LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3783, 17 July 1936, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A representative party of Te Awamutu Orphans’ Club members is to attend the Auckland Savage Club’s korero to-morrow evening.

The Waikato Valley Dairy Company has decided to advance its suppliers Is lid per lb butter-fat for finest quality supplied during the month ended 20th June.

For the month ending 20th July Te Awamutu Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., will advance to its suppliers Is Id per lb for first-grade butterfat. For the previous month the advance was 11 Jd per lb.

A further increase of Id per lb has been made in the local price for butler. From yesterday the net wholesale rates are: Finest grade Is 4<l per lb; first grade Is 3Jd; second grade Is 3d; whey Is 2d. Retail prices generally are 2d per lb above the wholesale rates.

Dairy production in the Auckland Province during the season ended June 30tci. reached the record total of 87,007 tons butterfat. This exceeded by about 2000 tons the previous record of 85,079 tons in the 1933-34 season.

Remits from branches of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union bearing on the question of its amalgamation with the Women’s Institutes were discussed by the annual conference of the division in Wellington, but it was decided to make no decision for a year.

Te Awamutu has had quite its full share of frosts this winter, and last Wednesday’s recording was a record, 15.2 degrees. Yesterday morning the recording was 13 degrees, although some residents expressed the opinion that the morning was colder than the previous day.

The secretary-manager, Mr D. T. B. McArthur, reported to to-day’s meeting of Te Awamutu Electric Power Board that the works staff made a start this morning with the work of converting the present 3300-volt line serving the Puniu area to 11,000 volts, and expected to have the change-over completed to-day.

A trade union organiser, with more courage than discretion, visited Te Awamutu yesterday during the busy rush hours of market day to enrol shop assistants. His presence occasioned some resentment, not for the sake of his mission, but because of the inopportune moment of his coming. If shoppers experienced delays ir. some instances the cause might have been discovered in this new form of official intervention.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has received advice from Sydney to the effect that an attempt has been made there to pass a Reserve Bank of New Zealand 10s note altered to £lO, and the public is warned so that it may be on guard against any attempt to pass a similarly altered note in New Zealand. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has not issued any £lO notes. The denominations of its notes are: 10s, £l, £5 and £5O. Many alterations would be required to make a 10s note resemble a £lO note. On the front o£ the note the amount appears four times in figures, and the word “shillings’’ is printed in bold type, the print, moreover, running into a geometric pattern. On the back “ten shillings” appears five times in words and twice in figures.

The statement made on Monday by the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, that New Zealand would fall into line with other members of the League of Nations in lifting sanctions against Italy was fulfilled on Tuesday, when a supplement to the Gazette contained Orders-in-Council revoking the measures taken by the Dominion for the imposition of sanctions against Italy. -The special measures referred to are the financial regulations dated October 25, 1935, prohibiting the remittance of moneys to Italy; Orders-in-Council of October 25 and November 11, 1935, prohibiting the exportation of certain classes of goods to Italy; and the Order-in-Coun-cil of November 11, 1935, prohibiting the importation of goods from Italy or goods of Italian origin. The revocation took effect on Wednesday, July 15 being the date fixed by the Co-ordination Committee of the League of Nations for the abrogation of sanctions by all members of the League. As a result of revocation of the measures, no special restrictions i now apply to trade between the Dominion and Italy.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Waipa County Council takes place on Monday next.

It was mentioned at the Te Awamutu Power Board meeting to-day that to date a total of 443 all electric radio sets has been inspected, including six during the past month.

During the past month tile Te Awamutu Power Board’s staff has laid the concrete foundations at the Te Awamutu sub-station for the additional transformers to be installed there.

South Westland boasts of a feat that it will be hard for any other district in New Zealand to emulate. A farmer in the district has a pure black duck, and it lays black-shelled eggs.

New Zealand butter in London is quoted Is per cwt lower at 116 s. The market is very quiet, according to a cablegram, dated July 15, received by Joseph Nathan and Co. Ltd., from Trengrouse and Nathan, Ltd.

Intending vendors at the Te Awamutu Jersey Club’s annual pedigree bull sale on September 23rd should note that entries close on Thursday next, when full particulars of the pedigree, etc., must be in the hands of the club secretary, Mr J. G. Wynyard.

So far the teams entered for the district primary school’s annual Rugby seven-aside tournament to-morrow morning are: Te Awamutu (3), Convent, Kihikihi, Arohena Combined, Hairini, Paterangi, Ohaupo, Korakonui, and probably there will be a couple more.

Advices to hand state that, as a result of falling while alighting from a train at Huntly on Wednesday, Mrs Martha Harsant, of Te Uku, secretary of the Waikato Federation of Women's Institutes, suffered a fracture of one knee cap. She was admitted to the Waikato Hospital.

