LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2144, 14 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The local Chamber of Commerce meets next Tuesday evening.

The Kakepuku Co-operative Dairy Company will make an advance payment of Is fid per lb for cheese to suppliers on last month’s supply. The engagement is announced of Lila Louise, eldest daughter of Mr T. Askew, of Aratapu, Northern Wairoa, and the late Mrs Askew, to Melville James Alfred, second eldest son of Mr and Mrs A. Dixon, Pirongia.

Mr Y. Wicky, of the local staff of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co., leaves shortly for Canada, where he has received an appointment with a prominent dairy company. Besides being a zealous official of the dairy company, Mr Wicky has figured prominently in Te Awamutu musical circles being a competent instrumentalist.

It is now announced that the dates for the two demonstration addresses under the auspices of the Te Awamutu Jersey Club will be given on Tuesday and Wednesday next. The first will be at Mr Hamilton Allen’s farm, Kihikihi, and the second at the Waikeria Borstal Institution. Both lectures commence at 11 a.m., and the demonstrator is Mr E. Griffiths, of New Plymouth, a noted authority on the Jersey breed. The assemblies will be of a “picnic” 'nature, and all interested are cordially invited to attend.

We have to acknowledge receipt, from the local agent (Mr C. F. Battson) of the Auckland Automobile Association, of a handy-sized booklet giving a comprehensive survey of the latest motor x-egulations and traffic by-laws bearing on motor traffic. The booklet is up-to-date and as the A.A.9. supplies a copy free to each of 'its members there should soon be no ex 1 cuse for actions contrary to the regulations. We note that a Hamilton section has been included giving information useful to all motorists visiting that town.

Many gardens in and around Te Awamutu are at present a mass of autumn bloom, and present a strikingly pretty effect. In some cases the “queen "of autumn flowers” (the chrysanthemum) has not yet bloomed but it is expected this great decorative flour will be at its best in a week or ten days’ time. No doubt there will be many beautiful exhibits at the autumn flower show that is being organised by the ladies of St. John’s Church in conjunction with the “Olde Country Fayre,” in the church grounds on Thursday and Friday, April 26th and 27th.

“What and where is Tarangi?” How many school children could answer that question? (asks the Wanganui Herald). Very few, indeed, and perhaps their (elders would be as equally puzzled. But apparently the Americans can tell us all about it, for, in a New York paper recently received in Wanganui, it is stated that a movie director has gone there “to film a romantic and dramatic story of the Maoris, that remarkable race famous for their symmetry of figure, beauty, and temperament, that inhabit New Zealand and the surrounding islands of the Southern Pacific ” ! The paragraph says: “ His destination is a lit-tle-known island of Tarangi, the location of which is known to few others than himself.”

“ I do feel that something might be done to stop the prevailing misuse of the name Easter,” writes Archdeacon Taylor, a Canterbury clergyman. “ People often call the week before Easter Easter week. The Railway Department, in its advertisements, talks about faster Saturday. I have even heard'‘tjie day before Good Friday desp/ribed- 1 . as Easter Thursday. There is nd iffeason for all this perversion of the historic use of a great word. Its meaning is quite clear. • Easter Day is the, Sunday on which the Church commemorates the resurrection of our Lord. Easter Week is the week beginning on Easter Day. The week before Easter has its own proper name of Holy Week. The last three days of it have their special names, Maunda Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday. This last day is rightly called Ealster Eve, not because it is part of Easter, but because it is the day of preparation for Easter.”

A caucus of the Reform party will be held in Wellington on Tuesday next to consider matters of organisation and internal policy generally. It is authoritatively stated that there is no foundation Tor the (suggestion that members are being called together to discuss the licensing question.

A statutory first offender for drunkenness was convicted and fined 10s at the local Court yesterday morning by Messrs W. C. Savill and W. Jeffery, justices. It was stated by the police that defendant was cycling towards the railway station, and was so intoxicated that he fell off the machine and sustained “ a beautiful black eye.” Information 0 has been received at Cambridge that, following on the alteration of the boundaries of the Waikato electorate, with the inclusion of Te Awamutu in the Waitomo electorate, Cambridge has now been appointed the headquarters of Waikato. The local postmaster, Mr J. C. Allan, is to be appointed registrar of electors.

A painful injury to his left arm was sustained by Mr R. North, an employee at Messrs Clark and McMillan’s furniture establishment, yesterday morning. Mr North was handling some plate-glass, when it broke, and a piece lacerated the forearm, requiring the insertion of half a dozen stitches.

