LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4042, 2 May 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

I It is likely that building permits [ within the town of Otorohanga this i year will constitute a record in the ! history ol that town. i Paterangi householders have electi ed the following School Committee: i Messrs J. 11. Webb (chairman), S. C. B. .Macky (secretary and treasurer), G. Finch. C. McCallum, W. G. .Macky, J. McNaul, and W. C. Gei-mann. The Editor has received two letters traversing paragraphs published on Friday in the feature “From My Ver- ■ andah,” and they have been handed to J.'i’.P., who will print them in his column on Friday next. Thu first term of the scholastic year for the primary and secondary schools will end next Friday, May 6, when the pupils will be dismissed lor a vacation. Primary schools and district high schools ■• ill resume- n Ma.. As a result of the improvement in conditions, the Otorohanga Returned Soldiers’ Association has discontinued regular relief. Nevertheless the report at its annual meeting showed that £2l 9s 6d was paid out in odd •amounts during the year. Contrary to popular belief in many quarters, the King’s Birthday this year does not fall on June 3 or June 9. Recent legislation passed by the Government provides that, the Kings Birthday shall be observed on the first Monday in June, which this year will be June 6. in connection with the Waikato Hospital, as it affects the Otorohanga district, the levies for rates on local bodies show an increase reflected in liie Town Board of £l9, making an annual levy of £l9l, and in the Otorohanga County Council an increase of £154, making an annual levy for this institution at Hamilton ol £2,000. The number of electric plants being serviced by the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board on April 29 last was 5,561, made up as follows: Righting plants 2253, cow plant motors 763, separator motors 345, other powei plants 95, water pump motors 578, washing machines 79, shearing plants 79, electric stoves 470, electric water heaters «99. The members of the Ta Awamutu badminton Club are looking forward with keen interest to the coming seacon, for which they intend to get arrangements in full train al the annual meeting to be held m Miller’s Sports and Radio Depot this evening. In addition to members, a cordial indilation is extended to all players and enthusiasts to be present. The shooting season opened at midnight and long before the break of day this morning a number of local enthusiasts were on their way to lavourite shooting localities, so that at the first peep of dawn the pop of the guns could be heard in many places. Game is reported to be fairly plentiful, the season having been a particularly good breeding one. Reporting fo Te Awamutu Electric Power Board al its monthly meeting on Friday last, the inspector stated, inter alia: Contracts lor the installations in the Kopua district have been let and are being proceeded with rather slowly due to the amount of work available. Contracts lor the installations along Ellis’ Road, Kio Kio, have been let but, like Kopua, are somewhat slow. The contractors report that additional wiremen are unprocurable. The contractor has made a start with the erection of the State houses on the Racing Club’s old property in Mangapiko Street. The sections have been levelled, the reading through to Mahpe Stret partly formed, temporary batches erected for the workmen and a start made putting in the concrete foundations of the fust house. In all twelve houses are to be erected under this contract. In addition tenders , have closed for the erection of five i houses in Goodfellow Street while tenders for fourteen more close on May 18th. A heavy list of business, calculated to occupy three weeks, has been set down for the Hamilton Supreme Court, which will open before the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, tomorrow. Included in the criminal business are four eases of negligent driving causing death, four appeals from decisions in the Police' Court, a retrial ot a sly grog selling charge, and eight other cases. These involve charges of forgery and theft and offences against children. There is one prisoner for sentence. The civil cases include claims for the recovery of sums aggregating £3701. There, are 13 petitions in divorce, including a defended action to be heard before a jury of 12. At the close of the Te Awamutu Power Board meeting on Friday the chairman announced that all the present members of the Board representing the town and country areas, had been re-ejected unopposed. He congratulated the members upon the ratepayers’ indication of continued confidence. Mr J. Montefiore, supplementing these remarks, said it was pleasing to note the entire absence of any form of division between the representatives of town and district. All worked together for the good of the whole district, and he hoped this would always continue. Mr W. J. North voiced similar sentiments. The chairman said in all his years of service with the Board this policy had been pursued unswervingly, and he was proud of it. “ I am very doubtful now, when I look back, why I went to the war,” Mr David Barnes, M.P., said at the Anzac Day service in Fairlie. “ I was too young to think of democracy oi anything like that. When I look back I think I went in a spirit of adventure. Some of those who fought went to make the world safe for democracy. But, when we look at the world today, we wonder. Wo look at the chaos in China, Spain and Abyssinia, and we wonder if we have made the world safe for democracy.” Unless peace were based on justice there must be war, Mr Barnes added. After the last war people had not been Jn a frame of mind to forgive Germany and temper peace terms with justice. Until people could forgive wars would result. Wood’s Grea<. Pepperment Cure for coughs and colds never fails.

The Te Awamutu Power Board on Friday decided to hold its next meeting on May 27th, when the ordinary monthly meeting and the statutory annual meeting will be held.

With a financial membership of c-rly two short of 500, the Wh’iiigaiei Empire Ex-servicemen’s Association is now one of the largest of its kind outside the metropolitan areas in New Zealand. This fact was commended upon by the president, Mr H. C. Hemphill, at the annual meeting of the association. The financial statement presented io Friday’s meeting- of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board showed the power fund account in credit £17,933 5s 7d, the loan account in debit £18,700 7s, and the consumers’ finance account in credit £770 9s lid. The total credit in all accounts was thus £3 7s 6d. The amount due by the loan account to the power fund account for amounts advanced to March 31st was £2592 Ils lOd. The Waipa County Council on Wednesday confirmed acceptance ot‘ the tender of C. A. Wilson and T. Nga anio for clearing about 91 chains of the Lake Cameron drain at. £lB 4s. J. Reilly and G. Anderson, for constructing 22 A chains of Penny Street, Pirongia, at £123; H. Vincent, excavating and carting 1000 cubic wards of boulders and shingle at Pirongia for £300; and Paraone Tunoho and Rapana, for delivering metal at Tunoho’s, Owairaka, at £lOO.