LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 31, Issue 1765, 1 June 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The committee of the Te Awamutu District High School will meet this evening.

The vital statistics for Te Awamutu during May were 12 births, 4 marriages and no deaths.

The next sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Te Awamutu is set down for Wednesday of next week. The Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association has £SOO in hand out of the recent Poppy Day collection.

A first offender for drunkenness, apprehended last Saturday evening, was fined 10s at the local Court yesterday morning.

Te Awamutu and district were visited by “Jack Fros,t” at an early hour yesterday morning. He was not unexpected.

The electric light in Te Awamutu failed on Sunday evening at about 9.30 o’clock, and, was not restored for nearly half an hour. According to the census returns there were 124 empty houses in Hamilton on the day the census was taken. Rents in the March quarter were higher in Hamilton than anywhere else in New Zealand.

In the Davidson Cup butter-making contest the Oparau Co-operative Dairy Company was fifth with 93.5 points among fourteen competitors. In the class for butter made by a buttermnjksr or a first a sis i slant' lOparau scored 92 points. The regular meeting of the local Borouit Council’s works committee, held yesterday morning, had a change of venue, for the bright sunshine induced members to take their chairs outdoors, so that business could, be done in comfort. Farmers and others interested should note that the usual weekly stock sale this week at Te Awamutu takes place to-morrow, not Thursday. The alteration was necessary owing to Thursday being the King’s birthday, and therefore a public holiday. The Waipa Rugby Referees’ Association is functioning well at present, and in a desire that every member should be right up to date with his interpretation of the rules it has been decided to meet ait 11.30 each Saturday morning to discuss knotty problems. An increase of 3d per gallon in the prices of all brands of first-grad,e petrol sold through pumps became operative on Saturday, while the price of case oil was advanced by Is for eight gallons. There is an increase of Is a case on household kerosene, and power kerosene is 6d a case dearer. The new rates follow increases which have occurred in the United States during the past five weeks. When the Waipa County Council on Wednesday had under consideration the matter of grants from the Public Works Denartment. it was .mentioned that the County doe’s not receive as much money from the Highways Board for roads maintenance as it did from the Public Works Department under t’;e old arrangement. It was decided to place this view before the Minister for Public Works through the M.P. for this district.

In preparation for the big event tomorrow evening—the opening of the new Kakepuku Public Hall —a working bee of district settlers and, young folk assembled at the building last evening to prepare the floor for dancing, and attend to several other minor matters that collectively go to ensure the success of the coming function. Indications point to a worthy representation from Te Awamutu and all the surrounding districts. The hall piano has been re-tuned and is ready for the orchestra. It only remains for fine weather to ensure the success of the gathering.—’Correspondent.

The one outstanding fact is that the reason why the railways appear to have paid their way is that this feat has been made possible by appropriating nearly £360,000 of the taxpayers’ contributions to the Consolidated Fund —than which i't is impossible to find, an easier way of balancing accounts. It is, However, the duty of the taxpayers to make up deficiencies in Government revenue, and they have become accustomed to the process. Year by year the expenditure on the railways grows higher and higher, always with plausible reasons being advanced. —Taranaki Daily News. We have on previous occasions protested against Parliament persistently shirking the duties for which members receive their honoraria —the thoroughly pernicious practice which came into existence during the war period of empowering the Governor-in-Coun-cil —which is equivalent to saying the ■Government of the day—to make regulations having the same force as Acts of Parliament. This might have been necessary during the stress of the war period, but it should be religiously eschewed during peace. Parliamentarians should be called upon to perform their work; there should be no scamping. The laws granting power to make regulations are standing monuments to the disinclination of Parliamentarians to perform the work for which they are paid.—Timaru Post.

An extra post-graduate scholarship in arts has been awarded by the University Senate to an Auckland student, Mr R. P. Anschutz, M.A., who i s at present on the staff of the Te Awamutu District High School. The scholarships have an annual value of £2OO, and are tenable for two years at universities outside New Zealand. We understand Mr Anschutz intends to take advantage of the scholarship at Edinburgh and Paris, and if present plans mature he will be leaving the Dominion about August or September. We understand the custom has been to award two art scholarships annually, but on account of the exceptional merit of Mr Anschutz’s work the extra provision was made. Mr Anschutz has achieved special honours in philosophy. In 1922 : he gained the senior scholarship for this subject. For an essav. “The Pragmatist Theory of Truth,” he was awarded the prize in the competition held in 1923 by the Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy. Sydnty. In 1924 he qualified for the M.A. degree with first-class honours in philosophy.

