LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 306, 17 April 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Richard Arthur and Co. invite applications from persons qualified to take charge of their Te Awamutu Auction Mart lor that position.

A meeting of members and intending members of the Te Awamutu Ladies Hockey Club will be held on Monday night at 7-30, in the Cosmopolitan club room. Applications for the position of turncock operator in connection with the Te Awamutu water supply are invited by the Te Awamutu Town Board.

A notice appears in another column stating that the Te Puhi Road will be closed for vehicular traffic on April 20th and 2lst, pending alterations to a culvert.

Messrs Richard Arthur and Co. advertise in this issue particulars of an unreserved auction sale of general merchandise at their lccal auction mart tomorrow.

A meeting of all those interested in the holding of a bachelors’ ball at Te Awamutu is advertised to take place at the Te Awamutu Hotel on Saturday, April 25th. The presentation by the loyal women of this Dominion to the battleship New Zealand, is taking the form of the finestsilver orchestral drums made by Hawkes and Son, of London. They are worth 100 guineas, and have the arms of New Zealand emblazoned on them in silver repousse work. The following Ohaupo players have been selected to represent married men against the single players in the football match to.be played at Ohaupo tomorrow, Saturday :A. McLean, W. Taylor, W. G. Abbott, W. Gore, F. S. Wallace, L. Mackay, P. O’Halloran, D.- Hickey, Brindle, Ned Bayly, Alf Cowley, V. Carley, Weatherley, Geo Tooman, C. Richards, F. Ryburn and F. Potts. In view of the friction last session of Parliament in connection with the Public Trust Office, it is worthy of remark that at the opening of the pew bridge at Wanganui on Tuesday, Dr Fitchett, Public Trustee, declared that the legislation introduced during the time Mr Herdman had had charge of the office had done more to increase the usefulness and promote the prosperity of the Public Trust Office than all that had been proposed in the fifteen years previous. —Hawera Star. It may not be generally .known that, county councillors, who live within a radius of three miles' from the county office, are not entitled to expenses when attending county meetings. This fact was forcibly impressed upon three members of the Waimate West County Council who were required by the Audit Office to refund expenses drawn by them during the past financial year. Indignation was expressed at this provision, and the chairman said he felt quite sure ratepayers would not object to paying members 7s 6d per day whilskattending county meetings. This barely represented out-of-pocket expenses, apart -altogether from loss of the time.

In referring to the recent strike, Mr J. B. Laurenson, President of the Christchurch Industrial Association, spoke as follows the other day at the association’s annual meeting : “It was foredoomed to failure. It was a distressingly ill-advised' attempt bv a very small minority to establish a precedent which, if successful, would have enslaved every man and woman in the Dominion in a bondage more cruel and unjust than any state in the history of the Empire. Just in proportion as the strike betrayed the weakness of the Labr leaders, it established once and for all the extraordinary unanimity and solidity of the vast majority of people. Nothing was so cheering and inspiring as the response to the call, for law and order.” It is not often that an officer of the Government Labour Bureau has to act as a matrimonial agent as well, but an amusing instance of this occurred in Wanganui a day or two ago (says the Herald). A young man in company with his young lady, both of whom had been in the Dominion only a short time, applied to the local office for employment. The officer replied that he could place the young man, but he had at the time no vacancy for the young woman. He casually suggested that he had a vacancy for a married couple. The young pair consulted together for a while, and then the young man replied: “We will get married and take that position.” The farmer was communicated with and was willing to take them, and arrangements for the wedding were pushed on with all speed, but the truth of the old adage was once mere forcibly proved —“There’s many a slip ’tvvixt the cup and the lip”—it was found that the young man was under age and could not be married for a fortnight. A hurried consult, tiou, and it was : decided to postpone his wedding j until he at rived at the year of; ■discretion, a 1 fortnight hence. j