LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1128, 13 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr W. C. C. Hewitt, having disposed of his practice at Putaruru, is about to commence practice in Hamilton. He is well known as a member of the Te Awamutu-Putaruru Railway Board.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Korakonui Cribbage Club was held at Korakonui last Wednesday evening. There was a good attendance, and a very enjoyable time was spent. Mr A. Moyle and Mr W. Sinclair played off for the first prize, which was won by the former. The weekly meeting of the Te Awamutu Young Men’s Club on Thursday evening was devoted to impromptu speeches, in which Messrs W. H. Powell, E. Scott, A. F. Keen, L. Johnston, W. McGivern, and M. J. Rogers took part. Afterwards a ping-pong tournament was played. Mr J. L. Bruce, Superintendent of Experimental Farms, writes in reference to an article wh.ch has appeared in certain newspapers derogatory to the “Weraroa State Farm Department Methods” that it “does not refer to the Department of Agriculture Central Development Farm, Weraroa. as implied in --he article referred to.”

A meeting was held in the Borough Council chambers last night of the committee which is arranging the ceremony of switching on the electric light in Te Awamutu at the end of this month. Advices indicated that the Minister of Public Works (Hon. J. G. Coates) and other officials of the Department would be present on the occasion, and arrangements are being made for a fitting ceremony. Mr S. Walker, 8.A., headmaster of the Te Awamutu public school, contributes to the School Journal of this month a lively historic story of the battle of Orakau, fbught in August, 1864. The story occupies five of the Journal’s neat little pages, and is interspersed with three excellent photographs of the local school children re-enacting the battle on the Orakau site a few months ago. It is apropos of that occasion that the Journal retells the story. The .demand for houses in Te Awamutu is as keen as ever it was. Despite all the building that has taken place during the last yea,r or two there is a great shortage of housing accommodation, and people are finding it extremely difficult to find quarters of any kind. It is hoped that the Borough Council will be successful in its negotiation of the housing loan, end that the State housing scheme will proceed at an early date, so, as to alleviate the position a little.

The Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company has decided to make . butter at all its factories, butter returning better prices than cheese at present. Some 20,000 “B” shares have been applied for in the company. This will allow an advance payment to be made to shareholders. The company will start making dried milk almost immediately, to enable it to ascertain the cost of production. A continuation of production will depend on the market price obtainable. The depredations of rats upon the stocks in a certain business part of Victoria street, was the subject of a comment by Traffic Inspector de Silva ■at a meeting of the Hamilton Council. The writer cited an instance of where £4O worth of stock was destroyed last year, and a further £2O worth this year by these river rodents, despite the fact that the businessmen in question had spent pounds in trying to abate the nuisaijce. The letter was. referred to the Inspector of Nuisances.

It was suggested by the executive of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association that the King’s Rugby Cup should be made the trophy for international fixtures, and an effort to find out where the cup is now' is to be made. The cup was w'on by the New Zealand Army team in the inter-ser-vices tournament played in the Old Country during the 1919 season. It was personally presented by His Majesty to James Ryan, captain, on behalf of the team. As it is a challenge cup it may be made available for further competition, unless challenges come from teams which competed in the inter-service tourney.

The death occurred at Te Awamutu after a trying illness, patiently borne, of an old settler in the person of Mrs Sarah Haddock, widow of the late Mr John Haddock, formerly stationed for years at Orakau. The deceased, who was 68 years of age, was highly respected and known by a large circle of friends. She was a sister of the late Mr William Qualtrough, of Kihikihi, and sister-in-law of the late Mr Andrew Cow'an. of Orakau. The deceased is survived by a grown-up family, consisting of Mr Edwin Haddock (Auckland), Mr Bert Haddock and Mr Moss Haddock (both of Karamu). Mrs Sinnott (Te Awamutu) and the Misses Haddock, for all of whom much sympathy is expressed. The interment takes place at Auckland.

Army scientists, working under the direction of Major-General Geo. O. Squier, have discovered ‘invisible light,’ writes Reuter’s Washington correspondent. In developing experiments which were commenced during the war they have proved, by actual demonstration, that there is light which cannot be seen. They have recorded the existence of this light, and with experimental apparatus they have recorded its effect. Certainty exists in the mindg of the Army officers that if invisible light can be made available for extensive army signalling work it will give the United States almost incalculable advantages over an enemy in time of war. Invisible light is distinctly a modern discovery. For more than two hundred years scientists have theorised and speculated on the existence of light rays which did not appear bn the spectrum visible to the human eye. But none of those scientists could record an impression of invisible rays, no matter how sure he was they existed. It remained for the United States Signal Corps, through a' series of experiments begun during the war and recently completed, to make actual records of these rays. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds never fails.