LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3469, 22 May 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The successful applicant for the position of town cerk at Te Kuiti was Mr C. Blackman, at present town clerk at Port Chalmers.

The State schools throughout the Auckland province resumed yesterday (morning after the usual May holidays.

His Worship the Mayor informs us that Mr J. Oliphant has consented to give the Empire Day address at the local District High School on Thursday afternoon. The address is to be given at about 2.45 p.m., and parents and the general public are invited to attend.

The second meeting of the St. John’s Girls’ Club 1934 session was held on Monday evening, when there was a good attendance of members. The president, Mrs Wareing, presided. Leaders were elected for the several group activities of the Club, and these leaders will form the club’s general committee. Hostesses for the evening - were the Misses V. Hutt, N. Reese, E. Irwin, and R. Empson. The rest of the evening was devoted to social chats, and preliminary discussion - for the forthcoming meetings, while arrangements were also made for the club dance next Monday evening.

South-bound trains passing through Te Awamutu on Sunday evening were well patronised, and it is stated that the express train from Auckland to New Plymouth carried the greatest numbers of passengers since the inception of the service. Particularly noticeable among the passengers were -the large number of pupils returning to New Plymouth schools. Te Awamutu was well represented, and some cf the passengers were unable to find seats on the train until they reached Te Kuiti, despite the fact that an extra carriage was put on at Frankton.

The only Te Awamutu-iowned or trained horse to gain place money at th eTe Kuiti Racing Club’s meeting at Te Rapa - on Saturday was Mr H. L. Russell’s Spalpiko (trained at Pukekohe), which ran a meritorious race to gain third money in the King Country Steeplechase. On Monday Spalpiko again occupied third place in the Kawhia Steeplechase, and Mr A. Rowan’s Protomint won the principal flat race, the Waitomo Handicap, with Mr W. Stone’s Solarium third. These horses were well supported by the investing public and Protomint won convincingly.

There need be no fear, for the future of our dairy industry, so long as we have farmers of this class, and we believe that the rising generations of young farmers, who receive instruction in farming in our secondary schools, will carry on and extend the scope of the work. It is only within the last twenty or thirty years that it has been realised that farming is a business that needs brains and education, and many people, not a few of them calling themselves farmers, do not realise the fact even to-day. If farmers had done so land would never have soared to the prices it did in boom times. Many who took up land is those days were gamblers, not farmers. Some have since learned a good deal about farming. Many now living have seen revolutionary changes in dairy farming.—Christchurch Sun.

The Hairini Hall presented an animated scene last Wednesday evening when fully fifty couples graced the floor on the occasion of the Hairini Tennis Club’s annual dance. The hall had been tastefully decorated with streamers and greenery and the floor was in excellent order for dancing. Dalton’s Orchestra dispensed splendid music which the patrons thoroughly enjoyed. Supper arrangements had been left in the hands ot the ladies of the club and they excelled themselves in providing a lavish repast which was done full justice to. A Monte Carlo dance competition was won by Mr Davis and partner, and in the statue waltz Miss V. Collison and partner proved to be the winners. Members of various tennis clubs in the surrounding districts attended to further the making of the function the success that it undoubtedly was, and it was a happy crowd that wended its way homewaid in the wee small hours.

Comment among local Rugby players and supporters this morning centres in the decision of the Waipa Rugby Union management committee last evening awarding last Saturlay’s senior championship game, Rovers v. Subui'bs, to Suburbs, on a protect. The matter is not finalised yet, for the secretary of the Union informs us that confirmation by letter of a telegram from Wairoa Rugby Union is awaited. It appears that the chief ground of the protest is that the well known half back, Ate Jackson, played for a Wairoa Club this season, and then did not get a clearance when returning to Te Awamutu. Jackson is reported to have assured Union and club officials here that he only took part in a Ratana Cup fixture, and if this is so it would appear that his action in playing here was quite in order.

Pressure on our space to-day necessitates the holding over of several interesting reports and articles, letters to the Editor, etc.

