The Waikato Independent THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932. Local and general.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXII, Issue 2820, 3 March 1932, Page 4

The Waikato Independent THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1932. Local and general.

A dance is being held in the Regent Hall this evening, organised by local enthusiasts. Details are advertised elsewhere in this issue.

The Minister of Education, the Hon. E. Masters, has approved of the relaxation, in cases, of the regulation limiting the tenure of a senior free place to the end of the term in which the holder attains 19 years af age.

As advertised, members of the local blanch of the Acclimatisation Society, will note that the annual meeting will be held in the Power Board buildings on Monday evening next, at S o’clock. All members, fishing and shooting enthusiasts, arc urged to attend. Miss Fenwick, an ex-resident of New Plymouth, now teaching in a school in Bangalore, India, relates in a letter to a friend in New Plymouth that she saw New Zealand butter on sale in India at 3/6 per pound.

During last week the following district fishing enthusiasts were at Taupo: —Messrs W. Harbutt, W. Tarr, E. C. Wallis, R. Wallis, J. Fisher, F. B. Wooldridge, T. Robinson and W. Robinson. Good sport was experienced in the early part of the week, but in the latter part the lake was rather rough. Orders-in-Council authorising the Raglan County Council to raise loans of £9OO, £6400, and £2OOO, and the Waipa County Council to raise a loan of £4OO, on the instalment-repayment system, appear in last week's New Zealand Gazette.

At a short sitting of the Police Court this morning, before Messrs C. H. Priestley and H. Alan Bell, J’s.P., a local resident appeared on charges of druiife-and disorderly behaviour and of using obscene language in Victoria Street last evening. Pleading guilty to both charges he was convicted and sentenced to seven days imprisonment at the local “lock-up.”

An increase of over 160,000 in the number of dairy cows in New Zealand, the total being over 1,600,000, a new record, is shown by returns published in the Abstract of Statistics, of live stock as at 3.lst January, 1931. The total number of all cattle exceeds 4.000,000, which is also a record.

‘ ‘ Heaven help the man who thinks he can improve his business by cutting out or even cutting down his advertising appropriation; the man who imagines he can run a department store today without publicity is heading straight for commercial suicide.” This statement was made recently by the advertising manager of one of Auckland's biggest department stores. “Do not get slipshod mentally or physically,” was the advice of Dr D. E. Hans#i, Director of the Technical College Christchurch, to the 90 unemployed boys who assembled at the college for further instructions concerning the classes being arranged, so that their time while they were out of work may not be entirely idle. The boys were drafted into four groups—agricultural, engineering, building and woodwork, and commercial. Good progress appears to have been made in recent weeks with the huge task of reconstructing the Arapuni hydro-electric works, and at present the scene is a Mecca for very many motorists. On .Sunday last dozens of car parties from as far afield as Rotolua and Tc Aroha were in evidence. The chief features of interest are the spillway and the falls lower down stream. Previously the water went over in one straight fall; now it will go in three shorter drops, the final leap being in a huge basiii heavily reinforced with concrete,' and then out ever rocks and stones to where the old forest stood. Instructions have been received in Rotorua that a further 100 men who have been engaged in scrub cutting on the Galatea Estate are to be put off the Public Works Department pay-roll. The majority of these men are married, and were brought to Galatea after the stoppage of work on the Gisborne railway. It will be recalled that at the time, strong representations were made for tlicir re-employment and as a result they were transferred to Galatea. The department had in hand the clearing of an area of approximately 3000 acres on the estate, and to date 2000 acres have been cleared, leaving approximately 1200 acres still to do. So far as can be .ascertained it is the intention of the department to leave the remainder of this work to be done by settlers taking over the selections.