LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3892, 21 April 1937, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A number of local reports are un roidably held over till next issue.

Secretaries of clubs and selectors of teams please note that the lists of teams for Saturday Rugby football matches should, if publication be desired. be in the Courier office not later than 9 a.m. on every Friday. This rule will be enforced strictly from this date, and will be departed from in no circumstances whatsoever.

The Maihiihi correspondent of the Courier advises that some very heavy frosts have been experienced in that district and have done considerable damage to the crops of pumpkins.

“I have had a talk with the leaders of the Democrat Party, and they are not going to run a party at the next election,” said the Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the National Party, in his address at Geraldine.

At a meeting of the Te Awamutu School Committee last evening, six applications were received for the position of caretaker of the local schools. This number was reduced to two and the final appointment will be made at a later date.

“I am going to do the work where it is needed, irrespective of politics,” said the Hon. R. Semple at Ohura. “I ■•. m here to give every district in the Dominion a fair spin. As an instance,' I am spending more money in Mr Coates’ electorate than was spent there in the last few years.”

The intention to hold a garden fete at the Te Awamutu School on Wednesday next has been abandoned on account of the infantile paralysis restrictions. The Committee has nowdecided to ask the permission of the Borough Council to conduct a Paddy's Market in the streets on the nex-t day in order to dispose of the produce that had been promised for the fete.

“I claim to be one of the oldest sportsmen in Te Aroha,” said Mr P Pilkington at a Te Aroha social this week. “Thirty-five years ago footballers travelled many miles, and at their own expense, to play a match. To-day, however, this spirit is lacking; players expect to be pampered and conveyed in luxurious motor cars, but always at other people’s expense.”

The autumn show of the Te Awaimit Horticultural Society was opened this afternoon in the Town Hall and attracted a good crowd of interested spectators. The display is an exceptionally good one and the competition in the various classes keen. The full prize list will be published in next issue.

The following new company has been registered in Auckland: Atawhai, Limited. Te Awamutu. Capital: £23,OOC in shares of £l. Subscribers: Palmerston North —-B. E. Keiller, 6324; H. M. Keiller, 2505; B. E. Keiller and B. J. Jacobs, 10,160; E. _J. Keiller, '3749. Gisborne—M. C. Williams, 262. Objects: To purchase and acquire land at Hairini, to carry on business, otf dairyfarmers, sheepfarmers, graziers, etc. ‘

In a reserved judgment delivered at Tc Kuiti on Monday, Mr F. Levien, S.M., convicted Charles Harger, of Ar ia, on a charge cf dangerous- driving and fined him 10s, costs £3 8s Id. The action was brought by the police as the result of an accident between the defendant’s car and a van driven by R. H. Grace, of Te Awamutu, about six miles north of Te Kuiti, on January 24th. Mr Levien said that after viewing the locality he had no hesitation in accepting the evidence of the driver called by the police.

Although farmers are getting their fertilisers three weeks later than usual, the position in the Waikato regarding the late delivery of autumn fertiliser, considered most serious a week or two ago, has now improved, and it is thought it Will not be necessary for some farmers to omit top-dressing this autumn. It had been suggested that fertiliser should be delivered by road to relieve the position, but owing to the difficulty of carrying such large quantities as are required, and as more railway trucks are now available, that course lias been abandoned.

Canadian interest in the New Zealand Government's scheme of guaranteed prices for dairy produce is referred to in a letter received by the secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr A. P. O’Shea, from the secretary of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The letter states that in view of the fact that the of Western Canada had been advocating the fixing of guaranteed prices for wheat, and that the 20,000 patrons of Ontario last year asked for a guaranteed price on cheese, the experiment that New Zealand is trying in the matter of guaranteed prices was being watched by the Canadian producers with extreme interest.

“The New Zealand pound, worth 16s Id in England, is, thanks to the depreciation of currency, worth 28s Id in Japan,” states an article in a London publication dated 22nd February.” “As expressed by a British manufacturer largely interested in the market, this means that for an equal price the New Zealander gets only 29 inches to the yard in buying from Britain against 501 inches from Japan. Manchester starts 20 yards behind scratch in a 100 yards race, and Osaka 40 yards in front of scratch. How the calculation is affected by changes in Japanese quotations can be reckoned by the enterprising, but the handicapping is monstrous in any case, and pains taken ih making the awful disparity clear are not wasted. What, for instance, would New Zealand say were its producers’ sales of their staple products thus embarrassed ? ”