LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1371, 24 March 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A big representation of Hamilton bowlers is expected to visit Te Awamut.u this afternoon for the annual inter-club match. Mr C. G. Downes and Mr and Mrs A. G. Warburton left Te Awamutu yesterday morning on a holiday trip to Australia. They expect to be absent from the Dominion for about a month. Mr H. G. Leng-Ward. representing the Chautauqua Association, is to visit Te Awamutu next Tuesday to arrange final details for the forthcoming eession. We would especially impress upon our readers the desirability, when writing to us, of addressing letters to the manager or the editor. Delay is often occasioned if individual members of the staff are addressed.

The' sawmill industry is again in a nourishing state throughout Southland. The demand for sawmill hands is more than equal to the supply, while a number of new mills are going up.

Detinue arrangements have now been made for the appearance here of Chautauqua to give four evening sessions—on Thursday and Saturday of next weelc and on Monday (Easter) and Tuesday of the following week. Press reports of Chautauqua in the southern towns have been most complimentary, and apparently this year’s programme is the finest, the association lias ever presented.

At the conclusion of the horse events at the To Kawa sports on Thursday several riders indulged in schooling their horses over the jumps, with the result that one rider. Mr Matthews, had a nasty fall. While jumping the post-aml-rail fence his mount hit hard, and, coming down heavily, rolled on the rider. Mr Matthews was stunned for several minutes, but fortunately no bones were broken or other serious injury received. fn my capacity of school master in

! a hack-blocks seif lenient (writes a | correspondent) I am often made the j arbiter in petty disputes, caused for i the most part by quarrelling amongst the children. I usually try to bring I about an amicable arrangement, hut I cannot always quell the tempers of the aggrieved mothers. One parent the other morning, when I tried to show the reasonableness of another, re- | plied. " But what is she? I have lived | all my days in the settlement, hut she | is only an ant eloper.” I The nose-prints of cattle lately j taken by exports are. says Popular | Science, claimed to h>* quite as characteristic of Lulls, cows, and calves ; a s finger-prints are of the human inj dividual. The moisture is wiped from j the animal's nose, which is then mated j with ink. and the impression is taken j by rolling a piece of paper over the | inked surface. The prints have been | shown to he a certain imams of ideni tification. as the nose patterns are never the same in two animals, while they remain unchanged except to grow larger with age. A student of weather peculiarities informs us that he lias noted for years now that when there is a fine or a dirty summer in the northern hemisphere the southern portion will in its turn have the same. So in that case we are to have an exceptionally dirty winter, as the cables show that in Great Britain- there is being experienced extremely It ad weather. If the observation turns out to be correct the slump in turnip crops will he a big drawback, though to some extent the dry fodder ( of which there is an unusual supply this year) will prove a valuable help to the cattle. Let. us all hope that the promised bad time takes a twist before it gets this i way—goes downward or upward, but ! anywhere but here! AlcFarlanes all the world over will be interested in the publication ot a j history of the clan by Mr J. McFarlane, who spent, twenty years in collecting material for the work. A Celtic clan, the McFarlanes formerly had their country on the western shore of Loch Lomond, but to-day they have neither lands nor chief. The McFarlanes received a setback through their twenty years’ feud early in the seventeenth century with the Colquhouns of Luss. They slew Colquhoun and many of his clansmen in 1608, and were outlawed in consequence, with the result that many settled in Aberdeenshire under another name. The last chief is supposed to have gone to America at the end oi: the eighteenth century. That the Government railways are run under extreme red-tape methods is a fairly general opinion among travellers, but it should be realised that one of the shipping companies trading to New Zealend bids fair to oust, the Railway Department from its hitherto supreme pinnacle of fame. One of the Te Awamutu passengers for Australia this week, having ar- J ranged before leaving here for the i usual financial facilities, including let- j ters of credit, presented a cheque to ; the shipping company’s Auckland representative in payment of the pass- I age, but the cheque was refused. Pro- j testations to the effect that everything j was in order, and witnesses’ testi- j mony to the standing of the Te Awamutuan, were unavailing, and he had to make a hurried dash up Queen ; Street to a friend, who willingly : cashed the cheque. As the boat sailed ! the passenger was heard to remark i that he would ‘‘get even” by not j missing a meal on the trip across to j Sydney! But our experience of steamer j travelling is that it is unwise to make : resolutions such as the one noted —so « many things may happen to cause the i mention of food to he repulsive! '

Readers * and advertisers should note that the Waipa Post will not be issued on Saturday next.

Notice to correspondent:—“Observer.”—Publication refused. Your letter is libellous.

It. is stated that another attempt is being made to-clay to lower the motor record of 15 hours 25 minutes from Wellington to Auckland.

Shoppers should' note that on Wednesday next Te Awamutu shops will he open for business all day. but.that on the Wednesday following Easter the usual half-holiday will he observed.

