LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3160, 9 November 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A valuable pedigree milking Shorthorn bull,' owned by Mr R. D. Duxfield, of Horotiu, was run over by a train at Horotiu on Wednesday evening last and killed.

During the week two sections of the To Mimi Estate, near Morrinsvillo, have been sold. Mr J. Bitchie, from Otago, purchased one block of 198 acres, and another block of 199 acres has been purchased by Mr D. T. Davies, who recently sold his farm at Kcrconc.

A team of four girls from the local High School are again competing for the Waikato A. and P. Society’s senior school banner which they won last year, for the best matched set of four ponies. The girls competing this year are Marci Hicks, Myra Nicholl, Betty R-oss and Agnes Ferguson.

It may not be generally known that Levin occupies a pivotal position in New Zealand. Although it is' not the geographical centre, it stands midway in another sense, as three-quarters of a million of the population are to the north of it and the same number to the south.

The demtond for electric power in Claudclands and Whitiora has made extensions to the Hamilton borough plant necessary. The Borough Council has authorised the calling of tenders for the supply of 11,000-volt underground cable, 11,000-volt distribution transformers and other necessary material to carryout the work.

Cr S. Y. Taylor, at the Hamilton Borough Council meeting on Wednesday night, asked if it were frrue that the large number of buses leaving each night for the Cambridge pictures was interfering'with the local bus service. The manager of the Buses, Ltd., who was present, assured the council that they had a spare fleet for extraordinary requirements. Last Saturday night they had had to leave over a hundred people behind. The ordinary bus service cars were not drawn upon for the run to Cambridge. Special services in connection with Church Rally Month are being conducted in Trinity Presbyterian Church during the month of November. The preacher for to-morrow will be the Rev. Jas. Hay, whose subject at the morning service will be “A Changing World and an Unchanging Christ,” while at the evening service the pulpit theme is announced as being “The Gift and the Giver.” The choir will render anthems at' both services. A hearty welcome is extended to all to participate in these services.*

It is understood that the negotiations which have been carried on with a view to the settlement of the dispute* between the Bishop of Waikato and Dean Barnett, and under which His Grace the Archbishop and two others appointed by him were' to arbitrate, have broken down. This is owing to one of the parties to the dispute having refused to accept the conditions laid down by the Archbishop in connection with the arbitration. —Waikato Times.

Great Britain is our best customer for butter —the greatest friend of the Waikato. MR. H. L. POSSENNISKIE had this fact well in mind at the beginning of the year in placing his indent orders when he concentrated on British Markets. His display of the products of the British Xylonite Co., and of Yardley, London, in THE PHARMACY window is worthy of inspection.*

| Motorists should be interested to learn that the landed cost of benzine

in Australia is fivepence per gallon. Sunday train services between Auckland and Hamilton will be commenced to-morrow.

A dance by Banfiold’s Band will be held in the Regent Hall to-night, while the usual weekly Old Time dance will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall.

As a result of the rains of late, together with the constant heavy traffic, the Duke .Street hill and the road from tho eastern side of the bridge to the borough boundary has got very bad with potholes and corrugations, and needs attention.

At the inquest concerning the death of Oscar Larsen, 57, who was knocked down near Tamahero by a service car driven by Noel Douglas Robertson, a verdict was returned that Larsen died from injuries received as the result of an accident to a car driven by Robertson, and that Robertson drove negligently. Several passengers in the car said Robertson sounded his horn. Robertson, in a statement to the police, however, said he had not had time to sound the horn.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that the due date of payment of ordinary landtax for the current year is on Thursday, the 21st day of November, 1929, and that the demands will be posted on or about the Bth day of November. The due date for payment of special landtax is the 28th day of February, 1930, and demands will be posted or or about the 21st day of February, 1930.

Although the weather h.as interfered with operations this week, fair progress is being made by the relief workers on the main highway at Karapiro. Considerable progress has been made with the cutting back and the widening of the dangerous portion of the highway at Ferguson’s gully, while portion of the gang is further ahead clearing scrub on the side of the road opposite “Longbeach” farm. Canvas town has been enlarged since our last report, and nearly 100 men arc now at work. The, weather has made conditions none too pleasant during the past few days! The camp is well managed and the men, as a whole, appear to be quite satisfied with their lot, and pleased to be out of tho ranks of the unemployed. Mr C. D. Richardson, the well-known swimming coach of many years’ standing, has'now come to the Waikato to reside, and intends making his headquarters at Hamilton. He is setting up a swimming school, and hopes to interest himself in swimming matters in the Waikato. Mr Richardson was in Cambridge on Thursday when he interviewed officials of the local Swimming Club. Am authority on swimming generally and an exponent of the trud-gcon-crawl style especially, Mr Richardson’s presence in the Waikato should be of real value to swimming in this district. Among Mr Richardson’s many pupils in Wanganui was N. Dowsctt, a Dominion champion.