The Waipa County Council holds its ordinary monthly meeting to-morrow in conjunction with the statutory annual meeting.

Among the successful candidates at the practical portion of the examination of candidates for first appointment to a Commission in the Territorial Forces, held at Hopu Hopu camp last week, was Sergeant R. S. Sinclair, of Te Awamutu. The final portion of the examination is to be held in August.

The unusually large number of prices quoted by advertisers in today’s issue should confirm local and district buyers in the opinion that they can buy more cheaply in Te Awamutu than in any other town in the province. Instances have lately been brought to our notice of comparisons of prices, distinctly in favour of Te Awamutu. We commend the announcements elsewhere in this issue to the notice of discriminating buyers.

At the last monthly meeting of the Te Awamutu Women’s Institute, it was decided after a general discussion, to participate in the project for conducting a stall at the Waikato Winter Show. A competition for the best arranged bowl of chrysanthemums was won by Mrs H. A. Burchell. An amusing competition, a roll call typifying the most useful things in a home, created a good deal of interest. A delightful afternoon tea brought the meeting to a close.

The Te Awamatu Amateur Athletic Club’s cycle road race to-morrow afternoon is to be over a course extending to approximately thirteen miles. Eleven nominations have been received, and the following handicaps have been declared- R. James and S. Williams scr., K. Walker 1 min, F. Dalziel 2 min, W. Allen and W. Dalziel 2 min 10 secs, G. Lee 2 min 55 secs, G. Allen 3 min 15 secs, J. Raymond and Papesch 4 min, and Robinson 4. min 25 secs.

A New Plymouth woman had a terrifying experience in motoring from the harbour on Thursday evening. As she proceeded in the blinding rain she saw immediately ahead balls of fire travelling swiftly from the beach across the road. The phenomenon passed, but then her car was pulled up abruptly. She had got into _ a tangled mass of electric wire which had been torn from the poles by the force of the tornado. The wire, which fortunately was “dead” and not “alive,” got in the wheels and about the body and she could not move the car an inch. She had to leave the car where it was and find refuge in a neighbouring house.

The report that an iceberg had been sighted off Onunake on Friday persuaded many people at New Plymouth that a good and sufficient reason had been found for the bitterly cold weather. The rumour gained such currency, in fact, that one man was told the Harbour Board launch had left for Cape E'gmont to pick up the visitor. Like other parts of Taranaki, Opunake felt there must have been an iceberg about, but a reporter was informed that even a diligent search of the horizon through field glasses failed to disclose a sign of the berg whose approach had been heralded from New Plymouth.

A, valuation of £5,408,418 was placed upon the exports from New Zealand during April, according to preliminary returns of the month’s overseas trade issued by the Customs Department in Wellington yestenday. The figure is substantially greater than that for April last year, when the valuation was £3,494,041. The rise in the price of wool no doubt explains this difference of nearly £2.000,000. Actually the total was only £97,581 less than that of April, 1929, but £1,416,051 below the figure for the previous month and £852,658 below that for February. Imports show an increase of £599,616 on the figure for April of last year, £2,070,187 against £1,470,571, and a fractional dilop as compared with last month. The indicated trend is for a larger import trade.

The seven directors of the (Reserve Bank of New Zealand, who have been appointed by the Government as required by the Act passed last .year, were announced by the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in an interview by telephone from the West Coast last Sunday evening. Three are State directors and four are representatives of shareholders. Of these four two are required to be persons who are, or who have been, actively engaged in primary industries and the other two are required to be persons who are, or who have been, actively engaged in industrial or commercial pursuits. The directors appointed are:—State: John Gavin Duncan, Wellington; David Alexander Ewen, Wellington; Richard James Hudson, Dunedin. Shareholders. — Primary industries: James Begg, Dunedin; Edward Jasper Herrick, Hastings; industry and commerce: Edward Anderson, Auckland; Norton Francis, Christchurch,