LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3899, 10 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The usual monthly sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu takes place to-morrow.

Many local and district returned soldiers attended the special Coronation service at St. John’s Church last evening.

Three infantile paralysis suspects were admitted during the week-end to the Waikato Hospital. Two proved positive and one negative. There are 30 positive cases in the hospital.

In common with all other centres in New Zealand, Te Awamutu residents celebrated Mothers’ Day in appropriate form. Reference was made to the subject in all the churches.

Members of the St. John Ambulance local organisation are enthusiastically preparing for a large attendance of patrons at the Coronation dance in the Town Hall to-morrow evening.

Te Awamutu Electric Power Board workmen are busily engaged to-day hanging festoons of electric light bulbs across Alexandra Street in connection with the Coronation Day celebrations.

A small sedan car was stolen from the premises of Craik Motors, Ltd., between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, and so far it has not ben recovered. The car bore a demonstration number 791.

Race-goers will be interested in the Railway Department’s announcement appearing in this issue regarding the special train ararngements for the Waipa Racing Club’s meeting at Te Awamutu on Saturday, 15th May.

Te Awamutu Fire Brigade received a call shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the cause being a chimney fire at the residence of Mt R. H. Close, Mahoe Street. The outbreak was suppressed quickly and before any damage had been done.

A motor car came to grief on the main road, two or three miles south of Hamilton, last night. It left the highway and ran into some blackberry and fern, coming to a standstill near a telegraph, post. The driver escaped injury, bfft the car was badly damaged.

Two Maoris, who were arrested at Orakau at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, and a European, who was arrested at Kihikihi at 6.10 p.m., were charged at the local Court this morning with drunkenness, when Messrs G. A. Empson and W. C. Savili recorded convictions. The Maoris were not further penalised, . but the European, a resident of Otorohanga, wal fined 10s.

While passing a stationary car 12 miles north of Kinohaku, on the Kino-haku-Kawhia main road, late on Sun day afternoon, a large sedan taxi, driven by Mr John William Hewlett, of Morrinsville, went over the bank, coming to rest in a precarious position on its side. The four adults and three children inside were able to get out through the uppermost doors, no one being injured.

A protest to the Commissioner of Taxes in regard to the peremptory nature of demands made on farmers for detailed accounts for taxation purposes was made at the monthly meeting of the Waikato sub-provin-cial executive of the Farmers’ Union on Friday. One case was cited where a farmer was requested at four days’ notice to make a detailed account covering a period of years.

The New Zealand cricketers commenced their first match of the tour on Saturday, against Surrey. The home team batted first and were all disposed of for 149 (Sandham 31, Gregory 30). Gallichan took 4 wickets for 44, Cowie 3 for 41, and Roberts 3 for 31. New Zealand, when stumps were drawn, had scored 161 for 5 wickets. Page was out for 0, Kerr 39, Vivian 4, Mahoney 9 and Wallace 9, while the not out men were the two juveniles Carson 60 and Donnelly 31.

Two elephants belonging to Sole Bros.’ Circus (which is to appear in Te Awamutu this evening) came very near losing their lives while travelling between New Plymouth and Te Kuiti a few days ago. While being given a spell on the roadside they ate some tutu shrubs, and developed lather alarming symptoms of poisoning—so much so that the services of a Te Kuiti veterinarian had to be obtained.

The opinion that rabbit boards were doing useful work Mt present and were more capable of dealing with the rabbit menace than county councils would be, was expressed at last Friday’s meeting of the Waikato sub-provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union. A remit from the Hamilton branch urging that in order to secure more united action the work of rabbit boards be taken over bycounty councils was accordingly rejected.

Wjhen the question of the remission in case of hardship of the 10 per cent penalty on rates came before the monthly meeting of the Waikato subprovincial executive of tire Farmers’ Union in Hamilton on Friday it was stated that some farmers who were entitled to it were not receiving this concession. A remit embodying the suggestion that the position should be clarified was forwarded to the annual meeting of the Auckland Farmers’ Union.

Representations recently made with regard to the necessity for the installation of a telephone in the residence of the second constable at Te Awamutu have been successful, for according to advices received in Te Awamutu on Saturday from Mr D. J. Cummings, Commissioner of Police, it has been decided that in view of the volume of police work at Te Awamutu a telephone will be installed as a temporary measure “until such time as the police staff at Te Awamutu is increased.”

It has been noted that whirlpools caused by dams or other obstructions in rivers move in a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere and in an anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere. This fact was mentioned during a tour of inspection by members of the Waimakariri River Trust. Canterbury, and the engineer, Mr W. H. Harris, said that it had been borne out by observation on the river. The currents were in a clockwise direction except when there was a special disturbing factor.

“Though I believe I was a lukewarm conservative when in Te Aroha,” said the Hon. W. E. Barnard, M.P. for Napier, at the complimentary luncheon tendered him by the Te Aroha Borough Council. “The war years and the war experiences I had changed my outlpok completely, as they did for many others. I quickly became radically-minded and threw in miy lot with. Labour. Fortune brings about political changes, and when the Government of to-day came into power I found myself, much to my surprise in the Speaker’s chair.

“You cannot be a member of the Farmers’ Union unless you growl, and when you stop growling you cease to be a member.” This opinion was expressed by Mr A. Gordon Hultquist, M.P., Bay of Plenty, in an address in Patutahi last week, when replying to criticism levelled by the Farmers’ Union against the guaranteed price for butter. The Farmers’ Union had suggested a compensated price. “ A compensated price,” Mr Hultquist said, “ is a tax on one section of the people for the benefit of another section.”

On Saturday afternoon two motor buses proceeding from Te Awamutu to Hamilton were involved in collisions when nearing Hamilton. One, belonging to Hodgson’s Motors, Ltd., sustained a crumpled mudguard as a result of a motor car grazing the side of the bus in endeavouring, to pass. The other bus, owned by Buses, Ltd., of Hamilton, was conveying a team of footballers back to Hamilton when a car came into violent collision w'ith the larger vehicle, resulting in some of the passengers sustainingbruises and the driver a cut on the head, necessitating several stitches. Nobody was seriously injured.

Statements made by Mr J. A. Peacock, chairman of the Northern Roller Milling Company, Limited, Auckland, that the flour-milling industry had been badly hit by State interference and the burden of taxation were fully supported by Mr L. H. Smart, chairman of the firm of Wakelin Brothers, Limited, flourmillers, Carterton, last Friday. “There is no need £01; me to make a statement about the position,” said Mr Smart, “because” all the facts were very fully and very acurately given by Mr Peacock. The position has given us concern for the past 15 months, and the trouble is that when the Government works out a scheme on paper it sounds all right, but when put into practice it is a different thine- altogether.”