LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 76, Issue 6480, 20 February 1948, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Schools Commended

The Korakonui School has received a letter of commendation . from the Auckland Education Board on their activity in keeping the grounds and buildings in good order. The Honikiwi School has received a similar letter. The teachers and children concerned are to be congratulated on the recognition of their practical interest in their schools.

Water Trough for Stock “It would cost £3OO at least, and that outlay is prohibitive,” commented the chairman, Mr J. A. Sampson, at the Waikato County Council meeting when the Hamilton branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asked for a water trough for travelling stock on the Hamilton-Morrinsville road, preferably near Scott’s Comer, Newstead.

Backloading Desired The executive of the Waikato Province, Federated Farmers, is to be asked by the Hamilton sub-branch to investigate the refusal of the Transport Department to allow lorries bringing fertiliser from near Auckland to the Waikato districts to backload with wool and other farm commodities. The subject will also be referred to the meat and wool section of the provincial executive.

Hospital Rating Unfair The action of the Waipa County Council in objecting to the basis of raising levies on the local bodies by the Waikato Hospital Board was supported at last meeting of the Hamilton Sub-Provincial of Federated Farmers. It was decided unanimously to support the local body and to ask the provincial executive to give the subject careful consideration with a view to further action in support of the contention that the present incidence was unfair and unjust. Aluminium Wire

A small quantity of barbed aluminium wire will shortly be available; some plain is expected later. The barb will be in 351 b coils with its own special staples provided, costing about £4 a coil. As it goes three to four times the distance of steel barb, it will work out at about 25 per cent dearer. It will have an advantage of being practically rustproof but of only two-thirds normal strength. Even so, it should provide a useful emergency supply.

Generous to Band The whole cost of £l5OO for a set of new instruments for the Hawthorn Salvation Army Silver Band which visited Te Awamutu last Saturday, was subscribed by citizens of Hawthorn in 28 days. In stating this as an evidence of the appreciation of the band in its own city Bandmaster H. V. Stevens said the band took out a four-year contract for the payment of the set. On the night that the instruments were presented £6OO was subscribed and more than half the instruments were donated by citizens.

Railway Road Service To enable ten passengers of the New Zealand Road Services bus from Tauranga to Hamilton to make the journey to Wellington on Wednesday night, the south-bound express which left Auckland at 3 o’clock was delayed 25 minutes at Te Awamutu. The bus developed a mechanical fault at Te Foi so a relief vehicle went from Hamilton and took the passengers across to Te' Awamutu to make the connection. The Tauranga bus normally connects with the train at Hamilton. Loss to Local Bodies

“The passing of Mr S. C. B. Macky, for many years chairman of the 'Waipa Caunty Council, means the loss of practically the last of the men who formed the early foundation of local body work in the Waikato,” said Mr J. A. Sampson, chairman of the Waikato County Council at the monthly meeting. “Mr Macky and his early associates built solid foundations, and we later administrators are carrying on. It is eaisier to build once the solid foundations have been attended to.” The council recorded its sympathy with the family of the late Mr Macky, i • A 100,000 Cows Decline

The latest Dairy Board bulletin, incommenting upon the production trend for this season, mentions that since the previous record season of 1940-41 the cow population has declined by about 100,000 milkers. This is a grave decline in but seven years. It is a serious loss to the nation, and also to our kinsfolk in Britain. The return from those 100,000 cows would ♦be equivalent to about 13,000 tons of butter. Allowing due proportions of butter and cheese with the supplementary returns from pigs, calves, beef, hides and tallow, there has been a loss to our export income of nearly £4,000,000 from the decline in our dairy strength.