LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6240, 10 June 1946, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Early Lambs Lambs ■ made their appearance on the property of Mr Trevor Mellsop, Ngatunui, on the 29th of last month. | Strong Branch I When the annual report of the I various branches of the Church of J England Mens Society are submitted .to the Dominion Conference in Napier this week it will be stated that the Te Awamutu branch is the strongest in the Waikato Diocese. High-priced Bull At the combined sale of the Taheke and Rathmore Jerseys at Kataia on i Thursday last, the highest price for male stock was reached by Rathmore Royal Port, for which Messrs D. and J. S. Pattison, of Te Awamutu, paid 350 guineas. The animal is not yet twelve months old. Extra Class Rooms The need, for {additional classrooms at the High School was again stressed by the Te AWamutu District High School committee ■’ on Friday night. It was decided to again write to the Auckland Education Board j asking what steps were being taken i to provide the greatly needed ament- | ities. ! Changing Room ■ The architect to the Auckland Edui cation Board submitted to Friday night’s meeting of the Te Awamutu • High School committee, I plans of a proposed changing rocm. pThe secretary, Mr L. A. Johnston l was instructed to write to the Board I approving of the plan, subject to certain named extensions. ' Girls' Quadrangle j Mr Westbrook reported to the Te » Awamutu District High School com- | mittee on Friday night that he had I received one quote-for the sealing of I the girls’ quadrangle at the school. The secretary was instructed to write to the Education Board asking if the committee coaid *be authorised to accept the quote. Brigade Called to Kihikihi For the first time in its history Te Awamutu Fire Brigade visited Kihikihi when, at about noon to-day, the Brigade received a call to the Post Office in the township, where a chinir. ney was on fire. The outbreak had,L however, been extinguished ere the Brigade arrived. Houses Before Churches “During a Ministerial tour of the state housing units in Lower Hutt we were waited on by a deputation which wanted us tn build more churches,” said the Hon. Mary Dreaver, M.L.C-, in a public address at Ashburton. “The Prime Minister said ‘No; the need for houses and schools comes first’.” Certainly the people must have their churches, but ■the |nsed jfar houses thculd have priority, remarked Mrs Dreaver. Old Folks Radio Hour It was suggested by the Dominion president of the New Zealand Pensioners’ Association, Mr W. A. Warner. at a meeting of the Hamilton and district Beneficiaries’ Association, that a programme for the old folks should be provided over the main national broadcasting stations daily. It was agreed that the tastes of rhe older people in music were not the same as the young people of today. Importance of Primary Production “We must encourage our lads to go back on the land,” said the Hon. Mary Dreaver, M.L.C., in an address in Christchurch. She said primary production was most important to New Zealand, particularly in wheat and dairy products. Farmers were getting a high price for grass seeds which were going out of the country and they should be encouraged to think differently and grow more wheat. In the North Island people did not like the big subsidy paid to wheatgrowers, but it was necessary for New Zealand to grow wheat.

Agricultural High School Mr A. E. Bryant waited on the Te Awamutu District High School committee on Friday night and reported on the investigations made to date in respect to the proposed establishment'of an Agricultural High School in the South Auckland Province. After hearing Mr Bryant the committee appointed its chairman, Mr W. G., Parker to represent them at a meeting of the committee who are making the preliminary survey which is to be held at Kihikihi on Wednesday afternoon.

Racecourse Improvement

The scheme of alteration and imiis proceeding steadily at the Waipa Racing Club’s course. The entrance near the Air Force station gate has been closed, one reason being to keep traffic off the new grass that is now coming away splendidly on the training tracks recently laid down. The main access to the course from Racecourse Road is now through the gateway beside the site of the Air Force store which was destroyed by fire. The entrance there is to be widened sufficiently to give room for three gateways. On Saturday morning a caterpillar tractor was used to uproot a macrocarpa tree and a large straining post which were in the way, a few minutes sufficing to complete a task that would have occupied two men for a couple of hours. The work of alteration is under the direction of Mr A. J. Jones, course caretaker.