LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A poll of ratepayers in the Cambridge Electric Power Board’s district sanctioned a proposal to raise a loan ;of £7OOO for the purpose of assisting approved applicants to install motors .and other electrical fittings. At Tuahiwi the Hon. John Topi Patuki 1 , M.'LjC., announced to the Maoris assembled at a luncheon there that Mrs F. R. Mqfrison, a chieftainess, would contest the Southern. Maori seat against Mr H. W. Uru, M.P. Warm rains and a touch of spring in the air have promoted early growth, and farmers are already beginning to talk of a luxuriant spring. It is noticeable that both flowers and vegetables in many gardens are taking heart and moving ahead. Nurse R. O. Sterritt, of the Waikato; (•Hamilton) Hospital staff, -who passed first in New Zealand at the recent nurses’ final examinations, is to he presented with a special medal of merit by the Waikato Hospital Board. Nurse Sterritt is a daughter of Mr and. Mrs D. Sterritt, of Pirongia, and a sister of Mr J. Te Awamutu. With regard to the cost of manufacture, Mr A. J. Sinclair, n the course of an address, said that the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company could make 1 lib of butter for lid. One 1000ton factory north of Auckland had made a pound of butter for 2d. No other company in New Zealand could approach thart figure. At the Magistrate's Court on Thursday judgment for plaintiffs by default was given in the following cases: C. FI Batts on v. J. P. Lonergan, £l2 5s Id; T. P. Clark v. D. 'Stroobant, £l3 14s lOd; Waipa Post Co. (Mr Downes) v. V. Stroobant, £3 4s 6d; C. T! Rickit and Sons v. Tai, £1 10s 9d; Wdipa Supply Co. v. C. H. Moitzen, £7 15s 4d; Collins and Downes (‘Mr Downes) v. P. Paringa, £1 l'ls 9d. The weekly meeting of the Cribbage’Club was held on Tuesday evening, when there were sonie good contests for the trophy presented by Mr H. H. Hutt; this was the second evening’s play for the prize, and in all 20 games were played. When scores were finally counted it was found that Mr C. 'Higgs and Mr W. Coggins had tied with a total score of 19 games, and in the play off the latter won. The next best scorers were Mr Hutt (17 games) and Messrs W. Griffith, F. H. Vi'le, and !B. Sim (10 games).

Mr J. R. Fow (Mayor of Hamilton) is paying a visit to Te Awamutu, and will preach at the morning service of the Methodist Church to-morrow.

Mr H. P. iSemmens, teller of the local branch of the Union IBank, who has been visiting Sydney, returned to Te Awamutu on Thursday. Mrs Semmens, who spent some weeks in Christchurch, has also returned.

There was no meeting of the Waipa Rugby Union on Thursday night. It is understood that the match for the Insurahce Cup, between Rovers and Pirongia, will take place on Saturday, '26th August, and that the latter club will play E. Beet, who has now complied with the Union’s request for an apology over a recent incident on the football field.

The Puketutu-Pio Pio-Aria Railway Board proposes to raise a special loan of £145,115 for the purpose of constructing a railway from Puketutu to Aria, via Pio Pio, as follows: Purchase surveys, £2100; rolling stock, £12,610; of land, £1750; construction, £107,997; contingencies, £6222; interest during construction, £8214. Private advice was received in Te Awamutu on Thursday of the death of Mrs R. West, o‘f Ha'wera. The deceased, who was mother of Mr S. H. West, of Te Awamutu, was an old colonist, and was we'll known in Taranaki, where she had resided for years. Mr West left for Hawera on Thursday night in order to attend the obsequies. To him 'will be extended the sympathy of many friends in his 'bereavement. Nothing succeeds like persistent agitation. After months of agitation the local Ch'amber of 'Commerce extracted a promise from the Postmaster-Gen-eral to install 'the electric light at the Te Awamutu post office, and this work will be put in hand on Monday, so that it should not be long now ere the new order is brought into existence. This deliverance from the vagaries of an ancient gas plant, with its accompanying gloom, will be appreciated by the public and the staff alike. “ A long form was handed to me when I landed in New Zealand lagain,” said a native of New Zealand to a Southland Times reporter, “ and I was informed by the authorities to fill it in before I could go ashore.” He said the list contained all sorts of family questions, and some of the information required he had almost forgotten. “However, I was able to satisfy the authorities about my nationality and other particulars,” he <said, “ and they at last consented to my landing.” There was again a good attendance at the dairy science class last evening, Mr H. W. Hesse delivering an able and instructive address on “Lime: Its Use and Misuse.” He announced that as the dairying season was now opening, and farmers were getting correspondingly 'busier, he would close the series of lectures next Friday, when he would deal with the practical mixing of manures. Throughout the season the lectures have been well attended, and farmers have derived considerable benefit from the invaluable advice tendered by Mr Hesse.

“ Every electric lamp in the millions of American homes is a potential ra-dio-receiving station,’ says the Scientific American. “ Displace one of the bulbs (or probably one of the sockets is already unoccupied), insert the receiving plug at the end of the receiving cord in the same fashion as the electric appliances in the household. Forthwith sweeper, flat iron, or other electrical music or vocal speech is garnered out of space. Thus every city with electric transmission lines may negotiate* its own broadcasting service and escape the babel of confuson imminent from the amazing growth of the distribution of .music, lectures, and conversations broadcasted through space.”

' When two lawyers engage in an involved legal debate the average layman is apt to become somewhat confused in trying to follow the 'argument. A man who spent an idle day in watching the proceedings in the Timaru Supreme 'Court (relates the 'Post) was accosted by a friend as he was leaving the Court with the inquiry of what was taking place inside . “’So far as I can follow it 1 ,” he replied, “ a man bought a £175 motor car, which cost him £ls. Tor £140: When he 1 had purchased it it didn’t belong to' l him, and he sold it to a man who didn’t buy it from him, through a firm' oTf * auctioneers who effected the transfer* but did not sell the car. The mad; Who sold the car to the man to whom it did not belong is now trying to get the value of the car from the man who did not buy it. The question is, to ‘whom does the car belong?” “No longer by all accounts, may smoke concerts where . liquor i:s consumed be held in restaurants,” says the Christchurch Sun. “ Henceforth stimulus to sociability must be Sought from the ginger beer or lemonade bottle only. The alternative is to foregather in premises that are not public dining rooms. No edict has been published concerning the matter,. but it is significant in Christchurch that several impending smoke concerts which were to have been held in public dining rooms are now to take place in other premises. The consumption of alcoholic liquor in restaurants, even though the refreshment isi not provided by the management, is a breach of the law, but it .is a law which has been more or less a dead letter for several years past. Apparently the regulations are to be enforced.”

A motor cycle agent stated in Court at Palmerston North that his bicycles were selling now at £l3O each. There had been a drop of £4O on each. Some time ago they were selling at £l7O for cash, and £IBO ror terms. “ Did you sell any Of them at those prices?" asked one of the counesl concerned. “ We sold hundreds .of them,” emphatically declared the agent.

“ If people must jazz in the College Hall let them not desecrate the fine old building with hideous ‘ decorations ’ ” ('writes a student to the editor of the Canterbury University College Review). At one dance the hall looked like a butcher’s shop with scraggy scraps of green and pink paper-chops suspended by a string from the ceiling. At another we are outraged, and the architect of the hall affronted, by absuid excursions into post-futuristic art, suggestive of a bloody 'Sinn Fein massacre.