LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6409, 1 November 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. J. M. Maitland, of Waitotara, Wanganui, has been appointed Matamata agent for the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., and is expected to arrive in the course of a few days.

The rector had delivered an eloquent and moving sermon on the evil of gossip and scandal. But clearly he was still full of his subject when he gave out as the final hymn: “For all the saints who from their neighbours rest. i

The Auckland Acclimatisation officer (Mr. Heywood) was in Matamata on Thursday in charge of 10,000 trout fry which are to be liberated by Mr. W. Livingstone in the streams adjacent to Okauia. Last week 20,000 more were liberated at Okoroire and 10,000 at Putaruru. >

A rule nisi was granted on the application of Mr. Scott Fell for Smith’s Weekly and the Bulletin to show cause why they should not be adjudicated guilty of contempt of Court for commenting on the Limerck shipping case which is still sub judice.

Mr T. Venables, who is leaving *Te Aroha about December, is to be given a farewell concert by his many friends and pupils. During his recidence of three years in Tie Aroha Mr Venables made himself very popular, and his departure will be regretted. Mr Venables, we learn, is going, to tour with a well-known company.

“Bank’s Peninsula is a great pile of volcanic material,” stated Mr. L. J. Wild, in an address at the Ldncheon Club at Palmerston North last week. “This was thrown up from an extinct .crater which is now Lyttelton harbour. The original crater has been very much enlarged by vulcanism in its last stages and by stream action.”

Mr. R. A. Wilson, engineer and surveyor from the Wellington office of the Public Works Department, has arrived in Paeroa, and commenced on the work of surveying the proposed route of the Paeroa-Pokeno railway. A staff of seven is engaged in the work. The survey is being commenced at Wilson’s Road, near the Puke.— Gazette.

On Saturday afternoon a little excitement was ; caused in Normanby Road, Paeroa, says the Gazette, by a horse drawing a sulky bolting madly down the street. In the sulky were Mrs. Larsen and Mrs. H. B. Wood and her two children. It appears that the horse took fright at a car just before coming to the bridge on the Te Aroha road and started off at a great peace. The reins unfortunately broke, and the occupants were left to the mercy of the beast, which, after crossing the bridge, turned into Normanby Road and then to the left into Arney Street, narrowly missing the electric power pole on the corner. The vehicle went for ja few yards on one wheel and then overturned, throwing the occupants to the ground with considerable force. Dr. Little and Nurse Bayley were fortunately in the vicinity, but luckily their services were not required further than for dressing some bruises' and chafed skin sustained by one of the ren. All the occupants received a pretty severe shaking, and are indeed fortunate that no great injury was done.

The ’phone number of J. E. Wild, housepainter, signwriter and paperhanger, is 208. *

Dunedin Society Lady—Unable to wear evening dress owing to a disfiguring rash, the wife of a well-to-do Dunedinite used Q-TOL, which permanently banished the outbreak in three days.

The Te Aroha Motorcycle TouringClub advertise their opening run to take place on November 4th.

Hetherington’s Saturday snips during this week end will comprise ladies’ navy indigo dye print overalls nicely shaped at 5/11, and for the men a good line of summer singlets and underpants at 2/6 each.*

Attention is called to Caudwell’s replace advertisement in this issue. They request ladies in need of a new spring dress to come and inspect the new dress fabrics just landed, and to place their orders at once, as Miss Shepley »is now busy with dress orders.

A sale of work and baby show is to take place in the Waitoa Hall on Saturday next commencing at 11 a.m. The babies are to be judged by Dr. Lawrence and the Plunket nurse. There will be the usual stalls. The charge for admission is 6d, children half-price. The proceeds are in aid of the Ladies’ Guild.

Owing to the poor attendance of what should have been , the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday night, it was decided to call an extraordinary general meeting for Monday evening, 12th November, and at which it is to be hoped every member will make it their business to be present.

A well-known land mark, the Eastport cheese factory, which was erected in 1915, has been pulled down and shifted to another site. It has been erected at Eureka. It is understood that the New Zealand Dairy Association intend to open it again as a cheese t factory-, and expect to commence bperations about the beginning of the year.

\ The Saturday “snip,” which has become quite an established institution at Messrs Hetherington’s Ltd., will be of special interest to keen buyers this week-end. In the ladies’ dept, there will be offered a line of navy print overalls, indigo dye, at 5/11, and for the “mere man” a line of men’s merino singlets and underpants—at 2/6 each garment. During the last two week-ends the snips have been quickly bought up and it was found necessary to replace them with substitute lines.

The fact that the Thames Valley Electric Power Board has not yet advised the Waihi Borough Council of its intentions with 'regard to the reticulation of the business part of this town lends colour to a statement recently circulated that the Board is disinclined to move in the matter owing to the Waihi Council in the first instance having decided against the borough being included in the special rating area covered by the Power Board’ operations. Something definite as to the position may, however, be expected shortly, as the mayor and town clerk of Waihi propose to take an early opportunity of visiting Te Aroha and conferring with the Board’s manager, Mr Sprague, on the whole question.—Waihi Telegraph.

A new permanent church .is to be built at Paihia by members of the Williams family to commemorate the centenary of the arrivataof two of New Zealands greatest missionaries, Henry and William Williams, known to the present generation as Archdeacon Henry Williams and Bishop William Williams, first Bishop of Waiapu. In announcing the gift of the church in his address at the Auckland Synod last week, Bishop Averill said that the Maori race owed more to the courageous and successful work of these two pioneer missionaries than it could ever acknowledge and it would be an honour to the Auckland Diocese and especially to the Bay of Islands, to have a permanent memorial to the work and worth of these great men on the spot which was already sacred to their memory. , ,

At a meeting in the Baptist Tabernacle, Tauranga, states the Times, opportunity was taken to farewell Mr. H. Musk, who has accepted a position in Te Aroha, and general regret was expressed by all present at losing such a useful worker. As organist and leader of the musical portion of the services he will be greatly missed. The church, in thanking Mr. Musk for his labour of love, presented him as a token of esteem and appreciation, with a leather wallet. Pastor Laybourn, in making the presentation, spoke in high terms of Mr. Musk’s many good qualities and wished him success and happiness in his new appointment. Mr. Musk, in replying, thanked the friends for their kind expressions and said he would long remember his association with the Tauranga Baptist Tabernacle. Mr. Musk has taken up a position in Beale’s store, Te Aroha.

Phone number of Hy, Warner, wellborer, 250 Te Aroha. *