LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2311, 15 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Leamington Town Board by advertisement invites tenders for cleaning out drains within the board’s area. The Fraukton Railways aie holding their annual picnic at the Cambridge showgrounds to-morrow. Two houses were totally destroyed by fire at Eastbourne, near Wellington, last evening. Another house was damaged. Owing to pressure on space our. report of the monthly meeting of the Power Board yesterday is held over to next issue. The annual meeting of the United Football Club is advertised for Thursday evening next, when a full attendance of members and supporters is hoped for. A picnic, which is virtually a parish picnic, for the Sunday School and Bible Class members of ,S. Andrew’s Church, is being held to-day in the bush belonging to Mr B. P. de Latour at Te Mrro. D:mcers are reminded of the old time dance at the Oddfellows’.Hall to-niglitr Tennis enthusiasts are reminded of the tennis dance to be held at the Hautapu Hall next Thursday. . See advt. An appropriation by ballot of group 2 of the Te Awamutu and Cambridge (Combined) Building Society will be held in Te Awamutu on Tuesday next. A notice of interest’to shareholders appears in our advertising columns. Summer time ends to-morrow (Sunday), -when the clocks s will be put back half an hour. Readers are advised not to neglect to alter their clocks before retiring to-night, so as to avoid confusion and inconvenience. Speaking at the official opening of the Taotaoroa School yesterday Mr C. H. Clinkard, M.P., said that.statistics showed that 50 years ago there were only 748 schools in New Zealand, whereas to-day there arc 3598. The country was spending £4,000,000 annually on education. The handsome new building just erected to serve as the local Plunket Society and as a rest room for the district is now just about completed.- The formal opening has been fixed for Thursday next, 20th inst.,; at 2 p.m., when residents of Cambridge and. district are cordially invited to attend. The building will fill a long-felt want in the district. District residents are asked to note the garden fete being held at Learnington Domain by the Women’s Division of the N.Z.F.U. on Saturday next, for which an advertisement appears to-dav. Extensive arrangements arc being made for the entertaining of the public and free cars will convey Cambridge people to the grounds. An amusing incident was witnessed the other day when the express containing bandsmen homeward bound from the Dunedin contest was at the Timaru railway station. Among the dozens of bandsmen who thronged the station was one on whom his comrades had perpetrated a practical joke. Suspended from a safety pin attached to his coat at the back, was a ribbon on which was strung a large and varied assortment of medals, crosses and stars made of tin and cardboard. Unconscious of the attention he was attracting, the bandsman pursued his Steady march up and down the station to the accompaniment of brpad smiles from those in his vicinity.