LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1242, 13 May 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Four of the remaining employees at the local dried milk factory had their services dispensed with to-day, so that only the manager, the engineer, and one other man remain. The boilers will be overhauled during the next few weeks.

Speaking of the campaign in favour of the Power Board’s loan proposals, Mr Johnson stated in Te Awamutu 'last night that they had a really good hearing at all their meetings. In no case had the loan been adversely criticised, but the charges for electricity had been. . ,

“ The weakness of 'the Power Boards Act is that the Government compels us to run a commercial concern under local body law, and any member of such a body will know how we are handicapped under such Acts.” So stated Mr J. T. Johnson at last night’s meeting of ratepayers of Te Awamutu, in replying to criticism offered against the Board’s method of conducting (business.

In consequence of the Town Hall being engaged on Thursday night next, it has been found necessary to postpone the public meeting of citizens to be called in connection with a proposal to collect all records and data relative to the early days of Te Awamutu and adjacent districts till the following week. It will now be held on Thursday, 25th May.

The capital value of the ratable property in the Waikato hospital district is £34,576,704, and the population, as indicated by figures supplied by the Government statistician, is 86,6941 While the value does not include the native areas, the native population is included in the figures given.

It is always gratifying to record the scholastic advancement of a Te Awamutu boy, and in this connection, it is pleasing to find among the successes obtained in the degree examinations of the New Zealand University, held last November, appears the name of Thomas' H. Wood, son of Mr and Mrs W. H. Wood, and an ex-pupil of the Te Awamutu school, who passed his section for the Bachelor of Laws. We trust that this success! will provide an incentive ! to- stil 1 greater achievements in the future.

Yesterday’s meeting of the Te Awamutu War Memorial Committee is regarded largest and most representative gathering yet held in this town with that object in view. There could be no mistaking the consensus of opinion in favour of a monument. In fact, not one voice was heard in opposition to such a proposal, which one speaker went so far as to declare was favoured by 95 per cent of the people. There was also a unanimity of opinion against sales of work, “ Paddy’s markets,” etc., being held for such a sacred object, in which it was desired that donations should be given spontaneously.