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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1301, 7 October 1922, Page 4

"We are taking more money out of the farmers' pocket than is in it," was a statement made by Mr G. R. Sykes, M.P., at Masterton. Medical practitioners and registered nurses when they received copies of the official copy of the Wanganui Telephone Directory the other day (remarks the Herald) were no doubt surprised to see the advertisement of a well known, undertaker on the same page, standing out in bold 36 point capitals, guaranteeing "best services at moderate fees."

The following appointments were authorised by the Auckland Education Board on Wednesday: Mrs E. S. Chainey, assistant Kaipaki and Miss E. G. Civil, assistant, PateYangi. Amongst the temporary appointments was Mrs R. L. McPherson, assistant, Kihikihi. Yesterday, however, the Te Awamutu School Committee was advised that Miss Civil had been appointed to succeed Miss Stephenson at school here. A curious point in workmen's compensation has just been settled by the English Court of Appeal. A collier who did not drink or smoke was in the habit of carrying a nut in his mouth, apparently for much the same reason that some people carry chewing gum. One day while at work he slipped and fell and the nut was jerked down-his windpipe, suffocating him. The Court held that the accident "was in the course of his employment," and entitled his widow to recover.

The most surprised man in Wanganui at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning was (says the Chronicle) a young blood who, after visiting the top of a telegraph pole on Taupo quay, slipped into the arms of a constable who had watched his antics and was waiting for him on; the footpath. He is to be given an opportunity to explain to the Magistrate why he was out so late and what he was doing.

Though not a new menace to the public thoroughfares of Te Awamutu the motor cyclist who has discarded the silencer of his machine is most unwelcome and has made his reappearance. Just at what speed he travels nobody seems able to calculate, though it is generally agreed that for both noise and speed a prosecution is we'll warranted. There are motor cyclists who sweep round corners at a perilous rate, and whose actions are dangerous to pedestrians —especially children. A few warnings at the hands of the Magistrate would be welcomed by the public.

A meeting of the committee of the Te Awamutu Trotting Club, convened for last night, lapsed through the failure of the committeemen to attend. The secretary and press representative waited patiently for over half an hour, but even patience went unrewarded and they were the solitary attenders. However, when the secretary was homeward bound, three committeemen were discovered but even had steps been retraced such a poor muster was insufficient to constitute a reasonable quorum and so to attempt to hold a meeting was abandoned. It may be mentioned that this committee faces the unpleasant task of cleaning up affairs surrounding a club whose activities were not over successful, and it is natural that meetings and responsibility are not welcomed as the aftermatch of a disappointing career. Nevertheless, amongst "sports" losses and gains are supposed to be accepted in a cheerful way—there is allegedly in the "sport" the true exemplification of the for better or for worse spirit. "Sports" are not shirkers, surely—though there certainly does appear to be an unaccountable desire to evade responsibility in the affairs of the Te Awamutu Trotting Club.