LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 60, Issue 4233, 19 January 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

For operating a motor vehicle without a warrant of fitness, Leslie V. Mathers, of Te Awamutu, was fined 5/- and costs at the Hamilton S.M. Court on Thursday’.

The statistics Illustrative of conditions in the sawmilling industry during 1938-39 reeval some decreases as compared with the high levels attained in 1937-38. Of note is the drop of six million feet b.m. in the quantity of rough sawn timber produced.

A very representative team of athletes from the Morrinsville Club is nominated for Te Awamutu Amateur Athletic Club’s Centennial sports meeting, to be held at Albert Park on Saturday and Monday, 27th and 29th January- There will be competitors from Morrinsville in the oedestrian, field, and cycling events for men, and in addition the Misses J. Keating, J. Hart, and M. Jelaca will compete in the ladies’ races.

Among the intending competitors at Te Awamutu Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club’s Centennial sports meeting at Albert Park on Saturday and Monday, 27th and 29th instant, are at least two champion athletes — MlcCormick, of Te Kuiti. who is the provincial junior- champion distance runner who created something of a sensation last year by defeating the senior champion, and Baker, the provincial quarter-mile champion.

The strange innocence and selfcomplacency of people who make their way through life in complete disregard of vital knowledge of the world about them was well illustrated by an anecdote told by a Te Aroha resident. Seeking to strike up a conversation with a woman to whom he had just been introduced, he touched upon the struggle of the Finnish people against the invading Russians, thinking that the subject would be topical. To his astonishment, she asked: “ And who are the Finns ? ”

No date has been fixed for the encamping of the men of the ranks for the third echelon, which will complete the New Zealand Division promised to the British Government. The fact that the encamping date has not been announced may deter young men of military age from enlisting; but it should be noted by prospective recruits that volunteers will 'be chosen shortly to be trained as non-com-missioned officers for this echelon. The earlier recruits will have an opportunity of being included in this draft.

The Poverty Bay ryegrass seed crops are reported to be threshing out well, and although a larger percentage of weed seeds is being secured this year than last owing to the heavy bottom growth, the yields of dressed seed should be good. Most, of the seed has been cut, and the mills are working at full pressure. Some of the crops are being stacked for later threshing. At the end of last season rates of from 18s to 20s were being paid for machine dressed mother seed and even if the prices are not so high this season there should be a good demand.

Te Awamutu Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, which will hold its Centennial sports meeting at Albert Park on Saturday and Monday 27th and 29th instant is probably unique in the whole of New Zealand for it has a lady secretary Mrs S. Adams wife of the popular and energetic president, Mr W. G, Adams, of Pakura Street. Mrs Adams was assistant secretary last year, and at the annual meeting of the Club was reelected to the position; but a little later the secretaryship became vacant, and Mrs Adams was induced to assume the responsibilities of that office. That the choice was a wise one already been shown, and further evidence of it will assuredly be forthcoming on the approaching sports days.

The Ford Exhibition News, a small brocrure issued to patrons of the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington by the Ford organisation, is now in its seventh number. The sixth dated 12th January, is. as usual, snappy in its style, as instance the following: In case you haven’t had particular’s of the new addition to the Sargeant family at Ohakune, you should send for Jim Sargeant’s announcement folder. Our copy has just been received, and here is an extract: “ The Sargeant Family (Inc.) announces the 1939 Sargeant Baby (Girl). Sole Designer and Chief Engineer: J. Sargeant. Production Manager: N. Sargeant. Technical Adviser and Assistant: Dr- Blank. Model No. I—-re-leased 25th November, 1939. Outstanding features: Two-lung motor, economical feed, scream-line body, with knee action; changeable seatcovers as standard equipment. 100 ner cent New Zealand manufacture. No further new models this year.”

The quota for the-No. 4 area for the Maori Battalion, which' encamps on January 26, is 35. These men are available, and they will leave Frankton next Thursday night, by special train for Palmerston North, at 8.40 p.m.

The Military Medical Board, sitting at Te Atwamutu on Wednesday accepted a high percentage of fit recruits, for out of 31 men examined, 26 were passed fit, three temporarily unfit, and two permanently unfit. The figures at Taumarunui were 14, 10, 3 and 1, while at Hamilton they were 49, 38, 8 and 3.

Revenue earned from the safes of current during November last by the Te Awamutu Power Board was £3796 7s lid, made up of £2105 16s 6d, from lighting, heating and cooking; £1614 9s 7d for power, £36 Is lOd foipenalties and sundries, and £4O for street lighting. In November, 1938, the revenue from the same sources was £3503 13s sd.

