LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 25, Issue 3761, 27 May 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“ There are a million persons walking about in Australia and New Zealand to-day who are doomed to die of cancer,” said Dr Ulric Williams, Wanganui, in a health lecture in Wellington last Sunday night. One person in every eight or nine was so doomed, he said.

On Tuesday next the Te Awamutu Drama Club will commence its third season with the reading of the wellknown Milne play, “ The Truth About Blayds,” and we understand members are assured of an interesting and entertaining evening.

At the meeting of the Borough Council on Monday evening, the Mayor reported that the proposed meeting of the Finance Committee with St. John’s Church vestry had not yet been held, but the meeting would be arranged as soon as possible to discuss a proposal for acquiring part of the Church lands in lieu of overdue rates.

The formal resolution freeing the bandmaster, Mr R. H. Close, from sole responsibility of band property to the Borough Council, was carried, as requested by the Municipal Band, at Monday’s meeting of the local Borough Council. The responsibility will now be borne by the Band Committee, which includes representatives of the Borough Council.

An endeavour is being made by the Chinese Consul for New Zealand (Mr Feng Wang) to secure the registration at the consular office, Wellington, of all Chinese in New Zealand. This move is in the nature of a Chinese census, those who register being asked to give information similar to that contained in completed census papers. The inquiry is expected to take two or three months and the information derived will be forwarded to the Overseas Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, Nanking.

A visiting Rugby enthusiast, watching the games at Albert Park last Saturday, expressed keen interest in the plan adopted by the Waipa Rugby Union to mark out its playing areas. The lines are marked with a sodium chlorate solution, which browns the grass without killing it, and there is thus no need to dig shallow trenches as was the practice formerly. We understand that two applications of

sodium are made during the playing season, and that this method is far less expensive than digging side lines.

To-day is being observed aS a school holiday locally to allow pupils to proceed to the Waikato Winter Show.

We learn that the Kakepuku cheese factory is being dismantled and that the whole of the material, consisting of timber, galvanised iron, sashes, and all the incidental building material will be sold by public auction on the property at an early date. It is seldom that such large quantities of galvanised iron, timber, etc., come on the market, and it should prove a boon to farmers contemplating additions to their farm buildings.