LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3178, 17 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Te Awamutu Power Board holds its monthly meeting on Friday.

When Cr Brown was granted leave of absence at last evening's meeting of the Borough Council, it was mentioned that he had left that evening for Wellington to attend the funeral of one of his brothers, Mr Jas. Brown, who died on Saturday.

The Tauranga Borough Council received a letter at its last meeting from Mr P. G. Roussell, general manager of railways, advising that it was the intention of the Railways Board to visit the Tauranga district m the near future. Due advice of the date would be given to the council and other local bodies interested. The council decided that all its goods should be transported by rail.

At the monthly meeting of the Women's Division (Farmers' Union) tomorrow evening, Miss E. Andrews, secretary of the Women's Pan-Pacific Association, is to give an address, and an open invitation is extended to all interested to attend. In expectation of a large attendance, the executive has arranged for the meeting to be held in the evening instead of the afternoon.

Several members of the New Plymouth Borough engineering and contractor's staffs were in lucks way recently when engaged upon work at a sewer outfall. The rock to which the pipe is to run is hollow, and the object of the visit was to pump it ou, and inspect it. When the water had been pumped away the party present were astonished to see about,lß crayfish in a natural prison. They were speedily captured and now the shells are all that remain of many of them.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, has decided to advance to its shareholders on May 20, for butterfat supplied in April, lOd per lb for superfine crflam for bu'ttermaking,. free of share and cartPZe deductions, and lid per lb butterfat for milk supplied for cheese-mak-ing. The advances made by the companv last year for butterfat supplied in April were lOd per lb for butterfat for butter-making and 81d per lb butterfat for cheese-making.

A custom has been established in Wales to celebrate May 18 as Goodwill Day. The school children send messages of peace and goodwill to schools in foreign lands through the British Broadcasting Corporation. The message is then printed m Welsh, French, German, Spanish, and Esperanto, so that any listener on request may obtain a copy. The aim is to create a friendly attitude, which in later years must exert a beneficial influence on international relationships.

"Those pumps cost £1200," remarked the Town Clerk when the Borough Council was discussing, at last night's meeting, damage that has been done to the pumping plant at the purifyingtank for the municipial sewerage system,, through residents using disinfectants and depositing rags, tea leaves, etc., in the water closets at their homes or places of business. It was added that many people have the mistaken opinion that disinfectants are needed, but, actually, when it reaches the settling tanks it prevents the pumps operating efficienly.

A marked disrepect for the strongarm of the law was shown by a woman who walked into Christchurch recently and remarked to her companion the dangerous appearance of many of the men in the crowds in the Square—" many of them obviously Communists," she said. " Look at those three men, there. They look as if they would be capable of anything," she remarked. And the Christchurch detectives she indicated went about their legitimate business unconscious of their criminally inclined appearances! Port Darwin, as a jumping off place for smugglers, is, according to Customs officials. Australia's most favoured spot. Many queer smugglers have ben caught there. One night last week (says the Brisbane Courier) an elderly Chinaman attempted to board a ship outward bound for China, and comment was caused by the enormous size of his legs. Customs officials made investigations, and discovered that he was wearing two pairs of trousers, which were lined with pockets. Their surprise was unbounded when they found that these housed four dozen live Australian painted finches, the export of which is prohibited. The Chinaman was detained, and the birds were released.