LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume IV, Issue 198, 25 March 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Work has been started on the new National Hotel at Cambridge.

Tenders, to close on sth April, are called by Mr P. Clements for the erection of a dwelling.

The Cambridge Band Carnival will be held on 19th May. Professor Cardstone is expected to commence his duties next week.

It has been decided to entertain the officers of the regiments taking part in the forthcoming military encampment at a complimentary ball in the Cambridge Town Hall on Friday, April nth.

The annual meeting of the Waikato Hunt Club was held in Cambridge on Wednesday. The financial position of the club was shown to be a very healthy one, the hunt account showing a profit for the year of £l9 Iss 7d. and the races account a profit of £lO lOs.

The Te Kuiti Polo Club will be represented at the Auckland provincial tournament to be held at Te Awamutu next month.

Tenders, to close on Monday, 31st inst., are called by Mr W. H. Mandeno, county engineer, for putting in a pipe culvert at Rangiaohia.

. On the 21st inst. the New Zealand Dairy Association distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £39,726 Os 2d. This payment covered butter-fat supplied during the month of February. The corresponding payment last year was £37,071 3s 2d. Thus the increase for the month as compared with last year is £2654 17s.

The party now engaged on reconnaissance work in reference to the flying survey of the Kaw-hia-Main Trunk railway, is. now stationed at Te Rau-a-moa. Members of the party are naturally reticent regarding the prospects and results of their exploration, which are not likely to become public until the report is prepared and presented to the Minister, although various rumours are current relative to the probable route adopted.

Surveying work is being carried on at Maungatautari on the block of 63,826 acres recently acquired from the natives by an Auckland syndicate. Roads are to bi constructed and the property will be subdivided into holdings of from 400 to 1000 acres each. It is expected that the lands will be ready to be offered for occupation about November next. A portion of the property is being reserved as a site for a township which, it is presumed, will soon spring up into existence.

In the course of a letter to an Auckland officer, LieutenantColonel Driscoll, D. 5.0., Com-mander-General of the Legion of Frontiersmen, makes the following interesting observation ( On the value of rifle practice: "If there is any money going, let it be spent in rifle practice. With a rifle shooting population in New Zealand no invader from any part of the earth would have a ghost of a chance to remain except in trenches nicely packed with four or six feet of earth over them to keep them snug."

A new terror has been added to the lives of American hotel cashiers in the shape of cheques, apparently genuine, which, within a few hours, become as white as the faces of the unhappy recipients. So common is the fraud—due to the use of a chemical which causes the ink to fade—that the National Hotelkeepers' Protective Association of New York has sent out a special warning to its members. Several Western hotelkeepers have been deceived by the " mirage " paper, as it is termed.

A somewhat alarming statement was made at the dinner of the Auckland Dental Association. The teeth of 1857 children in four of the Auckland public schools were examined by the Association. These children had between them no fewer than 7639 decayed permanent teeth. The ages of the children examined ranged between five and fifteen years. Parents were furnished with reports on the children's teeth, and much good was done by attending to bad teeth. The prevalence of these, it was pointed out, was a danger to the children's health. A noxious germ, for instance, once lodged in a hollow tooth, multiplied very rapidly, and might cause infection. Such a germ taken into a healthy mouth would probably do no harm.

We are advised by Mr W. Bowles, the District Traffic Manager of Railways, that the Department intend to run school and other excursion trains to the ports on the occasion ot the visit of H.M.S., New Zealand early next month. School committees desirous of arranging for the school children under their control to visit the battleship are urged to communicate with Mr Bowles, P.O. Box 265, Auckland, as promptly as possible stating the number of children likely to make the visit. School excursions will be restricted to scholars and teachers and the actual members of the school committee in each case. Holiday excursion tickets will also be issued for the use of the general public on dates to be announced by advertisement later.

At a poll held at Palmerston North on Friday it was decided not to proceed further with the construction of municipal tramways, the figures being 654 against and 551 for the proposal. A vote was carried last year in favour of raising a loan for the purpose,and Friday's poll was the result of a petition to again put the matter before the ratepayers. The result, it is generally considered, can be interpreted to mean that the majority of the ratepayers believe that the town, having no congested main arterial roads, can be better served by a motoi 'bus system. It is not unlikely that a proposal for municipal 'buses will be made, if the borough will allow the inauguration of such a system, about which there seems at present some doubt.

