LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The golf teams expected from Otoro. hanga are unable to come) to Te Awamutu on Saturday. All local club players are therefore asked to play the second round of the eclectic handicap match, choosing their own partners. “Some farmers seem to think that a ewe at lambing time can get a lot of shelter from a wire fence,” remarked Mr J. G. Cook, departmental wool instructor at the Farm School at Palmerston North, when emphasising the importance of shelter on farms. “ Farmers are the hardest men in the world to join together. When you touch their pockets is about the only ■time that you can get any response out of them.” —Mr A. S. Colman, of Marton,' at Hastings the other evening. If one wishes to compare the relative costs of grazing on different farms the various results must be placed on a comparable basis, and that in apportioning the costs of pasturage amongst .he various classes of stock we may regard one calf as being equivalent to two sheep, heifer or store beast being equivalent to four or five sheep one cow or fattening bullock as equivalent to six sheep, and one horse as equivalent to six sheep. A shocking accident occurred at Tie Mapara, 12 miles from Te Kuiti, on Tuesday. A young man, John Murray, was leaning over a log-hauler to straighten the wire rope when the machine was put in motion. Murray was caught between the rope and the cylinders of the hauler. The lower part of his body and legs were badly mangled, one leg being fractured. The sufferer was brought to the Te Kuiti Hospital, where' he lies in a critical condition. Murray, who was married only six weeks ago. is the son of a well-known settler of the district. The dispersal sale of Air J. Walker’s fine herd of grade milking shorthorns at Orakau yesterday attracted a large atendance of prospective buyers, including some from Cambridge and Kaipaki. while Te Awamutu neighbourhood was well represented. The eighty cows and heiferls constituting the herd were in good conditon, and as the bntterfat figures were attractve there was soon keen competition, even though milking shorthorns are not in such keen demand among the general run of dairymen as are Jerseys. The whole offering was disposed of at an average of £lO 4s 6d, and the top price was £l7.

“I’ve had more drink in Te Kuiti than I’ve had for a long time,” declared a young man at the Te Kuiti Court on Tudsday when pleading guilty to the theft of £l4 from E. H. Buckeridge, a guest at the Grand Hotel, at which accused' had been employed as porter.

A successful Band of Hope meeting was held in the Pirongia (Methodist Hall last Friday, the Rev. C. M. Roberts presiding. Interesting items were rendered by the following:—Grade McEwen, Ethel Johnson, Gwen Buchanan, Girlie Bell, Winnie Jones,, Mrs Yeates and Mrs Pearson, Robert Buchanan, Gipsey McEwen and Mr Brown.

“He said he wouldn’t mind a trip to Mount Eden at all; the food was better there than be got at home,” said the County Ranger, in giving evidence in a dog license case at the Te Kuiti Court on Tuesday. “Oh, well, we don’t want to hear that,” put in Mr Orr Walker, S.M. “I dare say a lot of people get better treated at Mount lEdeu than they do at home.” IMr Frank Petchell, who is wellknown in Te Awamutu, met with an accident last Tuesday morning at Arapupi. He was working in one of the. shafts below the river level at the hydro-electric construction works, when a piece of wood fell, striking him on the head, and inflicting a lacerated, scalp wound. Several stitches had to be inserted, and Mr iPetchell was removed! to his home in Te Awamutu, where: he is progressing favourably. Economy is a first need of the time, and what is most to be feared is that the great scheme for a new central agricultural college in the North Island will remain a scheme in the clouds, while improvements which Lincoln badly needs will be also delayed in the expectation of their being otherwise supplied.—“ Evening 'Star.” Among the names of successful candidates in the practical examination of the Trinity College of Music, London, recently conducted in Auckland, by Mr Ronald Chamberlain, 8.A., Mus. Bac., are those of two daughters of Mr Chas. Parker, of Hairini, Miss Thelma Parker gained her senior and diploma for violin and Miss Mavis Parker her senior and diploma for piano. Both are pupils of St. Mary’s Convent, Auckland. Editors, and even Dame Nature, sometimes make mistakels. The recent spell of mi'id weather with plenty of moisture, resulted in many welcome signs of rising .sap in trees, while the bravest spring flower s are blotssoming. Last night four degrees of frost were registered under cover. Jack Frost proved too much for the weather prophets, for this morning the whole countryside bore, a mantle of white. To-day the warm- sun is endeavouring to uindo the damage. “I am Satisfied that the best course is to send you to a Borstal Institute!,” said his Honor, Mr Justice Stringer, at the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday to Pearl May Beihler, a young woman who had pleaded, guilty to three charges of forgery and one charge of false pretences at Hamilton and Te Awamutu. His Honor added that he had conferred with the probation officer and Adjutant Gordon, but the reports received had not been satisfactory. Prisoner was ordered to be detained at the Borstal Institute for reformative purposes for a period 1 not exceeding two years. “One hears a lot about being able to identify an inmate of a mental hospital by that insane look in the patient’s eye,” said Dr. Gfay, Inspector General of Mental Hospitals, in addressing Auckland Rotarians recently. “But,” he added, “it is all nonsense.” He himself had in an ordinary inspection approached a person and entered into conversation with him on the assumption that he was a patient. Presently he was r&sciied from the misunderstanding by an epileptic patient, who stepped forward, nudged him knowingly, and whispered, “He’s not one of us, sir. He’S an attendant.”

