LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3472, 29 May 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A party of Te Awamutu Orphans’ Club members, headed by Vice-pre-sident Bro. A. F. Brewer, paid a fraternal visit to their Hamilton brethren last Saturday evening, and report a very sociable evening. Another party from Te Awamutu intends to visit Cambridge to-morrow evening.

Listeners-in on the evening of Saturday, June 2nd, will have the opportunity of hearing again the composition “Leisure Moments,” which is the work of Constable A. R. Rimmer, of Te Awamutu, who was formerly stationed in Wjaihi. Mr Rimmer’s work, which was broadcast by Mr Leon de Mauny’s orchestra on May 7th, will be on the air from 2YA at 9.2 o’clbck. It has received high praise from musical authorities, and Mr Rimmer has received many messages of congratulation from all parts of the Dominion. The prisoner, Bernard Charles Cole, who escaped from Waikena Borstal Institution a week ago m company with Frank R. Baker (since recaptured) is still at Liberty, and despite close police surveillance of likely places of concealment m various parts of the Waikato no trace has been found of the missing man. Baker has been remanded at Hamilton on a charge of converting a motor car, and it is expected his case will be dealt with next Friday. Meantime all rumours as to the wh ere ' abouts of Cole are being investigated, including one that he was actually seen in Te Awamutu 1 last eventog-

The Waikato Rugby Union’s selector has chosen three Waipa players for inclusion in the Wi'aikato rep. team to play Auckland on Monday next at Hamilton. The Waipa players chosen ai’e Don Oliver (Waikeria), T. Thompson (Rovers) and J. Askew (Suburbs).

‘ The efforts of people in Britain since the war have been remarkable, ’ said Dr A. J. Harrop, agent for the University of New Zealand in London, in an address to the New Zealand Club at a lunch in Wellington on Monday. “ Crushed by a load of taxation such as no people before have_ been called upon to bear, the nation has struggled on with such courage that Britain has every claim to-day to be regarded as the sheet-anchor of the world.”

Particulars of cheap fares and special train arrangements in connection with the Wlaikato Winter Show, Auckland v. Waikato representative Football match at Hamilton, and seven-a-side Rugby tournament at Taumarunui will be found in the Railway Department’s advertisements in this issue. Special attention is drawn to the arrangements made to delay the usual 6.10 a.m. Te Kuiti-Frankton train on 30th May in order to afford the school children an opportunity to visit the show.

The Waikato Winter Show will be officially opened by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, at 2 p.m. to-day. The visitors will be welcomed by the president, Mr Wt E. Clark, the Mayor, Mr J. R. Fow, and the member for the district, the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health. Several other Ministers and members of Parliament are expected to be present.

Nomination for unions entering for the Finlay Cup competition closed on Thursday night, but only two unions, Taupiri and Morrinsville entered. Several members at the Waikato Rugby Union meeting on Friday night, expressed dissatisfaction with the manner in which the competition was run and a notice of motion that a special general meeting be called for Friday, June 8, to discuss the alteration of the Finlay Cup rules was carried. The closing of nominations for the competition was postponed until Friday, June 15.

“It is time some more equitable method of distributing the rates over the country was adopted,” said Mr R. W. Bothamley, chairman of the Makara County Council, in commenting at the annual meeting on the unsatisfactory state of some ridingaccounts. “We have too many ridings,” Mr Bothamley added, “and un- . fortunately these were badly defined originally, with the result that we ' have one farmer paying a half-penny in the pound and his next door neighbour paying twice that mount, because he is in another riding.”

When a mob of bullocks was being driven past the Marlborough Power Board’s office the other morning, one huge br-ute, after seeing its reflection in the plate-glass window, and failing to recognise it, calmly entered the door, apparently with the idea of lodging a complaint against the detention of one of his herd mates in the showroom. The visitor was intercepted just as he was about to mount th.e stairs leading to the board room, and after a masterly piece of persuasion by the staff, was induced to leave the premises without doing any harm.

Much attention in motoring circles has centred on the ruling of Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., given at Nelson last week that the offside rule in motoring is null and void. The president of the We’lington Automobile Club, Mr E. A. Batt, in a statement pointed out that the regulation has been in force for approximately seven years and has become recognised by motorists as one of the most important rules of the road, next in importance only to the keeping to the left rule. “It is to be hoped,” Mr Batt states, “that the question will be cleared up speedily. Anything that tends, toward confusion is a serious matter. In the meantime, the club hopes motorists will not flout the rule.”

The safe arrival in Australia of the Auckland airwoman, Miss Jean Batten, after a record-making flight from England, in about 14 days, has created a good deal of interest, and it is worthy of note that just a year ago—when Miss Batten, in making an earlier attempt to accomplish the hazardous journey, crashed while flying over India l —Miss Isabel] Temple, of Kihikihi, a member of the Auckland Aero Club, wrote to her club executive suggesting that the club sponsor an appeal throughout Auckland province for subscriptions of Is per head, with which to help defray the cost of repairs to her machine. Miss Temple’s letter was considered at a meeting of the Auckland Aero Club on May 22nd, 1933, and it is a coincidence that just one year and one day later Miss Batten landed at Darwin, having made new time figures for the flight from England. We may add that the subscription idea did not find favour with the Auckland Aero Club at the time, and the secretary, in acknowledging Miiss Temple’s letter, wrote: “While your suggestion is a very good one, my committee feel that it would be scarcely practicable. A subscription of Is is very easy to lift from the public, provided it represents a gamble or something in the nature of an art union, but failing this it is felt that very little would be realised.”