LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5634, 28 June 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Vet. Club for Cambridge Interest in the work of the Te Awamutu Veterinary Association has been evinced by Cambridge farmers who visited Te Awamutu and were given all possible information by the local Association. It is hoped to form a club in Cambridge. Meat Poducers’ Board Mr T. A. Duncan (chairman), and Messrs J. E. Fraser and A. C. Johnson, members of the Meat Producers’ Board, will address a meeting of farmers at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Te Awamutu, on Thursday next at 1.30 p.m. Photographic Display An outstanding display of Air Force photographs is on show in the window of the Spence Electrical and Radio Company Ltd., in Alexandra Street The photographs portray the Ail Force at work, and an appeal is made for boys to join the Air Training Corps. Alarm Clocks and Gumboots A recent shipment of alarm clocks distributed among miners and waterside workers caused some perturbation in farming circles, where these clocks are used so much, but it was stated at Friday’s meeting of the Te Awamutu branch of the Farmers’ Union that the next shipment was for the farmer. The president said there were no gumboots on the horizon, but when they did arrive he thought the only sensible channel—the dairy companies. Soldier Settlement

The high cost likely to be faced by the Government in settling soldiers on dairy land was emphasised by Mr W. S. Goosman, in the debate on the Imprest Supply Bill in the House of Representatives last week. He said there was a good deal of Waikato land, for example, suitable for settlement at from £25 to £3O an acre, but when a dwelling, cowsheds, pigsty, roading and other facilities were provided the total cost would run to about £6O an acre for a 100-acre farm. Suggested Memorial Trees At the last meeting of the Te Awamutu Domain Board the General Purposes Committee was asked to report □n a scheme for planting trees along the river-bank in the borough in memory of local men who have lost their lives in the war. The matter was raised by Mr W‘. J. North, and all members expressed themselves as favourable to the scheme. It was suggested that a plate bearing the name of a soldier be attached to each tree.

Weaned From Tobacco

The filling in of official forms is not a popular pastime with farmers, but the task is made more difficult by the prevailing shortage of tobacco, it was revealed at Friday’s meeting of the Farmers’ Union. A member’s suggestion that the farmers be weaned from the weed did not find favour, another" member remarking, “They’re bad tempered enough now!” A statement that supplies were being got from Dunedin was characterised as another insult to Scotland.

Fortnightly Card Party The Red Cross fortnightly card party was held in the Depot on Saturday evening, those present being Mesdames Downes, Dawson, S. Clark, O’Brien, Brookes, Warburton, Rainey, Jourdain, McArthur, Irwin, Mensforth, Marsh, Boryer, Bluck, Hopping, Misses Divine, Thompson, Dobson and Sister Hayward. The bridge prize was won by Miss Thompson and the 500 by Mrs Marsh. A competition was won by Mr Martin and Mrs Bluck.