LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the annual meeting of the Red Cross Society, Te Awamutu Sub-Cen-tre, held last week, a hearty vote of thanks was passed to the honorary auditor, Mr A. S. Wanklyn, for his services during the past year. ,

The seven-year-old son of Mr and Mrs D. Horan, of Te Rahu Road, had the misfortune to break his arm as the result of a nasty fall last week. Raymond received medical attention and is now progressing satisfactorily.

At the annual meeting -of the Red Cross Society, Te Awamutu Sub-Cen-tre, held last week, the treasurer’s report showed that £6B 15s 6d had been received in annual subscriptions; donations totalled £149 Ils 7d, depot receipt® £752 6s 4d, and card evenings £94 14s Bd, while £143 2s Id had been spent on wool and £206 3s 6d on materials for pyjamas, etc.

Costing 10,000 dollars, a four-ton mobile dental unit for emergency dental and facial surgery has been presented by the American Dental Ambulance Committee to the British American Ambulance Corps, and has been shipped to the Middle East for service with the Australian and New Zealand troops. Built to specifications supplied from Egypt, this ten-wheeled ambulance is a replica of one lost during the evacuation of Crete.

“Social security covers this. We don’t want to carry the Government on our backs any longer,” remarked a delegate to the annual meeting of the Canterbury Rugby Union a few days ago, when the Accident Fund regulations were under discussion. A motion was carried deleting a clause in the regulations relating to the medical expenses incurred by injured players. These are now part of the benefits conferred under the Social Security Act.

No election will be necessary at the meeting of householders of the Te Awamutu Primary Schools on Wednesday next, as the following members have been re-elected unopposed: Messrs Les. S. Armstrong, E. J. R. Menary, E. T. S. Short, John E. Short, Les. W. Spence, G. M. Wall, H. B. Ward, J. Waters, and A. B. White. Householders' meetings will be held throughout the district on Wednesday evening next, and chairmen and seretaries are cordially invited to send in or ring up reports for publication in the Courier.

The sixth and final Auckland wool appraisement for the season is to commence on 29th April, the fixture having been postponed to that’ date owing to the stores being congested and to give brokers the opportunity to prepare their catalogues. Approximately '20,000 bales will be available. This will bring the total offering for the season to over 100,600 bales, compared with 95,500 bales last season, and will constitute a record for the province. The season’s wool cheque, which last year established a record at £1,653,092, is expected to exceed £1,760,000.

Durin» Easter-time a resident of Te Awamutu paid a flying visit, his first, to Te Maika, at the entrance to Kawhia harbour, where schnapper have been very plentiful of late. Noticing a Maori sitting on the rocks at The Beacon, he asked the native if the place was any good for fishing. “ I’ll say,” replied the Maori. “ And what kind of fish do you catch ? ” inquired the visitor. “ Oh, all kinds,” was the patient reply. “What did the largest fish you ever caught weigh ? ” “ Well, I don’t bring weighing machines when I go fishing, and I am a good Maori and wouldn’t like to say how much the last schnapper I caught weighed, but I’ll say that when I pulled that fish out of the sea the tide went down a foot ! ”