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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 5704, 25 April 1911, Page 2

A meeting of those interest#3 in the i formation of a Chamber of Commerce in Waipawa will be held in tha Old Library, i at 2 80 p.m, on Saturday next. Andrew Poulka, the African pigmy, who created a bit of a sensation in Waipawa last weak, got on tha spree at (Tastings, on Saturday, and was arrested. He had to be remanded for medical treatment. Queensland is preparing for big de velopments. At the annual gathering of the Brisbane Marchauta’ Association, a member of the Government who was preseut stated in the course of his re marks that the previous night he had received a oabla from tha Agent-General saying there were more immigrants of foriDg thap they could find aooommodatiou for. Thoy had engaged four steamers specially to bring out mon to build railways. Queensland was in a position now to face a loan with oquanimity. Considering conditions all round, the farming community of North Otago will doubtloss bo right in assorting that, for those depending for a living on tha land, this year has been the most disastrous within the memory of those who can look tho farthest back (reports tbo Labour Department’s agent in Oamaru). Until about a mouth ago, tho one hope ot the season, to the farmer, lay in tho potato orop, whioh has now been more than half destroyed by the potato grub. In daclining nomination as a member of the school committee, last night, Mr Whittington stated that he reoognised the fact that it was possible for a man to rarnaiu a member of a local body uotil he had outlived his period of use fulness. Ho had been a member of the committee for many years and he fait sura that he was occupying a position that could be better filled by somo one with more energy. He Lhauked the committee for the courtesy extendod to him during his term cf office. Tho new scheme under whioh a work man possessing only sufficient capital to pay a £lO deposit to the Labour Depart ment in order to secure a house of hie own, upon time payments, lias aroused a great deal of interest in all the centres of population, uud it looks aB if Auok land will be the first city to make a practical start. Iu ono of its suburbs, Ellorslio, reached by rail, 15 acres divided 1 in 60 sections, have been allotted for workers’ dwellings, while at Otahuhu, also on the ruilway, an area of 10 acres, divided iuto 19 sections, has been set aside for tha same purpose Why householders are so averso and shrink from taking upon themselves the position of a member of a school oom--1 mitten is a conundrum often propounded 1 but never satisfactorily answered. It cannot be that there is too muoh work 1 to be done, or that too muoh time will 1 be expended in doing what little is ex peeled of an occupant of tho office, Yet every year tho same trouble is expori euood ; no ono will take office if be can get out of it, and dozens of householders : who otherwise would take ao interest in tho school and its proceedings by attend--1 ing the annual moating, keep away and advance the reason “ that if they attend i they will be lauded on the ooinmittee Last night’s meeting of the Waipawa i householders was no exoeption to i the general rule. Only those present - who had tho moral courage to stoutly i rofuse to accept office wore allowed to i remain off tho list, which was eventually completed and tho persons deolared elected, and even then one of those who had been gathered in the not endea r voured, unsuccessfully, to break away ' but without avail. Tho required number * must bo obtained somehow.

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