LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4430, 26 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Delegates at the annual meeting at Hamilton decided to change the name of the South Auckland Bowling - Centre to “Waikato and Thames Valley Bowling Centre.” A large number of Territorials left Te Awamutu on Saturday morning to take part in the Army exercises in the Pukekohe district. The men will be in camp till Friday, June 6. The installation of Mr L. G. Armstrong as Mayor and the swearing in of the Councillors will take place in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening next at 8 o’clock, to which ceremony the nublic are cordially invited to attend. A social and dance will follow.

Thfe annual tournament of the Waikato - Thames Valley Bowling Centre will not in future be centralised in Hamilton. Any club which can provide two good greens will be entitled to the fixture. There is every indication that Te Awamutu will be chosen for the next centre tournament. •

As a result of the Greek campaign some 2200 New Zealanders are missing, according to advice received by the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, from the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser. The announcement was made last night by Mr Nash, who said that for the most part there was fairly reliable information that the men were prisoners of war.

Representing an increase On the previous year of 114, the membership was over 9800, stated the Auckland Provincial president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr H. M. Rushworth, at the annual provincial conference in Auckland. The actual figure could not be estimated, he said, because of the different method of paying fees, but the figure given was for present financial members.

An unnamed mare by Lord Warden' from Palestrina (a half-sister to The Cardinal) with a foal by Man’s Pal and in foal to Battle Song, was purchased last Thursday, at the Gladstone Part Stud dispersal sale, Christchurch, by Mr E. D. Williams, of Te Awamutu, for 325 guineas. It is of interest to note that Battle Song was sold for 3600 guineas, 300 guineas more than Beau Pere fetched a few years ago.

“With the setting-in of hot weather, medical worries, due to flies, have arisen,” writes an official Australian war correspondent from Tobruk. “The problem was tackled at the outset and a huge campaign has been launched against dysentry risks. The Italians left a huge dump of fly-spray here and this has been generously distributed. Strict supervision is being maintained over all possible sources of disease, and every man in the garrison has become flyconscious.”