LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3129, 27 August 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arrangements may be made to begin preliminary borings for the proposed Auckland Harbour bridge some time next week. Big gates were recorded at two recent football matches in Dunedin. For the Otago-Southland game the takings were £720 and for the UniversityKaikorai match £750. If a tree falls on a high tension power line and the result is that someone is killed, the owner of the tree is responsible for the damage. This statement was made to the Wangauui-Ran-gitikei Electric-Power Board at a meeting last week by Mr W. Morrison. Seating accomodation on the two expresses which left Auckland for Wellington last evening was fully taxed. The limited express had one extra sleeping car, making nine carriages. Seven extra carriages were added to the second express. Trial runs of the second power unit at Arapuni and the drying out of the generator have commenced. The unit will probably be ready for service within a month’s time. The installation of the electrical plant at the power house has been carried out under the supervision of Mr Y. Overgaard. That, the Church has a much greater opportunity nov? that it is faced by a frankly pagan world than it had during the church-going nineteenth century was an opinion expressed by Dr W. B. Selbie, principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, in a recent address on “The Christian Doctrine of Salvation,” at the annual conference of Congregational ministers at the college. “I cannot understand the changed spelling of Pap.atoetoe,” said the Rev. W. J. Comrie, at the anniversary celebrations of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Papatoetoe, on Saturday. “In the old days the word was spelt Papatoitoi, meaning papa, the plain where the toi toi grew. The change in spelling always seems to me somewhat of an offence.” Whitebait is still fairly scarce. The Maoris who supply Auckland with this delicacy, caught on the Lower Waikato, are receiving as much as 2/- per lb for the fish, compared with 6d or 4d per lb obtained in the flush of the season. The Maoris arc experiencing difficulty in netting at present owing to the state of the river, but conditions are expected to improve shortly. A Wanganui drapery firm received a letter from a lady resident of Murchison the other morning asking for certain articles of boys’ clothing to be forwarded. The lady mentioned that during the earthquake they lost their home, farm and a portion of the stock, and on ,top of that thieves stole clothing belonging to the boys “However,” added the lady, “the sun will shine again.’ ’ For the running of a regular steamer service ' between Dunedin, Bluff and Melbourne, the Government has accepted the tender of the Union Steamship Company, according to an announcement by the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, on Saturday, who added that there had been some variation from the original conditions under which the revival of the service was proposed. The arrangements effected will enable a service to be provided by two steamers during the busy season of the summer months, and by one steamer during a shorter period of winter. Where arc you going my pretty maid? I’m going to the Rugby Ball, sir, she said. There is music of the best, supper and fun galore, And if you’re a sport you’ll take me, I sure. Buy a Double TickoL*

At the Pakuranga Hunt meeting at Ellerslie on Saturday the totalisator handled £40,988, against £39,ISG for last season, an increase of £IBO2.

Quite a number of Cambridge district residents motored to Arapuni on Sunday, and were surprised at the erosion that has taken place of late below the spillway.

The annual meeting of the Cambridge branch of the Political Reform League will be held at the Oddfellows’ Hall on Friday next, at 2.30, when all Reform supporters are invited to attend.

Apparently among those people who came to Cambridge on Saturday-- evening from a neighbouring town, were several hooligans, for they were carry-ing-on disgracefully in the main streets of the town, and also created a disturbance at a restaurant in Victoria Street.

A Maori witness in the Auckland Police Court the other day was giving his evidence through an interpreter, when he nodded assent to the latter’s English translation. The magistrate promptly noticed this and observed, to the amusement of spectators in court, that although the. witness could not speak English, he seemed, all the same, to understand a good deal of it. A bacteriologist is to be appointed in connection with the establishment of a research laboratory by the Agricultural Department, in the Waikato. He will be stationed in Hamilton. The bacteriologist will work in conjunction with Mr T. A. Blake, who has been transferred from Auckland to Hamilton as Government veterinary surgeon.

The National Daffodil Society of New Zealand is holding its show- in Auckland this year. Mr Guy Wilson, a grower from Ireland, is to be the judge. It is possible that Te Kuiti will be represented if the high hopes of local growers are realised. The Tc Kuiti Bulb Show is fixed for September 19 and 20.

