LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1607, 14 February 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Three teams of local bowlers are competing at Hamilton this afternoon in the Waikato Pennant Competition.

“There is always trouble over accounts that run on for years, and the people who let them run on are just as much to blame as the tradesmen who allow them to,” stated the Magistrate in the Exetahuna S.M. Court on Tuesday. “I have been a source of income to them for twenty-seven years,” said a defendant in the Ashburton Magistrate's Court when referring to a firm of local auctioneers. “I reckon I’ve kept them going. They missed me when I left them.” The local postmaster (Mr F. W. Moore) advises that the results of the “All Black” football matches to be played at Vancouver are expected to reach here shortly after mid-day on the 15th and 22nd instants. Immediately on receipt of same they will be posted up at the post office and this office.

During the course of his address at Cambridge last Wednesday evening on inland waterways of the province, Mr George Parr, in illustrating his advocacy of water transport, said that £1 saved in transport meant another £1 for goods; every £1 spent on freight was £1 lost and £1 saved was £1 to be further utilised.

In the case of Whakaingo King (Mr Downes) v. Tame Matene (Mr Oliphant) at the Magistrate’s Court locally on Thursday, a claim for possession of a horse, Mr Downes announced that an undertaking had been given to deliver up possession of the horse next day, and the case was struck out.

A resident of Aramoho is the possessor of a hen, which, he claims, has established a record so far as chick raising is concerned. The bird, which is of the White Rock strain, brought out sittings of eggs in September and November, much to the satisfaction of its owner. However, imagine the surprise of the latter when he returned from his Christmas holidays and discovered that the hen had deserted its feathered friends, and was sitting cn twelve eggs that it had laid in a neighbour’s backyard. He did not disturb her and the result was that recently his flock of birds was augmentr.'i to the extent of eleven—making th.e third batch of chickens to be raised by the hen in the course of five months.

The next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu is set down for March 12th.

Twenty thousand small poppies and SSOO large ones have been ordered by the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association for sale on Poppy Day, April 24th. in Auckland. Word was received in Te Awamutu this morning by a keen cricket enthusiast that the Englishmen have lost one wicket for 208 runs, in the fourth Test match at Melbourne.

A party of Te Awamutu Municipal Band members journeyed out to Tokanui on Thursday afternoon to assist with musical contributions at the annual staff picnic of that institution.

A Councillor moved at the Manaia, Town Board meeting “that the town ■clerk write to the occupiers of graves in the cemetery and endeavour to ascertain their present address!” He subsequently amended the motion slightly (says the Witness). The excavation work above the powerhouse site at Arapuni has revealed a cave high up in the cliff and below the new road, and in 'this cave ■was found what is believed to be a moa bone. A little distance along were found some human bones presumably of natives of many generations ago.

A Maori boy found a beautiful stone mere on the sandhills at Ohiwa recently (says an exchange). The weapon is 12 inches long by 3£ inchts wide, made of black stone without a flaw. * Some Maoris are of the opinion it came from Hawaiki, the stone it was made from being unknown to them.

At a meeting of the local Chamber of Commerce on Thursday evening a very interesting address on roading problems, present and future, was delivered by Mr J. W. Civil, engineer to the Waipa County Council. His remarks were listened to with keen attention and at the close a hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Civil by acclamation.

Rumours of a strike at the hydroelectric construction works at. Arapuni were current in Te Awamutu on Thursday, but inquiry shows that there is no truth in the rumour. What probably gave colour to the statement was that a few days ago the men engaged on the excavation for the powerhouse ceased work for a day as a mark of respect to a companion who had been kil.ed by a fall of rock.

As illustrating the saving in freight charges to. be effected by the adoption of water transport, a business man stated during the discussion on inland waterways at Cambridge 1-st Wednesday night, that he had received a substantial consignment of goods from Christchurch via Port Waikato, ■landed at Cambridge for the particularly low charge of 13s. This represented one-third less freight charge than by boat to Auckland and rail to Cambridge.

It was the day of the school concert, and the audience consisted mainly of mothers, or envious, according to' the parts that their children were playing. One small boy came on to the platform.. Striking a bold attitude, he began: “Friends. Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” Whereupon one' of the mothers turned to her companion. “There that’s the Joneses’ boy,” she said tartly. “He wouldn’t be his mother’s son if he weren’t trying, to borrow something.”

Mr F. E. Loomb, of Te Awamutu, the well-known owner-trainer, must be having a profitable holiday in the Poverty Bay district, for he took three horses with him ,and four wins have already been secured. Desert Glow has won three fair handicaps, while Royal Bonus won a five furlong scurry. The third member of the team, Smoke, has an opportunity to score 'to-day. Mr Loomb purposes motoring overland to-morrow where he has two horses engaged to-day and cn Monday. Desert Glow and Co. will return by boat next week from Gisborne.

Whether the police should produce evidence in its possession as to the credibility, trustworthiness and general character of a witness was a point raised in the local S.M. Court on Thursday morning. The police (Constable Doyle) objected, and the Magistrate concurred, saying that he did not think the request could be maintained. However, as a result of previous Court proceedings, certain facts bearing on the point were obtained. That wai sufficient. Constable Doyle said that he was the probation officer for the district, and the witness was under his charge. He had made confidential reports to a Supreme Court judge, but these were not for general information. Cabled messages received in Wellington from Vancouver yesterday contain bad news regarding the All Blacks. It appears the visitors had bad luck at their first practice. Porter, the captain, collided with another player while dribbling and several stitches had to be inserted in a severe cut over the eye. A few minutes later Jock Richardson, vice-captain, fell over backwards in a tackle. His leg was trapped and badly broken, the snap being heard all over the field. Richardson was rushed to hospital for an X-ray examination. The day previous there was a big attendance of prominent citizens and sportsmen, who gave a fine reception to the All Blacks at a joint luncheon tendered by the Canadian Club and the Board of Trade.

The Waikato is at present probably the greenest of any part of the Dominion. That is the opinion of a Cambridge resident now on a visit to 'the South Island. Travelling through on the Main Trunk line one notices an abundance of feed all the way, but it is less luxuriant the nearer one approaches Wellington, and some parts of the Manawatu and Rangitikei' districts are getting brown and bare. North Canterbury is particularly green for this period of the year, while on Banks’ Peninsula there is a marvellous growth of feed right up to the hilltops. A Te Awamutu resident who has just returned from a tour of Hawke’s Bay from Woodville to Napier reports that that province looks remarkably good just now. There is a bright tinge to the grass, and dairymen and pastoralists should have no reason to fear the coming of the winter season.