LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3479, 14 June 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A special committee meeting of the Te Awamutu Power Board is to be held to-morrow to draft the • estimates for the current year.

• The winner of the first prize, £2OOO, in the " Happy-Go-Lucky " ait union, drawn on Tuesday, was Mr H. W. Rusk, a farmed, of Paiaka, Towai, North Auckland. Miss A. Smart, of Pukeatua, was among the winners of a £lO prize, and Mr R. J. Parker, pf Te Awamutu, won £5.

The annual meeting of St. John's Horticultural Society i!s to be held this evening, and as we. understand important proposals are to be brought forward it is to be hoped that every member will make an effort to be present. The election of officers, in itself, should be interesting.

. A graph displayed at ..the public meeting addressed by Mr Albert Rus-. sell at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening gave an analysis of occupations of New Zealand workers. Twenty-five per cent of the total oi 550,000 are engaged on farms, 15 pelcent in secondary industries, do per cent in various other occupations.

A representative party of Orphans Club members from Morrinsville is to pay a fraternal visit to their Te Awamutu brethren next Saturday evening, when a goodly part of- the programme will be provided by the Morrinsville Orphans.

Party politics were warmly condemned by Mr Albert Russell in Wis address at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. . He said "the crack oi the whip" was subversive of good legislation. Members should be. free to vote as their individual consciences dictated. ' " :

A southern visitor to Te. Awamutu who attended at the racecourse this morning, gave it as his opinion that .the Waipa Club's course was one.of the best training tracks he had seen in any part of the Dominion. He added that some of the southern trainers had good cause -to be very envious of those located-in Te Awamutu.

The local shopkeepers, .following the practice obtaining on the occasion of the December race meetings locally, intend to close their premises on Satutrday next from 12 noon until 5 p.m., reopening for an hour to allow of the usual after the races purchases for the week-end and to enable early shoppers to pick up their parcels. ;

A youth named Bruce Galloway narrowly escaped amputating one of his thumbs chopping kindling wood at the premises of his employer on Wednesday morning. Gallowa)y was using a tomahawk, which slipped and gashed his left thumb, surgical attention has been given it, and we understand there are hopes' that the thumb will be saved.

•: The monthly meeting of the Te Kawa Women's Institute was held in the hall on Wednesday of last week, When Miss Jeffe'xson presided-over a fair attendance. The competition, a' winter bouquet, was won by Mrs A Stewart, while Miss Alderson won the second place. Miss Alderson contributed songs. The roll call was based on " My funniest experience. Hostesses for the afternoon wer e Mesdames Harker, Henderson, Benton and Miss. Alderson.

A Paterangi correspondent advise?; that a- welcome home, in the form of a surprise party was tendered Mr and Mrs George Finch on Saturday evening. There was a large crowd of friends from Mangapiko, Te Rore and Pirongia, The time was spent in dancing and games. After supper Messrs S." Macky, S. Rhodes, Ger'mann and K. Macky spoke on be-, half of the district, and wished Mr and Mil's Finch long life and prosr. perity. Mr Finch suitably responded. The singing of " For They Are Jolly Good Fellows" and " Auld Lang Syne" brought the party to a close about midnight.

In the course of his address at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening Mr. Albert Rutesell, of Auckland, referred to. the published report .of. remarks made by the Right Hon. J, G. Coates at :a function : arranged by.'manufacturers in Dunedin some time ago. Mr Coates had admitted that there was a definite undertaking at Ottawa toi investigate tariff matters generally, bijt New Zealand wJas in no way. com|mitted to do. so. Mr Coates' statement on this point was utterly, at va-riance with article 7 of the Otr tawa Agreement—a sacred undertaking. The speaker declared that-New Zealand was in honour bound to implement its obligation; >■ He felt that there would be some shuffling when tariff matters cam'e before Parliatment during the coming session, by the functioning of party politics. The average elector could controvert this shuffling % demanding that the Ottawa agreement be honoured, to the letter. Electors should demand that each' member of Parliament insist on observance of the Dominion's obligations.