LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1782, 13 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

An appropriation by sale of £4OO by the Te Awamatu and 'Cambridge Cooperative Terminating Building Society Avill he held in Te Awamutu on Thursday evening next.

Complaint was made at Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council that there are hodses and! cattle -straying on the roads in Orakau Riding, particularly at or near Parawera. It was pointed out that any ratepayer can impound stock straying on the roads.

During the discussion at Monday’s meeting o', the Waipa County Council, on the estimates for the current year, Cr. McGee (Orakau Riding) stated that if the native lands in ,his Riding were productive on the same basis as Euro-pean-owned lands, his available revenue would be increased by quite £IOOO.

Mr Thos. Grant, Waipa County clerk, received a hearty welcome back again at Monday’s meeting of the Council, he having resumed duty 1 after an absence of five or six weeks, necessitated owing to a serious operation affecting his eyesight. Mr Grant was congratulated on his quick and successful recovery.

The Waipa County Councillors at yesterday’s meeting enjoyed a very hearty laugh as a consequence of a deputationis-t (a well-knoAvn Paterangi settler) Avhen leaving the room, unconsciously opening a large cupboard d-oor in mistake 'for the door of the meeting room. The deputationist, Avho was quite dwarfed, by the large cupboard Avas very nearly being locked 1 in “for future reference'.'”

The Waipa County Council does not see eye to eye with the Audit Department on the matter of payment for the section of land, on Avhich the present county offices stand, and at yesterday’s meteting it Avas decided to (state the Council’s attitude more clearly to the Department, in the hope that its action in maink payment by instalments, charging interest against the general fivnd Avill be approved.

The ways of vendors of prize eggs are not always a s scrupulous as they might be. But the best story yet comes from a district near Oama.ru. A woman Avanted a dozen eggs from her neighbour, hut as they Avere not on (speaking terms the request Avas politely declined. The woman sent a male friend in pursuit of the eggs This time they Avere sur plied at a price, but Avhen the eggs reached the anxious buyer it was discovered that they had been boiled.

“I have been moving these resolutions at many meetings, but we have not prosecuted any of the offenders yet,” said Cr A. Livingstone at Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council, when it was discussing the action to be taken against an offender in the northern end of the county under the motor lorry heavy traffic regulations. The Council decided to institute Court proceedings at once.

Cr. R. G. Speake asked at Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council for permission to arrange with ithe Rotomanuka Drainage Board for a contribution towards the cost of bringing up a drain that would considerably improve the road. iMr Carley had asked him, as Riding member, for a. contribution from the funds. Settlers affected were also contributing to tire cost. The Council agreed, to Cr. Speake negotiating.

Travelling stock on county roads was the subject of very pointed remarks at the meeting of the Waipa County Council on Monday when Cr E. F. Peacocke asked for particulars as to the law of the country. He knew of a case where drovers turned. 400 head! of cattle down a side road one evening, and tied the dogs across the roadway to keep the cattle there all night. Those cattle did great damage to the blind road. He thought the drovers should be prosecuted, for the damage done. Further, he asked, assuming the law required stock to be driven at four miles an hour, did that entail that the cattle should be driven in one direction, or could they be driven some distance along a road and then turned back? By continuing this* method a road was badly damaged. The Council decided to look into the law on the point.

A special meeting of the Te Awamutu Borough Council will he held this evening.

The date chosen for the opening of the new public hall at Mangapiko is (Monday, 26th instant.

New South Wales defeated the All Blacks in the first Rugby test match at Sydney last Saturday, in the presence of 40,000 spectators, the score being 26 points to 20. Arrangements for continuing the effort to raise funds to purchase a piano for the local district high school are 'to be advanced a further stage at a meeting of ladies next Thursday afternoon. ,

One of the local sufferers from the prevailing influenza epidemic is Miss Loach, who has charge of the schools dental clinic in Te A'wamutu, and as a consequence all appointments for this week have had to he cancelled. It was. reported to Monday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council that during the past month a 25-foot by 16-foot shed! -had been erected on the newly-purchased 'sections at Te Awamutu for the purpose of housing the county lorries and material. Archbishop Averill is expected to visit Te Awamutu on 'Sunday next, to conduct a confirmation service at St. John’s Church. We understand that about sixty or seventy candidates will be presented for confirmation. If 'his health permits, the archbishop will -probably preach a't the evening service. /

Some names of children in -costume were inadvertently omitted, from 1 the report of the children’s fancy dress dance at Hair-ini last 'Friday evening, published in Saturday’s issue, and we make the following additionls: Ailsa Quinn, Irish peasant girl; Vera Collison, candlestick (a prize-winner); Val ColMson, wasp; and J. Spiers, footballer.

A prominent member of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society who resides in Te Awamutu informs us that about a dozen well developed young pheasants have recently been liberated in and aroiqmd the borough. He hopes that "these birds will not he- interfered with, adding that (they will soon find their Avay to less populated parts of the countryside, and thus will be available for sport next shooting season.

It will hardly be maintained that all, or even moist of the LorroAvings of local authorities hav-e been accompanied by adequate provision for sinking funds and renewals. When the Government brings down its proposals for the establishment of some supervision of local bodies’ -borrowings Parliament ought to set itself to discutes seriously the whole tendency and character of local bodies’ finance. —ManaAvatu Times.

Members of both Houses of the General Assembly will be lacking in their duty if they fail to impress upon the Government, and observe the rule themselves in their demands upon the State; that the most rigid economy is necessary if the country is to -remain in a sound and solvent condition. The 'Budget is likely to be brought dfown within a week or so, and its appearance will be eagerly awaited to see an Avhat directions the Government proposes to introduce the economies necessary for the relief of -the tax-paying public, and how it is proposed to meet the possible fall in prices, d;d,e to the decreased purchasing power of our best customers —the British public—arising out of -Britain’s industrial troubles and the loss they have occasioned. —ManaAvatu Evening Standard. After several weeks of investigation (says the Waikato Times) Constable D. Sutton, of Hamilton, managed to trace the culprit allegedly responsible for the disappearance of a number of oars from the garage of the NeKv Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company at Hamilton. One ils alleged to be a AO'uing man employed by-the company and the other a friend of his, whose custom it apparently has been to go joy-riding at night, chiefly to Morrinsville, where a couple of young ladies are said to nave been entertained Avith motor rides. The cars invariably were returned to Hamilton and abandoned in different parts of the tOAvn. The tAVo young men will appear before the 'Court in -due course, -to ans Aver sixteen charges of converting cars to their own use and a series of charges of theft of benzine.