LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1209, 23 February 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rovers Football Club will meet in the Oddfellows' Hall next Saturday evening.

A meeting will toe held in the band room to-morrow to consider the promotion of a sports fixture in Te Awamutu at Easter. All sporting enthusiasts are asked to attend. .Recitals will be given by the Te Awamutu Municipal Band in Alexandra Street on Friday evening and in Victoria Park next Sunday afternoon, when it is hoped the public will show appreciation of the Band's services by attending in large numbers.

Some idea of the activities of the Pritish and Foreign Bible Society, the organiser of which, Rev. A. T. Thompson, is at present in Te Awamutu may be obtained from the fact that last year 8,655,781 books were distributed. Founded in 1805, the Society's expenditure last year was £492,188. The Society sells its books below production cost, and relies on voluntary subscriptions to make good the reficit.

As showing the popularity of the Jersey cow in/Waikato, 'only those of that breed competed in the champion dairy cow class at the show in Te Awamutu yesterday, and the value of selected pedigree stock from a dairying point of view was shown in the presence of only one grade cow among those from which the 'final selection was made.

The Vacuum Oil Company announces a reduction of Is per case in the price of kerosene and 2s per case in the price of petrol. This is the ninth decline in the price of kerosene and petrol since January ,1921, and represents a total decrease of 8s 6d per case for kerosene and 9s iper case for petrol. In other words, since January, 1921, the reductions in the price of kerosene total over 36 per cent, whilst the price df petrol has been reduced by over 26 per cent in the same 'period.

At the Magistrate's Court this morning, before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., two first-offending inebriates were fined 10s. Another first offender was fined £3, he having had charge of a horse and vehicle which found their way to the footpath in Alexandra 'Street at 6.15 p.m. yesterday. The circumstances suggested a feud 'between men, the accused having deliberately gone on to the footpath to overtake a suspected taunter, and he claimed to be only a moderate drinker. Sergeant Doyle corroborated this, and when questioned the accused simply remarked that " nothing more could he done than pay the fine." He deprecated the necessity for a prohibition order, and the magistrate, owing to the special circumstances, imposed a fine as stated of £3.