We would specially remind readers of the lecture to bo given at the Presbyterian Hall on Wednesday (to-mor-row) night by Dr Bernstein on ‘‘Tuberculosis.” This is the first of a series of lectures to be held under the auspices of the W.E.A., and we would urge all who possibly can to attend these gatherings, which should be most instructive and educational. The charge for admission is only fid per lecture, or 2/- for the series of five.

In order not to clash with the W.E.A. lecture, etc., the annual meeting of the Cambridge Lawn Tennis Club, advertised for to-morrow night, has been postponed to Saturday evening next, at 7 p.m., as advertised. It is specially hoped that there will be a good attendance at this important meeting. Younger members are urged to show an interest in the welfare of the club.

“In days gone by it was considered very unladylike for girls to play games, but fortunately things have now changed,” said Miss E. Wagner, president of the Auckland Girls’ Interhouse Sports Association, at the opening of the new club for girls on Saturday afternoon. She urged the girls to make the club a place for clean, wholesome sport, and in which case, she said, the sympathy and interest of the public would be with them. .

As the result of six years’ effort on the part of the Auckland Girls’ Interhouse Sports Association a club for girls employed in the soft goods establishments of the city was opened on Saturday by the Mayoress, Mrs A. D. Campbell. It is the first club of its kind in Auckland. The club-rooms are in the National Mutual Assurance Buildings, Chancery’ Street, where the association has obtained a two-years’ lease of the whole third floor, together with the roof, which will be used for recreation purposes. In addition the association holds an option to extend the lease for a further period. The action in which Dean G. R. Barnett is seeking an injunction against Bishop C. A. Cherrington restraining him from getting up a commission to inquire info the dean’s fitness to retain office is likely to come up for hearing at the Supreme Court sessions in Hamilton this week. It will be recalled that at the last sessions the judge struck out a portion of the statement of claim as being irrelevant. An amended statement of claim has been filed by the dean’s solicitors, and the hearing will probably take place. Among the many figures compiled for the first half of the year the bankruptcy returns are most favourable. During the period there were 340 insolvencies throughout the Dominion, as against 385 in the corresponding period of last year, a decrease of 45. The shrinkage has occurred wholly in the North Island, the figures being 229 against 280, a decrease of 51, equal to about 18* per cent. The South Island figures are 111 against 105, an increase, of six. The number of deeds of assignment in the half-year was 91 against 112, a decrease of 21, equal to 19 per cent. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Influenza Colds.

Ani ret tog of the Farmers’_ Union ■will be held in the Farmers’ Club-room on Friday next, at 1.30.

An unusually large number of Cambridge residents motored to Hamilton on Saturday afternoon last, to witness the Hamilton-Matamata Peace Cup game.

A much-needed improvement is being effected to the footpath at the * ‘ Triangle’ ’ corner. Due to the unevenness of the surface this area has been converted into a miniature lake during wet weathqr in the past. To-night the Matangi Football Club’s first annual ball will be held in the Public Hall. The Savoy Orpheaiis Band from To Aroha will dispense dance music. The Kiwi bus will leave the Cambridge Post Office at 7.45, and will convey guests free of charge.

When a case regarding the possession of a house was being heard in England recently, it was stated by an inspector that the place was occupied by a woman, who kept 12 cats, a sheep, and 40 chickens, all sleeping in the same room. The question of establishing classes for special tuition of backward children in Hamilton has been .referred by t.he Auckland Education Board to its advisory inspector for a report. Miss Valentine, the Education Department ’s supervisor of special classes, has advised that there are 20 children in Hamilton who would benefit from the special teaching in such classes. At the Pakuranga Hunt meeting on Saturday Mr W. K. Francis ’ Soami, bm by Quin Abbey—Spalpeen mare, put up a good performance by winning the Harris Memorial Hunters’ Hurdles, of 14 miles, and taking third place in the Pakuranga Hunt Cup, of 3 miles. Soami is trained by Mr W. J. McLean, of Cambridge.

That the small number of separate syllables used in the Maori language tended to cause a great number of them to appear in words was commented on by the Ven. Archdeacon Williams in Wellington recently. He drew his hearers ’ attention to two illustrations of the kind that came to his mind—the names of two places near Gisborne: “Taumatawhakatangihanga Koauaua Tomatea” and ‘ 'Poawhenuatanatahu.”