LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 261, 4 November 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall for the month of October at Te Awamutu was inches.

We are informed that Constable Wade, of Kihikihi, has received orders to proceed to Auckland on strike duty. The official opening of the tennis season at Mangapiko has been indefinitely postponed in view of the absence of club members at Auckland.

In the sculling championship of Australia, which took place on Saturday between Richard Arnst and James Paddon, the latter won easily by six lengths.

We are advised that the sum of £8 Os sd, the amount collected at Te Awamutu for Dr Barnardo's Homes, has been duly remitted to head-quarters by Mrs Jones the local secretary to the fund. The Railway Department notifies that excursion tickets will be issued to Auckland on the 4th and 7th November. These tickets will not be available by the Auckland - Wellington express trains, i

The illustrated booklet, descriptive of Te Awamutu and district will be published on Saturday next and will be on sale that day at all stationers. It will contain sixty-seven illustrations of town and district, and is published at 6d per copy or in lots of one dozen at 5s 6d. The secretary of the Te Awamutu Town Band requests that any material promised by residents for disposal at the Band Bazaar on 14th and 15th of this month will be left with Mr F. J. Gilbert as soon as possible, so that bazaar arrangements may be completed. We understand that Mr C. J. Peake, who has' been representing Messrs Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., in the Cambridge district during the last three years, has now been transferred to Te Awamutu, to represent the firm there in place of Mr E. B. Walker, who has lately resigned. As a result of the strike commodities that affect the cost of living have rapidly risen in price in Wellington. Potatoes have risen from £3 lOs to £9 per ton in a week, and naturally the retail price has risen in sympathy. Flour has risen from 3s to 4s per 251 b bag, and the 50lb bag has advanced from 5s 6d to 7s 9cl. Sugar, .stocks of which are rapidly becoming depleted, has advanced Y 2 & per lb. Oatmeal, oatina and gestina have also gone up in price, stocks of the latter being very low. The excitement caused by the strike and the meeting of delegates to provide free labour to handle the export products of this district resulted in the lapsing of the meeting called by the Te Awamutu Show committee on Saturday afternoon. Several district residents attended the meeting place, but offered a hurried apology, as 1 they had much to arrange in connection with the "find an outlet" problem. "When this business is settled we will talk Te Awamutu Show with renewed vigour " —a remark made by more than one enthusiast, which indicates clearly that the Show proposals are by no means dead, as the lapsing of the meeting may at first sight suggest.