LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1640, 12 May 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No vehicle weighing (loaded) in excess of four tons is to be allowed to travel over any of the Waipa county roads in future without a special permit.

Radio listeners-in are being warned that the Government is on the track of a good deal of missing revenue, owing to the laxity of amateurs in paying their license .fees.

Before deciding upon a Sheep-shear-ing Plant call at 12, Kingston Street, Auckland, and see Cooper's latest. All types for any-sized flock at lowest prices.—William Cooper & Nephews, Ltd. 3

The Waikato Hospital Board's levy upon the Waipa County Council for the period ended 31st March, 1925, was £2987 4s lOd, according to the figures tabled at Monday's meeting of the Council.

Cabinet has approved of the nomination of Sir Andrew Russell as the Dominion delegate to the conference of the British Empire Service League at Ottawa on July 20. Sir Andrew Russell is in England and will accept nomination. .

At the Auckland Supreme Court Judge Alpers sentenced Mark Webber for assault to eighteen months; Frank Potter, for carnal knowledge of a girl under fiftten years, to three years' hard labour; Robert Heaton Munro and Daniel Thomas- Flynn, for breaking and entering and theft, the former to five years' hard labour and the latter to three years' hard labour.

The Waipa County, Council's contribution from its receipts for maintenance of main highways, in the county for the twelve months ended 31st March last totalled £1573 119 s 7d. The contribution from the Main Highways Board was £1478 3s 7d.

After the conclusion of formal business at the Borough Council meeting last evening and the passing of a resolution of condolence with the widow and other relatives of the late Mr W. F. Massey, the Council adjourned until next Monday evening. There is a proposal afoot to induce several landholders in this district to breed pheasants for*sale to the 'Auckland Acclimatisation Society. This scheme is one of the subjects to come under the notice of a meeting here this week of all shooting and fishing enthusiasts.

Cr McCarroll advocated at last night's meeting of the Borough Council that the two upstairs rooms of the new fire station be finished off in wood instead of the bare plaster walls. The cost would only be about £ll. The improvement was authorised.

"I doubt if any small town in England the size of Cambridge possesses a club where the citizens meet on a perfect equality, no matter what their calling or opinions may be. The spirit of fellowship and equality is the -Dominion's greatest heritage and every endeavour should be made to see it maintained. —Rev. C. Mortimer-Jones at the Cambridge Orphans' Club annual meeting on Thursday evening.

" I took it as a compliment to me as riding member that wayfarers should mistake.a little-used side road for the main road between Hamilton and Te Awamutu," said Cr Storey at Monday's meeting of the Waipa County Council when stressing the need for a direction post near Mr Church's homestead at Te 'Rahu. Another councillor remarked that unfortunately there was no danger of such a mistake being made in most parts of his riding. A Wanganui industry the other day, says the Herald, was the scene of a gathering of directors to say a few words of encouragement to the staff. One director prefaced his address with the words, "Males and Females," and >the lady members of the staff felt pink. A co-director sought to retrieve the situation tactfully, but a faux pas left things very much as they were. His prelude was: "Ladies and gentlemen—if I may address you as such." That the Supreme Court has no jurisdiction to sit in appeal from the Gover-nor-General's decision was the reserved judgment of His Honour Mr Justice MacGregor entered in the Supreme Court at Wellington last Friday. The matter came before the Court by originating summons under the Declaratory Judgments Act, 1908, issued by the Marlborough Electric Power Board, plaintiffs, in a matter concerning the Australian Mutual Provident Society and His Majesty's Attorney General. The Lands and Survey Department's staff has lately completed the re-sur-veying of the Pirongia township to define the many sections that have for years been unremunerative in the matter of local body rates. It is expected that within a few months a public sale of the sections will be held, and the purchasers of the sections will be able to buy them at a very small monetary outlay. Of course there will be an obligation to pay rates and also to keep the land clear of noxious weeds and rabbits. I

Cr W. McCarthy, of Pirongia, advocated at Monday's meeting of the Waipa County Council the appointment of a second surfaceman' for Mangapiko riding. IHe contended that there was plenty of road maintenance work in the extensive riding to warrant the appointment of a second surfaceman. Some of his fellow members waxed facetious concerning Cr McCarthy and his expressed reasons for the appointment of a man, but they left the matter bt a decision to the chairman, the two members, and the engineer.

" The older members of the Waikato Hospital Board are quite of the opinion that the arrangements respecting the admittance of patients should not be altered. Different methods are followed at some other places, such as Pahnerston North, where a commission has been inquiring into certain happenings consequent upon the hospital staff's refusal to admit ■a well-to-do patient on the assumption that that person should have entered a private hospital. The Waikato Board considered their hospital should be available for all sufferers."—Cr Alexander at Monday's meeting of the Waipa County Council when discussing hospital affairs.

Cr Alexander stated at the Waipa County Council. meeting on Monday that the position was becoming so acute in Kakepuku riding in regard t 0 the maintenance of the Main South Road that if redress was not given the county would have to assume control and liability as a whole county, as the riding would be bankrupt if the present method were persisted in. The Government institutions were competing against private individuals with farm produ-3 and thus tiieir cost of administration was shown in a much more favourable light than would be the case if they had to bear their fair share of local rates to maintain the main road.

Even the more magnificent scientific discoveries, especially those of recent years, have not penetrated into our general education, and are entirely disregarded or only barely regarded in most discussions on social problems. iHowever, there are many signs that the problem of the rehumanising of knowledge is being seriously, tackled to-day. For one thing, the policy of secondary education for all now being attempted in many countries —and achieved in our own Dominion —makes the issue an immediate one. This will in time tend to bridge the gulf now existing between the man in the street and the man of science. The young will in the course of their education become acquainted with the best that is now known or guessed about mankind and the world. The growth of university extensions, W.E.A. classes, and other forms of adult education has had a marked effect in recent years upon the readableness of many of the common text hooks.—Dur-Hjn Slag. —^■

A water trough is to be provided in the township of Pirongia, according to a decision at Monday's meeting of the Waipa 'County Council. It was stated at the Waipa County Council's meeting on Monday that another portion of the Kakepuku riding is considering the formation of a rabbit board district.

The Kawhia Settler comments: When our rivers are fully stocked with trout we may expect some enthusiastic anglers to visit Kawhia witJb. a net and a supply of gelignite. There are cases on record where such amateur "dynamitards" have been blown "kite high" through premature explosions of "jelly," losing eyes, arms, legs, etc. — or just enough of their anatomy to prevent "them repeating the experiment.

Cr A. H. Storey, who represents the Rangiaohia riding, stated at the Waipa County Council meeting on Monday that he would like a finger post erected at the corner of the Te Rahu Road near Mr Church's. A ratepayer at the end of the road had brought the subject prominently under his notice,.explaining that he had been called out of bed at 1 a.m. recently to direct wayfarers. The locality was confusing, and a finger-post would be inexpensive. The necessary authority was given to the engineer.

There is an encouraging increase of interest in architecture, for which architects themselves are largely responsible. Some of the best men in the profession see that if the public is to appreciate good architecture, the experts must go to the people and instruct them. It is also a sign of the times that the Auckland Society of Arts has protested against the proposal to establish a nitrate factory at Milford Sound. This is the kind of vandalism for which such societies should be on the watch. If there were a really influential society in every centre it might, in conjunction with the Institute of Architects, prevent much injury to beauty spots and many blunders in town planning. Christchurch Press.

