LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2525, 28 March 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A giant realisation sale on account of T. B. Dilicar, Ltd., Hamilton, is advertised to start to-day (Tuesday). The Overseas Daily Mail says that Mr Geo. Bodley, of Hamilton (New Zealand) has donated £SOOO to the Bodleian, the famous Oxford Library, where a collection of old English M.M.S. is housed.

A resident of Petone, who was preparing to go for a holiday with her husband to Auckland, had the misfortune to have all her linen stolen one night recently. The value was estimated to be £SO.

Wo would draw attention to a replace on page eight of this issue of Messrs J. R. Fow and Co., Ltd., Duke Street, auctioneers and house furnishers. This firm is out to do business and the public can rely on receiving prompt attention to their requirements.

The diverting Stephen Leacock, tho “Nonsense Novels” professor, was in New Zealand in 1907, and delivered a lecture at Victoria College, Wellington, an “American and Canadian University Life.” The attendance was poor.

According to the Lyttleton Times, storekeepers are receiving offers of. North Island hams and bacons at 2d a pound cheaper than South Island lines, but they are not rushing in to buy. “Prime Canterbury gives more satisfaction,” said one retailer. “Tho quality is there. The North Island stuff is mainly dairy-fed, w’hich means fed on skim rnilk. Pigs must be fed on corn to give good bacon.”

Mr E. C. Banks is not only chairman of the Education Board, but is also a practical farmer. Speaking at Karapiro yesterday, Mr Banks emphasised the importance of farmers culling their herds, and keeping good cows. Threequarters of the cows now being milked in New Zealand, he declared, were “scrubs,” and he urged that if farmers would only abandon these and keep cows that gave an average of at least lOfllbs of butterfat more per cow per annum, New Zealand would enjoy a far wider prosperity. This, said Mr Banks, lie considered one of the most essential needs of the farmers of today.

A branch of the Dairy Farmers' Union has been formed at Putaruru.

Invercargill guarantors of Chautauqua suffered a substantial loss by the season there.

It is reported that the telephone bells in Tuakau became agitated as a result of last week’s lightning flashes.

Tho annual meeting of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association is to be held at Hamilton' next Thursday morning.

Entries for the leading events at the Matangi Sports on April Bth, close with the secretary, Mr W. H. Cranston, on Saturday next,

Mr G. Rata, a native interpreter, of Tauranga, has formed a private company for the purpose of working a coal mine at Otara, situated one mile from Muirs’ Gold Reefs.

Said the nervous curate, after the cleaning of the school: “As the school room is still somewhat clamp and dammy, the meeting will be hauled in tho hell beneath.”

A big municipal undertaking is forecasted at Levin. It will comprise a town hall and suites of offices for tho Borough and County Councils and the Horowhcnua Hydro - Electric Power Board.

Pocket programmes and entry forms for the Easter meeting of the Cambridge Athletic Club are obtainable from the secretary, Mr V. G, Boulton, or from Mr B. H. Bishop, hairdresser. The sum of £9 8/6 wad taken by way of collection at the .School children’s swimming carnival Saturday afternoon. The prizesYfor the various events will be determined by the division of this amount.

A case has been unearthed in Christchurch in which a solicitor made no charge for the preparation of a will. The Judge to whom this statement was made declared that it was “a very serious omission.”

A cryptic remark from a letter received by the New Plymouth Borough Council: “Borough road management reminds me of a man who washes his hands and face and thinks himself clean.” The writer was a lady.

The Waikato Winter Show Association has accepted a tender at £778 10/ for the erection of additional accommodation. The new structure will adjoin the building erected last year, and provide 14,600 square feet of additional accommodation.

The Matamata Record says an example of what the Waikato can produce is a gigantic red steer bred by Messrs Mears Brothers. It is estimated to weigh nearly 20001 b and is calculated to be the largest beast alive in New Zealand at the present time. The steamer Dorset, which arrived at Auckland on Sunday morning “from Liverpool, brought a party of 262 immigrants. Of this draft, 101 were for Auckland and 114 for Wellington. A party of 22 children selected by the Salvation Army authorities in England will arrive by the Waimana within the next few weeks. Theso children are orphans of soldiers killed in the war.

Company Sgt.-Major Cartmill, of the local Senior Cadets, was very successful at the Penrose Rifle meeting held on Friday and Saturday last. The following arc the scores he put up in the different matches: —At the 25yds range 37, second; 37 (possible 40) third; 56 (possible 60) second. At 200yds—48, first; 48 fourth. Senior Cadet Championship—l 64, third. As there were 350 entries for the meeting, C.S.M. Cartmill must be regarded as no mean rifleman.

Advice has been received by the Waipa Post from Mr F. F. Hockly, M.P., in reference to a notice in last week's Gazette that Mr R. D. Ferguson had been appointed to succeed Mr Sanson as registrar of electors in the old Waikato electorate (Hamilton), and that as soon as necessary Te Aw r amutu will be gazetted the electoral centre of the new Waikato electorate. The postmaster at Te Awamutu (Mr F. W. Moore) will bo appointed registrar of electors for Waikato.