Kihikihi is shortly to 'lose another of its prominent .residents. Mr D. A. McPheffson, who has been headmaster at Kihikihi State school for the past seven years, has received notice of his appointment to the headmastership of the Durie 'Hill school, Wanganui. Mr McPherson is to take up his new appointment after the forthcoming holi;days, which evenltuatei next month. That he will be much, missed in Ki'hikihi and neighbourhood i!s evident, for, apart from his scholastic ditties, Mr McPherson has been a tower of strength in Anglican church affairs for several years, is a vice-president of the Tei Awamutu Orphans’ Club, and associated in other ways with the public and, social life of the community.

The board of governors of the T. G. McCarthy Trust at the annual meeting in Wellington this week adopted the recommendation of the a'dvisory committee that £12,040 be distributed. This, explained the Public Trustee, was the greatest amount recommended for distribution in any year since the inception of (the trust thirteen years ago. The trust has now distribujted a total of £95,427. The following table shoAVs the sum allocated each year to date: 1913, £2530; 1914, 7325; 1915, £7070; 1916, £6SBO; 1917, 5790; 1918, 5112; 1919. £6545; 1920, 6785; 1921. £6S6O; 1922 £9015; 1923, £9350; 1924, £10,125; 1925, £12.040.

Mr G. T. Parvin, of PukekOlie, secretary of the White New Zealand League, told a meeting at Wellington a few' days ago that in an inte.\ view he had had Avith the Minister of Custom/s, he Avas told that the Government had practically excluded Chinese from coming into the country for the next 12 months at least. Hindus Avere regarded by the league as great a danger to the country from an economic standpoint as the Chinese'. It Avas said that the Hindu Avas a British subject. The Hindus Avho Avere in NeAV Zealand had never seen the fight. The majority of the men came to the. Dominion from Fiji, AVhence they had gone from India, as indentured labourers. Their next step Avas to become merchants, fruiterers, or barrowmen. In another five years, Fiji Avould be 'entirely Indian as matters stood at present. The Government, he thought, lia'di the right to exclude these people from New Zealand. If statistical records Avers turned up it Avould be found that Asiatics Avere coming into the country at the rate of two per AvOek. “I maintain that this is not as it should be.”

‘‘The more I see of New Zealand children,” said Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, when addressing the annual meeting of the Wairarapa Girl Guides’ Association, ‘‘the more I think they are the luckiest children alive. They are treated to all sorts of good things.” “ That is the sort of man we like ■to see,” remarked a councillor . -at a recent meeting of the Napier. City Council, when a Port shopkeeper made an offer to pay half cost of laying the slabs on the footpath and the whole cost of laying ;the cover over the water channel, if the Council would do this work in front of his shop.This weekls issue of the N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review can be highly recommended for its general merit and attractiveness. Football devotees will keenly scan the snapshots at the All Blacks v. N.S.'W. Test, the'departure of the Maori team and numerous other individual portraits' and groups in connection with this .popular game. An outstanding feature is a splendid group of veteran athletes in Auckland which will recall early memories.- ,

iMr R. P. Connell, M.A., resigned, his position as associate-editor and .manager of the Dairy farmer on Monday last. The resignation was accepted, and Mr Goodfellow moved and.Mr Dynes Fulton seconded, that the directors desired to place on record their appreciation of the services rendered by. Mr Connell during his employment with the Dairyfarmer. This was carried unanimously. Mr Connell has been associated in Ithe above named position with the Dairyfarmer since the paper’s establishment some six years ago.

