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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4044, 6 May 1938, Page 4

Viscountess Galway is to broadcast a Dominion-wide appeal from station IYA to-morrow night for more members for the Plunket Society.

Reports from Lake Arapuni indicate that the shooting season has opened with disappointing results, birds being scarce and bags correspondingly light.

At the monthly meeting of the Cambridge Electric Power Board yesterday, it was decided not. to accept the State Advances Corporation’s offer of a loan of £6OOO. In the meantime the board will arrange with its bankers for temporary finance for particular work in view. The board’s opinion was that the repayment conditions in the corporation’s offer were not attractive enough. The engineer was instructed to draw up a schedule of proposed capital works for the next two years.

The To Awamutu Cribbage Club held its weekly series of games in the R.S.A. rooms last night, when the attendance was good and games were up to the usual standard. The outcome was a tie between three in the men’s section, and the play-off went to Mr C. Taylor. In the ladies’ section Mrs H. Carseldine won with eight games. There was an excellent supper to wind up another successful evening for the club.

A public address will be delivered by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, in St. Francis’ Hall, Hill Street, adjacent to Parliament Buildings, on Monday night. Mr Hamilton will reply to various points made by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, in his speech in the Wellington Town Hall on April .20, and he will also outline the fundamental differences between the objective of the Government and that of tke National Party. The speech will be broadcast in accordance with the undertaking given by the Prime Minister that those facilities would be extended to Mr Hamilton.

Recent rains have caused the rivers and streams throughout this district to, in some places, overflow their banks. The .Puniu especially was running “a banker” this morning, and reports to hand indicate that some of the river flats are inundated, stock being cut off from the higher lands. Near the bridge, on the State highway, several dozen sheep are stranded on islands formed by the flood waters, and not far away a small mob of bullocks was in danger of similar experiences. However, the cattle crashed through a fence and escaped to higher ground. So far there are no reports of loss of stock.