LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1210, 25 February 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"I haven't so many pairs of boots myself," said Mr H. A. Young, S.M., at the court on Thursday in a maintenance case. The defaulter stated that he had bought three pairs of boots since his arrival i' n Te Awamutu. The annual picnic of the children attending the Hairini school wi'll be hettd in Mr Hodgson's paddock, on the Cambridge Road, on Wednesday next. A dance will be held in the hall at Hairini the same evening.

Mr F. W. Flanagan, Valuer-General, will arrive in Te Awamutu at 10.30 a.m. on Monday, and will remain until Tuesday, to consider claims for assistance by financially - embarrassed farmers.

At the dance in Kihikihi on Wednesday evening a large attendance of patrons thoroughly enjoyed the pleasure provided. Mr G. Dalton's music was of the usual high standard, and this, with the sumptuous supper served, made the occasion a joyous one.

A dairy farm of 200 acres in Taranaki is burdened with the following mortgages: First, £3300; second, £8400; third, £7948; fourth, £3751; and fifth, £2763, all at 5| iper cent interest. It is stated that there is a possibility of the land realising sufficient to pay the first and second mortgages. " Some of the backward children in Standard I. are athletes!, not infants," was the statement made at Thursday evening's meeting re the school picnic and Swimming sports. The remark was called forth by the offer to provide a prize for every small child who would get into the water and get wet, and a discussion which ensued regarding children's sports generally. Mr Mc Donald said that as this was' the second school picnic under the same control it would be possible to handicap last year's winners, so as to give more equal chances to all. It was the general opinion that all the smaller children should receive little prizes of some kind.