LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1578, 25 November 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A general clean-up, involving the cutting of grass on the streets, before the Christmas season,, ;was decided upon at last night’s meeting of the local Borough Council. Messrs J. W. McCarroll, A. S. Wallace, J. Hutchison and S. McMillan are representing the Te Awamutu Bowling Club at the Thames tournament this week.

The Waipa county portion of the Pirongia Road is becoming almost impassable. It has rapidly become worse of late weeks. —A borough councillor at last night’s meeting. The Arapuni post and telegraph office was removed last week from the Public Works building in the Arapuni permanent village to premises adjoining the canteen store in Armstrong Whitworth’s No. 1 village (against the permanent village).

The big engineering works involved in the Arapuni scheme ere now started in that the excavation for the giant dam is now in hand on’ either side of the Waikato river, as is also the excavation for the powerhouse and for the river-diversion tunnel, in the case of the tunnel work being in progress at the outfall end. Small gangs of men are at present employed on these excavations, preparatory to the use of ■drilling machines, which have now arrived and are being installed.

A Press, Association message from Christchurch to-day states that a large and representative public meeting carried a resolution expressing support of the Dunedin Exhibition enterprise.

The special services in connection with the opening of 'the new Presbyterian Church at Kihikihi, on Sunday and again last evening, were very successful in every respect. Details of the proceedings are unavoidably held over until next issue. The Kawhia Settler understands that there is some prospect of a more vigorous exploitation ,of the fishing industry in Kawhia within the near future. Motor lorry connection between the harbour and 'Otorohanga is to be the basis of operations.

The Auckland Board of Education has recommended the appointment of Mr Andrew Sadler, to succeed Mr I. F. McDonald as first assistant master at the Te Awamutu District. High School. Mr Sawyer’s teaching experience was gained in the Nelson district. The tender of Mr J. 'Horan, at £4 15s per annum, was accepted at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council for the town endowment area, section 18, Tawhiao Street, for a term of five years. No tender was accepted for the lease of the drainage reserve outer area section of four acres.

At the instance of the Mayor, the Borough Council decided to send a message of good wishes to the departing Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, on the occasion of his leaving New Zealand after a highly successful term of office, during which ihe and his family have endeared themselves to the whole populace of the Dominion.

The Te Awamutu Municipal Band delighted a goodly number of the general public in Victoria Park on Sunday afternoon, by rendering a splendid programme of musical selections. A Bandsman remarked yesterday that it is evident the public are appreciative of 'the Band’s efforts, judging by the voluntary contributions, which are in direct contrast to the sums obtained a few months ago. A correspondent last week recorded that the other day a bushman visited a restaurant in one .of the progressive King Country towns for the purpose of having a meal, and after perusing the menu ordered poached eggs. The waitress immediately asked if he would like them on toast. “Oh, all right,” said the bushman, “toast will do if you haven’t got a plate!” W- heard the same yarn over twenty years ago. . The.question of State advances to setlers came up at the meeting of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bad Lands question, which was held in Ohura on Wednesday. Mr W. S. Currie stated that the State Advances always cramped a settler instead of helping him along. The Department had the reputation of never having allowed the maximum asked for. A farmer estimated his requirements at £IOOO, and applied for that amount. He received £SOO. What good was that to him? He was in nearly the same position as when he started.

The annual sale of work in connection with St. John’s Church, is to take place to-morrow, Wednesday, in the Parish Hall, and the. ladies chiefly responsible for the enterprise have prepared a most imposing array of saleable goods, and there is reason to expect good patronage from the general public. There will be plain work, cakes, sweets, handkerchief and toy stalls, while refreshments will be dispensed. . To provide amusement and entertainment several competitions, sideshows, etc., will be conducted and some concert items will be given. The sale of work will be open from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. An historic and memorable ceremony is to be conducted at St. John’s Anglican Church next Sunday evening, when four flags will be draped beside the two memorial honours boards at present displayed in the Church to the memory of soldiers who fell in the Maori War of the sixties and in the Great War of 1914-18. Two of the flags will be Union. Jacks, another the New Zealand flag, and the fourth is a flag with blue background and white circle enclosing the words “Rewi and his people,” flanked by two fern fronds. It is hoped that a Maori War veteran will he present to receive the old flags on behalf of the Church when they are dedicated. The vicar, Rev. G. T. Robson, will officiate at the ceremony.

The survey plans for the aerial ropeway from Arapuni to the Muku quarry have been completed and sent forward lor the designing and manufacture < f Jin ropeway. At the quarry the new site for which has been approved, there is to he a village to accommodate 60 workmen to be known as “No. 3” village. The material for the quarry village and plant is to be taken across the low-1 eve! bridge at Arapuni and five miles beyond by road to Mangere landing, where a wharf is to be built and where the launch Zita will be available, having been put into the water last week. A barge is o be built for carrying the material, the launch towing it for 'he ten miles by river between Mangere landing and tie quarry.—Press, Putaruru.

It is not always the stock breeder of long standing and experience who produces our greatest show winners. This was proved (says the Times) at the hig Waikato stock exhibition on Thursday, when Mr H. A. Young, S.M., who practised farming and stock breeding as a diversion from magisterial worries, secured the first prize in the Shorthorn heifer class, with a two-year-old animal which he bred himself, and which the judge said he would have awarded the female championship had the heifer not been so young. Here, indeed, was a case of the tyro beating the giants of experience at their own game. Hamilton’s magistrate, by the way, takes his “on the land” hobby somewhat seriously. He not only regards it as a means of filling in the blanks of time when not dispensing justice, but displays an actual interest in his miniature farm, where he carries out on a small scale all the operations of a large general farm, from the saving of the various fodder crops to the milking of cows. His Worship’s success at Thursday’s show, among such big Shorthorn men as the Fishers and Ransteads, should be a gratifying reward for his industry.

A Press Association message from Dunedin this morning states, that the small steamer Flora has been re-float-ed undamaged.

The liner Athenic, which 'arrived in New Zealand from London yesterday, brought 389 assisted immigrants to the Dominion.

We learn that Messrs W. Cavanagh and Sons, of Puahue, are the new contractors for the mail service between Te Awamutu and Puahue, via Hairini.

To aid the fund being raised to erect a supper-room at the Pukeatua Public Hall, a dance is to be held to-mor-row evening at Mr F. F. 'Hlockly’s barn, Parawera. Judging by reports to hand, the function will be very well attended.

It is stated locally that the New Zealand Racing Conference has recommended the Waipa Racing Club and the Waikato Hunt Club to amalgamate, and thus ensure the holding of two days' racing at Te Awamutu. Neither Club has yet, seemingly, considered the recommendation, hut early meetings and conferences will be held to go into the pres and cons, with a view to a satisfactory basis of amalgamation being arrived at. If the scheme eventuates presumably the Waipa Club will hold a one-day meeting as usual in mid-December and another on Labour Day; at which latter meeting special provision would be made for hunting and steeplechasi events so popular nowadays with the racing public. Such an undertaking would entail the provision of a steeplechase course, but the situation of the local racecourse grounds is held to lend itself admirably to this purpose. The progress of negotiations will be watched with much interest. The Waikato Hunt for many years held its annual gathering at Cambridge, but with the advent of a totalisator permit a change of venue was- made to Hamilton, where a series of highly successful gatherings has been held.