HOSPITAL AT TE KUITI

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

HOSPITAL AT TE KUITI

DATE OF OPENING FIXED. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) HAMILTON, Friday. Arrangements have been made to open the Te Kuiti Hospital' on November 25th. The new hospital has been erected by the Waikato Hospital Board. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, will perform the opening ceremony.

The Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges receipt of the following amounts, forwarded by persons unknown, as conscience money to theNew Zealand ,6d to the Defence Department, Hamilton; arid £SO to the Acting-Prime Minister Wellington. Since the information was published that several new business premises are approaching completion in Te Awamutu, there has been considerable inquiry from prospective tenants, with a view to setting up in business in Te Awamutu. Consent to the raising of loai.s by local bodies is gazetted as follows:Kawhia County Council (for metalling portion of Oparau Block Road) £300; Waitomo Electric Power Board (for purchase and installation of electric and other equipment for consumers) £20,00. The stock sale conducted by Messrs Dalgety and Co. at Te Awamutu last Thursday was a particularly successful one, and added to this was the fact that there was a much larger yarding than usual of late. A settler remarked to our representative yesterday that he had not seen such a large yarding of cattle in the Te Awamutu yards since Dalgety and Co., sold £IO,OOO worth there a year ago. Members of the Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce will no doubt be interested to learn that at the last meeting of the Cambridge Chamber ten new members were elected. Most of them are business fnen, but one or two are farmers. The Te Awamutu institution would welcome an addition of ten to its membership, more especially if they would attend meetings and take an interest in the business dealt with. Consternation was caused in, Cambridge on Thursday by the discovery that a pupil of the District High School had found a number of detonators and distributed them to classmates, the children being innocent of the deadly nature of the small gifts. Investigation resulted in the recovery of 18 detonators. One lad was using one as a pencil cover. Another boy had been chewing a detonator, the case showing unmistakeable. teeth marks. Warnings were promptly issued.

Mention in a recent issue of a district farmer fattening twelve remarkably fine bullocks has adduced the information that another good farm, that of Mr Fullerton-Smith, Frontier Road, has a record - ,to be proud of. The farm is of 330 acres, and it wintered 1000 ewes, 1200 lambs 'and 100 bullocks successfully, and many favourable comments were made on the condition in which the stock had been turned off the place.-at the; end of the winteir.

We have to thank Mr C. F. Battson local representative of the A.A.A., for a lliandy little booklet issued by the association as a guide to motorists. It contains the/ main points of the Motor Vehicles Bill and by-laws, etc., of Auckland, Hamilton and Gisborne, besides hints of much interest and ,’to all motorists. Mr Battson in'froms us that -Ms association is hopeful that'the booklet, which is being (Histnibuteld free-, will be appreciated by .all -motorists. Twenty-two dairy factories -ih 'NoTth Taranaki paid out this month an aggregate of £38,729 2s sd. Tlie average pay-out per pound of butterfat has been Is 2d, but it is expected this will be reduced by twopence on the next occasion. An intimation that the pay-out for October will be Is has been made by the Rahotu directors in accordance with the Control Board’s policy. Increased yield may, however;, compensate to some extent' and the next aggregate pay-out may he larger than the last.

The Fire Board, if approved at next Wednesday’s poll of ratepayers, will take over the assets upon which £ISOO > has been recently expended. At the present moment the ratepayers..of the borough of Te Awamutu stand committed to repay the whole of this sum, which has been raised by loan, but under the Fire Board the ratepayers would be called upon to find only twofifths of the amount. Over a number of years—twenty-six years, to be exact —the ratepayers would require to find only about £700; the. balance, of £BOO. will be subscribed by . the Fire Underwriters’ .. Association;,, and ;the Government. Thus, the proposal obr viously brings about a- dii;e<jt; reduction in the town’s loan liabilities.