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Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 274, 19 December 1913, Page 3

THE WAIPA POST WILL NOT be published on Friday, December 26th (Boxing Day). The issue on Tuesday, Dec." 30th, will be published at 2.30 p.m. The office will be closed from 5 p.m. on Wednesday, December 24th, until 8 a.m. on Monday, December 29th.

PERSONAL POLLY—Sorry unable to join you Christmas Exhibition trip. Mr Ross' refusal to sign holiday agreement prevents my going. SAD HEART.

OFFERS are invited until noon of January 7th, 1914. f° r . the general renovating of the old Te Awamutu Post Office and converting same into a lineman's store. Plans and specifications may be. seen at the Post Office, Te Awamu'u, or at the Public Works Office, Hamilton. No offer necessarily accepted. F. WITHER, District Engineer. AUCTION SALES. At The Te Awamutu Mart. Saturday, December 20. LAWSON, SWAIN, & WALKER LIMITED sell as above at 12 noon, I Dairymaid Separator I Sewing machine 12 Cases (gooseberries Quantity of Bacon NO RESERVE. 24 Hall Seats Also —Large Entry Christmas Poultry, including Fowls and Turkeys Further entries solicited. M. C. LAWsON, Auctioneer. ACETYLENE ELECTRICITY. Why Pay B%d for 256 Candlepower of Electric. Light ?—viz., I unit equals 256 c.p. for I hour — when you can get 250 Candle-power of Acetylene Light for IMd. Viz., 5 c.-fe of Acetylene equals 250 c.p. for 1 hour. The Production of lib of CARBIDE. TS it any wonder that the largest users of light at Ngaruawahia continue to use Acetylene, although the municipal electric light is available. This plant is costing the Town Board oyer £gooo-to instal. We sold in Ngaruawahia last week 4% tons of Carbide, for delivery straight from the ship's slings, per s.s. Whakatane. This is an argument. " You can take a horse to the ivater, but you cannot make him drink." A public meeting was held at Rotorua on September 9th to protest against the excessive charge made by the Government for electric lighting. The price is 6d per unit. One man paid for 96 units for the month. Wouldn't he squeal if he had to pay 9d per unit? —the proposed charge for Te Awamutu. Pause, brother ! pause and con - sider before you vote for electricity. It really means 26s per head p.a. of your present population to maintain the works, whereas, our Light—ACETYLENEWILL COST YOU 8s PER HEAD, or £4OO PER ANNUM. Colonial Acetylene Contracting Co. Of N.Z., Ltd., 41, Victoria St., AUCKLAND. Descriptive and Illustrated Circulars on application to W. MARR, Our Local Agent, TE AWAMUTU. TE AWAMUTU AND WAIPA BAKERY. SUTHERLAND BROS., PROPRIETORS. "RREAD delivered to any part of town and surrounding district. Tea Rooms next Mr J. Middlebrook's, Sloane Street. te"awTwiutu "dutchery. J.MIDDLEBROOK, Wholesale and Retail Butcher. SLOANE STREET (adjoining Post Office). TE AWAMUTU. Telephone 24. Families waited on dailv: