LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7914, 4 August 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Medical Board will sit at Waipukurau on Thursday, August 9th. The two boys alleged to be concerned in the death of the girl Quinn at Thames recently have been committed for trial on a charge of murder. It is expected that the dining cars will be taken off the Main Trunk and New Plymouth expresses as from Monday next. The Presbyterian Church services for to-morrow will be as follows: Elstrope 11, Otane 3, Waipawa 7, Rev. William Douglas. The Patangata County Council advertise a special order relative to the proposed alterations of boundaries of the Wanstead and Purimu Road Boards.

The second korero of the Waipawa Savage Club will be held in the Oddfellows’ Hall, near the Municipal Theatre, on Tuesday evening next, commencing at 8 o’clock. An attractive programme has been arranged. The Plunket Nurse will pay her fortnightly visit to Waipawa on Tuesday, August 14th, at Mr Bibby’s room, where she may be seen by mothers between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

At a meeting held in the Waipawa County Offices this morning the resolution expressing the inflexible determination of the people to prosecute the war to a successful issue was carried, and intimation to that effect is to be forwarded to the Prime Minister.

No agreement was reached in the Wellington shearers’ dispute before the Conciliation Council. The owners offered one pound per hundred and the union refused to accept less than 27s fid. The case goes to the Arbitration Court.

Citizens are reminded of the public meeting to be held to-night at 8.30 in the Municipal Theatre, for the purpose of passing a resolution on this, the third anniversary of the declaration of war, expressing our determination to prosecute the war to a victorious end. It is hoped that there will be a large and representative attendance. Immediately after the public meeting to he held to-night in connection with Declaration Day, the local branch of the Second Division League will hold a meeting in the Council Chambers for the purpose of receiving the report of the delegate to the recent conference at Wellington. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested Tte condition of the Waipawa County’s portion of the Napier main road was the subject of comment at yesterday’s meeting of the County Council. Cr. Little said the road was steadily getting worse, and would soon be impassable and unfit for traffic of any sort. The Council realised that it was no use tinkering with the job, by attempting to fill up the numerous holes which beset the unwary motorist) and authorised the ploughing up and remaking of about twenty chains. This will be pul in hand as soon as