LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2308, 8 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In continuation of the series of Sunday afternoon concerts the Cambridge Municipal Band will render a programme in Tc Koutu Park to-morrow at 2.30.

The borough workmen having finished tarring and sanding the footpaths of the main street, arc now concentrating oh the side street footpaths. A start has been made in Alpha Street.

In connection with the Railway Department’s excursion from Auckland to Cambridge on Sunday, the Municipal Band will render a programme in the Cambridge Domain, commencing at 2.30.

The gate takings for the two days at the Cambridge Show were very satisfactory, totalling £2OO 8/1, against £193 6/- last year, and £193 the year previous.

The public’s attention is called to the advertisement in to-day’s issue re the flag bridge being arranged by the Golf Club, and being held at the Triangle tea-rooms.

A London cablegram states that the Automatic Telephone Manufacturing Company’s electric tot.alisator has been officially adopted for British racecourses. Models will shortly be exhibited in Australia and New Zealand.

Racing for to-day is taking place at Napier where the second day of the Napier Park Racing Club’s meeting is being held, and at Pukekohe the Franklin Racing Club’s meeting is also being held. The only trotting, to-day is the Tirnaru Trotting Club’s meeting.

A further decline in the working profits of the Railway Department is shown, in the accounts for the four weeks ended February I. The amount was £119,973, which is less by £53,279 than that for the corresponding period of last year and £48,864 less than in the January period of 1928.

It is estimated that there were over 1200 motor cars parked at the local showgrounds’ parking area on Thursday, on the occasion of People’s Day of the A. and P. Show. This surely constitutes a record for any similar event.

Speaking at Auckland on Thursday, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister for Public Works, stated that the capital invested in Government hydro-electric schemes was over four millions in 1925, while last year it had increased to nearly eight and a half millions sterling. The installed capacity of the plant was now 144,775 k.w.

At the local Police Court this morning, before Messrs H. Alan Bell and Clias. Boyce, J’s.P., a young man, employed at the Public Works Camp at Karapiro, a first offender, was charged with the theft of a torch and a pair of canvas shoes, valued at 23/- from a boardinghouse-keeper at Auckland. Ac eased pleaded guilty and was convicted and discharged.

A member of the Empire Farmers’ delegation when speaking to some Te Kuiti residents, sudcnly asked: “When are you staging another earthquake in New Zealand? We have heard of those thrills which you have periodically and would like to go through a similar sensation to talk about when we get home. ’ ’

To-morrow r night a maeliine-gun team comprising Messrs A. Montgomery, G. Hastie, F. Morris and N. Carter, will leave Cambridge for Trentham, where they will compete in the N.A. Rifle Association ’s annual meeting, in the competitions for machine-gun sections of the Territorials.

Yesterday afternoon, at Mr N. Hill’s auction mart, two properties in the estate of the late William Hickey, situated at Leamington, -were submitted to auction. - The first section comprising 9 acres was passed in without a bid. The second containing 11 acres 1 rood was also passed, one bid only of £2OO being received, and this was considerably below the reserve.

Yesterday afternoon at the conclusion of the local school's swimming sports, one of the most happy sights that it was perhaps possible for one to witness was viewed by many district parents. As soon as the la,st event was completed and the sports declared over there was a rush and a series of splashes. In less time than it takes to write the bath was a living mass of children of all sizes and ages, and in costumes of all colours. They splashed and romped to their hearts' content, and it did one good to see them, also to appreciate that 90 per cent could swim a length of the bath. TV«‘j: J&9A——

Mr Alan Miller, of the wireless operating staff at Suva, who is at present on six months’ furlough in New Zealand, has been appointed to the wireless staff at Auckland, where he will remain for three years. Mr Miller is a son of Mr and Mrs 11. Miller, of “Ayrton,” Hillcrest, Hamilton.

