LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 172, 17 December 1912, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Talk carnival

Tenders are invited for erecting six miles of telephone line.

By advertisement to-day Messrs Lawson and Swain give notice of a sale of furniture and effects, which will be conducted by them on behalf of Mrs Foley to-mor-row.

The opening of the tennis courts and new pavilion in Victoria Park will take place at 2.30 to-morrow. Progressive tennis will be played, and a very enjoyable afternoon may be looked forward to.

Under the auspices of the Paterangi branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, Mr Lyons, an Auckland veterinarian, will give a demonstration at Mr S. C. Macky’s farm, Paterangi, at I p.m. to-morrow, to which the public are cpidially invited.

Mr de Ridder, architect, reports that Mr W. J. Bickerstaff was the successful tenderer for the construction of Mrs S. J. Heerdegen’s house in Mahoe Street, the price being £320. Tenders ranged from £320 to £3BO. The work will be proceeded with at once.

Lieutenant L. H. Brereton, a U.S. army aviator, and another flying man, recently used a hy-dro-aeroplane for a duck-hunting expedition on the Potomac river, with great success. The machine kept up with the ducks in their fastest flight, and a good bag was secured.

As will be observed in the advertisement of Hayward’s pictures, the night for the weekly exhibition at Te Awamutu has been changed from Tuesday to Thursday. There will be no pictures to-night, but from Thursday next the weekly exhibition will be shown on that evening.

The handsome clock which formed the prize at one of the guessing competitions at the recent Church of England Bazaar has been secured by Mr T. Stewart, who was fortunate in guessing to within a few minutes of its exact time of stopping, namely, ten minutes to six o’clock.

As an indication .of the manner in which the Auckland exhibition project is being taken up by intending exhibitors, it is interesting to note that 18,503 square feet, have already been booked by 62 exhibitors, at a cost of £1967. The total available area is 56,000 square feet.

The unclaimed dividend book of the Bank of England contains the names and descriptions of approximately 30,000 persons entitled to some millions of money, the whole of which has been transferred to the commissioners for the reduction of The national debt, in pursuance of the provisions of Act 56th, George 111.

We have pleasure in welcoming to the district Mr F. F. Hockly, who has purchased a large block of land at Pafawera, and who will be residing in Te Awamutu for some months. Our readers will recollect that Mr Hockly contested the Waimarino seat on behalf of the Reform party at the last election, being defeated by only a very narrow margin of votes.

The chairman of the Waikato Hospital Board reported to the last meeting that he had been informed by a member of the Frankton Town Board that that body would probably light the institution with electricity for about half what it now cost. He, the chairman, expressed the opinion that the board had been a sort of milch cow for the gasworks for years past. With this sentiment several other members agreed, and it was decided to ask the Town Board for an estimate for installing electricity.

Local residents will be interested to hear that the Te Awamutu Rifle Club intends to hold a tournament at Easter. Having regard to the proximity- of the range to the Polo Club’s ground where the polo tournament will take place, additional interest will be lent to that event. Six riflemen will attend the Auckland tournament on New Year’s Day, and three will journey to Wanganui, Palmerston North, and Wellington, and the club will also send a team to competi for the shield at Trentham in February.

The chairman of the Waikato County Council is in receipt of a reply to the letter forwarded to the Minister for Public Works respecting the delay in issuing the plans of the proposed newTarffic Bridge at Ngaruawahia. The Minister states that the work of preparing the plans is well forward, and they will shortly be forwarded to the Council. The cost of producing the plans will be between £2OO and £3OO, and is, we understand, being borne by the Government. The Kihikihi Town Board’s an-, nual concert and dance will take place in the Town Hall, Kihikihi on Wednesday, January Ist, 1913 at 8 p.m., and promises to be a great success. Miss Margaret McKenzie, Auckland’s premier contralto, has been specially engaged and will be assisted by the leading talent of'the- district, including Miss Sutherland, whose dancing was such an enjoyable feature of the scouts’ concert at Te Awamutu on Friday. The possibilities of the motor car as a means' of travelling for pleasure were very clearly demonstrated on Sunday last, when six local residents —Messrs Blennerhassett, Laurie, Teasdale (senior and junior), and Wheeler —journeyed to Raglan in Mr Blennerhassett’s car. A start was made from Te Awamutu at 7 a.m., and Whatawhata was reached 11/il l /i hours later. After travelling over the newly-formed road Raglan was ultimately reached at 10.45 a.m. After having four hours at the seaside, the return journey was commenced, and after passing through Te Mata, Te Awamutu was reached at 7.30 p.m. The car registered a travelling distance of 104 ’miles, and notwithstanding the distance, which, had it not been for the speedy means of transit, would have made the trip an arduous one, the journey was completed undermost favourable conditions.

