LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 378, 29 December 1914, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A notice of interest to farmers is inserted in this issue by Mr F. Perham, Te Rore. The railway time table in connection with the Oddfellows’ picnic and sports at Claudelands on on January 2nd, is inserted in this issue.

Owing to a typographical error it was made to appear in the letter published in our last issue over the signature of Mr C. M. Lawson, that the Borough poll would be closed at 6 p.m. This should have read 7 p.m.. On the 2ist instant the New Zealand Dairy Association, Limited, distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £68,420 4s. 9d. For the same period last year the similar payments totalled £68,724 17s id, thus the'" association’s December payments showed a slight decrease as compared with those for the same month last year, this being due to the very seriously curtailed supply owing to the drought. During the progress of the Alexandra Racing Club’s meeting at Pirongia on Saturday, the secretary received a cable from Mr G. Miles, one of the oldest members of the dub, who is with the expeditionary force in Egypt. He desired to convey to the members of the club his best wishes for a successful meeting, and regretted that he was unable for the first time for many years, to be present. He also desired to be remembered to all his old friends, and he hopes to be back amongst them again when the present crisis is over.

On January 28th, 1915, at the Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, some 550 acres of secondclass land in the Karamu Parish, Raglan County, will be ballotted for. The land fronts the RaglanHamilton coach road, being fourteen miles from Raglan, or sixteen miles from Hamilton. Another block consisting of 310 acres situated in the Mangaorongo Survey District, West Taupo County, will be offered at the same time. Plans of the localities in which the land is situated may be inspected at this office. In an interview with the representative of the Morning Post, Dr Florence Stoney describes the experience in Antwerp of the women doctors and nurses in charge of the hospital established there by Mrs St Clair Stobart, who had done similar service in the Balkan war. When the bombardment began they had 130 patients in the hospital. Sixty were helped to leave, and the rest were carried into the cellars. Not one of the staff of women doctors, nurses, or orderlies lost her head, and in twenty-five minutes the seventy helpless soldiers were lying on mattresses in the cellars. There they listened to the crash of the falling masonry during several hours. Finally they managed to transport the men to a safer hospital in the centre of the city. After many adventures the hospital staff reached England, and immediately began to collect funds for a second expedition.