Woods’ Great Peppermint. Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails

Tli'ere will be no issue of the Waipa Post on Thursday next (the King’s birthday). A quiet wedding of some local interest is to be celebrated in Te Awamutu to-morrow.

In- to-day's issue the Railway Department advertises timetable alterations in the Ohakune District, operating on and after 6th June.

The Waikato Winter Show is being opened to-day. There will be fair patronage from the Te Awamutu district, including some exhibitors. Two informations have been laid against theatre proprietors in Christchurch for continuing to sell eai'lydoor tickets at 7.30 p.m. There will be no junior grade football locally next Saturday, owing to the representative junior team travelling to Cambridge to play for the Boyce Cup.

Arrangements are reported to be well in hand for the official opening of the new Kakepuku public hall tomorrow evening. 'Mr D. S. Reid, M.P., is to perform the ceremony at 8 pm., and the grand march is timed for 5,30 o’clock.

Says our Otorohanga correspondent: Now that the new pound is completed the recently-appointed ranger (Mr C. Merrin) is making the fact of his being in office appreciated, and wanderinghorses, cows, etc., are being removed from both county and town roads irrespective of ownership. In the dairy produce class at the Waikato Winter Show, for box of butter suitable for export (competition restricted to members of the N.Z. Dairy Factory Managers’ Association) there were 35 entries, and the Te Awamutu Co-op. Dairy Co.’s exhibit gained fourth place, with 94 points. Mauriceville was first with 95J, Golden Bay second with 95, and Aria third with 941. Mr G. J. Arnold (manager) and hi s ~ staff are to be complimented on 'the fine position achieved in such Dominion-wide competition.

Most people in Te Awamutu, and in fact all residents of the province, must have felt that the rainfall dur r , ing the month just ended was excessive. It was, for Mr W. Jeffery, who has recorded the rainfall in Te Awamutu for a number of years, informs us that the figures for May were 11.14 inches. For comparative purposes it may be mentioned that in Auckland City the register showed 13.40 inches. Mr Jeffery has kindly supplied us with the figures for May in the past three years, vjz . 1b25, 7.'02in., 1924, 5.4 in„ and 1923, 2.07 in. I't will be seen that the precipitation has materially increased each succeeding May.

A sirange incident occurred on the Morrinsville-Kereone Road on Thursday afternoon (says the -Star). (Mr P. McNaughton was driving some heifers from Morrinsville when two of them walked into a pool of water at the foot of an electric wire transmission pole. Immediately they stepped into the water botn animals collapsed as the result of receiving an electric shock. One animal remained on the ground tor a few minutes before it was able •to rise again. The matter wa s reported to a member of the staff of the Power 'Board, who in turn received a shock when he went to investigate. The cause of the trouble was said to be from a faulty insulator,, the current travelling down the pole, which was wet by a recent -heavy showerf of rain, into the ground. Had the pole and the ground been -dry uo shock would have been felt.

The manager (iMr F. V. Stewart) of the Oparau Dairy Company’s factory has every reason to feel saiisfl&d.with the result of the entry from that factory in the Davidson iCup contest, at the Auckland Winter Show. Oparau butter not only graded well, but the exhibit wa s fifth on the list among a very large number of coi peting factories; and this success in open competition endorses the high public opinion which has been 'formed, of this season’s output. In addition to an enormous increase in local consumption of the company’s butter, the Oparau product is now being supplied to business concerns in different parts of Waikato, and has earned a high reputation for uniformly good quality. — l Kawhia Settler.-

•A, recent arrival from Scotland. Mr J. Blulg-e, nephew of Mr J. Budge, of Kio Kio, was in Te Awamutu on Saturday together with his wife and family. Mr Budge, who arrived in New Zealand by the Mahana on the previous Saturday, intends to reside in Av<land, he having been appointed New Zealand representative, for several large engineering and manufacturing firm s in Great Britain; and it is his hope to secure a closer trade relationship in connection with engineering services between the Dominion and England. By his closer touch with New Zealand.’importers and by his intimate knowledge of the British manufacturers’ ability to cater for and supply Dominion requirements, combining with a natural preference for trade within the Empire. Mr Budge's efforts should bring the desired result. 'His first impressions of New Zealand were decidedly favourable, although he confesses to but a scant knowledge yet of the land of his adoption.