The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXI, Issue 2781, 28 November 1931, Page 4

The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1931 LOCAL AND GENERAL

A team of veteran ringers will be in charge of the bells at the Parish Church cn Monday evening on the occasion of the celebration of Consecration jubilee. Mr Fred Discombe, of Hautapu, was speaking on Pig Feeding from IYA last evening for twenty minutes and gave many valuable hints to listeners whose interests lie in that direction. Since our reference in Thursday’s issue to tlic death of Mr Johi Birme, we have hcarned that throo, not one, of Mr and Mrs Birnic’s sons paid the supreme sacrifice in the Great War. The Cambridge Unemployment Bureau wish to point out that they were in error in regard to the pay offered m the advertisement re harvesting for unemployed. Another announcement to day states that the rate of pay' will be 1/0 an hour Sind not 1/9 as previously stated.

The gold craze is gradually getting worse every day in the Buller district, and since a big nugget was found in Waimangaroa, prospectors can be noticed fossicking about everywhere, says the Wostport News. Around Addison, several parties arc at work, including several men who were formerly working on the Buller Gorge railway. The pakihas have been well gone over, and with the scrub dried up with the hot weather, the parties have done a lot of burning to clear prospective claims. The large bed of pansies which has been such a feature at the Leamington Domain gardens have to come out to make room for the planting of seedlings for the autumn display'. In the ordinary course the plants would have been discarded and thrown on the compost heap, but anyone desiring plants of them may obtain as many as they desire free on making application to Mr Hulme, the caretaker of the Domain. The following conditions arc to be observed: Plants to be removed on Tuesday next, December Ist; no soil to be removed with the plants, and. the tools, wrapping or tying material to be supplied by- those obtaining the plants. This opportunity to acquire plants of real good strain of giant and other pansy plants will, we are sure, be largely taken advantage of.