LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 139, 23 August 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Talk carnival. The loan proposals of the Hamilton Borough Council, involving a sum of over £75,000, were on Wednesday carried by a big majority. We have to acknowledge with thanks the courtesy of the Methodist Church in supplying us with a complimentary ticket to its concert on 28th August.

Any of those who did not get rid of their pound notes at the street corner on Wednesday night can do so by calling.at our office, when the management will supply them in exchange with free passes to thcTokaanui mental hospital.

In to-day's issue will be found a notice that Mr A. J. Bray, late of Wairarapa district, will be starting business here on Monday next as an accountant, auditor, and land and commission agent. Mr Bray has secured offices in the upper story of Teasdale's Buildings.

The timbers to carry the roof of the new Presbyterian Church are now being placed in position.

The public library should have figured in our list of local institutions in last issue, and that makes thirty-seven.

Mr P. W. Peate is erecting two shops in Alexander Street, on the site adjoining Dr Henderson's surgery.

A preliminary notice of a social to be held in the Paterangi hall on 20th September will be found in our advertising columns.

The public reading room at the library is closed to-day, and tomorrow until one o'clock, for annual cleaning and renovation.

The meeting of those interested in the formation of a Rifle Club will take place in the Cosmopolitan club room to-night at 8 o'clock.

The foundations of the new Bank of New Zealand premises at Te Awamutu are now completed, and the brickwork is two or three feet above the pavement.

A meeting will be held in the library at 2.30 this afternoon, and a short address delivered by Dr Triiby King on the promotion of health for women and children, with a view to forming a branch of the society in Te Awamutu.

We are requested by Messrs Lawson and Swain to state that only a portion of Dr Henderson's property will be offered for sale, as advertised in our last issue. The doctor's intention is to retain the homestead and a few acres adjoining.

That the contractors for the erection of the post office tower are making good progress with the work is evidenced by the fact that whereas' the foundations were only commenced on Tuesday the brickwork is now eighteen inches above the pavement. ,

Some idea of the business doing at the Town Hall may be gauged from the fact that it is already booked for every night up to September 14th next. It would not be a bad thing if a proportion of the very large profits accruing from this " municipal enterprise " were invested in some much-needed improvements to it.

The large number of " brickbats " at present available in our town make one regret that the time for political and no-license street corner meetings is over for the present. What about a comqined bowlers' and tennis open air meeting outside the PlO. subject. Use of the pavilion. It is time some of the candidates for the new Town Board started to give election addresses too.

A very pleasing and appropriate ceremony took place at the Post Office yesterday, when Mr Wm. Taylor, at the request of the contractor, laid the first brick of of the tower to house the town clock which Mr Taylor so generously presented to Te Awamutu a few months back. That the donor of this magnificent gift should have been asked to perform this ceremony was only right and proper, and we trust that the time is not far distant when he will be called upon to take an equally prominent part in the unveiling of the clock.