An increase of a quartcr-of-a-million boxes of creamery butter graded in Auckland in the seven months of the dairying season to the end of February, compared with the corresponding period of last season, jyas reported by Mr E. C. Wood, chief Government dairy produce grader, at the conference of Auckland Province dairy factory managers on Thursday. The cheese figures are approximately the same as for last season. (.

In connection with the appeal being made throughout New Zealand for funds to secure an endowment of £25,000 to put the Midwifery Department of the Dominion Medical School upon a sound and up-to-date footing, a meeting.of ladies has been convened for Monday afternoon next at the Council Chambers, for the purpose of setting up an executive to further the scheme in this district.

Some attendants in shops and offices are asked for curious things at times, but the other day one of the clerks at the local post office was rather taken aback when an elderly lady came up to his counter and asked if he could supply her with some fine crochet needles. When she was informed that such things were not kept at post offices, she replied that she had been instructed by a friend to ask at the post office for them, as they kept very fine ones there.

The annual harvest festival will be celebrated by special services at St. Paul’s Methodist Church to-morrow, when special anthems will be rendered by the choir. Rev. Wesley Parker will conduct both morning and evening services. On Monday evening the celebrations will be continued. A concert programme will be followed by the sale by auction of the harvest gifts, and supper will afterwards be dispensed. There will be no charge for admission and all are invited to attend. /

In the public notices in to-day’s issue, a well-known local young man, Mr Jack Wilkinson, announces that ho is commencing business as a general electrician. Mr Wilkinson has had nine and a-half years’ experience with the Cambridge firm of Bycrofts, and is prepared to undertake all descriptions of electrical installations. Mr Wilkinson is prepared to guarantee any work he undertakes, and hopes, as a Cambridge young man, to be favoured with a fair share of business.

The fact that two Taranaki dairy factories were securing a phenomenal over-run, averaging nearly 25 per cent., was referred to by Mr J. Murray, secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association, at the conference of Auckland managers on Thursday. “If these two factories can secure that over-run legitimately, which they claim they can, they should be paid for the information and the industry should be given the benefit of the knowledge, ’ ’ said Mr Murray. . UAn investigation into the methods adopted at the factories should bo carried out by the dairy division.”, A motion to that effect was carried unanimously.

‘Two most interesting exhibits? at the Cambridge Show on Thursday were pens of rabbits for exhibition only. Mr J. Wilkinson, of Cambridge, exhibited two pens of Chinchilla rabbits—very beautiful, large animals, comprising lull-grown and young ones. These rabbits have lovely soft, silky fur that is highly prized. Two other pens contained a number of Angora rabbits, of various ages, exhibited by Mr A. F. Abel, of Cambridge. The Angoras are pure white, with a great mass of long soft fluffy wool that is shorn and used for various industries. The rabbits in both exhibits were greatly admired, and the exhibits were of special interest in view of the steps now being taken to establish important industries in farming these two particular breeds of rabbits.

During his speech at the public farewell accorded him yesterday, Mr E. Vealc expressed the opinion that a great mistake had been made when the old Waikato Farmers’ Club had been scrapped. The members of that tody, he said, were men who had built up the settlement of the Waikato, men of vision, experience and sympathy, who had been able to make good. Mr Veale said ho had fought hard to retain the identity of that fine organisation. He was not finding fault with the N.Z. Farmers’ Union, said the speaker, tut the old club could have been retained and have co-operated with the Farmers’ Union. The old club had been a real power in the land, and had carried great weight with the powers that bo at Wellington. Mr Veale said he was proud in having been made a life member of the old club, which had had a splendid record.

tation that had been made to him as an expression of th 6* fc Cambridgc people’s generosity, and good wishes for the happiness of Mrs Voalo and himself. He would ever bear that in mind, and would always remember that wonderful afternoon, and the old faces. Their fine feeling of comradeship and sympathy, which was beyond all praise, lie would ever remember with gratitude and thanks.

The gathering concluded with the hearty singing of “Auld Lang Syne.”