A dance will be held in the Hairini hall to-morrow evening.

Tenders are called for carting cream from Hairini district toTe Awamutu station.

The contest for the Morgan Cup by the Waikato boy scouts took place at Hamilton on Saturday. Three representatives each from Te Awamutu, Frankton, Cambridge and Hamilton took part and the scores resulted, Cambridge 220, Te Awamutu 204, Hamilton 184 and Frankton 162.

Dr Stapley, of Melbourne, has entered into partnership with Dr E. E. Roberts, of Cambridge. Dr Stapley is expected to arrive in., Cambridge towards the end.,of next week. For many years he has occupied a prominent position as lecturer on Surgery at the .. . Melbourne University.

The decision of the Minister for education (Hon. James Allen) to discontinue the . system of grants for free school books has been communicated to the education boards. Instead, the Minister has substituted a capitation grant of 3d on the average attendance for the supply of continuous readers, and also a grant for school libraries.

A very handsome wall calendar with a number of beautiful views of Australian bush scenery has just been issued by the WAIPA Post Printing and Publishing Co., Ltd. The circulation has been limited to five hundred copies, and we shall be happy to mail one to anyone in the district sending ,us a post card with full name and address.

Accounts amounting to £3132 5s 2d were passed for payment at the last meeting of the Manawatu A. and P. Association Committee. This sum includes prize money, show accounts and Sundries. This amount probably constitutes a record total of accounts pa’ssed, if not for the district, then for a meeting of the A. and P. Association.

The latest advices from London state that the butter market is firm with an upward tendency. For the week ending December, 7th the imports of butter totalled 6l,ooocwt. as compared with 78, OOOcwti for the corresponding period of last year. Prices have risen 2s per cwt. during the current week, and quotations now are 124 s per cwt. for New Zealand butter. The Australian shipments to date show a decrease of nearly 6000 tons.

“Has anybody a (needle and thread ?” cried Dr Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency, during his tour through Delaware, “ I have lost a button at a strater gie point,” he explained, and retired into his room with the borrowed implements. There he was observed on the edge of the bed patiently threading a needle and sewing a button on his coat. Dr Wilson has never had a valet and attends to his own wardrobe.

There seems, to be a very strong objection among labourers to going into the country to work. The Waitotara County Council has been finding this out ip its contracts, a number of which are going begging. Last week the clerk laid on the table a return showing the response to a recent call for tenders. Contracts worth in all about £550 were not in demand at all. Among these was the metalling of the Howhanan Road (Kai Iwi). A deputation which waited on the Council in regard to the matter stated that it was two years since tenders were first called, and the settlers had been waiting since for someone to take up the work. This state of things existed, it was emphasised, when the Labour Department pronounced conditions as being slack for labourers in Wanganui. The work, too, is quite close to Wanganui.

A unique undertaking in motorcar driving has been accomplished by Mr H. J. Clifton (says the Gisborne Herald). Starting from Auckland, he took his car through the Bay of Plenty direct to Opotoki, being accompanied by Mr Ryan. Leaving Opotoki in company with Mr C. Bach, Mr Clifton then travelled through the goldfields in his motor-car to Thames, where steamer was taken for Auckland. The worst roads encountered were those between Te Aroha and Paeroa, while the speediest run of the tour was made on Ohiwa beach, between Opotoki and Whakatane' being at the rate of 36 miles an hour. The day following the return to Auckland the car was taken aboard the Clansman to Manganui, to be brought back overland as far as Devonport. Mr Clifton was the first chauffeur to appear in the township of Waimana, Bay of Plenty, and his passage through was cheered by the residents.