NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3208, 18 September 1934, Page 4

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

Benefit to Council. —lt is estimated that the electric power and light '..department of the Dunedin City Council benefited to the extent of £147 through people listening to the wireless broadcast of the test cricket matches in England.. ~.

■', Subsidies for Eoads. —At the monthly meeting of the Matamata County Council on Friday last, the engineer, Mr M. E. . Fitzgerald, reported that main highway subsidies had been voted to include the Cambridge-Tapapa Road £3750, for maintenance, and Karapiro Road, £2OOO for new sealing.

■ Cycled to Football Matches. —There is at least one man in Cambridge whose interest in the local football representatives is not lessened through lack of transport. On Saturday he cycled to Matamata and back again and the previous week pushed his way ' to Hamilton to see. the team in action. ' Football Followers at Matamata.— There were many local football enthusiasts at Matamata on Saturday, when the Cambridge representatives challenged for the Peace Cup. It was not the Tack- of barracking, especially from a youthful section of the local contingent, that made Cambridge unsuccessful. i Need for Windscreen Wipers.— ~<'.Every car should have two good windscreen wipers. A person, who cannot afford* them should give up motoring and push a wheel-barrow instead,?' said Mr F. W. Johnston at a meeting of the South Island Motor Union. He remarked .that lack of windscreen wipers was a very potent cause of accidents on bad nights.

Cost of Printing Evidence. The minutes of evidence of the Monetary Committee fills 745 printed pages of foolscap size. The approximate cost of the paper, and the preparation is not given, but the cost of the printing alone is stated to be £790 for 498 copies. That is apart altogether from the cost of printing the actual report, which'is bulky.

Unloading a Churn. —An unusual ! sight was witnessed in Mangonui on ! a recent morning, when the Northern Company's Waka berthed behind the tee of the wharf with her bow a few feet away from Mr McKay 's shop on the, waterfront, to discharge a largo ehuWfor-Sthe new dairy factory at . Oruru. An operation of this sort could ! onlv be performed.during fine weather. The churn, which measured approxi- ' mutely 9 feet in length and the same height, weighed between 4 and 5 tons.

Babbit Eradication. The Kiwitahi Rabbit Board, has decided to write to the Unemployment Board supporting : the application of the Poria Rabbit Board for thq reinstatement of scheme J 11' (subsidising rabbit destruction : work). It was also decided to write to the stock inspector at Hamilton regarding,the increase of rabbits adjacent to the board's boundary between Morrinsville and, the Motumaoho factory. ■ ' ! "' ''''■' ' v.,-

Women's Associations. —Mrs Barrer, of Masterton, who has just returned from the Pan-Pacific Conference of Women's Associations at Honolulu, will speak from 2YA this evening from 8.40 to 9 p.m.

The Perfect Evening.—This is the Prime Minister's idea of a perfect musical evening. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes is not musically inclined. Ho candidly admitted so at a recent smoke concert. "My idea of the perfect musical evening is to bo at a football smoke concert with the room full of smoke and everybody round the piano singing out of tune,'.' he averred amid laughter. Library Thief. —A painstaking book thief has been at work in the Christchurch Public Library lately. Not content with the old-fashioned method of simply putting the desired book in an inside pocket, this person has gone a step further. In the case of a certain book, the empty cover was allowed to remain on the shelf. Every single page of letterpress had been torn >out of it. Summer Time Coming.—The Gazette contains the formal announcement, published for general information, that under the Summer Time Act, 1929, and the Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, summer time commences at 2 o'clock standard time on the morning of Sunday, September 30, and that clocks will have to be advanced half an hour. The daylight saving legislation remains in force till April 28, 1935. Maori Concert Party.—To lovers of sweet harmonics, and those who are interested in quaint Maori folk lore and early customs, the visit of the Rev. A. J. Scamer's Maori Choir to Cambridge is one of the events of the year. This popular party will give one of their entertainments in the Peace Memorial Hall to-morrow night. Details arc advertised. Several members of the party are new to Cambridgo audiences, and have earned a high reputation elsewhere for their delightful vocal gifts. The outstanding feature of the evening will be the hauntingly sweet part singing of the Choir.