TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5492, 1 July 1942, Page 5

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

(From the Waipa Post, July 1, 1917). Before the regular business at the Te Awamutu Magistrate’s Court was proceeded with at its last sitting, Mr E. Rawson, S.M., took the required declarations from Messrs R. B. Brown, W. Jeffery, A. Young and S. H. Dunkley, who have been appointed to the commission as Justices of the Peace. At the third annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Volunteer Fire Brigade it was revealed that the brigade personnel had been reduced to four active and four auxiliary firemen, and one messenger. Seventeen honorary members were contributing to the funds. During the past year Firemen R. G. Gardner and D. Bockett had enlisted, making a total of eight volunteers from the brigade’s ranks. A casualty list contains the name of James R. Clarke (Mr W. H. Clarke, Otorohanga, father), killed in action. “In view of the possibility of the prolongation of the war and of the depletion of male labour, the Korakonui branch of the Farmers’ Union considers, in the interest of the Empire, that the women of this Dominion should be classified with a view to instruction in farm labour so that, if the necessity arises, the work of production ,may be carried on without interruption.” This was a resolution which came from the Korakonui branch for consideration at the last meeting of the Te Awamutu Farmers’ Union subProvincial Executive. The motion was not endorsed by the executive, the general opinion being that women would find more useful work in the home. The meeting fully entertained the. assurance that, if the necessity arises, the women of this Dominion will possess the initiative and pluck to take their full part in every effort, great or small, that the country may call for. At a meeting of the Waikato Licensing Committee a transfer of the license of the Star Hotel at Kihikihi to Mr D. Holland was granted. At a meeting of the Kakepuku Cooperative Dairy Company last week applications for the position of manager of the company’s factory in succession to Mr McDonald, who has resigned, were considered. Mr D. R. Anderson, of Newbury (near Palmerston North) was appointed.