LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 79, Issue 7138, 28 November 1949, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Maori Elections The Maori elections will take place to-morrow. It is expected • that the broadcasting of results will commence at 6.45 p.m. to-morrow-Final Election Addresses Mr Burfitt will give an address in the Town Hall to-morrow night while Mr Sim will address the electors at Cambridge. C osing Hours of Shops A number of business places in Te Awamutu will close at 1 p.m. on Wednesday instead of the statutory hour of 2 o’clock. The business people concerned. are doing so in order to conform with certain aspects of the Awards under which their employees work. The hotels will close at noon. Boy Shot in Thigh < At three o’clock yesterday afternoon, James Lindsay, of Pirongia, was accidental.y shot by his twelve-year-old brother. Both lads were in a slaughterhouse where the .22 bullet was obtained. The bullet entered the injured lad’s left thigh. The rifle had been in the slaughterhouse for some consideiab e time and although the father was in the slaughterhouse at the time of the accident he did not see it, ncr could he say how it happened. Dr Watson attended the boy and he ordered his removal to the Waikato Hospital where he is progressing favourably.

Feat Not Approved Widespread excitement and curiosity was created in the main street last Friday morning when the traffic officer whizzed around the corner from Alexandra Street into Churchill Street with the siren on his car blaring to the heavens that he was on the I rail of some poor unfortunate motorist who was contravening some regulation of the traffic laws. Upon investigation it was observed that a car had been stopped at the junction of Churchill and Mahoe Streets. The driver was sitting listening to the traffic officer and holding a bicycle which he had been wheeling alongside the car at the time that he had been observed by the officer. Hazarding a guess, the feat of wheeling a bicycle and driving a car at one and the same time was probably the. cause of the calm of the main street being disturbed and the officer’s disapproval.