LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1928, 30 October 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr A. E. Patterson, chairman of the local Queen Carnival Committee, informs us that while in Auckland this week he was successful in obtaining a good deal of material for use at the coronation ceremony jaext Wednesday evening. Messrs Dalgety and Company report having received the following cablegram, dated 27th instant, from their London house: At the tallow sales 1135 casks were offered and 43 casks sold. Any change in prices was in favour of sellers. Fisluing in the (Mangaweka stream, a few miles south of Pirongia, a few clays ago’ Mr W. J. Woolston, a wellknown angler, landed ten fine trout, ranging in weight from 11 to Th 'lbs. Mr Woolston secured the heaviest one within a few minute's of starting to fish. The hoarding in front of Messrs Spear Bros.’ new business block was removed yesterday, and many people took the opportunity to inspect the interior of these fine shops. It is stated that negotiations are in progress for the occupancy of at least two of the shops. * In view of the Waikato A. and P. Show at Claudelands next Wednesday and Thursday, the usual weekly stock sale at Te Awamutu will be held on the Wednesday instead of Thursday (People’s Day). For the same reason the dance at Kakepuku, originally advertised for Wednesday evening next, has been postponed for a week. The New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board has decided to join with the Meat Board in undertaking some financial responsibility, in the event of loss being incurred by the Patea Freezing Company in connection with the shipment to London of 30,000 head of veal, which is a trial shipment, designed to help the dairy industry and prevent the loss now incurred by the general destruction of calves.

Some details of the coronation ceremony next Thursday evening in connection ' with the Queen Carnival are given elsewhere in this issue. In addition to the coronation of Queen Peggy and the conferring of honours upon the three other candidates, we understand several well-known, residents of Te Awamutu and neighbourhood will have knighthoods conferred upon them. There should be a very large attendance of the public at this spectacular function. Unusual circumstances surrounded an accident to a little girl who was admitted to the New Plymouth Hospital the other day suffering from a severed finger. It appears that the child was playing with her brother, and he told her that if she laid her finger on a wooden block he’ would chop it off. No doubt thinking it was only fun, she did so, whereupon he proceeded to carry out his promise. Fortunately it was the left hand. The child’s condition, is not in any way serious. The foregoing recalls a story told about a well-known American millionaire sardine packer. When a small boy, a veritable street urchin, he dared a companion to chop a finger off. The dare was promptly accepted, and for the rest of his life the millionaire was usually called “ Fingy ” Connors, because following the rough-and-ready amputation he raced down the street yelling, in agonised tones, “ Oh, me fingy! He’s chopped it off ! ” “The Railways Department was the only railway administration in the southern dominions that made a profit last year,” said Mr F. J. Jones (chairman of the Railway Board) in the course of an interview at Christchurch) reports the Lyttelton Times. Mr Jones added that the fact that the railways made a profit was often overlooked. The actual receipts for the year amounted to £8,101,221, and the subsidy from the Consolidated Fund for the losses on branch lines to £360,000, making a total of £8,461,221. The actual expenditude amounted to £6,151,000, and of the balance £375,000 was transferred to renewals, betterment, and accident reserve funds, which were established for the first, time, and £1,913,000 was paid in interest, leaving a surplus of £21,000. Our comment is that a little of that £375,000 set aside for Interment could with advantage be applied to bettering the railway station and yards at Te Awamutu.