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Waikato Independent, Volume VII, Issue 465, 25 January 1908, Page 4

The Hamilton Boxing Day sports resulted in a credit balance of £35. The Auckland Education Board estimates its income during the current year at £198,000, and expenses at £204,000. _ The Waikato County Council has decided to charge 10s for motor cars and 5s for motor bicycles. The Council - approved of the doing away with the old Cambridge bridge. The N.Z. Clothing Factory has donated a very handsome silver cup for competition at the South Auckland Bowling Tournament, to be held in Cambridge next week. The cup is now on view in the window of the establishment of the local branch. * Mr Wesley Spragg, the managing director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, is at present visiting the various creameries in the Cambridge district, conducted by the Association, prior to his leaving for England, whither he sails about the end of next month, A grand acquatic carnival will be held on the Waikato, at Hamilton, on Saturday, February 15th. The programme will include swimming and rowing races, and other acquafcic sports. A band will be in attendance, and refreshment booths will be provided. Excursion fares will be available on the railway. Entries for the sports close on Saturday Bbh. In connection w.th the appointment of a second magistrate to cope with the work in the Waikato and King Country, the various courts have now been allocated as follows : Mr H. W. Northcroft, S.M., will take the Courts at Onehunga, Otahuhu, Papakura, Pukekohe, Waiuku, Huntly, Raglan, Mercer, and Ngaruawahia. Mr Cutten will preside over the Courts at Hamilton (his headquarters), Cambridge, Rotorua, Taupo, Te Awamutu, Otorobanga, Te Kuiti, Taumarunui and Kawhia. At the Board of Education meeting, sketch plans were submitted for the Agricultural College at Hamilton and Manual Training School at Cambridge. It was decided to apply for a grant of £4OOO for Hamilton and £550 for Cambridge. A suggestion made by Mr George George, Director of the Technical Instruction, that the Board should pay prizes for the purpose of extending interest in agricultural and nature study was adopted. As an encouragement to teachers to take up the instruction of swimming, Mr George suggested that three-fourths of the capitation earned should be paid to the teacher. He pointed out that 20 half hours per week earned a capitation of 2s 6d per pupil. The suggestion was adopted.

Miss C. W. Christie and Miss Browning, M.A., are at present in Cambridge, on behalf of the Theosophical Society. They are the guests of Mrs William Rout, Cambridge West, and will be pleased to receive enquirers to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon or evening. On Monday evening they will give a joint lecture on some of the fundamental truths of theosophy. These ladies have been appointed to travel all through the Dominion, to visit the various branches of the Society, and spread the teachings of theosophy. Few know how world wide spread is this Society. It has branches in forty five countries of the world, and is one of the few Societies which welcome the members of all colors, caste, creed, and race, and is not, in any way opposed to other religions. His Worship the Mayor' has consented to take the chair at the meeting, which will be held at Victoria Hall.

Mr R. T. Tudehope’s great after-season sale and Limerick competition is now in full swing and will continue for some days. The proprietor announces wonderful reductions in drapery, clothing and mercery, and the sale affords thrifty householders a splendid chance of securing some rare bargains. Attractively got-up price-lists are now being distributed throughout the district, and those persons who have notyet received a copy can secure one upon application to the firm. Each year, in connection with his clear-out sales, the enterprising proprietor arranges some special feature. This year it is in the form of a Limerick Competition, full particulars of which are set forth in Mr Tudehope’s advertisement on this page. These competitions are at present all the rage at home and abroad , and, with the handsome prizes offering, there is no doubt but that the one promoted by Mr Tudehope will prove very successful.

* Presbyterian Church to-morrow evening—subject, “ Jesus and Work.” Miss Lilian of Cambridge, has been appointed by the Education Board a pupil teacher at the Onehunga District High School. A lad named Julian, six years of age, was drowned in the Waikato River at Hamilton. He was bathing with another lad and was carried away by the current. The services at the Primitive Methodist Church, Cambridge West, to-morrow evening will be conducted by Mr A. Jamieson, and at Fencourt by Mr A. Beer. Dr. Roberts is at present enjoying a month’s holiday. He is spending a few days at Te Waikato Sanatorium, and then will go on a fishing excursion. Dr. Pottinger, who has recently arrived from Horae, is acting as locum tenems. Over 500 bandsmen will be in New Plymouth in connection with the forthcoming band contest. It is computed that their board and lodging alone will bring in from £IOOO to £1,200 to the hotel and boarding-house keepers. At Wanganui, the question of the weekly halt-holiday has created considerable discussion, the advocates of Thursday and Saturday being fairly evenly divided. The Borough Council there has decided to take an informal poll of the burgesses on the 29th inst., and to be guided accordingly in fixing the day upon which the half holiday shall be observed. A man named Claude Goldsmith was charged before Mr W. P. Buckland, J.P., at the local Police Court yesterday with threatening behaviour at the Central Hotel. He pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given by Mr A. Underwood, the licensee, and Constable McNamara. Defendant was convicted, and fined £1 and costs 2s. Judging by the remarks made at the Borough Council last night, it would seem that some of the Borough employes are adopting the “ Government stroke ” in their work. A certain job in progress was referred to, the opinion being expressed by the Mayor and some of the Councillors that those employed on if were not exerting themselves very much. Cr. O’Toole asked if men had no sense of what constituted an honest day’s work. The Mayor replied that it appeared to bo getting prevalent to spin a job out, and he deplored the fact that men were not so conscientious in performing their work as they might be. When the Advertising Committee’s report was brought up at the Borough Council meeting last night, the Mayor / emphasised the necessity of Cambridge ' catering for the tourist traffic here, which he believed, with the growth of Auckland and the completion of the Main Trunk Line, would assume very large dimen. sions. He spoke of the necessity of the town being provided with swimming baths, and in reply to Cr Reid, said it had been suggested that the baths should be in the vicinity of the gasworks, where there is plenty of water. Cr Reid supported the establishment of baths, but thought that the site mentioned was hardly a suitable one, as it had been stated that the water there at certain periods was colder than the town supply. It had also been declared that the reason the poll on the bath was not carried, was because tbe amount originally proposed to be borrowed for the purpose, viz., £750, had been reduced to £350. Cr O’Toole said the proposal was not put before the ratepayers properly, very few understood it, The Town Clerk said the poll was taken in the cold weather. Cr O’Toole said he had been struck with the large number of visitors to Cambridge, who had expressed the hope that the baths would be constructed. He believed the lake could be made fit for swimming baths. Cr Ferguson also supported the baths proposal. The announcement that the advertising committee had been considering the advisability of allowing boats on fie lake brought forth hear hear from Crs O’Toole and Richards. Cr Dickinson waxed quite enthusiastic over a water chute in the Domain, expressing the opinion that it would prove a great attraction and a source of revenue, the same as had been the case at the International Exhibition and at Wellington.