WAIKATO GOSSIP

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2471, 2 May 1931, Page 7

WAIKATO GOSSIP

AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST, It must have been a pretty 'lively meeting of the Maramarua householders for tire purpose of' electing a school committee. Twenty-four turned up, whereas the previous record .has been seven, and the proceedings terminated at 3 a.mJ * * * As the result of a visit to Tauranga of a representative of a well-known firm of preservers and canncrs operating in Auckland, a certain amount of interest has been infused into the possibilities of growing asparagus on a commercial scale in that district. * # * Starting about .1918 ten original Anzacs who lived in Rotorua used to foregather every Anzac Day for a reunion. 'Time, has taken a heavy toll and there are now but four left of the original members. The rest have gone to join their comrades who stormed the Peninsula on that memorable day in April, 1915. * * * Much interest has been evoken in Whangarei by the fact that tea plants can be successfully grown there. An expert who examined the trees stated that although they had been let run practically wild the leaves were as good as those grown in Ceylon, which makes its living out of growing tea. * * * An impudent thief virtually has stolen the steeple of the new St. 1 aul s Presbyterian Church at Napier. Actually a quantity of beaten copper, valued at over £3OO, has been removed. The full value of the copper ordered for the church was about £IOO, and all that now remains is covering the small pinnacles standing at the corners of the tower top. * * * The Misses Tippett and Selling, two Waihi girls, left in the small hours of Saturday morning for Tauranga, reaching Katikati, the first stage of the journey, at break of day. After resting awhile and eating a meal they carried with them, they resumed their run, reaching Tauranga at about 10.30 a.m. Leaving again the following morning and riding in easy stages, they reached Waihi at about 5 p.m., quite fit and well, having covered a total distance of about 80 miles.