Speaking as a director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, at the opening of the Karapiro school yesterday, Mr E. C. Banks said he had been told that Mr GQodfellow had sold the company’s output of butter at Home for 1/ per lb. He wished to correct this statement. It was true that some butter had been sold at 1/, but very little of the company’s output since November Ist had been sold. The present prices meant about 1/5$ per pound. Thus, while about one-third of the butter realised only 1/, the other twothirds would probably fetch 1/ss. The middle-weight motor cycle championship of New Zealand, run at New Plymouth on Saturday, ended in a win for Maugham (the Otaki champion), after a sensational race. Mangham and Coleman raced neck and neck for five laps, Sykes being just behind. The latter moved up, but, when just in front of the grandstand, the forks of his machine broke, and the rider was thrown high in the air, turning two or three somersaults. However, he was little injured.

“The rainfall in the Solomon Islands is 200 inches per annum; the climate is a malarial 0110,“ said the Bishop of Melanesia at the Lunch Club at Palmerston North.

In the New Zealand Sculling Championship, which was rowed on the Wairau River on Saturday last, Hannon, the challenger, beat Fogwell by 10 lengths. The time was 18m. 10s. A meeting to discuss whether the work of Ratana should be continued or not, will be held at Tauwhare on June 12, when all the leading native chiefs of New Zealand will attend. Ratana is to be asked to attend.

A motor car race was held at Muriwai Beach, Auckland, on Sunday, when fifty miles were hovered in 37 minutes 13 seconds. The race was won by a Cadillac car, a Hudson being defeated by two-fifths of a second.

The annual meeting of the Hautapu Hockey Club was held in the Hautapu Hall last night, the members present being Messrs H. Cubis (chairman), A. Thompson, W. Bourke, L. Bourke, W. Cubis, R. Cubis, W. Campbell and the secretary, Mr H. Areda. After the balance sheet, showing a credit of £7 3/, was adopted, the meeting unanimously decided to wind up and divide the surplus funds between Hautapu Football Club and Hautapu Hall Committee.

The programme for the Cambridge Trotting Club’s April meeting appears for the first time in to-day’s issue of the Independent. It should be noted that nominations for all events close with Mr C. F. Mark, secretary of the Auckland Trotting Club, or Mr C. B. Carpenter, the local secretary, on Thursday, April 13th. Acceptances will not be considered after Monday, 24th April. A want is about to be supplied id Cambridge through the opening up, by Mesdames R. S. Levesque and T. Mitchell, of an up-to-date florists’ shop in Victoria Street, in' premises lately occupied by Mrs JSmith, fruiterer. The management will supply cut flowers, and all xinds of floral work to order, and will kj/o stock seedlings in season, and fulfil orders for nursery stock, and everything for the garden. We wish Mesdames Levesque and Mitchell success in their venture.

An illustration has been brought to our notice of the damaging effects from lightning during the height of the storm which raged over Hamilton and various parts of the Waikato on Sunday morning last. On the farm of Mr F. E. B. Lovelock, at Waverley Island (Eureka) the lightning struck one portion of a galvanised wire fence and travelled along it for a distance of eight chains. Several of the 6x2 posts in the fence were split as if they were matchwood, and the grass was burnt along the whole route, till the lightning expended itself at a strainer post of a gate to the paddock. Fortunately there were no stock in the vicinity at the time, or the results may have been very disastrous.—Waikato Times.

Speaking at the opening of the Karapiro school yesterday, Mr E. C. Banks (chairman of the Auckland Education Board) urged parents io send their children to the Canfibridge District High School for thei/secondary education, stating that Giey could get just as good tuition thdre as they could at Auckland, withouy the expense and inconvenience. Idle Cambridge High School, he Boinb&d out, was excellently staffed, amS-tkure was no reason why all the children of the entire district requiring secondary education should not bq sent there. After passing through the Cambridge High School, the way was open to the universities or to various professions. Mr Banks said ho thought this district was fortunate in having such a very fine High School at Cambridge, and he trusted parents would take full advantage of the facilities offered them.

America believes milk to be the most nutritious of all foods. In order to impress this on the people, vast advertising campaigns are continually in progress, pointing out to all that relatively milk is the best and cheapest of foods. Mr H. A. Ward, manager of the Wellington City milk department, has brought back with him from the States samples of the artistic coloured posters which are to be found exhibited in almost every city, giving all kinds of information respecting the virtues of milk and dairy products. One of these states: “There are no substitutes for dairy produce—and health children.” Another says: “The most healthful nation is that which depends mostly on milk foods,” and posters commanding the people to “use more milk,” “use more butter,” and “use more cheese” serve to attract the eye and hold the attention. One exquisitely-coloured poster has as a centrepiece a pound of cheese, from which radiate direction lines ending in “true to nature” coloured foods set out in dishes. This indicates that one pound of cheese contains as much nutriment as 2slbs of beef steak, 6 4-sth lbs of chicken, 1$ lbs of ham, 7lbs of codfish, 25 eggs, 3f lbs beans, Slbs peas, or 19 2-3rd lbs of t tomatoes. Is it any wonder that there is a lively demand for New Zealand cheese on the Home, market?

A meeting of the Athletic Rugby League Football Club will be held at the Y.M.C.A. rooms to-night.

Tenders are invited by the Mata* mata County Council for the carting of 1500 yards of sand on the KarapiroCambridge Road. The French Rugby tour of Australasia has been cancelled. There is much disappointment in Rugby circles in Paris at the cancellation, which is due to New Zealand insisting on a greater number of matches than the French are .able to give.