The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 188, 14 February 1913, Page 2

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hamilton beat Cambridge at tennis on Wednesday by II sets (ill games) to 5 sets (95 games).

Mr A. C. Edwards leaves by the main trunk express to-night for Wanganui, where he will represent the Te Awamutu Brigade at the Dominion Fire Brigade conference.

Tenders to close on Friday, 28th February are invited for the supply of groceries, bread and meat for the Tokanui mental hospital from 18th April, 1913, to 31st March, 1914.

Captain Northcroft, the newly appointed resident commissioner of the Cook Islands will leave for Rarotonga at the end of the month. Mrs Northcroft will probablyfollowhim therein April or May next.

At the meeting of the Waikato Hospital Board on Thursday, the appointment of Dr Mac Knight as surgeon to the Taumarunui Hospital, was confirmed. His salary was fixed at £l5O, with £IOO Government subsidy.

Sir H. Rider Haggard, the famous author of " She," and many other thrilling novels, who is a member of the Imperial Trade Royal Commission, will reach New Zealand for a tour through the Dominion, on February 23rd.

Notice is given by the District Land Registrar that part allotment 317, parish of Mangapiko, will be brought tinder the provisions of the Land Transfer Act, 1908 unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same on or before 15th Mairh, 1913-

The English society of motor manufacturers and traders has voted a sum of 2,000 guineas to be awarded as a prize for a home produced fuel to replace petrol. It is anticipated that valuable results will accrue from the offering of this handsome prize. Experiments are likely to resolve themselves mainly into the cheap production of benzol from coal slack. Already large quantities of this fuel are being used successfully in England and France, and there is little doubt that the 2,000 guineas prize now offered will encourage English owners of coal mines, coke oven, etc., to develop recovery plants for the cheap production of benzol.

Says the Sydney Telegraph : It is not surprising that there should be an unmistakable expression of public indignation against the new Commonwealth stamp. A feeble-looking pink kangaroo, perched on the Continent of Australia —that is the best idea which those responsible for this production have been able to evolve as to what is required in such circumstances. The kangaroo, be it observed, replaces the head of His Majesty, a result which is likely to arouse in the outside world dubious speculations, if not as to the loyalty, or at any rate as to the good taste of that part of the King's dominions.

In the course of some remarks on road-making a writer in the London Times says: "Mr M'Adam's plan was to construct roads with stones about an inch and a half across, mixed with any available small matter, the whole being rolled in by such traffic as might chance to pass. The modern way is to build up a very strong foundation and crust, and then on the top to put a layer of small material bound in with bitumen. The modern way may be picturesquely described as putting down a solid floor and covering it with a bitumen carpet. As fast as the carpet wears out it can be renewed, while the floor remains intact. This method gives a much smoother and less muddy surface.

Cr Teasdale asked at the Waipa County Council meeting if it were possible to secure some harder metal than that in general use for a portion of theTe AwamutuKihikihi road, a truck or two should be obtained from Te Aroha. He incidentally raised the question of the relative merits of blue and white limestone for road-making purposes, and inferential Iy favoured the blue variety " every time." He stated that he had been credibly informed that the Waitomo County Council were prepared, if the adjacent local bodies would support them, to put in a plant and open up a quarry to work some 23 acres of good blue stone. The supervisor stated he was inclined to favour the blue metal also, despite the assurance of experts that they had conducted elaborate tests which tended to show there was no difference. The council adopted Cr Teasdale's suggestion and authorised the supervisor to I obtain a truck or two of the Tc j Aroha metal. i

Tenders are invited for the erection of a store at Pirongia.

The Riv. W. Woollass will conduct service in the Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening, and a duet will be given by Mrs Battson and Miss Martin.

Hon. James Allen has been successful in underwriting a loan of £3,000,000 at 4 per cent, repayable in 1943 or 19 j 3. The price of issue is practically £97 3s.

Special reference wi'l be made by the Rev. Clarke at St. John's Church on Sunday night to the South Polar expedition and the death of Captain Scott.

The provisional directors of the le Awamutu Terminiting Building Society report excellent progress, while the secretary is receiving numerous applications for shares from country residents throughout the district.

A poll of ratepayers will he taken in Ohakune to-day for loans amounting to £31,771, made up as follow: —Installation of electric light and power £7826, street improvements £IO,OOO, municipal buildings£6so,sanitary drainage £5455, high pressure water supply £7840. The proposed security for the loan is a special rate of Is 2d in the £ upon the unimproved value of the whole rateable property"in the Borough.

Arrangements for the concert in connection with the Te Awamutu volunteer fire brigade are proceeding apace. An exceptionally good programme is, we understand, being arranged. Miss Valerie Collins will assist, and her items alone should, we think, be a sufficient attraction to assure the promoters of a very large attendance, The stage arrangements will be a special feature and everything points to a most successful concert. The box plan is open at Le Sueur's.