LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2315, 25 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual meeting of the W.airakau Golf Club will be held at Maungatautari Hall on Thursday evening next.

A fair extending over three days, held on the Hamilton Ferry Bank, in aid of the Beautifying Society, concluded on Saturday night. The gross takings of the fair were over £250.

The Local Government Loans Board has declined to sanction the application of the Napier Harbour Board for authority to raise a loan of £47,000 for expenditure on the inner harbour scheme at Napier.

The body of the late Mr Herbert Gilling, who had been missing from his brother's cottage at Eaglan for a week, was recovered near the Eaglan Heads on Saturday. He had been drowned. Deceased, who was a married man 60 years of age, belonged to Wanganui. He had been spending a holiday at Eaglan. The funeral, which was held in Hamilton on Sunday, was largely attended.

At the quarterly meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce to be held in the Power Board buildings to-mor-row (Wednesday) evening at 8 o'clock, Mr E. B. Kemsley will read an educational paper on "The Crown in Business," by Mr E. L. Ziman, of Auckland, (brother to Mr S. N. Ziman). It might be mentioned that this paper was read before a meeting of the N.Z. Associated Chamber, at Wellington; also at the Provincial Conference at Auckland. It is to be hoped that every member will make a special effort to be present.

The excursion trains between Auckland and Hamilton were well patronised yesterday. About 250 people travelled by the first train from Auckland and between. 300 and 400 were on the second one. The latter train connected at Mercer with the excursion steamer to the picnic grounds on the Waikato Eivcr, about 20 miles north of Mercer, and a large number of travellers made the combined rail and steamer excursion. The week-end excursion train to Eotorua was fairly well patronised, The Cambridge branch of the N,ZFarmers' Union will meet on Friday next at 1.30 p.m., as advertised. At this meeting, in addition to ordinary business, a district committee will be set up to further the scheme for the elimination of the cull cow, a matter of the greatest importance to the dairying industry. Mr E. D. White, organiser for the Upper Waikato, will be present at the meeting and give any information required. We hope to sec a large attendance at the meeting so that the matter may receive due consideration.

Addressing a meeting of his constituents at Ngatea on Saturday night last, Mr M. J. Savage, M.P., said that if the Government did not deliver the brand of "goods" required by the Labour Party when the next session of Parliament opened it would find itself "without a home." He said that when the next session opened the Leader of the Opposition would undoubtedly move a vote of no-confidence. The attitude of the Labour Party would depend on what the Government proposed to do. Unless it was prepared to "deliver the goods" Labour would take the first opportunity of putting it out. In view of the present state of affairs in the political arena, this statement by Mr Savage has particular significance.

The annual meeting of the Hautapu Football Club was held last night. The report will appear in Thursday's issue. With terrible burns about the head and the upper part of his body, Fredcrick Arthur Troughton, aged 25, a married man, was admitted to the Wanganui Hospital about nine o'clock on Saturday morning, and he died early the following morning. He was occupied in draining petrol from the tank of a car, when it ignited. At the time Troughton was in a pit under the

Charged with murdering his wife, Arthur Thomas Munn, who was arrested at ihis home in Eichmond Avenue, Northcote, on March 8, appeared in the Police Court on Saturday morning and was'remanded in custody for another week. Munn, a furniture-maker, aged 45, was charged with murdering Lillie May Munn at Northcote on February 11th.

The greater portion of the Pokcno main highway deviation has been in use during the recent good weather, but was not negotiable yesterday, owing to rain. Public Works Department men are making extensive improvements to the northern end of this deviation, and travellers coming south have to take the road to Bombay post office, and travel thence along the Pukekohe road to the junction of the deviation.

Five cases of typhoid arc in the New Plymouth Hospital. None is serious, and the authorities do not anticipate a spread of the infection. Four of the children, whose ages range from four to eleven, arc of one family. The other child stayed for a. week-end with the family. All five children went swimming in the Te Henui Eiver, and the health officer thinks that the river was possibly the source of infection. Other children of the same family who did not swim were not infected.

The main road between Cambridge and Auckland is just now in fair order, with the exception of a few stretches. There is one section of about a couple of miles at Ngaruawahia that is exceptionally bad, and needs attention at once. That portion of the road between Ngaruawahia and Hamilton is kept hi fair through continual use of the grader, an! it.is a pity that the Ngaruawahia borough does not make as much use of this machine on its se.tion.

The road to Kawhia, via Te Awamutu, is in good order at the present time, and a party of Cambridge residents made the trip over-on Sunday. On the winding portion of the road a few miles out from the township, considerable improvements have been effected. A number of the hairpin corners have been cut back, and in other parts the road has been widened, while in dangerous portions deviations have been made, rendering the whole of the portion referred to much safer than a year ago. The party made the trip to Kawhia via Pirongia and came back vi>i Te Awmutu. The road from Pirongia is very rough, and local residents ir>ten«jing making the trip arc advised to go via Te Awaruutu.

Two new bridges, together with short deviations are being provided on the main highway just south of Eangiriri. One of these bridges, in particular, has been a source of danger, owing to its exceedingly awkward angle. The new bridges will make an almost straight route that will be a vast improvement. The spoil taken from the excavations is being used to raise the road, which in this locality is subjected to flooding, and it is hoped thus to obviate the trouble that has been caused in that respect. These improvements, when completed, will be greatly appreciated by main highway travellers, as this portion of the road has for years been one of the worst on the whole run between Cambridge and Auckland. A substantial new bridge is also being erected just south of Mercer, replacing another awkward structure.