HAWERA MAYORALTY

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 8

HAWERA MAYORALTY

ADDRESS BY MR. W. G. SIMPSON. OUTLINE OF HIS POLICY GIVEN. Mr. W. G. Simpson, candidate for the Hawera mayoralty, addressed a large attendance, presided over by the Mayor (Mr. E. A. Pacey) in the Grand Theatre last night . - -Mr. Simpson stressed first, of. all tne duties and responsibilities of citizenship. He offered himself as a citizen for the mayoralty in the capacity of a citizen who wished to do his best for the town, he said. His personal policy programme included an immediate reduction of rates, this being necessitated by the reduced financial resources of the people. Wages, he thought, should be maintained at the present level. He believed, in a living wage for everyone performing a public d E’or the 809 unemployed in Hawera today he would do the utmost possible. He believed in straining resources to the utmost this year, believing firmly that next year there would be not such great need among the unemployed. He advocated setting up a committee of citizens to hear complaints of hardship where tenants had been • evicted and • advocated a free use of the public library for the unemployed. ’ , . He was not, he continued, in favour or duplicating the water mains to provide work unless the water was really, needed. Nolantown should, in his opinion, receive more attention, particularly to the roads, and a children’s playground should be provided. A better system of rubbish collection in the town was needed. He would assist the Maoris by establishing a rest house in the town and would attempt to foster a good relationship between country and town. He would widen High Street in whole or -in part at least and believed that some timp. a town hall and municipal block of shops and offices should be erected. ' ‘Mr. Simpson briefly dealt with the Question of hospital expenditure, pointing out that £llOO had been spent on the hospital and £lO5O on King Edward Park by the borough council last jyear. He thought the hospital expenditure very low in comparison. Administrative costs Of the Hospital Board had been reduced by £6OO in the last few years. Thanks were accorded Mr. Simpson unanimously at the conclusion; HOCKEY COMPETITIONS. FIXTURES, REFEREES AND TEAMS. Hockey referees for to-day's South • Taranaki fixtures are:— Senior: Manaia v. Hawera, at Manaia, '- at 2.45 p.m., E. P. Riley; Alhambra, v. ' : Egmont, at Hawera, at 2.45 p.m., appointment hot yet finalised. - Junior: Hawera V. Egmont A, at Hawefa, at 1.30. p.m., M. Thomson and A. Ry'an; Egmont B v. Tokaora, at Hawera, . at 1-30 p.m., A. Jackson; Manaia v. Opunake, at Manaia, at 1.30 p.m., E. P. Riley and W. Winters. „ ; - Ladies: Ramblers v. Tokaora, at Hawera, at 1.30 p.m., A. Stevens. ...Teams include:— : Tokaora:—Juniors: Johnson (2), Jordah (2), Corrigan, Griffin, Taplin, Perry, Wakelin, Bromley and McLeod. Reserves: Banks and Schmidt. Egmont:—Junior A: G. Evans, M. Tul- • lock, B. Keheley, B. Clarke, J. Hey, A. Wallis, L. Foy, J. Gribble, K. Murtagh, S. Horsburgh, L. Guise. Junior B: E. Murtagh, Reid, E. Guise, Simpson, Butchart, Crutch, Crompton, Evans, Turnbull, Mortlock, Radford. Senior: A. Stevens, R. Clarke, M. Thomson, B. Duncan, H. Westwood,- S. Brough, T. Percy, ,F. Clarke, G. Moloney, F. Starling, L. Windie. 1 ' ' . • ' ’ Ramblers: N. Shannon, R. Phillips, V. Healey, M. McNeil, T. Clements, F„ Wytkin, F. Walsdorf, B. Crompton, M. Evans, F. Woolliams, K. Goodwin. HIGH STANDARD AT WAVERLEY. REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. Mr. W. Bowden, secretary of the Waverley school committee, reported to the annual meeting of householders that the year had necessarily been quiet owing to lack of funds, remittances from the Education Board being barely sufficient to cover expenses connected with, fuel, cleaning and minor repairs. As no school material was being supplied by' the department greater efforts would have to be made to provide chalk, handwork material, ink and so forth for the use of the children. Thanks to labour ■ being - available under No. 5 unemployment scheme, much useful work and improvements were done at the school Without expense to the committee, whose funds' otherwise would have been depleted. The school and grounds were very neat and tidy. The. school maintained a very high standard of efficiency, evidenced by the reports of the inspectors. The dental clinic was well established, over 100 children being attended ’to The small annual fee of 5s was being generally paid. The dental nurse (Miss Svenson) would be in attendance after the May holidays. A recommendation was made to tne incoming committee to have repairs done to the tennis courts, which were cracking badly in many places. . The school picnic was held in conjunction with the Waverley and Nutuwera factories and Nutuwera school and was a huge success. . OTAKEHO GENERAL AND PERSONAL The first of a. series of euchre parties in aid of the Otakeho Men’s Hockey ' dub was held on Monday last week. Owing to adverse weather there was not a very large attendance. Prizes were .won by Mrs. C. Fergus, Miss M. Julian and Mr. N. Blackstock. Last week the Otakeho ladies’ hockey team played a friendly match with Oeo, but owing to rain the match had to be abandoned when the score was 2-all. Misses' C. Evans and A. Forsyth scored for Oeo and Misses J. Hill and B. Putt for Otakeho. ' The Otakeho mens junior team played its second competition match with Eltham last Thursday and after a good exhibition of play Otakeho won by four goals to two. For Otakeho R. Symes, J.” Hartley, L. Tremain and V. Corkill scored. The Otakeho ladies* team to play Opun«ke at Otakeho to-morrow will be selected from Misses J. Hill, B. Putt, M. Symes, P. Freeman, L. Putt, L. Davies, K. Julian, I. Campbell, M. Julian, A. Putt, N. Baylis, K. Campbell, Mrs. Davies and Mrs. Freeman. Messrs. Greenhill and Bayhss have returned from a trip to the Waikato disE. R. Putt has been indisposed but fe now convalescing favourably. Mr. and Mrs. Verry are visiting HamilBayliss and Miss Maddock have