The total number of connections under the control of the Te Awamutu Power Board has now reached 4353, with an additional 2270 extensions. In the total is 1969 lighting plants, 657 cow plan motors, 262 separator motors, 627 electric water heaters, 428 water pump motors, and 272 electric stoves.

Further interruption of electric power supply to the Puniu circuit is taking place to-day and again on Sunday afternoon. The line is being reconstructed, to give a better service and this involves crossing the railway—a task that can only be tackled when few or no trains are scheduled. The Waipa Hockey Association has arranged for five games locally and two at Otorohanga, to-morrow.

While the district primary schools’ annual Rugby seven-a-side Rugby tournament is in progress at Albert Park to-mororw, the primary schools’ basketball tournament is to be held at the local High School grounds, competing for the rosebowl. At present there are indications that at least ten teams will be competing, including four from Te Awamutu school and two from the Convent school.

The Te Awamutu Cribbage Club vicar of Te Awamutu for gifts of bandages, for use in the Melanesian mission field, culminated in a very successful afternoon at the Parish Hall yesterday, when dozens of packets of bandages (some of them complete and ready for dispatch) were handed in, besides cash contributions reaching to nearly £7 from well-wish-ers.

A local resident was somewhat surprised yesterday to receive a communication from a trustee organisation regretting to learn of the death of his wife, and inquiring if she had left any later will than the one the trustee held, etc. “ But my wife says she is not deceased I! ” said the local man. “ I asked her this morning, and she still says she is very much alive.” The explanation is that confusion arose due to similarity of both Christian and surnames.

Twenty Waikato Rugby representatives left Frankton last evening on the limited express on a tour of the southern portion of the North Island. Four matches will be played before the team returns to the Waikato on August 1. The first match will be played against Taranaki at New Plymouth on Saturday. The other teams to be played are Wanganui, at Wanganui, on July 22, Wairarapa at Carterton on July 25, Hawke’s Bay at Hastings on July 30. The managers will be Messrs J. B. Rolfe (Putaruru) and B. Chapman (Morrinsville).

Devotees of hockey in this district will perhaps be interested to learn that the Wellington Women's Hockey Association has laid it down that skirts must be worn by its representative players, and the skirts must be of a standard pattern. For the match between Wellington and the touring Fijian team the skirts must be of black material, preferably britway, with four inverted pleats, two at the back and two at the front. The edge of the skirt is to be four inches and a half off the ground when the player kneels. Black shinguards and boots are also to be worn.

,The Te Awamutu Cribbage Club held another of its series of games in the Oddfellows’ Hall last night. There was a slightly larger attendance and games were very interesting. The men were very keen, and resulted in three, Messrs Marsh, Murrell and Harvey, being equal with nine games. The play-off brought a well deserved win for Mr Harvey. The ladies seemed much more keen on providing a good supper, with the result that eight games by Mrs Blackburn was the highest recorded. Cribbage now seems to be getting more popular, and the attendances are increasing each week, several new members joining in and making the club much more successful.

School committees in many country areas are rapidly coming to realise the advantages of consolidating a number of small schools into one central institution, said the chairman of the Auckland Education Board, Mr T. U. Wlells, at a meeting of the Board on Wednesday. The Board, he said, was receiving more requests than it had ever done before for consolidation, and was fully alive to the advantages of the movement. In some parts, however, there was still a queer reluctance to agree to the closing of a small town school. It was thought, quite erroneously, that a school gave the surrounding land additional value, and some parents were loth to support a movement which would actually give their children much better education.

It was reported in Te Awamutu this morning that radio advice during the night had indicated that an attempt had been made to assassinate King Edward VIII. No details are to hand at time of going to press.

Waipa hockey officials and players will be interested in the following paragraph in the Chronicle (Te Kuiti), in view of the fact that a Te Kuiti ladies’ team now competes in the Waipa competition, travelling each Saturday to keep its engagements : “ Will hockey be played again in Te Kuiti ? At the present time a Maori girls’ team has taken up the game, but hockey has not gained anything like the hold gained in Otorohanga, Te Awamutu, and particularly in Taumarunui. It was from these two places that the King Country teams which played with much success in the recent competitions in Auckland were drawn. Now a move is coming from Taumarunui to establish hockey in this town. At a meet ing of the management committee of the Taumarunui Hockey Association last jnight it was decided to write to Te Kuiti and suggest calling a meeting of hockey players, both men and women, in Te Kuiti, and that Messrs Kelly and Fanthorpe visit Te Kuiti to attend the meeting and assist in organising the game in that town.”