LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1129, 16 August 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Banks Peninsular Electric Power Board has been authorised to purchase and take over the Akaroa borough electric works. v The Te Awamutu Domain Board will probably visit Albert Park next Saturday at 2.30 p.m. to consider arrangements for .the next A. and P. show there.

A proclamation issued in last week’s Gazette revokes part of a former proclamation taking land for road purposes in Blocks V.‘ Puniu, and VII Pirongia survey districts. In reference to a recent report that some small school property was lost from one of the Church buildings, it is only fair to the church authorities to state that the building has not been locked after use, so that it was accessible to any intruders. The doors will be kept locked in future. A Press Association message from Dannevirke to-day states that Catherine McLeod, aged 52 years, a single woman residing with her father at Matamau, was found drowned in a stream close to the house. She had been despondent lately. It is not known how she got into the water. The body was in night attire. The defunct Te Awamutu public reading room was mentioned again at last evening’s meeting of the Borough Council, when an offer was received of £1 Is per week rental of the building by a tradesman who, for a seven years’ lease, would effect his own alterations. ,He would pay £1 10s per week if the Council would do the repairs. The offer was received with some favour, and referred to the library committee. A wireless receiving plant, erected by a youth named J. G. Petherbridge, is in operation in Studholme street, Morrinsville. The apparatus has •quite recently been inspected by the engineers of the ’ Telegraph Department. A permit to operate the plant hqs been applied for. Owing to the stormy weather recently, Mr Petherbridge has had difficulty in picking up messages distinctly, but with the advent of fine weather he hopes to be able to receive wireless weather reports and other messages received at Auckland.

Companies which deal with insurance against sickness are paying much more attention that formerly to the teeth of their clients. The manager of one company told a Daily Mail reporter that many diseases are traced to bad teeth, and that pyorrhea begins with poison collecting round the gums and later spreads through the system. “Pyorrhea starts.in such a mild form and often has such far-reaching consequences that from the point of view of insurance the greatest care has to be taken in \acceptfng people at the ordinary insurance rates who show any traces of it.” said the manager.