LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 270, 5 December 1913, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ripe peaches are already being, gathered in the Bay of Plenty districts.

A notice appears in another column to the effect that Mr J. Maloney, late of Te Aroha, has taken over the business lately carried on by Mr F. Tyer. Visitors to the Auckland Agricultural Show,, which takes place on December ioth, iith, 12th and 13th, are notified that excursion tickets will be issued from 28th November, 19n, and during the currency of the Auckland Exhibition.

Last week a poll of ratepayers at Patea was taken in connection with the raising of a loan of £BOOO for water and.*£6ooo for drainage for the town. The poll resulted in favour of the proposal by 125 votes, the voting being For 161, against 36; informal 3. Next Wednesday, December 10th, is the day fixed for the opening ol the Te Awamutu Polo Club’s season at “Green Hill.” Invitations have been extended to the Waikato and King Country clubs to be present. The public are also invited to be present.

Mr W. Morant Bayly has severed his connection with the National Bank at Stratford, after service with the bank for many years. It is the intention of the citizens to present Mr Bayly with an illuminated address and a purse of sovereigns. Mr F. G. Hartley, manager of the branch of the National Bank at Outram, will be transferred to Stratford. We understand that the Marist Old Boys’ Club will visit Te Awa!'mutu early in the New Year and give an entertainment in the local hall. In former years this club regularly visited Te Awamutu and their entertainments were always looked for, and it is safe to assume that its re-appear-ance will be greeted by a large audience. During their stay at Te Awamutu we understand that the members of the club will be the guests of Mr and Mrs Jackson. A Taranaki man recently sold his farm for £BO an acre. Next he held a sale of dairy herd — just the ordinary good typical Taranaki dairy cows, of no special breed (with the exception of one Holstein), and no pedigree stock, but several had calved, which enhanced their value. The Holstein w was sold for £23 10s, one of the others brought £l9, three reached £l7 each, four £ls each, and five £l4 each. The average lor the whole forty-five was £l4. A special series of postage stamps has been issued to commemorate the Auckland Industrial Exhibition, The series consists of ordinary stamps of the denominations of %d, id, 3d and 6d, over-printed “Auckland Exhibition, 1913.” The stamps can be purchased only at the Exhibition, and not more than 5s worth will be sold to any one person at one time. The Commonwealth of Australia has agreed to recognise these over-printed stamps as valid for postage for three months from Ist December

The stamps will not be valid for

postage to other places beyond New Zealand.

• A number of spurious halfsovereigns and sovereigns were passed through the totalisator at the Feilding races. The amount paid out last week to suppliers by the Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Company was £15.019 os 3d. This, the Witness says, Is the largest amount ever paid out by the company for the month October.

Seventeen sheep, personally selected by Mr G. P. Donnell;,', while in England, have arrived in Hastings. -Amongst them arc one of the champion Southdown rams at the Royal Agricultural Show, and two Southdown ewes from the King’s flock at Sandringham. 1

An interesting feature of the conditions under* which work is now being carried out on the Auckland waterfront has come into prominence. A few score of the members of the original Waterside 'Workers’ Union have applied for admission toMiie new union, and have been “ turned down.”

The St. Andrew’s Church manse has now been finished, and is occupied by the minister. To celebrate the event, the church managers are arranging a housewarming and social for the evening of the 19th inst. Invitations are being sent toall members and adherents throughout the parish, and a large gathering is expected.

A number of the Wellington waterside workers have walked to the Wairarapa during’the lastweek or two and have secured employment on various stations as general farm hands. ‘‘K our jobs are taken on the wharf by men from the country, we’ll find work on the farms, and it won’t be long before we’ll have a farm labourers union going,” remarked one of them.

At Whangarei a poll of the ratepayers of the borough was taken on Tuesday on the question of raising £38,000 for an auxiliary water supply from' the Mauiiu district, and £13,000 for an electrical lighting and power scheme. /The proposals were carried by large majorities, the figures being : —Water loan, 273 for, 27 against. Electrical power and lighting, 274 for, 24 against.

Te Awamutu has advanced so rapidly, and as its business has grown with the times there is no need now to.do buying elsewhere. Few towns show the very excellent stock of men’s suits that are now on view at Auld’s, the goods being just opened up for a tailoring firm, it is the choicest lot of men’s attire ever shown in this part of the country. *