All but. 2000 cases of a shipment of 9000 cases of bananas were jettisoned at sea when a failure in the refrigeration plant occurred on the steamer bringing the fruit to New Zealand from the islands. When the ship docked at Auckland yesterday the remainder of the consignment was immediately unloaded on acount of its ripening condition and despatched to the markets for early sale.

New Zealand would have to find 1800 recruits a month to provide reinforcements to keep the full division promised to Great Britain in the field throughout the war, commented Mr H. D. Caro, Mayor of Hamilton, at a meeting of the South Auckland zone executive of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council, in Hamilton on Wednesday afternoon. An active recruiting campaign for the district was inaugurated.

The Centennial Cup race, IB miles, at Trentham yesterday, was won by the Hawke’s Bay-owned Old Bill, in which Te Awamutu has a special interest, for the name was given in honour of a former Te Awamutu trainer, the late Mr Wm. Stone, who had long been associated with the owner of Old Bill, Mr H. H. Pharazyn, and he actually prepared Old Bill’s dam, Liaison, here for her racing career.

The financial statement tabled at to-day’s meeting of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board showed the power fund account in credit £8320 3s 4d, the loan account in debit £9069 8s 2d, and the consumers’ finance account in credit £1938 15s Bd. Thus the total credits in all accounts was £llB9 10s lOd. The amount due by the loan account to the power fund account for moneys advanced up te March 31st, 1939, was £4767 4s 6d.

Patrons at the Empire Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday' evening were warm in their praise of the acting of Mary Maguire, in “The Outsider.” The lady is an Australian, and for sheer acting ability she rivals, the best from America and England. Also in the cast is the New Zealander, Elaine Hamill, as a nurse. The picture itself is one really well worth seeing; and there should be a large crowd present at the final screening this evening.

To-day the final draft of recruits for the second echelon of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force from the No. 4 (Hamilton) military area will encamp. Recruiting energies will then be turned toward the third echelon. Although it will not be called up for some weeks, the need for recruits is as marked as at any time since the outbreak of war. Steady volunteering is desired. The area has not only supplied its quota for _ the second echelon, but several additional men have been posted to units to complete required numbers. A considerable number is already available for the third echelon. Other volunteers are being medically examined at frequent intervals.

A gain of £342,946 for the 36 weeks of the railway year to December 9, 1939, compared with the corresponding period of 1938, is shown in the latest accounts. A working profit of £340,690 compares with a net deficit of £2256 at the equivalent date of the previous year. For the four weekly period to December 9 there was a profit of £91,506, compared with a net revenue of £90,265 fox- the correspond, ing period of 1938. The railway working account fox- the four weeks, an abstract pf which was gazetted on Thursday night, shows the gross receipts to have been £780,143, an increase of £15,637 on the figure of the previous year. Expenses at £688,637 were £14,396 higher.

No date has been announced for the non-commissioned officers for the third echelon to encamp, but the officers will (commence training on February 1. If the procedure adopted for the second echelon is to be followed, the non-commissioned officers will encamp approximately the first week in March. However, the plans of the authorities have not yet been released. Much will depend upon how soon the British Government requires additional echelons. It is not known how many officers will be required from the No. 4 area for the third echelon, but it is expected that there will be sufficient available in the district to take their for active sex-vice overseas.

A Colt by Bulandshar—Tea Tattle by Tea Tray—Bouvandia, aroused the keenest bidding at the 14th national yearling sales held at Trentham on Wednesday, the colt being purchased by Mr C. Wheeler, Adelaide, for 2000 guineas, on behalf of Mr J.: Wren, of Melbourne. The sale in the morning was dull, but bidding livened up in the afternoon, and many of the better class lots brought satisfactory prices. Two of the h’gher-priced colts went to Christchurch, Mr W. Shand bidding 850 guineas for the colt by Tiderace—My Own, and Mr H. D. Greenwood (owner of Defaulter), 700 guineas for a eolt by Foxbridge—Rose Latour, offered by Mr W. Alexander, Te Awamutu. Fifteen lots were knocked down to Auckland buyers. Mr T, Imney paid 525 guineas fox- a brown colt by Nightmarch— and Mr A. J. Couit secured a colt by Bulandshar—Pass On for 380 guineas. For the fillies the highest price was 550 guineas, paid for one by Phaleron Bay—Baylock. About 50 lots were passed- in. while several lots were not offered.