Mr and Mrs James Jackson leave for a trip to the Old Country on 3isi inst.

A sitting of the Magistrate's Court will be held in Te Awamutu on Friday next bv Mr E. Rawson, S.M.

Notice to bring certain lands under ths provisions of the Land Transfer Act appears in our advertising columns.

A special meeting of the Town Board to consider the question of loan adjustments necessitated by the severance from the county on Ist prox. will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 7.30 p.m.

Proposals by the Stratford Borough Council to borrow £42,000 to replace a bridge and improve streets, etc., within the borough were rejected at the poll on Wednesday by a substantial majority.

Notice is given by Messrs Swarbrick and Swarbrick that Messrs Lawson and Swain will sell under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court on Saturday, April 18th, allotments one and two of this town.

Mr Jas. Corlett, a road contractor, for some years resident in Te Awamutu, was killed by a fall of gravel in a Dit near Morrinsville on Saturday. The deceased had cut a tunnel for the purpose of bringing down a fall of gravel when without any warning the gravel came down crushing and completely burying the unfortunate man.

At the request of a number of residents Mr A. J. Blythe has called a meeting of those interested in the protection of game throughout this district. This has become necessary owing to the fact that a large amount of shooting out of season is taking place, which, unless put a stop to, means the practical extinction of game in this locality.

The dairy factories of the King Country, which depend entirely on home-separated cream, are putting up an exceedingly fine record this season. The grade notes of the Aria factory show an average of 93 Y% points, as high as 95% having been reached. The last four gradings of Pio Pio butter are three of 94 points, and the fourth 94%.

At the Magistrate's Court on Friday a number of local cyclists will be proceeded against for riding bicycles on the footpath and for riding at night without a light. Notwithstanding repeated warnings, no attempt has been made by cyclists to conform with the requirements of the by-laws, and the Town Board was compelled to give instructions which led up to these prosecutions.

From the report of the annual meeting of the Eketahuna Chamber of Commerce published in Thursday's issue of the Eketahuna Express we have the following : " Owing to Messrs Edward Page and A. J. Bray having left the district the Chamber lost the services of two of its most active members, whose loss was particularly felt by the Telephone Committee of which these two gentlemen were members." ,

A four roomed cottage in Alpha Street, Cambridge, belonging to Mr Brooks (town clerk) and tenanted by Mr Percy Hughes, was destroyed by fire shortly after II o'clock on Saturday night. The house was unoccupied, though Mr Hughes had been on the premises at 9 p.m. and noticed no signs of fire. The building was insured for £IOO in the Standard Office and the furniture for £75 in the State Office.

In reply to a query from Sir Rider Haggard on his way to New Plymouth on Monday as to the price of dairying land in the district, a Hawera Star man mentioned that a sale of a Waimate Plains farm at £BO per acre had been reported, and that £6O to £7O per acre for farms in that locality were not uncommon figures, Sir Rider Haggard expressed some astonishment at the answer, and went on to say that no English farm would command such a price.

A deputation consisting of Mr J. A. Young, M.P., member for Waikato, and Mr W. _H. Mandeno, engineer for the Waipa County, waited upon the Minister for. Railways, Hon. W. H. Hemes at Frankton Junction on Wednesday afternoon, and on behalf of the Rangiaohia Road Board urged upon the Minister the necessity and urgency for making an alteration in the level crossing at Lake road. The deputation also, on behalf of the Waipa County Council and the Road Board, urged that improvements" be made to the railway yards at Ngaroto. The Minister, in reply, stated that time would not permit him to make a personal inspection of the localities as suggested bv the deputation, but he would send Mr Mackintosh, District Railway Engineer, to report to him, and if the improvements suggested were not of a costly nature he gave the deputation to understand that something might be done. He promised to advise Mr D. Cavanagh, chairman of the Road Board, of the date when Mr Mackintosh would make a visit.