Young men and women at a certain stage are apt, it is baid, to fall in love with love —a very artificial sentiment, but none the less a sentiment. Some of the New Zealand advocates of the class-war seem to us to approach their subject very much in the same vein—finding no great dragons of poverty, exploitation and injustice upon which to use their foreign-forged weapons, they conduct a mimic battle all the same and defeat visionary dragons with awful slaughter. Those who can remember the New Zealand of 40 years ago, and who can compare it with the New Zealand of to-day are more impressed with the wonderful improvement in the material welfare of working people than with the necessity for wrecking civilisation in order to remedy ills that exist mostly, in the imagination of those who denounce them. —Lyttelton Times. The introduction of ferrets, stoats, and weasels to make war on the rabbit has, perhaps, been a good move (says the Wairarapa News). But what is to happen to the importations when rabbits in their immediate vicinity become scarce? A shooting party recently was spending a few days in Hawke's Bay. On the first day a number of ducks fell to the guns, and as usual a few wounded ones managed to swim away. The next day, to the amazement of the shooters, they saw a dead duck floating on the lagoon with a ferret on its back voraciously feeding a dessert of lead completed the ferret's lunch. The incident naturally led to a general discussion on ferrets and their habits, and one of the party vouched for the fact that h 3 had actually seen a ferret catch and eat an eef. Others shooters from both the North and South Islands stated that the depredations of ferrets, stoats, and weasels on native bird life is causing much anxiety. An Oparau correspondent unburdens himself thusly to our Kawhia contemporary: "It is a great mistake to raise county rates too high, as intending settlers inquire as to the rates and taxes, which thus retard settlement and the general prosperity. But these functions thrive on borrowed money. To encourage settlement of all unproductive areas should be the aim of our public functions, but we are at present under a Government utterly ignorant of land values and with no useful land policy worthy of notice. "Take it or leave it," is the feeling inspired by the Government to settlers, even although the land is valued at an impossible price. No attempt has ever yet been made by any Government here to get good farmers who knew true values on to the land. Such are fast going to where land is offered to them at payable prices, and lands such as the ,South American States will attract our successful farmers and stock breeders. Our exports are only small to what is possible under an attractive land policy. True, the steam that blows "the whistle does not work the engine. But someone must let us see how to increase our wealth by making grass grow well all over this province." It is not generally realised what an uphill task the Church Missionary Society had in the early days in converting the Maoris to Christianity. In a little book, "Missionaries and Annexation in the,' Pacific" by K. L. P. Martin', which the Oxford University Press recently issued, an extract is quoted from a letter written in 1837 by Mr Dandeson Coates to Lord Glenelg concerning the Church Missionary Society. It runs as follows: "The society has now been at work in New Zealand for twenty-three years; their annual expenditure for the New Zealand Mission, if last year's expenditure be a fair average, amounts to about £13,000. Their establishment consists of six clergymen, twentyeight laymen, of whom twl&nty-one are catechists, or persons who engage in such religious care and instruction as consists with their character as laymen, and yet the number of their native communicants or converts to Christianity is no more than 151. The wonder, your lordship will readily perceive, is not that they have done so little, but allowing for the counteracting influence of convict emigration and lawless colonisation that they have done so much." However, if the actual communicants only numbered 150, it has to be rememoe**ed that the society maintained in 1837 fifty schools in which it.had 5000

Rales paid to the Waipa County Council for the year ended 3lst March, 1925,, totalled £28,959 14s 7d. The ten per Cent penalty imposed for neglect to pay the rates by the due date brought in £258 Is Bd.

The Waipa County Council finished the year to 31st March, 1925, with a credit balance of £9464 1.6 s lid. A year ago the credit balance was £15,202 16s 4d. The total actual receipts for the year were £50.177 7s 6d. At last night's meeting of the Borough Council the tender of Mr Les. Armstrong, at £46, was accepted for sewerage at the new fire station. Two other tenders, £47 10s and £53, were received.

The scalding or pasteurisation of milk as a means of making milk safe for human consumption where there was a doubt as it its purity was advised by Dr R. Brewster in an address on tuberculosis at New Plymouth (remarks the Taranaki News). Pasteurisation of milk was a simple process which had been universally accepted as the one certain method of securing a safe milk supply. It did not affect the digestibility of the milk, nor destroy the vitamines to any great extent. Any loss of vitamines could soon be made up by the addition of lemon juice: The process was to heat the milk to a temperature of 140 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty to forty minutes and then allow it to cool. The many possible ways in which milk might become dirty and infected, especially with germs of tuberculosis, wjre emphasised by Dr Brewster, who added that pasteurisation must not be taken as a substitute for cleanliness. Milk should be produced under the best conditions and then pasteurised.