LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6410, 3 November 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Accounts totalling £1229/4/- were passed for payment at the meeting of the Te Aroha Borough Council on Wednesday evening last.

Mr F. M. Strange, Belle Vue Farm, Mangaiti, favoured us with the rainfall as follows: —October 1923, 3.93; (1922, 2.76). October average for 7 years, 4.64; for 10 months of 1923, 43.59 (1922, 32.60).

Striking records of interesting topical events are characteristically illustrated in this week’s issue of the paramount pictorial, the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” A startling two-colour supplement of three famous English actresses in bathing costume constitutes an attractive feature of this week’s number. The Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting at Alexandra Park is depicted in a splendid selection of snapshots showing the progress pf principal events, and the Wellington Racing Club’s fixture at Trentham is also covered' in a series of photographs of the leading events.

The Bay of Plenty Times does not view kindly those business firms who get their printing done outside of Tauranga. It pertinently remarks — “We invite the two firms who have just imported some printing from Palmerston North to call at the Times Office, and if we can’t convince them that we turn out printing as efficiently and as cheaply as their foreign made jobs—well, they can have the next lot for nothing, but apparently they wouldn’t have it done in Tauranga at any price, although they seem to be making a decent living out of the folk who dwell here.”

The fifth annual meeting of • the Ohinemuri Club was held in the Club room on Tuesday evening, when some forty members were present. The meeting was presided over by the president, Mr W. J. Towers. The report and balance sheet submitted showed the -institution to have been progressive. It had again assisted in entertaining visitors to the town, some 200 having been granted the privileges of the Club. The following are the officers for the ensuing year: President, Mr W. D. Nicholas; vicepresident, Mr E. Edwards; committee, Messrs E. W. Porritt, A. Gorrie, A. Steedman, C. Topliss, J. L. Hanna, W. J. Towers.—The Gazette.

The news of Mr Bonar Law’s death which took place on Tuesday, will be received with sincere regret. The illness which made necessary his resignation of the British Premiership, had many ominous features, and it was the general opinion that the days of the valued statesman and man of high character were numbered. The ’late Mr Bonar Law was born in. New Brunswick on September 16th, 1858, being the son of the Rev. James Law, M.A., Presbyterian Minister, of New Brunswick. He married in 1891 and had two sons and two daughters. His wife died in 1909. From 1902 till the time of his death he was a member of the House of Commons, filling various positions and eventually becoming Premier.

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

Goitre—A lady at the Hutt reports that she has been cured of Goitre of many years’ standing by using QTOL on a flannel bandage for three weeks.

Notice of dissolution of partnership between Messrs R. Woodroofe and W. P. Smith, builders and joiners, is given in this issue. An immediate payment of all outstanding debts is requested.

Our Waitoa correspondent writes that the local football sports are very pleased over the news that there is a possibility of the Piako and Morrinsville Rugby Unions joining forces. This would mean making one strong Union which would have the effect of promoting better football for both players and spectators alike.

In moving the adoption of the 10port of the electrical engineer, Mr Dalton, at the meeting of the Borough Council on Wednesday evening, Cr. Hamilton complimented the engineer upon the saving of £96 he had effected during the quarter through arrangements as -indicated in his report published in anothei column.

We are pleased to notice that much needed improvements have recently been effected in the Domain Library. The reading room has ben re-papered and painted, and the papers recovered with non-adhesive material, which is a decided improvement, and will be much appreciated by those who frequent the reading room.

The happiness of any home can be murdered by any two people in it, each determined, daily to have his or her own way. Riches or poverty, position or obscurity, have nothing to do with it. Home happiness is built on unselfishness and sympathy and forbearance —or else not built at all, but scattered into ruin.

Tomorrow, Sunday is the Te Aroha Methodist Sunday School Anniversary, when three services will be held, in the morning at 11 a.m., afternoon at 2.30'p.m., and evening at 7 p.m. The speaker for the day is Rev. S. Henderson. The Sunday School has a reputation for the high standard of its singing, and a bright and attractive service is assured on each occasion. Our Waitoa correspondent writes that having noticed in the columns of a leading Auckland paper that a child was born in France with one tooth, and another child born at Christchurch, N.Z., with a tooth, that it will be of interest to readers to learn that a much more remarkable case occured at Waitoa. Some two years ago a baby girl was born there with four teeth. The child was the ninth of a family of eight boys. She is today a robust child above the average’in weight and in other ways.

“Cycling on the footpath seems to have become a fairly common habit in Hamilton,” remarked SeniorSergeant Mathew in introducing to His Worship the other day a batch of East residents charged with pedalling on the reserve usually set aside for pedestrians. According to one defendant the road was more like a ploughed field than anything elso, and even the constable admitted that some of the roads were “not the best of going.” “However,” he added, “the police have to ride on them.” Phone number of Hy. Warner, wellborer, 250 Te Aroha. *