LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2488, 29 December 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Waikato Independent will not be published on Tuesday next, January 3rd.

A Wellington resident who has been abroad noted, when in Java, that servant girls used the English sovereign as. buttons on'their clothes. "When the wine is in the wit is out," remarked Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., after listening to a case at the Stratford Court in which the" defendant had been under the influence of liquor.

The new post office at Henderson was opened on Saturday afternoon by the Hon. C. J. Parr, member for the district, in the presence of a large gathering. Mrs Parr accompanied the Minister, and the Hon. G. J. Garland M.L.C., Mr W. Gee, chief postmaster at Auckland, and Mrs Gee also attended.

At the last meeting of the Morrinsville Borough Council it was reported that £4479 12s 6d has been received from the Public Trust Office in connection with the council's application for 10 per cent additional to its £45,000 water loan, and that the State Advances Board had passed the board's application for £SOOO of the £IO,OOO loan required to complete the water scheme. During the holidays four boys wcra fishing in the Kaihu River, Dargaville, when part of the Mamarauui bank gave war and a lad named Ncwlove fell into'eight feet of water. He could not swim, and Paul Griffiths, 15 years old, son of Scrgt. Griffiths, pluekily jumped in with his clothes on and rescued the drowning lad after the second time of going under. It was dark at the time.

Create un atmosphere of Nazol about yon, so that you constantly inhale it. .undoubtedly good for Coughs, •'••■■i • i- • ' ■ L

The Eltham Dairy Company, which has been manufacturing butter, Ims decided to change over to cheese.

The erection of the crematorium in the" Waikumete cemetery will be undertaken by the Auckland City Council next year.

The Manuwai will make another river excursion from Cambridge on Monday next, January 2nd, as advertised.

The next motor racing meeting of the Auckland Automobile Association will be held at Muriwai Beach on Saturday, February 25th.

At the Opotiki motor cycle sports on Monday N. Souter, of Cambridge, mounted ori a Harley-Davidson machine, won the ten and seven mile events. The great Christmas attraction in Napier, the Mardi Gras Carnical, proved a brilliant success, bringing large numbers of visitors from the surrounding districts and far afield. Miss Jessie Mackay, of Christchurch who is one of the Dominion delegates to the Irish Race Convention to be held at Dublin or Paris in January next, was prior to her departure presented by the Self-Determination League with a cheque for £6OO for expenses. A Taranaki exchange states that a stranger dropped into a country store in the district recently, and when asked how he found the times, replied: ''Brisk; I have just put on three more hands." It was subsequently learnt that the stranger's occupation was that of a debt collector.

Mr H. C. Eobson, of Cambridge, an enthusiastic flower grower, has raised a considerable number of gladioli from seed. Among these are several very nice varieties, and one or two are exceptionally beautiful and choice. A Press Association telegram received this morning is to the effect that the sum pf £93,573 was put through the totalisator at yesterday's Auckland race nieeting. This, with the first day's investments (£131,118 10s), makes a total of £224,691 10s—not far short of a quarter of a million sterling for two days, when some people would have us bel : eve the country is nearly bankrupt.

On Xmas day an accident befell two children of Mr Fred Mitchell at Leamington. A girl, about 13 years, and a younger brother, were thrown off a horse and were picked up on the roadside, both in an unconscious state. They were immediately removed to their parents' residence, but it was not until the next day that they recovered consciousness. We are pleased to say both are now out of danger.

Despite the fact that the Cambridge Power Board had made all necessary arrangements for utilising auxiliary power from Hautapu for supplying electric e-urrent during the temporary shutting off of Horahora power, pending tepnirs during ll«'s v.cck, i.L.c.j mux a hitch, and users of power were caused great inconvenience yesterday by having no "juice" available for several hours. We understand that the fault was not the Power Board's. Other slight stoppages . were caused yesterday afternoon and this morning, but these were unavoidable. We are assured that there will be no further irouoie of the kind.

It is pleasing to hear how several children in Cambridge and district have made sacrifices in order to help tho Christmas Orphanages Fund. A few days ago, Mr and Mrs Blok's four little children, on their own initiative, handed their money-box savings -to the Orphanage Fund, instead of spending it, as usual, on Christmas toys, while Betty and Archie Brown, also of Cambridge, who each had 5s sent to them by a friend for Christmas, brought the money to the Independent Orphanage Fund. On Tuesday evening last, three little girls, Nancy and Kathleen Armstrong and a friend (Cynthia Lambert) conceived the happy idea of holding a concert, which duly took place that evening at Mr' D. Congalton's home. The children provided an entertaining programme, and charged Id. each for admission, an extra charge being made for special seats. A capital evening's fun was provided, arid as a result the sum of 5/6 was raised for the Orphanage Fund. The exercise of this spirit of unselfishness and a desire to help others is most welcome, especially among the children. No incident during tho Christmas holidays has shown a finer Christmas spirit than one recorded on the Main Trunk line at a wayside station in the King Country. A young mother arrived at the station with two young children just in time to see the train draw out of the station. She had been going some distance to spend her Christmas with her parents not far from the city. It was the evening hour, and there was no train culling at the station again that night. A linesman passed along soon after on his jigger and, taking in the situation at, a glance .pushed on to his hut, and soon had the billy boiling and a couple of bottles filled with' some .steaming hot tea and a haversack filled with cake and biscuits. Then, pulling his jigger back on to the line, he started out for the station again, and placed his offering of food before the rather anxious mother who, after feeding the children, decided to stay' the night in the bare waiting room. Again the linesman went away, and returned after a long ride with some rugs and pillows, and the mother and children were made happy for the night, and caught a very early train next morning enabling her and her children to have Christmas dinner : in the old home.