LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5547, 9 November 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

At the Avondale Jockey Club’s Second Spring meeting held at Ellerslie on Saturday, Royal Glory, owned by Mr A. Kay, Parawera and trained by Mr A. Cook at Te Awamutu, secured first place in the Avondale Stakes.

In connection with the social evening to be held at the High School under the auspices of the Parents’ Association on 18th November, it was mentioned at the School Committee meeting last Friday that a senior inspector would be present to give an address.

New utility pottery will soon be the vogue in New Zealand, according to a Dunedin merchant. It has been well received in Great Britain, he says. It is made on stock molds, without any decorations, and there are three grades of quality, A, B, and C, the grading letter being stamped in.

Local prize-winners at the annual show of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, held at Claudelands on Saturday, included Mr Allen Yarndley, whose gelding Bronze King gained second place in three hack events and third place in another, and Joe Ramsay, who was successful in winning the pony flat event.

Te Awamutu District High School Committee, at its monthly meeting on Friday evening, agreed to support an application by the headmaster (Mr W. G. S. Smith) for the lodging of an appeal against the calling up of a driver-mechanic employed at the school. “ The man will be in the next ballot,” Mr Smith said, “and if he goes into camp it will be impossible to replace him.”

Taking fright as a train was pulling into the Te Awamutu railway station on Saturday morning, a horse owned by Miss A. Gooder, of Wharepuhunga, jumped out of the stock yard, and in doing so suffered extensive cuts to its forelegs. The *horse, Taura, which was waiting to be trucked to Hamilton to compete at the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association Show, had to be taken home.

“We would all be delighted to work a 30-hour week, but as an old soldier I put it to our people that this war cannot be won on a 40-hour week,” said Mr Morton, Mayor of Te Kuiti, at an R.S.A. welcome home to local men recently. “Let us take our example from the boys like we have here to-night. Get closer together, forget the work and work like hell for victory.”

At-its monthly meeting on Friday Te Awamutu District High School Committee sanctioned the expenditure of £6O for visual aids at the school, the amount to be spent on the advice of Mr W. B. Harris, director of visual education for New Zealad. Mr Harris is to be invited to visit Te Awamutu when he will meet the headmaster (Mr W. G. S. Smith) and the Committee chairman (Mr G. Donaldson).

“ Examinations at the school will be concluded by 4th December, and then we will consider applications from boys with definite jobs to go to,” said the headmaster (Mr W. G. S. Smith) at the High School Committee meeting on Friday when the question of school boys assisting with harvesting was under discussion. “We are prepared to give harvesting leave,” he added, “ but only if the boys have the work to go to.”

The following resolution was agreed to be the Presbytery of Wellington at a meeting held last week:—“The Presbytery of Wellington views with grave concern the organizing of Sunday evening dances for the entertainment of servicemen, and calls upon Presbyterians everywhere, in this time of crisis, to make clear their allegiance to Christian principles, and withstand every attempt to encroach upon the sacredness of the Lord’s Day.”

“National characteristics are not racially determined,” said Dr. I. L. G. Sutherland, Professor of Philosophy at Canterbury University College, ad_ dsessing the Society for Imperial Culture on Saturday evening. “They change with the same racial stock. Sir Edwin Arnold said that the Japanese of his day had ‘the nature rather of birds and butterflies than of ordinary human beings.’ Traditionally, the Japanese were characterised by ceremonious ways of life, a high appreciation of aesthetic values, feudal organisation, and a military caste system. Under the influence of western civilisation and of modern conditions they have become dedicated to commerce and to imperialistic wars.”

The attention of farmers is drawn to the policy to be adopted by the Waikato District Council of Primary Production regarding farmers and farm hands drawn in the eighteenth ballot (to be gazetted on Wednesday). Any farmer who desires the support of the Primary Production Council for an appeal which he may lodge either for himself or for an employee should communicate with his nearest Primary Production Committee. The Committee will investigate the position, and, where justified, the Council will lodge supporting evidence. Similar action should be taken in the case of re-hearings. In the case of farmers who are not appealing for themselves or their farm hands the Primary Production Council will investigate the caSes and lodge appeals where such are deemed in the interests of production.