On Tuesday last one of the biggest drafts of cattle that have been sent from the Cambridge district for a long time past was sent to the Wiestfield Freezing Works. A great mob of 500 head of fat and forward cattle, purchased from the Cambridge district, was sent forward on that day. The stock were in excellent condition, and werei a credit to the district. In addition to the above line, a considerable number of trucks of cattle were also sent north by buyers operating in the district.

When the youthful mind turns to crime it generally takes an ingenious twist. Morrinsville bowlers who participated in the Cambridge tournament at Easier report to the Star a case that would be hard to beat. Several small boys had fastened a hook to the end of a long stick, and, watching their opportunity, pulled several of the bowlers’ discarded coats through a heldge, where they went through the pockets at their leisure. A number of bowlers missed articles and sums of money, and it was not until a Morrinsville bowler happened to see a coat gliding towards the hedge that the cause was discovered. The bowler dashed round the fence to attempt to catch the delinquents, but they beat a hasty retreat. A valuable watch was among the harvest reaped.

“St. Saviour’s Ladies’ Guild,” Pirongia, was organized yesterday afternoon at a meeting in the library at which the Vicar (Rev. R. H. Trill) presided. Miss Aubin was elected president and Mrs Bell secretarytreasurer. Friday afternoon (fortnightly) meetings are to be held in the library at which Guild business and sewing will be done and hostesses will provide a social cup of tea. A similar oi’ganisation, to be known as the Christ Church Guild, has recently been formed at Kihikihi, with Mrs Atkey as president and Mrs J. G. Wynyard secretary-treasurer. A representative and enthusiastic committee has been formed and monthly meetings will be held, the day chosen being the third Wednesday of every month. It is hoped to augment the membership before next meeting. The three butchery premises in Te Awamutu have all been freshened up lately by their respective proprietors. The old-established shop of Mr J. Middlebrook, a veritable hive of industry every morning, is more attractive than ever, and cleanlinesss is a special feature of this establishment. Messrs Rigden and Co. are a new firm and their new : shop in Spear’s Buildings is claimed to be “the last word” in up-to-date butcher shops. It certainly is well equipped—light, cool, airy, and sanitary. The third premises. H. E. Wood’s, are adjoining the Wallace Supply Stores, and have been thoroughly refitted to meet every possible requirement of the health authorities, while at the same time being convenient and bright. Te Awamutu householders are thus especially well served in having three splendid butcher shops in which to do their marketing’.’

About 200 Austrian partridges for liberation in Auckland province were landed at Auckland on Wednesday from the lonic. On the voyage from Southampton the birds were confined in ten crates on the after deck, and wore tended by the ship’s butcher, who fed them on wheat, swedes, and cabbage. Only five of the partridges died. On inspection just after arrival the birds were found to be in good condition, and very active, considering that they had been cooped since 2nd March. The partridges are valued at 25s a brace, and have been imported by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. It is probable! that they will be liberated in the vicinity, of Matamata. About twenty years ago the late Mr Richard Reynolds was instrumental in having imported partridges liberated near Cambridge, but hawks very soon killed thsm all, despite all efforts at protection.

The extraordinary strength of a mushroom was illustrated by one' that was found in the yard of Messrs Hollis and Brown in London Street, Lyttelton (says an exchange). The mushroom made its appearance through three inches of solid asphalt, laid six yeans ago. For two or three days a bulge, increasing in size daily, was noticed in the asphalt. One morning it was found that the asphalt had broken away and the head of the mushroom appeared. Although the growth measured only about four inches’ -across, the stqm of the mushroom was as thick as a man’s wrist, having apparently kept increasing in thickness until it was strong enough to break the asphalt. A question that presents itself is: How did the mushroom, without injury to its delicate head, push itself through the solid asphalt, a feat which must have necessitated a pressure of many hundreds of pounds? A second bulge beside the first indicated that another mushroom was coming through. Woods’ Groat Peppermint Cure for influenza colds.

Strong disapproval of the “growing practice ox legislating by regulation 4 in impoi’tant matters and also of the tendency of recent legislation to 'entrust officials wide powers not subject to control by the Courts and in* particular the power of deciding questions affecting private rights without allowing the right of appeal to ; the Courts,” was at the Dominion Legal Conference, sitting ! in Christchurch on Thursday. A motion of protest was agreed to without dissent.

At a largely attended and representative social gathering at the Kihikihi Town Hall last Monday evening Mrs Kerr, until lately licensee of the Alpha Hotel was presented with a valuable gold watch, and her two daughters with a silver watch and gold bangle. Mr G. Sutherland voiced the feelings of the whole district in expressing sincere goodwill towards Mrs Kerr, and hoping that in her new home she will enjoy health and happiness. •