LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume V, Issue 219, 10 June 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Te Awamutu Town Board meets next Thursday at 2.30 p.m.

The Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce meets in the Cosmopolitan club room at 7 o’clock to-night. Mr P. C. Freeth, the wellknown journalist, formerly of Masterton and Wellington, has been appointed to a position on the literary staff of the Christchurch Press. For a violation of the law in connection with his saloon Jack Johnson, the heavy weight boxingchampion, has been sentenced at Chicago to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 dollars. On Saturday afternoon the members of the building committee of the new Catholic Presbytery welcomed the Right Reverend!!. W. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, and presented him with a purse of sovcia igns.

Among the handicaps which have been declared for the Te Aroha Rod and Gun Club’s £25 shoot, which takes place at Tc Aroha to-morrow are the following : —Jull 15 yards, Wheeler 14, Winger 13, McMurray 12, F. Taylor 11, Garland 11, Benzie 10, Compbell 10. A deputation from the Waipa and Raglan County Councils waited on the Hon. R. H. Rhodes in Hamilton on Thursday, and asked the Minister to restore to Waipa the third representative on the Waikato Hospital Board. The Minister promised to do so, as allowed by the Act. Alfred Hagger, alias Win. Phillips, was charged before Mr F. E. Mason, J P., at Hamilton, on Thursday, with forging and uttering a cheque for £1 ios on the Bank of New Zealand at Te Awamutu in the name of Gordon Petley, of Tc Awamutu. Accused was remanded to appear at Te Awamutu on June I2th. A general meeting of members of the Te Awamutu Tennis Club was held in the public library on Saturday afternoon, when about a dozen members were present. It was decided to wind up the tennis season with a eucine party and dance on the evening of Wednesday, 2nd July, when the trophies won during the season will be presented. In introducing the officers of the Tc Awamutu Chamber of Commerce to the Postmaste.General on Saturday, Mr J. A. Young, M.P., paid a high compliment to the Chamber by remarking that it was a live institutio 1, and ever awake to the requirements' and potentialities of the whole district. In response to an invitali m extended to him by Mr A. S. Wallace (chairman of the Town Board) and Mr W. N. von Stunner (president of the Chamber of Commerce), the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster - General, pronrsed to visit Te Awamutu for the purpose of officially opening the post office and setting the new clock in motion when the work of installation is completed, provided itc til be found co iveiiienl for him to absent himself from the session. V similar in vitation w.t; extend'd to the member for the di trici, Mr J. A. Young.

| Mr J. A. Young, M.P. for Waikato, will attend the meeting of the Waipa County Council at Ohaupo to-day. On Friday he will attend a meeting of railway employees at Frankton Junction, and on Monday, at the invitation of the Hairini branch New Zeaj land Farmers’Union, will address the settlers of that district. On the following Wednesday the Cambridge Farmers’ Club will" hold a special meeting at which Mr Young will deliver an address, and .on Friday and Saturday (20th and 21st) he will confer with the settlers of the Wharepuhunga, Korokanui and Matupara districts. Mr Young has also arranged to visit Putaruru before journeying to Wellington to attend the session. As the car conveying the Hon. Postmaster - General from Tc Aroha to Te Awamutu was passing St. John’s Church on Saturday morning, a stoppage was made at the request of Mr J. A. Young, M.P. for Waikato, in order that the party could be shown the memorials erected by the early settlers to the memory of troopers who had fallen during the Maori war. The Minister was very much interested in this matter, and more particularly with the commemorative tablets to be seen within the building. It is Mr Young’s intention to introduce in the House, during the coming session, the necessity for the erection by the State in various parts of the Waikato delta fitting and permanent monuments to the memory of the officers and troopers, who fell during the many engagements in the early days.