LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3221, 20 May 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Chiof Postmaster, Hamilton, has been advised that mails which loftAuckland via Vancouver on April 15, arrived in Loudon on Thursday last. Albert Lister, a farmer, of Putaruru, has been adjudged • bankrupt on a creditor's petition. A meeting of creditors will bo hold at Hamilton next Monday.

A giant mangold ,no less than 731bs in weight, and grown by Mr F. J. Ryder, is now on view at Otaki (says the Otaki Mail). A decrease in the wholesale price of sugar by 20/ per ton waa punouneod yesterday by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd.

The Levin Borough Council is now carrying out an extensive permanent street formation scheme. When completed, tho Council intends to dismiss quite a number of men.

A Press Association message dated Gisborne, Sunday, states that a married man named James Alexander Jessup was found dead at Whatautau with a gunshot wound. Deceased was a farmer, aged 43 years. Tho first meeting of the Cambridgo Literary and Debating Society's 1924 sossion will be held to-night, when ' a musical and elocutionary programme will bo given. The matter of deciding what steps shall be taken with regard to the Cambridge Competition's will be discussed at this meeting, therefore we hope there will be a large gathering.

It was stated at To Awamutu Power Board's meeting on Friday that wild swans flying into the transmission lines at night had been responsible for dislocating the service on a few occasions of late, particularly in the Ohaupo district, where there are several small lakos on which wildfowl are fairly numerous. The high winds that havo been a feature of the storm prevailing in this district levelled a hedge of eleagnus in Young Stroet, To.Awamutu, split a big macrocarpa troe in tho same neighbourhood, and overturned a haystack in tho Greenmeadows area. Othor happenings of a like nature have occurred elsowhere in the Borough and neighbourhood of To Awamutu, but nothing serious is reported.

Sales of current by the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board for the year ended 31st March, 1924, were shown at Friday's meeting of the To Awamutu Board to havo aggregated £10,947 18/5, which is within £53 of tho estimate propared twelve months ago. In view of the reductions in charges for farm motors and heating points, decided upon since the estimate was prepared, tho results were considered eminently satisfactory.

At Cr Stopford's instigation the Matamata County Council has decided to post notices warning motorists against travelling over long stretches of metalled roads with heavy chains on the wheels of their ears. Failing the notices having effect, prosecutions will follow. This action is being taken to save tho road from being broken up by fast travelling cars. The engineer said the by-laws allow of prosecutions.

In connection with tho Liberal-Lab-our campaign throughout tho Dominion, public addresses will be given at the Presbyterian Hall on Thursday evening next, 22nd inst., by Messrs R. Masters and F. Lye, members of Parliament for Stratford and Waikato respectively. All are cordially invited to this gathering, at. which it is hoped that thero will bo a very largo gathering, as it is advisable for the public to hear all sides in connection with vital affairs of the day.

It appears necessary to draw attention to the fact that the public uro not conversant with the facilities afforded by the excellent system known as the "night, letter telegram." Such messages are delivered by post on the following morning, at the low rate of 9d per 27 words, and Id for each additional three words. Members of Parliament have still greater privileges, for they can sond 36" words for Bd, with 4 additional words for Id. It is not easy to know the object of this subtle preference, more especially as the M's.P. telogram is delivered immediately.

Says the Waipa Post of Saturday l a9t: —Mr F. Lye, M.P. for Waikato, informed' us this morning that ho has received official intimation that in response to his representations, an officer of the Board of Education is being sent to Kakepuku to investigate and report on the question of providing, additional accommodation there. Mr Lyo is to be commendod for his activities in this direction, and as he has already beon largely responsible for gotting much needed improvements to schools at. Tirau, Loamington, Hautapu, Roto-o-rangi and Awaroa, it will be quite in the natural ordor of things to see Kakepuku treated likewise. Another school that is receiving Mr Lye's interest is Tokanui. Country schools, as a general rule, are inadequate, and Mr Lye is doing a very useful public servieo in battling hard and persistently for the bet* termed of tlu> cotmtiy school*.

The s.s. Manuwai arrived at Cam

bridge yesterday morning from Hamilton and way ports with a heavy cargo of coal and benzine.

An increase in the retail price of butter in Auckland is announced to take effect from yesterday. This advance will be one penny per lb all round, so that the retail prices will n«w bo 1/S per lb superfine, 1/7 first grade, and 1/6 second grade. A Molbourne cable, received as we went to press, states that the aviators Goble and Melntyre have just completed their flight, round Australia. They covered 8500 miles in approximately 90 hours. They say much of th eeounfcry along the coast appoared different to that shown on the maps.

At the Cambridge Rugby Union's meeting on Saturday evcntßg, in a resolution of protest over the trial match incident at Auckland (when A. Thompson, the selected emergency, had to stand down in favour of Ifwersen, a non-scleeted Auckland player) it was decided that the Waikato Union demand the resignation of the two officials concerned. We have been given to understand that a similar protest is being sent by other Waikato sub-unions. Wellington is not the only city where it blows, as a Cambridge lady can testify. This lady was among the visitors to the "Queen City," for the Fleet visit. While walking across Grafton Road bridge with great difficulty, owing to the fierce gale, a sudden gust of wind lifted her hat from her head, and carried it far way. It was never seen again. After her experience—a costly one, for the hat was one of the latest creations —the lady in question has quite a different opinion of what the Aueklandors call their "gentle zephyrs."