The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3207, 15 September 1934, Page 4

The Waikato Independent SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934. NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Church Social^— A social evening has been arranged for Tuesday, September 25, by the Churchwardens and parishioners of St. Andrew’s Church. ’'Cricket Activity. —The annual meeting of the Cambridge Cricket SubAssociation will be held in the Power Board building on Thursday evening. Monavale Dance. —Intending patrohs of the Ping Pong Club’s dance next Tuesday should note that the bus from Cambridge will travel to Monavale via Leamington. Daffodil Show. Arrangements are. well in hand for the Cambridge Daffodil Society’s Show, to be hold in the Town Hall next Thursday and Friday. A number of new features, which will be held this' : yc.ar, are advertised in today ’s issue. Hospital Patients.— During August 433 patients were admitted to the Waikato .Hospital and 388 discharged, 'leaving 324 in the institution at the end of the month. The daily average was 310. In the period under review 220 operations were performed. Australia’s New Spirit. —" Australia to-day is cheerful, full of vigour, working hard and eager for more work,” said an Invercargill business man’ on • his return from a visit to Australia. "The new spirit in the people is like the wonderful sunshine there. It cannot fail to inspire .the visitor.” Home Mission Sunday.— Home Mission Sunday will be observed at St, Paul’s Methodist Church and at the other preaching places of the Cambridge Circuit to-morrow. At St. Paul’s a district Maori Choir will assist the local choir both morning and evening in the praise portion of the service. Maori Entertainers. The famous Methodist Maori Choir and entertainers will present one of their entrancing programmes in the Peace’ Memorial Hall, Cambridge, on Wednesday next, 19th September. The personnel of the party differs somewhat from that of previous occasions, several singers of outstanding ability being included. The proceeds of the concert are devoted to-wards-Mission work among the Maori people. School Admission Age. —Some misunderstanding still exists among parents as to whether children under six vears of age may be admitted to primary schools, and the Taranaki Education Board received many inquiries at their last meeting. Any child, whose sixth birthday oecurs before February 3, 1935, may be admitted, providing he or she is enrolled before October 4, says an exchange. Children under six not enrolled within one month of the commencement of the term are ineligible' for .admission. 'Ay A"'.-'-• "No Money for Wars.” —"Events on the Continent, in France, and Germany, give food for thought for those who arc'interested in the preservation of peace,” stated Colonel 11. Stewart, who commanded the Second Cantcibury Battalion during the Great War, when addressing old comrades at Christchurch. "One gets the impression that what is keeping the peace of the world is-not the prevalence of good feeling among nations, but the fact that’ in the national coffers there is no money for wars.” Facilities Appreciated. —A warm tribut'sfwas l ‘'paid by Mr H. Alan Bell, at a meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board this week, to the excellence of the administration and facilities, at,Jhp.. Waikato Hospital. Mr Bell mentioned that a returned soldier who had been in hospitals in England and New Zealand had remarked to him that he had found none to surpass the Waikato institution for the care and attention which was devoted to patients. “It is an insitution of .which we can be proud,” observed the chairman, Mr J. J. Byburn. ”