The public has a right to expect that economy will be unremittingly applied to administrative expenditure; and in view of the net increase in the gross public debt last year of no less than eleven millions, the country is assuredly entitled to a curtailment of borrowing. A welcome note of the Financial Statement is, the view that, “on the completion of the large under, takings now'in hand in respect of railways and hydro-electric power, a tap-pering-off policy should be adopted until a further national • stocktaking justifies extensions commensurate with our increasing population and trade.” —“Marlborough Express.”

. (A southern writer on wireless topics waxes facetious about the big broadcasting station to be erected in Auckland. He says: “It will interest amateurs to know that once more the: opening date of the new Auckland station has been postponed. Two months ago it was to be 30th June. Then it was shifted to 14th July, and now it is stated to.be 7th August. Without washing to raise the hopes of amateurs undlully, and, with every reservation possible, we incline 'to the belief that perhaps by October or November something may happen. But of course, if there' is another earthquake in Japan, or a heavy flood in Patagonia, amateurs must understand, that further delay is 'bound to be experienced.’’ ....

In his notes on the Maniajpoto v. Waipa senior ,rep. football match last 'Saturday, “Drop-kick,” in 'the King Country 'Chronicle says:—Quin, War-pa's'full-back, was undoubtedly one of the best men on the field, and he was closely followed by Bell at second five-eighths, arid Winter (centre). Swartzfager, a'c half, was not' very, prominent. The forwards were a good, useful pack, but not up to Maniapoto’s standard, except in the scrums, where they had a lot the best of the game. A pleasant feature of the game was the generally clean (play of both sides, 'there being none of the deliberate obstruction and offside play that marred the tactics of the Taumarunui, team the previous week.

An unexplained discrepancy in the performance of 'two turbine wheels was discussed at a meeting of the Wairarapa Power Board. Although the whe'els are of the same size and d.esign, one war found under test to yield 60 horse .power more than 'the other. • It was mentioned that the loss of sixty horse power was about '£6oo a year, and members agreed that the cause of the apparent loss should be traced if possible. .The Board’s, engineers declared themjselves unable, however, to account for this loss. That the general condition of the plant is satisfactory is indicated in a report from Mr 'H. R. Climie (consulting engineer) which includes the following passage: “If in, the very 'best condition, the iplpe line could deliver only 50 h..p. more, and, owing to the difficulty of maintaining it in such perfect condition any further improvement is not ye't. justified. It is considered that toe pipes ca.n be maintained in their present condition with little expense.” .

It appears at present the experience of some of those with whom moneys are placed for investment is that they are having some difficulty in finding an outlet for it, and in some cases such funds are accumulating. There is no doubting the veracity of this .evidence, but in the main it must be regarded as the exception which proves the rule. There may perhaps be some distinction made between town and country properties on the part of would-be mortgagees, and it is to be assumed that the reference at a recent meeting was principally to agricultural and pastoral land as securities.' In the main there appears to be ample corroboration of Sir George Fenwicke’s statement that “the demand for money for mortgage purposes has exceeded the supply right through the year, and there are no evidences of a change in this respect, notwithstanding the large amount of State and Public Trust iiion. eys that are available.”—Dunedin “Star.”

There are good reasons why rates of pay lower than the award rates should be given on relief works. In the first place, the object of the relief works being, not the carrying out of undertakings which are necessary and urgent, but the helping of men in distress, and it is plain that such funds as are available will help more men if the rate of pay is something less than the rate that is given by employers who actually require the performance of certain work. In the second place if it were agreed that the man out of work for whom employment is made should receive the same wages as the man doing work in ordinary conditions no man would have any incentive to apply himself to that faithful and ■energetic discharge of his duty ■ of working well which is his. best protection and his most useful service to society.—'Christchurch “Press.