LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3208, 26 July 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day polling is proceeding in connection with the Auckland Harbour Board election.

'The ballot for £4OO by shareholders in No. 2 group of the Tie Awamutu Terminating Building Society last night resulted in favour of Mr H. M. Andrew, with share No. 89.

Arrangements were made this morning for the Waipa junior rep. Rugby team to play a match against a selected junior team from Waikeria at Te Awamutu on Wednesday of next week as a curtain-raiser to the senior rep. game between Cambridge and Waipa. This latter is a re-play of last Saturday's match in connection with the Peace Cup elimination, that resulted in a draw. , ,

To enable urgent overhaul work to be carried out by the Public Works Department, the power supply over most of the Waikato district was cut off on Sunday afternoon from 1 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. A large area was affected, but as warning had been giveii no consumers were inconvenienced. The work earned out included the replacement of faulty insulators, and an overhaul of other components of the supply system, with the object of preventing possible breakdowns.

" The Tasman Sea offers one of the hardest flying- propositions in the world." declared Squadron-Leader J. L. Findlay, when addressing the Christchurch branch of the TownPlanning Institute of New Zealand. Weather conditions were such that the use of amphibian machines for cross-Tasman flights was essential in the interests of safety. He thought however, that the near future would see a flying-boat service connecting New Zealand with Australia.

Rev. W. Maioha, of Te Kuiti. where he has been conducting Anglican Maori Missions work, is to visit Te Awamutu district next Sunday, and arrangements have been made for him to conduct the Sunday morning service at Pirongia, afternoon service at Hairini (where the church is really a Maori one, having been built by representatives of that race very many years ago), and in the evening at St. John's, Te Awamutu. On Monday, Bth August, Bishop Bennett, of Aotearoa will deliver a lantern lecture in Te Awamutu, further delineating phases of Maori Mission work.

A motoring collision occurred on the Great South Road, about a mile south of the Tokanui crossroads, yesterday afternoon. It appears that the northbound car struck the rear wheel of the car bound south, tipped it completely round, when it overturned over the bank. Assistance" was soo n at hand, and it was foundTtnat none of the parties was seriously injured—beyond shock and bruises—but the car overturned, an Austin Six, was rather badly damaged. It was later hauled on to the road, and taken through to Hamilton for repair. The names of the drivers concerned were not ascertainable as we went to press.

1 A representative party of Te Awamutu Orphans' Club members, headed by the president (Bro. J. Oliphant), paid a fraternal visit to their Cambridge brethren last Saturday evening, and enjoyed a happy evening. Te AwamUtu members provided the greater portion of the musical programme including marches and selections by the Orchestra (under Bro. E. J. T. Moeller), songs by Bros. W. Corboy, E. White, and C. Corboy, and some humour by Bro. R. Noonan. Bro. W. Sands, who presided, was very complimentary to the visitors, especially eulogising the Orchestra, and his remarks were supplemented by Bro. Wooldridge, who referred to Te Awamutu Club as the envy and admiration of all 'kindred clubs in the province-, for Te Awamutu had cultivated and developed the real spirit of Orphandom to a degree that was creditable alike to the district and the executive of the Club,

father ah* alarming accident, fortunately not attenaed witn serious consequences, occurred m Alexandra Street on Saturday last. Mr and Mrs W. Hollister, of Jfaterangi, were driving mco town in a gig, wnen the horse stumhled on the bitumen, and Mr Holiister, who was driving, was thrown on to the roadway, losing his grip of che rems. The horse scrambled to its feet and taking fright, bolted along the street. Mrs Hollister was helpless, and she elected to leap over tne side, preferring this to taking the risk 01 a frightful collision with vehicles, for the street .was fairly busy at the time. Mrs Hollister landed heavily, but fortunately escaiped with little worse than bruises and shock. The horse slowed down opposite the post office, but once into Arawata Street increased iOs pace until it had to swerve to pass a vehicle in front of Advance Cars. The momentum and swerve took the horse and vehicie actually on to the premises, where the points of the shafts bumped hard against a front wall, and the horse was promptly secured and quietened. Not a great deal of damage was done, and Mr and Mrs Hollister were later able to proceed to their home.

Although it may be a negative sort of consolation, there is some comfort in the fact that for the past two months unemployment registrations have been practically stationary. New Zealand is now in mid-winter, the slackest season for employment, and registrations have probably reached their peak at about 55,000. This is bad enough but not nearly so bad as some expected. Two or three months ago there was talk of the list numbering 70,000, and even 1000,000, in the depth of winter. But there has been no marked movement that would indicate such heavy retrogression. Since the beginning of June, when registrations totalled 54,027, the weekly increment has been small to the present total of 55,140. In a month or two the productive season will be gathering momentum, working from north to south. If seasonal activity is accompanied by an improvement in overseas markets, as seems possible on present, indications, the Dominion should be able to look for a considerable shrinkage in the hard core of unemployment as spring advances into suhimeri;-

Playing at Brisbane on Saturday the New Zealand hockey team defeated Queensland by four goals to one.

" Any man who would deliberately use a horse in that condition should be made to walk barefoot over hot coals," said the Bench,, during the hearing of a cruelty to animals case at the local Court on Monday.

A party of Te Awamutu Orphans' Club members was to visit Morrinsville this evening, but owing to the indisposition of three of the entertainers he .visit has been postponed until a later date.

The chain letter has made its appearance again in Te Awamutu. Its purport is practically identical with the chain letter of previous years, exhorting credulous people to make several copies and post each to a friend to ensure bounteous good fortune. It is a pity the authorities can devise no way of preventing this sort of thing, for. in the hands of some impressionable people, a good deal of harm can be done. It is manifestly ridiculous that good fortune can be gained by such coyping of letters, and those who participate in it are very weak-minded.

A Ngaroma report indicates that the settlers there who conferred with Mr W. J. BrOadfoot, M.P., on his visit to that district yesterday, expressed gratification at the extension of the roading facilities by the Government in recent months under the unemployment scheme. One settler stated that but for this easement of conditions he saw nothing for it but to abandon his farm and take his family to some other district where the amenities of farm life are not so poor. However, the work done had made it possible for him to get to his marketing centre (Te Awamutu) more often, and to have necessary provisions and farm requirements transported at less cost. Another settler stated that it was sincerely hoped that the experiments being carried out with a view to finding a cheap and practicable solution to pasture problems in that district would soon be devised, for the prevailing low prices for a stock and farm produce was "pinching" the settlers too. When the country reverted to the voluntary system of military training, doubts were expressed as to whether it would be possible to keep recruiting up to satisfactory strength. It was even apprehended that there would be a serious of the forces through failure to stimulate enthusiasm for voluntary service. It is therefore gratifying to learn that the enlistments have exceeded expectations. The Hawke's Bay Regiment, notes the Dominion's military correspondent, is only five below full strength and satisfactory increases are reported by other units. The fact seems to be that soldiering has a fascination of its own, and when there is added to this other attractive aspects of the game, such as the comradeship of the orderly rooms at the garrison halls, the rifle meetings, and the training camps it is not difficult to account for the readiness with which so many have responded to the. call for volunteers in our citizen army. There is, of course, a serious side, namely, the value to the country of this training in habits of discipline, to say nothing: of the benefits to physique resulting from the physical exercises which now form so large and important a part of military training.