TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4008, 4 February 1938, Page 8

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

AS REPORTED IN THE WAIPA POST, 4th FEBRUARY, 1913.

Application for shares in the newly formed Te Awamutu Terminating Building Society has been keen, and it is anticipated that well over the minimum of 400 shares will be applied for. Among newly-appointed Justices of the Peace are: Frank Hockly, Parawera; Robert Gregg, Otorohanga; and James Boddie, Te Kuiti. The New Zealand Dairy Association advanced to suppliers for December butter-fat £68,499. The corresponding payment last year was £49,844.

Ragwort is growing all along the banks of the Puniu River, and is seeding. The extreme danger to the farming community from the spread of this noxious weed should ensure the inspector’s attention being drawn to it at an early date. Owing to the Raglan Show being held on 11th March and the Rotorua Show on 12th March, it has been found impossible to hold the Te Awamutu Show on the date announced.

The Journal of Agriculture says that good progress is being made in the manufacture of synthetic milk. Arrangements for the first factory are nearly complete, and premises are about to be taken in London for the first plant suitable for the manufacture of 40,000 quarts of milk each day.

The Waipa Gun Club’s shoot on Saturday resulted in a win for H. Jull (16 yards), with A. McMurray second, and S. Corrigan third. Rev. F. W. Clarke, replying to criticism by “Rangatira ” of his appeal for improvement to St. John’s Church and grounds, including the

burial area, wrote: “‘Rangatira’ is a survivor—let us hope the only survivor—of a class once too prominent here, who found their chief diversion in howling at any and every vicar who dared to lead a crusade against culpable neglect of sacred things, un til they blistered his soul and turned him into a heart-broken and debtstricken man, and then lamented the absence of the ‘ grand’fellow who used to be here ’.” Pirongia tennis players were defeated by Te Awamutu Club players on Saturday by 22 sets and 150 games to 9 sets and 120 games. The new Kihikihi Tennis Club has elected the following officers: Secretary, Mr O. Price Owen; treasurer, Mrs Wade. The Defence Rifle Club’s practice match saw the new range in use. W. Mclver was top scorer with 30 at 300 yards, 28 at 500 yards, and 28 at 600 yards; total, 87. A. Blythe was second with 28-—30—26, 84; and R. Mclver third with 25—29—21, 75.