The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3105, 2 July 1929, Page 4

The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Next Sunday - will be observed throughout the British Empire as a day of thanksgiving for the restoration of His Majesty the King.

A young man, John R. Brown, of Otorohanga, was admited to the Waikato Hospital yesterday suffering from a fracture of the pelvis. The injury was sustained as a result of a fall from a horse.

With over 100 of its certificated teachers- out of permanent positions, the Auckland Education Board is considering the advisability of displacing uncertificated teachers in order to open further positions for competition. The tender of Mr J. R. Simson, of Auckland, has been accepted for the construction of the new Courthouse at Hamilton. The building will be erected on a site opposite the Hamilton Police Station and near St. Peter's Cathedral. Work will .be commenced shortly.

Six petitions in bankruptcy, the smallest number for any month this year, were filed in the Auckland district during June. The bankruptcies for the first six months of this year total 68, compared with 67 and 114 for the same periods of 1928 and 1927, respectively.

The Te Awamutu Library purchased 374 new books during last year. The library has 190 subscribers. It has a credit balance of £24 in hand, with £6600 invested, on fixed deposit for a building fund.

A London cable states that Mr G.J?. Scott, the veteran editor of the Manchester Guardian, has resigned. His son, Mr E. T. Scott, succeeds him. Mr ScOtt has been editor of the Guardian for 57 years. He is 83 years of age.

-. In Auckland there Were 106 deaths in June, 1929, as compared with 184 in May, and 135 in June, 1928. Births totalled 226, as compared with 244 in May, and 239 -in June, 1928. _ Fewer marriages were recorded, 150, compared with 161 in May and 182 in June last year.

A new branch of tho Bank of New Zealand is shortly to be opened at Hamilton North. The tender of Mr W. S. Clague, of Hamilton, for the erection of the building has been accepted. The amount of the tender is £8205. The site is on the intersection of Victoria Street and London Street.

As advertised the Kaipaki Boys' Hockey Club will hold a dance in the Kaipaki Hall to-night. Music will be dispensed by Banfleld's Orchestra, and there will bo a free bus from the Post Ohice at 7.30.

Ladies interested in forming a committee to organise for a dance to be held in the Town Hall, in aid of the earthquake relief fund, are asked to meet at the Council Chambers on Thursday afternoon at 2.30 o 'clock. The dance is being organised at the request of a number of ladies of the district.

In accordance with a request from the President of the Methodist Conference, retiring collections will be taken up on Sunday next at St. Paul's Methodist Church, an aid of the fund fOr the relief of sufferers through the earthquakes. Similar collections are being taken up in practically all the churches throughout the country.. As the-result of the efforts of. the Cambridge branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, tho handsome sum of £77 8/- has been forwarded to headquarters by Mr F. Kingsford, the local treasurer. This is £7 more than sent last year> and, we understand, con'stitutes a record for the local braneh, of which Mrs A. Gane is the enthusiastic hon. .secretary. After being marooned for, three months at Norfolk Island, twenty New Zealand holiday-makers returned to Auckland by the Government motorship Maui Pomare yesterday, having enjoyed considerably more holiday than they bargained for. A number of the pasengers suffered personal and pecuniary embarrassment. The delay wa3 caused by a number of reasons, an outbreak of; influenza rendering it neceaMtjri to: quarantine the island, while engine trouble to tho Maui Pomare also

It is hoped to form a branch of the International Federation Union at Hamilton, and with that object in view Mrs A. E. Mulgan, President of the Auckland branch, intends to visit Hamilton and a meeting there on Friday afternoon next at the Lyceum, when all graduates are cordially invited to attend. There was a very large attendance of fully 100 couples at the weekly dance held by the Regent Dance Band at the Regent Hall on Saturday evening. The Band dispensed a lively programme of music and all present enjoyed themselves to the full. The hall was nicely decorated with green and orange streamers. A jazz competition created much interest, the winning couple being Mr J. Cleary, of Gordonton, and Miss Rutherford, of Te Rapa. The attendance included a very big percentage of Hamilton folk.

At the weekly meeting of the Rugby Union last evening comment was made on the unsportsmanlike attitude of those people who stand outside the fence at Victoria Square when matches are in progress, they being referred to as "the sightseers" by one delegate. Another member humorously remarked that the Union should employ a photographer and publish the photographs in the "Independent" with a prize for the subscriber getting the most number of names correct. The Union did not think this desirable, preferring to appeal to the sportsmanship of those concerned.

Sir Charles Fergusson, the GovernorGeneral, is first a soldier. But' his farming instincts run military interests a close second, says an exchange. Good Ayrshiremen always know a good beast when they see one. It is suspected that the one blot on the Governor-Gen-eral's happy term in New Zealand has been a secret sorrow at the popularity of Jerseys and Holsteins, while the honest, beefy Ayrshire is kept, relatively in the background. Sixty odd years ago the Governor-General's father,. Sir James Fergusson, took over a place in the Waikato, and one may be sure that he stocked it with Ayrshires. The old homestead can still be seen, beside the Waikato river, between Cambridge and Arapuni. New Zealand is a different country to-day, but the second of the Fergussons knows, as his father did, a good cow and a good stretch of pasture. He has given the Manawatu A. and P. Association a cup for the Ayrshire cattle section. That may help to put these Jerseys and Fricsians in their places.