OTOROHANGA NEWS

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 5

OTOROHANGA NEWS

TOPICS OF THE HOUR. ITEMS OF INTEREST. (Our Resident Representative.) The Otorohanga Boy Scouts held a re-union on Thursday evening, when there was a capacity attendance presided over by Mr A. B. Mossinan. Bridge and 500 were played and the usual games and competitions were in vogue. Mrs J. J. Walker won first honours at 500 and Miss McGarry the consolation prize, whilst Mr Cameron was the most successful gentleman player. Mr Donaldson won the hidden number. Mrs H. S. S. Westmacott and Mrs Wylie won the ladies' prize for bridge, whilst Messrs P. J. McNamara and Landman won the consolation and first honours, respectively, and the minor honours went to Mr Ray Wheeler. The turkey and cake competitions were annexed by Mrs A. Fleming and Mrs A. Ormsby. The engagement is announced of Eva Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Glenie, of Heathrow, Otorohanga. late of Feltham, Middlesex, England, to Thomas Joseph, the eldest son of Mr and Mrs P. O'Reilly, of Kio Kio.

Mr Peter Yakich, employed at the agricultural lime works, slipped and fell down the steep face of the quarry and sustained a broken collar bone and the facture of two ribs. Yakich was taken to the Te Kuiti Hospital, where he is doing well. The Otorohanga Unemployment Committee is now being inundated with requests for relief workers under 4a scheme. The secretary has written the Unemployment Board asking for a definition of the work that may be undertaken under this scheme. The Unemployment Board advises that while ordinary there is now no restriction placed on the one class of work that may be done, provided that the labour is additional, the scheme is not intended to apply to those farmers who usually employ additional labour for seasonal accupations, and, therefore, would of necessity, take on extra hands. With the advent of the milking season, farmers will be requiring extra labour, as usual in the flush of the dairying season; but such labour cannot be deemed to be additional so far as 4a scheme is concern, ed, and the committee is requested to take every care to guard against farmers getting men under the scheme—for work of a seasonal nature—which would have to be secured in the odinary course of dairying activities. The Otorohanga Fai-mers' Union is arranging for an address by Captain Rushworth, M.P., at an early date, on economics.

During the past week, there has been an active demand for small dairy farms in this district, and a few sales have resulted. Mr D. Ross' going concern dairy farm (at Puketarata), of 80 cows and 155 acres, has been purchased by a New Plymouth buyer. ,