LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13965, 15 August 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The ConmomveaHiE spent ,£134,----000.000 outside Australia.' iiru its war efforts. The abolition of 'the E'xperitionary Force Reserve will be announced by "iprdclamatiion. this week. 'The Hookey- Association's annual excumsiJomi to Aucikiamd will be run oai Septemberl 13th.. The Auckland A ladies' hockey iteaoni w<m> the provincial cup for the year, winning all three games dt played. ' DuiPing the pa«t> moaitlv ,126 heu<d .of cattle. 15 calves, 33() sheep and 19 iambs were ssl'au'ghtei) ed ait the Thames Muwicuipal abbattoire. The Auckland' Rugby etxecoitave decided that tt© adjourned meeting of provincial delegates be called to consider the New Zealand Union's Instauc'tion about the rules. TKe annual meeting of sharehold&r s of the Thames Land, Building anoT Investment Society "will be held At the Society's office, Albert Street, this eveningl,. %• The Prime Minister 4601168. that there have been any negotiations wiith the Admiralty with a view to the formation of a, naval squadron on the New Zealand station.-. For evading payment for»a railway ticket between Tauina.runua and Ohakune, a man was fined £2' and costs after a guard 1 had' been brought ' frofmi Auckland! to (identify him at Tatumaruniui. A mam desiring 1 to follow the calling oi a bootblack im Thames, ■ miad'e application to tihfii Borough • Oouncjil -fiotf, \peirnaiiisaioai, and' aaidj that-he would mot encroach on the fooltpaths. The 'Mayor remarked that the towa-was getting; more like London every day. He added, that it should be understood *ha6 all -such applications muslt come before th© Ckwraucdl. A. ipermib was granted. The Chief Health Officer,! asking) the Borough Cotmici! by leifater, "What bad been; don© afc > Thajnes, in ifegard to &i oleaai-uip * week;, saatl thlib had been a'grea.t success in other places. Tlie Mayor said jthaifc' 'ac old Council cotnisidered' ith'ia inaititeV and deoidcd thiait it "wias unineoe^saay. The foa'eraan kejpt & very dose watch otl ih& Borougji amd there was what was jM'acitiiaally a cieiami-ujp every week. The Counoil deciided "to* tiake no acitdon-. Mv. H. R. Yioung has recently re tired from), the Public Works Department, when*© he hiadi local! charge of piuiblici Works, including roodg, and. bradgeis,. in, the Maiamata, I Pi^iklo, iphiingmuri, jThiamiesi . and 1 Coromanidel oouintiesil He had alsc local charge of 'the Waihou and Ohintemoiri Rivers Improvemeni Works at Paeroa for seven years, andl' also «several landi draiaag* ■worStsi jcomnecoed .theremth. Am extraoi'd'inary .general meeting of ithe membera of tite Thames e" tuiined' S'oldiers' Associaitdon, was held in the Club rooms liast evening to (receive the report of delegates to the' Paeroa confeirenoe oni Monday night, re forming of a Haiuraki Returned Soldiers' Association. A committee was appointed to meet delegates froan the other centres, "with a view to fonniag .an. ' exeou- • tive committee to manage the af•faiirs-, of th Tief returned men ami the ... Avihole Hauraki district. 1 ' Mi' A. Bird, for several yearns babtery foremiani foa- the G-nand Junotion Gold Co. y left. Waibi lor Thaanes m. Wedneisdaiy to join Ms brotthjer in, the dwelojpiheinit, of tlhe gold find recently discovered' by itihe kfttiett- on a property at the Motamialfiaiairi. Oreeik, oi' w'hidi tihe toortihers are tihe j<w'nit «wnetnsi. There is reason, to believe tnaiti tihe discovery will bandsoimeiy reward tihe bnathens Bird ' for tihe money and liaibour they have expended ki developing tihe area. { A meeting of Wadhi retiurned soddiers deoided tic* form' a Hauiralki Reltiumed Soldiers' Asscoiaitiion, with headquarters at Thames. Tihe assiocdai tion will emibrficie all soldders m the Ha.uraki No. 2 miilitary district, and will include reit.imied aiea from Te Aroha, Waih,i, Paeroa, T'Lames, Kati<ka.td, and Coromandel. It "was sitaiteti during .a' discussion! that there would be dose on 4CO men at Tlia.me®, and in the vicinity of 200 each m ■Qind a,bo!Ufc the Waihi aaid Paeroa cemitires, which Avdith. ■ the Ka&kati and Te Anoha . soldiers wontld ba-ing tho. strength of tihe association to well over. 900.

A good' caeei far' bowling, steteis tie Te Aroiia News, was made a. re- • turned soldier aim !tihe oooHfeei of a chat om bowling recently, -lie was not a bowler iun;tiil sax years ago, bu/b liaid, initlerested himself im tlie gam© for the reiaeoMi tihajt irti profviided soanei rd'atdoin ikw mecu past tlhe footiball 1 stage. If every mani took tiho game- . omi, hewould not oaily dio. Mmsielf good amd hiiia family g)ood, bmtl the town Avould aim benefit). Bowling 1 in a tawo. of this size, in distkucstiioix t<-> larger towns, was mio-re fihlaai a. mer e enjoymein* of the game. A bowlnig: dub prcmded enteftaanoneint im the 1 town, and fmthier it advertiised th© town. For 1 matiainm, when, the Soautli Audklanict tooinnameinits werfe held here the news "Was in m^. otf the papea-g, and' even readied the Promt, oni. the oftiher side of 'the would, lamd bowlews fi^oon all jpartis of tihe Doamnaon, diiscussed tftie i^esxiilt. Ttheisei soo^i oif things must suippoirted'if the town 1 i® fco progress!.