LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4482, 26 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the conclusion of Monday’s sitting of the Court at Otorohanga the liquor confiscated from the club and sly-groggers, valued at about £9O, which had been exhibited in Court, was sent by lorry to Hamilton. It will be sold and the proceeds paid to the Consolidated Fund.

The staff shortage at the Ruakura Animal Research Station brought about by war conditions has necessitated the employment of girls at the farm, where many important experiments are being carried out. Two girls are already working at the farm and a further two will be employed shortly. It is intended when further members of the staff are called up for military duties to fill the vacancies with young women.

Appearing for a defendant in a sly grog case at Otorohanga on Monday, Mr Johnson made the submission that sly-grogging was no more rife in Otorohanga than anywhere else in the King Country, and to make his point he told how he understood that “ only one place in the main street of Taumarunui was not a sly-grog shop and that one was unoccupied ! ” The Court appreciated the exaggeration even if the statement was just a little hard on that southern King Country centre.

The Canterbury Education Board has made representations to the Minister of Education asking that a clause be added to the regulations stipulating that all teachers exempted from military service by the Armed Forces Appeal Board, on the grounds of conscience, should immediately be offered alternative national service at Army rates of pay, and that, failing acceptance within two weeks from the date of the offer, education boards be authorised to terminate their engagements.

Riding Little Jim in the Members’ Steeples at the picnic sports meeting on Saturday last, Ray Marx showed good horsemanship, for when taking first fence his saddle slipped almost back to the horse's flanks and in this position they carried on, but nearly parted company at the second fence of the double, where Mr Marx had to swerve his horse sharply to avoid a fallen rider and for a moment lost his balance, but righting himself he went on to complete the chase and collect third money. Those who saw the incident were not slow to applaud when horse and rider returned to the birdcage.

A special meeting of the Waipa County Council was held yesterday, when, in the unavoidable absence of the chairman (Mr S. C. B. Macky). Cr G. S. Clarke presided, and there were also present Crs N. Reid, Hamilton Allen, G. S. Hall, D. B. Livingstone, and R. J. Graham. The object of the meeting was to confirm special orders altering the county by-laws. Such resolutions were duly passed. One makes the building by-laws apply, to the wTiole of the county, while the second provides that crossings are to be maintained and kept in repair by the occupier of the premises to which they give access.