitchener, Alfrcdi Walker, and Edward Richards by. the county. Messrs Lyall and Hart have been elected to '.he South Canterbury Beard. Mr Norton Francis (Mayor) is the unchallenged borough representative. During the election the oft-repeated eft'orf lor the government of the Waimate Hospital by a. board of surgeons was Eelt in the elections. One advocate for a board of surgeons in the person of Mr Hutt was elected, taking the place of M l ' Miller, an advocate of " sole control." Both the candidates elected by the borough wer« put forward by the Reform Association. Mr James Sinclair and the Rev. J. Haa-rk have been suggested as probabk nominees of the South Canterbury Board, to =erve as the remaining members of the local committee. Lord Plunket.—The Governor is to visit vVaimate on March 1. He will be tendered a complimentary luncheon. A Potato Case. —A case of interest to potato growers was heard before Mr T. Hutchison, S.M., on the 15th in-st., when Patrick Burns claimed £24 3s 2d from Nimmo and Blair for potatoes supplied. It appeared that plaintiff sold, -.hrough defendants' agent, some eight or 1.0 tons Up-to-Date potatoes, and an agreement was signed to deliver within 11 days, a verbal arrangement, being made that the potaoes should be sent on as soon as instructions were received. The 11 days passed without the instructions coming to hand, and plaintiff wrote to the firm five days later, on June 12. The potatoes were' in bags, with foliage on top of the bags. On July 12 the potatoes were put on trucks it ven, but some dayf befor. that there was a frost. On the potatoes reaching Oamaru they were found to be in pulp at the bottom of the bags, and they were rejected and notice given to defendant. For the defence it .vas' contended that the sale was one of unascertained goods, and that there was no sale until the potatoes were put on trucks at Morven. The magistrate said the admitted agent of the defendants had inspected the potatoes three times, and he was satisfied and signed the sale note. He (the was satisfied there was a straight-out sale on June 14, and that the property then became the property of the defendants. Judgment would be for plaintiff, with ccjts (£5 10s).