LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3800, 26 August 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Announcement was made in our advertising columns in last issue that that Messrs W. J. and H. H. Thompson intend to erect a block of shops in brick and concrete on the site of their present premises in Alexandra Street.

Incidents which culminated in the decision of the referee to stop further play in a junior Rugby football match at Albert Park last Saturday afternoon are to be brought before the Junior Advisory Board at to-morrow evenings’ meeting.

The big attraction at Albert Park next Saturday will be the representative football game between those old rivals, Hamilton and W'aipa. Something in the nature of a curtain-raiser will be the match, Waipa B junior representatives v. Hamilton Marist Old Boys. The W'aipa A junior representatives will travel to Matamata to play Matamata junior representatives.

W'hen Mr Justice Fair, at Hamilton Supreme Court on Tuesday, was asked to grant a discharge from bankruptcy for Sidney Oscar Parkinson, fruiterer at Otorohanga, an adverse report was received from the Official Assignee, and His Honour said that bankrupt’s action in making a second unsuccessful venture into business while owing heavy liabilities with respect to an earlier experience was very reprehensible. Further consideration of the petition was postponed for six months.

All farmers should be interested in the public address to be given, under the auspices of the local branch of the Farmers’ Union, at the Oddfellows’ Hall to-morrow, when Mr E. S. Philips will deal with best methods of stock nutrition. Mr Philips is the advisory expert for a world-famous firm of stock food manufacturers, and therefore should be able to impart some really useful information. The address is to be given following the usual monthly meeting of the Farmers’ Union, and all fanners are invited to attend.

At the end of June, 1935, there were 168,297 motor vehicles of all kinds licensed to use the roads of New Zealand. At the end of June, 1936, there were 189,090. These figures do not account for all the motor vehicles, for the number licensed at the end of March, 1935, was 209,462, and at the end of March, 1936, 228,247; but it appears that the increase in one year has been about 20,000 vehicles.

At a special meeting of the Cambridge Rugby Sub-Union last Monday night an important decision was arrived at when it was decided to recommend at the next annual meeting that Cambridge join up with the Waikato sub-union competition next season, provided the present competing tub-unions of Hamilton, Waipa and Taupirl agreed to Cambridge putting two fifteens in the competition. The teams are to be called Cambridge North and Cambridge South.

At Helensville on Monday the first case under the new regulations affecting the trade in bobby calves was heard. The regulations state that calves must be fed daily from birth, and not earlier than four hours before their removal from the premises. F. C. Hoe, a farmer, of Rewiti, was charged with a breach of these regulations and it was stated that two calves had been left for upwards of 24 hours before they were picked up by the collector. Accused pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and costs.

During the meeting of Te Awamutu Historical Society on Tuesday evening reference was made to the Forest Rangers’ capture of a flag (now in the Auckland Public Library) from the Maoris. The following list of Rangers under the command of Major Jackson was tabled: Wm. Jackson, Chas. Westrupp, A. J. Bertram, Thos. Holden, Wm. Johns, John Smith, John Morgan, H. Long, James Smith, R. Alexander, L. Bums, C. Cole, R. Grigg, Robt. Bruce, Wm. Thomson, H. Hendry, R. Fitzgerald, H. Jackson, P. Madigan, S. Mahoney, J. Rodin, H. Roland, Chas. Temple, J. Peters, M. Vaughan, J. Watters, G. Ward, Wm. Wells, J. Carter, A. McNamara, W‘. Thurston, W. Taylor, J. Nolan, M. Nolan, W. Williams.

Three notable placements under the Labour Department's placement scheme were recently recorded in the Hutt Valley. They were a married man who had been receiving relief for nearly five years, and who has nine dependent children; a married man on relief for four years with seven dependent children, and a married man. intermittently on relief for two years, with six dependent children. Three men and 25 dependants are now enjoying the benefits of full time employment at standard rates of pay. Incidents of this nature are being repeated many times in all parts of th 4 Dominion. ,

Employees in the gasworks of the Auckland Gas Company, Limited, comprising members of the Gas Company Employee’s’ Union and other workers, including motor drivers, plumbers bricklayers, Carpenters, boiler makers, and sheet metal workers, stopped work at 12.45 p.m. yesterday, and after a series of meetings held in the works announced at 9.45 p.m. that they had declared a strike. By 10.15 all stokers and men attending the boilers who were members of the Union had been withdrawn. The company was able, however, to maintain fires with the aid of foremen and others, and there is no danger at present of the interruption of the supplies to the public, all the containers being full. The strike so far has not affected the works at Devonport.

Maori relics handed recently to Te Awamutu Historical Society, and exhibited at Tuesday evening’s meeting, included a ko (wooden digging implement) presented by Mr Kaureti Te Huia. It had been dug up at Rewatu, the old pa on the Puniu river opposite the gates of Tokanui Mental Hospital. Another article was a pungapunga made of pumice stone, and used for tattooing with ink obtained from the deep roots of the kahikatea tree, the ink being mixed with charcoal and water. Two other implements were patu muka of stone, used for beating flax, and a third was a patu aruhe, used for beating fem root. This article was presented by Mr W. Long, Hairini. Then the solid shot, 254 lbs in weight and 17 inches in circumference, given by Mr Moore, of Kihikihi; it was found on Mr Buckthought’s farm near Orakau.