LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2148, 24 April 1928, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-morrow (Anzac Day) will be observed as a close holiday locally.

The usual memorial service will be conducted at Kihikihi to-morrow afternoon.

Constable P. J. Doyle, of Te Awaimutu, left last night for the south to attend the Dunedin Supreme Court sessions, as a witness in an important case.

“ Poppy Day ” was observed locally on Saturday, and judgfiing from the number of people seen wearing the little flower emblems of remembrance, good business was done by the lady vendors.

The procession in connection with the Anzac Day memorial service at the local war 'memorial starts from Albert Park, soon after 10 a.m., and the united service at the memorial is timed for 10.30 a.m.

The annual meeting of householders for the election of .school committees will take place on Monday, 30th instant.

To obtain funds for the purchase of typewriters for the commercial course at the Cambridge District High School residents of Cambridge promoted a Paddy’s market, by which over £4O was netted. This amount will enable six typewriters to be purchased.

A memorial service is to be held to-morrow (Anzaa Day) at 2.30 p.m. at the Pirongia Memorial Hall, when short addressds, prayers, and wellknown hymns appropriate to the occasion will be the chief part of the service. It is hoped to have a procession of returned soldiers from the post office to the Memorial Hall, leaving at 2.15 p.m., and members of Te Awamutu R.S.A. are especially invited to co-operate.

Te Awamutu Girl Guides will take part in the procession and memorial service on Wednesday (Anzac Day). A wreath from each patrol will be placed on the monument, and after lunch the company will march .to Te Awamutu cemetery and deposit a wreath on the grave of every returned soldier. It is hoped to hav:a a full parade of the company, which numbers forty members. Guides are advised to bring their lunches and so avoid going home after .the service. Hot tea will be provided for them at the Parish Hall, under the supervision of the president, Mrs W. H. Wood.

At Te Aroha Trotting Club’s meeting last Saturday the local trainerdriver, Mr A. W. Broughton, steered three Avinners, Mr T. L. Nicholson’s Zealous in the Waitoa Handicap, Mr T. H. Kelly’s Andover in the Manawaru Handicap, and Messrs Currie and Scholium’s Charming Pronto in the Farewell Handicap. Several Te Awamutu sportsmen backed the three, and experienced a very profitable day’s sport. Zealous and Andover are both trained locally by their owners.

The householders .of Te Awamutu will/be required to vote for school committeemen at the annual meeting next Monday evening, as ten nominations have been received for the nine seats on the committee. They are as follotws:: Mrs W. H. Wood, Messrs G. S. Clarke, G. B. Melrose, A. A. Reese, R. Ross, C. W. Rickit, A. J. Tailby, G. F.' Smith, A. H. Roberts, and H. E. G. Wilson. The two latter are new candidates. Mr A. G. Weatherell did ndt seek re-election.

So impressed were the officers of the local Band of Hope with the usefulness of the address given about six months ago by the Rev. Chas. Wickham, of London (who is touring New Zealand in the intreestls of child welfare) that they have arranged for him to pay a return visit next week, when he will visit fifteen of the country schools (with the full approval of the Auckland Board of Education), delivering short addresses at each. On the evening of 4th May Mr Wickham will be the chief speaker at a big Band of Hope rally in Te Awamutu.

With a view to ensuring against the possibility of wet weather the promoters of the Old Country Faire, to be held on Thursday and Friday, have arranged for the use of the Town Hall if the weather is too inclement for the outdoor festivities. It has also been definitely decided to hold the Thursday evening popular concert in the Towc Hall, instead of making that part of the.function an outdoor one. Similarr.the dance on Friday evening will be in the Town Hall instead of in the Parish Hall. This latter alteration was made, we understand, in anticipation of a vo(ry large attendance of dance patrons.