LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2314, 22 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, A branch of the New Zealand Country Political League has been formed at Hinuera.

A meeting of the Eeform Party was held at Hamilton yesterday, when it Was resolved to invite Mr D. Hebenton to accept the position of organiser to the South Auckland group.

The Kit Kat Club will hold another of their popular series of dances in the Kegcnt Hall this evening. Larkin's orchestra will provide the music, and a good supper will be served. The, Old Time dance will be held in the Oddfellows' Hall this evening as usual. It should be noted that after to-night the Old Time dances will be held at the Regent Hall.

A prospective tenderer for the sowerage extensions, Mr T. W.. Parsons, a prominent contractor, of Auckland, was in Cambridge, on Thursday inspecting the borough. In the cricket draw for to-day Hamilton East plays Cambridge at Hamilton, and the local juniors play Hamilton High School at the Square.

Attention is drawn to an advertisement elsewhere with regard to the obligation of landholders to furnish returns of land not later than Bth April. This is an important matter, and defaulters are liable to a heavy penalty.

The clerk (Mr C. F. E. Barton) stated at the monthly meeting of the Matamata County Council yesterdaythat rates were not coming in quite as well as last year. The chairman remarked that the dairy farmer should be able to pay with the excellent season for production.

The Matamata County Council yesterday resolved that before placing direction signs which have the effect of diverting tli-i'otigh traffic from the main highways to other roads, the Auckland Automobile Association be requested to obtain* the permission of the council.

A new advertisement appears m today's issue for the Cambridge Service Station, situated in North Victoria Street, opposite the Town Hall. This open, convenient station is at your service any time and its bowsers give a complete petrol service. Tyres, tubes and all accessories are stocked at the station. A trial is solicited.

Yesterday Mr H. Speight very kindly conducted a weight-guessing competition—the weight of a turkey—the proceeds being devoted to the nurses' fund connected with the Women's^ Division of the Farmers' Union. The turkey weighed 121bs 7ozs, and Mr. Fred Kelly proved the lucky winner, guessing the exact weight.

Speaking briefly on the recent woo! crisis in New Zealand, at his public meeting at Cambridge yesterday, Mr S. Lye said it was .a most remarkable position. The buyers—most of them foreigners—had called a strike, and the people of New Zealand had calmly given in to their extraordinary demands, instead of accepting the challenge and fighting the matter out as they should have done. Mr Lye cited this as an other instance of the folly of allowing trusts and combines to hold sway in the control of the sale of farm products. '•"

There was a narrow escape from a serious collision in Cambridge on Friday morning last. Mr R, J. Melville was proceeding along Victoria Road East in his traction engine, the noise of which prevented his hearing the approach of the 7.55 a.m. train from Cambridge. Mr Melville did not sec the train till it was very hear, when he promptly pulled up. The driver of the train pulled up at the same time, just at the crossing by the Domain gates. A collision with serious results was narrowly averted, the traction engine being only about 10ft from the train when it came to a stop.

The Hoard of Education has notified the Cambridge District High School Committee of the appointment of Mrs E. Campbell-Board to the position of senior assistant mistress of the secondary department, in place of Miss E. I. Wilton. Mrs Campbell-Board is an English teacher with very high credentials. She has a certificate ~for advanced French from the Lausanne University (Switzerland) and-a diploma with honours from the Caen University, France. She is at present French mistress at the Greymouth Technical High School, and prior to holding that position she was senior assistant at the secondary department of the District High School at Motucka. In preparing pupils in French for Matriculation she was very successful last'year in that she presented 19 pupils, of whom 18 passed. Mrs Camp-bell-Board will .arrive in Cambridge to take up duties in about a month's time.