The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6603, 23 May 1925, Page 4

The Te Aroha News Published Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Swiss Municipality of Baden intends to give free medicine and nursing attendance in childbirth to all Swiss married women who have lived in the country for one year.

It is a coincidence that both Mr Seldon and Mr Massey died on the tenth day of the month. It was on the tenth day of the month, also, on which Mr Massey attained the Premiership.

The fortnightly meeting of the Te Aroha Orphans' Club will be held on Monday evening when representatives of the Morrinsville Club will be present. The programme will be given by Morrinsville, and Bro. C. Andrew will take the chair at 7.45 p.m.

Mrs Moyes, wife of a metallurgist of Airdrie, Scotland, when she became a grandmother at the age of 33, became also the youngest grandmother in the world. She was married on March 3rd, 1905, at the age of 16 and two months old. An American woman who was only 34 when her grandson was born, was the youngest grandmother until Mrs Moyes took the honour, but French newspapers suggest that somewhere in France there is a grandmother only 32 years of age.

Mi* Tims, of T 6 Awamutu, who has just returned from Australia, said (as owner) and J. O’Shea (rider) each received very handsome trophies for Te Kara’s win in the City Tattersall’s Cup. His own trophy was a cup valued at 50 guineas,' while O’Shea received a gold-mounted whip. An interesting offer to the boys is made by Caudwells Ltd. Every boy purchasing a sport suit will be presented with an English lever self-fil-ling fountain pen, with gold-plated nib and pocket clip, complete in case. Caudwells have a very large stock of new suits to choose from, and record values are offered. Good strong wearing tweed suits in browns and greys are advertised from 22/6. It will pay parents to investigate and also please the boys.

Poignant interest is attached to the funeral obsequies in connection with the late Prime Minister, the Hon. W. F. Massey, and this issue of the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review gives full publicity to the sad rites, an exclusive photographic service having been secured. The illustrations show scenes at Parliament Buildings, along the route, at The graveside and the cairn of flowers. Profound attention will be given the view of the coffin lying in state at Parliament Buildings.

The cost of a mile of concrete road between Hamilton and Frankton is now published, the total being, £16,634, or £1365 below the estimate. The sum includes £2519 interest, also sinking fund £lB3. bank charges £B2, water charges £328, storm water drainage £267, plant, tools and concreteing £11,290, bitumen shoulders, £1764. The concreting works out at 11/5 per square yard and bitumising at 5/4 a yard. The cost compares most favourably with similar works elsewhere in the Dominion.

Two New South Wales squatters were yarning over their experiences during Sydney Show week. One recalled the occasion when he had purchased Lawn Hills station in Queensland, a paddock of some 200,000 square miles. “I bought it on a bangtail muster,” he said, “£4 a head for all the stock we counted. When we made a muster later the cleanskins and untallied bullocks were numerous enough to clear off the full price I’d paid for the run.” That lucky dealer was W. H. Maekay, of Anambah. To-morrow night (Sunday) in the Masonic Hall, at 7 o’clock, Pastor Paap advertises to speak on a vital question dealing with church finance. The subject reads as follows: “God’s plan for the support of His work in the world taught in the fitting system of the Bible. Man’s scheme for the support of church work found in the counterfeit scheme of bazaars, dances, suppers, raffles, sales of tea, sales of seats, horse races, kissing competitions, etc.” All interested in the management and support of church affairs are invited to attend this address.

The Mayor (Mr C. M. Gummer), who took his seat on Thursday evening at the Morrinsville Bofough Council table for the first time, raised a laugh when referring to his absence from the special meeting last week. He said it had been quite impossible for him to attend. The heart was willing but the flesh was weak. His illness, however, was not as bad as the Council had possibly thought. He was sitting up in bed the day after the meeting reading the local paper, in which he found that the Council had passed a motion of sympathy regarding the state of his health and immediately proceeded to put him on the cemetery comittee. “Farmers, pastoralists, local bodies and landholders generally whose planting in the past has been done chiefly for shelter, protection and ornamental purposes, are showing an increased appreciation of the financial possibilities of tree growing, and the advice and co-operation of the Forest Service is being widely sought,” remarked Mr Darby, of the State Forest Service, to a Chronicle reporter on the occasion of a recent visit to Palmerston North. “It is gratifying also to record,” he added, “the interest and enthusiasm shown by teachers and pupils towards the forestry in schools scheme, in which over eighty schools are participating.”

Thus an Australian writer: “There is good reason to believe that one cause of the rise in sterling exchange which has been almost lost sight of in Australia has been the persistent buying up by America of manufacturing- plants on the Continent, where she can produce cheaply to her own designs, goods for export to South America, China, Russia, and even Austi*alia, using labour at half what it costs her in the States. These purchases have been made with sterling brought by her for that purpose. And while America is buying up Europe’s factories with British currency the £ will continue in demand. But the result will be to intensify competition and drive Britain out of her foreign markets.”

That it is not quite safe for women and young girls to be out at night unaccompanied by escorts, especially in less frequented parts of Christchurch, is borne out to a certain extent by a happening on the Carlton Mill road on a recent Monday evening. An elderly lady and a young lady were walking along the road when one of two young men who followed them close suddenly gave the elderly woman a knock under the chin and at the same time snatched a handbag that she was carrying. The men quickly decamped in the direcion of the river, making towards the footbridge leading into Hagley Park. A gentleman who resides in the vicinity came along a little while after the assault and robbery occurred, but the miscreants had made good their escape. The hand bag contained a sum just under £2, an amount that the owner could ill-afford to lose.

The boardinghouse known as Plymouth House, in Burgess street, has been sold by Mr G. Head to Mr Holloway.

The date of the Anniversary Ball is announced: Friday, 31st July. Last year’s ball was voted by many to be the most enjoyable function of the season, and no doubt this year’s will be marked by the same “elan.”

Mr S. Holland, certificated teacher of the violin, who comes from Auckland, announces that he will commence teaching at Te Aroha should sufficient inducement offer. Mr Holland may be interviewed at Herbert’s on Friday, the 29th inst.

A special furniture sale on account of Miss Cann, will be held on the premises, Somerstown (near butter factory), next Wednesday at 1.30 p.m. The auctioneers, Messrs R. Coulter and Co., advertise full particulars in our advertising columns.

Up to yesterday Mr Caudwell had taken orders for over 130,000 of the lithographed envelopes the Chamber of Commerce is obtaining for a purpose of advertising Te Aroha. There is a probability of a few large orders being placed in addition to a number for lots up to 5000, and the success of the scheme is now assured.

“At present there is too big a margin between the price received by the consumer on farm produce,” said Mr A. McKenzie, at Waimatuku on Friday. “The farmer receives from £lO to £ll for a fat three-year-old steer, while the consumer pays about double this price. We should be able to reduce the share of the middleman and the Union is the only body fit to deal with this.”

After many days of doubtful and unpleasant weather with overcast skies and a fair amount of rain and wind, the' conditions yesterday became more definite. Heavy rain set in and continued almost without cessation, causing rivers and streams to rise rapidly, with prospects of a flood. Te Aroha had a most deserted appearance and business was practically at a standstill.

Attention is called to the announcement which appears elsewhere in this issue, of the St. John Amublance Association’s ball, which is to be held on the 13th of July next. As the upkeep of the ambulance is largely dependent upon the proceeds of such functions as this, the executive are making every effort to ensure its success, and look to the public for its generous support. The prices as advertised are gents. 7/6, laides 5/-.