At a meeting of the executive committee of the Te Awamutu Amateur Athletic Club last night the secretary reported that after paying all accounts the club will be able to carry forward a small credit balance. At the Methodist Church to-morrow morning the local boy scouts will hold a church parade. The service in the evening will be musical, at which there will be rendered solo, duet, and male quartette, in addition to anthems by the choir. A number of Te Awamutu school pupils visited Hamilton yesterday to take part in the Schools’ Association’s annual sports gathering. The full list oi! 'winners of events is not to hand, but we understand several of the Te Awamutu competitors succeeded in gaining minor honours.

Under an amendment to the Rating Act. 1908. local authorities are empowered to allow, by resolution, every ratepayer a rebate not exceeding five per cent of so much of the amount of rates payable, by him as is paid before the expiration of 30 days after the due date thereof.

The chairman of the Associated Battles advises that in future t lie size and colour of notes will he uniform. .Ml notes will be practically the same size as Lite Rank of New Zealand ten shilling ones or the Commercial Bank £1 notes. The colours will be: 10s, yellow; £l, violet; £5, blue; £lO. brown; £2O, green; £SO. pink; and £IOO, olive green.

In conversation with Mr T. O’Htvlioran this morning a Waipa Post representative was led to believe that lie would probably he a candidate for municipal honours at the forthcoming elections. Mr O’Hallorau feels, that an accession of new blood in municipal affairs is desirable. He has always shown a keen interest, in the advancement of Te Awamutu district.

A police census In the little town of Middleton, in County Cork, has shown that, there are 2500 dogs kept !;y a population of 3500 people. The main street, 200 yards long, has 400 dogs within its area, and in the ten side streets 2100 dogs have been counted. In some instances there are six or ten dogs to a small house.

A recent visit:ir to Palmerston I North says it evidently does not pay j to be a councillor there. He was told i that an ex-councillor was recently lined for picking a rose in one of the public gardens. The visitor, who :is a n enthusiast in beautifying work, j thinks that some of the vandals who ; frequent nur reserves would not be ! ovio'-piMiislH d if they received live : years, 1 At the Te Knit i Magistrate’s Court 1 on Thursday, before Mr E. W. Platts, j S.M.. a claim for damages was heard, i the parties being rival mail contract- • (irs. Carlyle Lees claiming £SO dam- ! ages from Alfred Edward Magon. i Lees alleged that Magon bad placed i sugar in the petrol tank of his (Lee's) ! car. the defence being a flat denial of ! the charge. Plaintiff was nonsuited ■ on his claim, plus costs. i ; The locally trained mare, Lady Hill. ! registered a surprise at. the Bay of ! Plenty Club’:, race meeting Avmi dale last \\\ dnesrh.-y by winning the | Maiden Huudic.ip, and incidentally re- ■ warding Iter supporters with a divi- | dead of a substantial nature. Apparoenlly only a few Te AwaI mutu sports profiled, for another local I horse, with, far hotter form to its credit, was also a contestant, and carI ried the bulk of the Te Awamutu i money. j In connection with the forthcoming j municipal elections it should he underj stood that, the general electoral roll for parliamentary elections is not to ■be confused with the corporation or municipal roll, which is known as the district electors’ list, and which closes at the town clerk’s office in a day or two. Districts electors comprise any person over the age of 21 years who has resided in New Zealand for one year and has been resident in the borough for three months prior to enrolment, or has been in occupation of a building in the borough as tenant at a. rental of not less than £lO per year. If a husband is on the roll as a ratepayer or owner of property his wife’s name should appear there also, and vice versa. It should also be noted that persons who have sold their property since the last municipal elections should see that they are on the roll at t'heir present address. At the Naseby Police Court recently Thomas A. McKeenan, teacher at the Wedderburn school, was charged with assaulting Owen Frederick Down, a pupil of the school. The lad, w,ho is thirteen years of age, stated in his evidence that he was given a sum to do, but found it toafdifficult. The teacher assisted him, but still he could not do it. Defendant then hit him with his .closed hand on the right- eye, and struck him several other times—each time on the right eye, with the result that his eye was swollen and the side of his nose was skinned. Four other pupils gave corroborative evidence. Defendant stated that he had shown the boy how to do the sum on •several occasions, but instead of doing it as he had been shown he had put down figures of his own. The lad was the best worker in the school, but was dull. Defendant .did not have a strap with him, so he hit the hoy over the face with tine back of his hand, i The magistrate said he could not dis- j miss the case as trivial, although it i was not an assault in the usual way. j The blow must have had •onsiderable force. He always thought hitting with • the hand on the head was against the i regulations. Accused would be fined £2 and one witness’ expenses'* (10s). | The other witness did not claim ex- j ponses. 1