LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3843, 7 December 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The opening of the new bowling green at Ohaupo was marred by rain last Saturday afternoon, but the actual opening took place, and play was enjoyed for - an hour or two. There was a representative attendance. The final list of contributions to the fund being- raised in New Zealand to provide extra comforts for the lepers of Makogai Island (Fiji) shows a total of £1263 IQs lid. The honorary collector, Mt P. J. Twomey, of Christchurch, expresses his sincere thanks to the generous donors from all parts of the Dominion. The tennis match between Te Rahn and Methodist (Te Awamutu) Clubs’ B teams was commenced on the Methodist courts on Saturday afternoon, but rain caused an abandonment. However, those engaged thoroughly enjoyed the contests, and a delightful afternoon tea gave opportunity for fraternising that was fully availed of. The big professional wrestling contest at Auckland last Saturday night, between Earl McCready and Ed. Don George, the two Americans who are said to ba in line for world championship honours, ended in a win for McCready by two falls to one. This was their third meeting, and honours are now even, for George won the first time, and the second match ended in a draw. From information supplied by inspectors of stock in the various districts, states the Journal of Agriculture, the average lambing for the current season in the North Island is estimated at 90.5 per cent, compared with 83.68 per cent in 1935. With 10,300,826 breeding ewes in the North Island, as shown in the 1936 sheep returns, the number of lambs this season is estimated at 9,322.476. “It was just after ‘One Night of Love,’ ” said a witness in the Napier Magistrate’s Court, when asked to fix the day of a conversation. “It was not one night of love for all the parties,” commented Mr John Mason, referring to the fact that the conversation referred to had been in the nature of a sharp quarrel. “I’ve heard dates fixed by means of the dates of race meetings, but never before by the screening of a picture,” said Mr J. Miller, S.M. “Those who are charged with offences under the* Motor Vehicles Act should take advice and see to what penalty they are liable,” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington. “In the past the court has indicated that it considers it no discourtesy if defendants do not appear in traffic cases, but there appears to be a lack of appreciation of the difference between minor offences and those in which there is really some degree of culpability. The court may not always be able to grant a rehearing on the slender ground that defendant did not appreciate the seriousness of the charge.” In an effort to check the quality of fertilisers on the market, farmers are being urged to send forward samples for analysis. In the event of any deficiency being found, an official sample of the fertiliser will be taken from the vendor’s store by an inspector under the Fertiliser Act. This will enable the department to decide whether legal proceedings should be instituted if discrepancies occur. Farmers are asked to take portion of the fertiliser from each of a number of bags, all of which extracts should be thoroughly mixed. Finally, an amount weighing from lib to 21b should be placed in a clean, dry tin for forwarding to the department.

The latest issue of the New Zealand Gazette contains notification of the revocation of the declaration of portion of the Ngaruawahia-Whatawhata-Te Rore road as a public highway and declaring it to be a main highway. The road is described as all those portions of the main highway in the borough of Ngaruawahia and the Waipa County declared as the Ngaruawahia - Wlratawhata main highway, commencing at the junction of the Great South Road and Keplerstreet in Ngaruawahia borough, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction and terminating near the south-west, corner of lot 1, allotment 163, Horotiu Parish block XL, Newcastle survey district, being a distance of five miles 60 chains, more or less.

British farmers, particularly those engaged in milk production, were not too kindly disposed toward the way in which the Dominion farmers were under-selling them on the butter market at Home, according to Mrs H. N. Savill. who arrived by the Akaroa from England on Saturday at Wellington on a round trip. Mrs Savill has a farm at Home as a hobby, and has made an intensive study of milk production and marketing methods. Anything that helped outside dairy produce into England was resented by British dairy farmers, Mrs Savill said. British farmers were now getting the idea that the only way to recover their position was to have a severe tariff on importations, so that outside butter might be brought up to the price of the Home produced article. Their living was at stake, and in spite of low wages they were producing at a loss under existing conditions.

There was a large and appreciative audience at the Empire Theatre on Friday evening last to greet those versatile and polished entertainers, Senia Chostiakoff and Vincent Ryan. Mr Ryan was quickly on good terms with his audience, and introduced community singing “trying out” many of the old established favourites, and interspersing with these his whimsicalities. As a leader of community sings Mr Ryan, who is an Australian, proved himself inimitable. Senia Chostiakoff, the brilliant Russian tenor, won hearty and sustained applause, not only by his delightful singing, but by his friendliness and willingness to respond to the many encores. Actually he sang over a dozen songs including such established favourites as "I Hear You Calling Me,” “Lolita,” “The Song of the Volga Boatman” (with explanatory prelude) “For You Alone,” “Rose of Tralee,” “Funiculi, Funicula,” “Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,” “O Evening Bells,” “La Dona e Mobile,” and the gypsy love ballad, “Dark Eyes,” concluding with “When I Grow Too Old to Dream,” in which he enlisted the cooperations of t'ne audience. Mr Ossie Cheeseman proved himself an able accompanist, and also a clever soloist on the piano-accoj’deon. The announcement that this talented company will revisit Te Awamutu at a later date was received with warm applause.

The Borough Council meets this evening. - The next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu is set down for Thursday morning of inis week. The Te, Awamutu Bowling Club’s inter-club match with Cambridge last Saturday afternoon, at Cambridge, had to be abandoned after eight or ten heads had been played, the steadydownpour of rain making play impossible. The rain which commenced early on Saturday afternoon caused an interruption in bowls, tennis and croquet games locally. The Te Rahu v. Factory Club tennis match was interrupted after half the matches had been played. The local elerk of the Court, Mr J. Forsyth, has received intimation that the first three sittings of the Magishave been set down tentatively for Friday, 15th January, 10th February, trate’s Court in Te Awamutu in 1937 and IQth March. A motoring collision occurred near the Paterangi Road corner, on the Pirongia Road, yesterday afternoon, when a motor cycle ridden by a young man, Mr Loach, came out of Paterangi Road, and struck a car driven by Miss M. Quin a glancing blow, and spilled the rider on to the roadway. The car was, apparently, not seriously damaged, but the motor cycle had to be taken away for re-conditioning. At a meeting of the joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society, in Wellington last Saturday, the following resolution was passed: “That the joint council of the Order of St. John and the New Zealand Red Cross Society supports the appeal made by the League of Red Cross Societies (Paris), through the New Zealand Red Cross Society, on behalf of assistance being given for Red Cross work in Spain. The council favours assistance being given by monetary contribution, and not by sending a medical unit.” A peculiar motoring smash occurred ’in Alexandra Street on Saturday afternoon. A young man, Mr Peter Matthews, with his V 8 car, was leaving Clifton House to proceed towards the railway station. The car, in second gear, suddenly became unmanageable, and slewed right across the road, mounted the kerb, and collided with a power-line pole. The vehicle rebounded from the impact, turned almost completely round, and came to rest on the footpath about 15 feet away. The driver escaped with nothing worse than shock and a few bruises, but his car was considerably damaged. Kihikihi advice indicates that a narrow escape from serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon near the junction of the Great South Road and Arapuni Road. It appears that a taxi had drawn up in front of the Star Hotel, and while a passenger went inside the driver essayed to back his vehicle round to the petrol station, with the intention of proceeding towards Tokanui. He did not see a pedestrian crossing the road just behind the car, and the man (Mr Baldwin, employed on the road contract) was knocked down and somewhat bruised, but after attention by a medical man he was reported as only badly shaken.