LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6136, 14 September 1945, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Medical Boards Sitting Army medical boards in Hamilton are still busy examining men who will probably be demobilised during the next few weeks. Day and night sittings of the boards have been held at army headquarters this week, and an average of eighty examinations each day is the objective.

Boarding Establishment Closing Boarders at a local boarding house have been given notice that the house is closing down at the end of the present month. Normally ten boarders have been accommodated there. The difficulty in obtaining board is one that is exercising the minds of those under notice to quit. Te Kuiti Shows The Way

Te Kuiti are celebrating victory in right royal fashion. Special provision is being made for the children and 1000 bottles of soft drinks, 1000 pies, 3000 sandwiches and a like number of cakes, apples, lollies and ice cream are to be provided all free. A programme of sports events and entertainment are other features. What about Te Awamutu following Te Kuiti’s splendid example.

Hospital Patients The daily average of patients at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton, in August was 551.5; operations totalled 216. The daily average at the Campbell Johnstone ward of the same hospital was 21.2. At Rotorua the average was 158.7, Te Kuiti 24.9, Matamata 13.9, Huntly 7.03, Te Aroha 5.06, Kawhia 3.8, Taupo 3.2, and Old Men’s Home 30.5. These figures were supplied to a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board by the secretary.

Milk from Waikeria The Waikeria Borstal Institution is now sending 1000 half-pint bottles of milk a day to schools in Te Awamutu district (states an official report). A further 1500 bottles daily are to be provided for Te Kuiti and Otorohanga schools as soon as new bottling machinery is installed. Milk is already being supplied to those schools. The report states that a scheme to provide milk for 20 or 30 schools in Waikato and King Country w’ould require 4000 bottles a day, and this would not be practicable until the institution could recast its winter milking programme; this could not be done before 1946.

Sex Education In Schools “We will have to face the question of sex education in the schools,” said Mr A. Hanna, Dominion president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, during an address to members of the North Canterbury branch of the institute. For some time the attitude in New Zealand had been that this subject must not be mentioned. “We are never going* to get very far if we treat a subject so vital in this way,” said Mr Hanna. Parents must be made to see that the homes must face up to their responsibility also in this matter, and the task of the schools would thus be made easier.

Snooker Championships The Thames Valley snooker championship games have been in progress in Morrinsville this week. The games in which Te Awamutu players have been engaged were as follows: Louvrick beat W. Barlow by default; C. Smith, Matamata (South Auckland champion) beat Wilson in two straight games; J. Smith (Matamata) beat Kopuru in straight games; Turkington beat J. Pekin (Morrinsville), the winner making the highest break of the evening, 28; Ellison (Matamata) beat Kura, in straight games; Harris beat Louvriek; Turkington beat Hamilton (Morrinsville) in two straight games. In the section play a feature of the evening was a series of exhibition games between C. Mounsey, of Te Awamutu, and L. Stout, of Paeroa, who showed just how the balls should be potted, and gave great examples of positional play. The former won his first game easily, but Stout got on to his game subsequently. Jersey Bull Sales

Among the principal sales at the National Jersey Bull Sale at Claudelands were the following: Waihakeke Royal Merit, C. W. Jensen, Carterton, to J. Perrcttee, Otorohanga, 75gns; Tolgarth Elgin, H. H. Sutton and Sons, Te Awamutu, to H. A. Ashe, Te Puke, BCgns.; Anchor Mischief’s Winstone, R. J. Shaw and Co., Ohaupo, to R. Simpkin, Kaiwaka, 90gns; Fen Views Elect Royal, J. E. Laing, Te Hoe, to S. McFall' Paterangi, 125gns; Meadow Crest Noble Aim, T. Smith, Otorohanga, to K. Kennedy, Morrinsville, 80gns; Tolgarth Endurant, H. H. Sutton and Sons, Te Awamutu, to Mrs M. A. Vickers, Pukerimu, 60gns; Tokorangi Bronty, N. Moore, Tapanui, to H. E. Focke, Te Awamutu, 70 gns; Anchor Sundown, F. G. Shaw, Ohaupo, to E. N. Yeoman, Hamilton, 60gns; Meadcrest Noble Boy, T. Smith, Otorohanga, to R. Bell, Te Puninga, 60gns; Meadow-crest Royal, same vendor, to J. Storey, Ohinewai, 60gns; Te Kawa Beau Vite, D. and J. Jattison, Te Awamutu, to J. D. McKay, Te Puke, 85gns; Jersey Glen Coon, K. R. Snell, Ngunguru, to D. Fraser, Te Kawa, 60gns. Land For Servicemen

Part 2 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, which enables the Minister of Lands to take land if it is suitable for subdivision (but leaving the owner an economic holding if he so desires), has been sparingly used, according to the annual report of the Lands Department, talbed in the House of Representatives. The report, which covered the financial year ended on March 31, said that two properties of a total area of 383 acres had been Taken under this part of the act. Notices of intention to take land had been given to owners of five other properties, of a total area of 6312 acres. Until schemes of subdivision were completed, it was not possible to say how many men could be setled on these properties. The report said that the existence of this part of the act had had an important effect. Landowners had been more ready voluntarily to offer to sell their properties, and the Crown had thus been able to conclude the purchase of a satisfactory number of properties by private treaty. During the year, 49,614 acres were bought by negotiation. Negotiations were concluded for other properties, but as possession was not taken until after April 1, they were not included in the report.