LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7708, 15 April 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Easter railway arrangements arc advertised in another column. One old-age pension was granted in Waipawa during the quarter ended March 31st. Notices are advertised in this issue concerning the triennial election in connection with the Porangahau and Tamumu Road Boards. Owing to a re-arrangement of his tour Hugard the Magician had to postpone his visit to Waipawa, and is now definitely booked to appear here on the 25th and 26th inst. Mr G. Fail-brother has disposed of his interest in the firm of Fail-brother and Co. to the Waipawa Trading Co., who took the business over on Thursday under the management of Mr Geo. Colwill. A business announcement is made in our advertising columns. Once again the Railway Department has “turned down” the suggestion by the Education Board that a passenger car should be attached to the early morning train from Waipukurau for the convenience of the children attending the Waipawa District High School.

The Mangaonuku bridge, which has been closed for some time, will be reopened for traffic to-morrow. The Petone Woollen Mills dispute is settled and work resumes on Monday. The ten per cent increase in wages was conceded. Our Tikokino correspondent writes: are reminded of the annual meeting to be held on Monday evening next for the election of a School Committee for the ensuing year. Parents, t especially, are urged to take a livelier interest in thq welfare and education of the rising generation.

Announcement is made in another column that Messrs Pellow and Nielsen have taken over the repair shop of Messrs T. Carson and Sons’ motor garage and are prepared to execute cl 1 classes of work connected with the trade. Messrs Carson and Sons retain the front portion of the premises for the sale of cars, etc.

Excellent business was recorded at the Equipment Committee’s shop today under the management of Mrs Grenside and Miss Britten. Liberal donations of meat, poultry, etc., came to hand from the following:— Mrs Lang-ridge, Mr Riddell (Tamumu), Mr J. Britten, Mr Holden (ten geese), Mrs A. Ellingham (Hastings), Mrs- H. Robb, Mrs H. Gollan, Mrs G. Y. Olliver, and Mr L. McKay. A further supply of meat was expected this afternoon, and the shop will be open until it is disposed of this evening. A meeting of the Cemetery Trustees was held yesterday afternoon, Mr S. McGreevy, senr., in the chair. The balance-sheet for 1914-15 was read and adopted. It was unanimously decided to ask the Borough Council to take over the control of the Trust. A vote was passed recording the trustees’ appreciation of the long service (extending over 30 years) of Mr McGreevy. A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr Duncan Mundell (who had been a trustee since 1908) was also passed. The public hall at Argyll was the scene of a most enjoyable function last evening, the occasion being a farewell social to Trooper G. Foulds (on final leave), and to Messrs W. and J. Smith, J. Little, and M. Guerin. There was a very large attendance. Mr Gilbert McKay, of Otane, on behalf of the settlers, presented Trooper Foulds with a wallet and a fountain pen, conveying the donors’ good wishes, and expressing the hope that the recipient would return home safe and sound after having honorably served his country. Trooper Foulds made brief but suitable acknowledgment. During the course of the evening Miss and Mrs McKay contributed songs and played extras for dances. Miss Moronev, of Waipawa. kindly supplied the music for the programme dances free of charge. Following are the Magistrate Court returns for Waipawa for the quartei ended March 31st, 1916:—Civil: There were 14 sittings of the Court. Number of cases heard, 23; total amount sued for, £399 Is lid; recovered, £274 14s lid; number of applications heard in Court or in chambers, 9; orders made, 11; plaints entered, 57; distress warrants issued. 2; judgment summonses issued, 8: orders made on judgment summonses, 2; number of summonses, etc., served by the bailiff within jtwo miles, 31; over two miles, 40; number of distress warrants executed within two miles, 5; amount paid in civil case fees, £3l. Criminal: Number of offenders brought before the Court. 37 (35 males and 2 females); amount paid in fines and fees, £ls 18s, of which sum £4 goes to the local authority for breaches of by-laws.