LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3482, 21 June 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of Te Awamutu Bowling Club, convened for last Tuesday evening, did not eventuate for lack of attendance by sufficient members to form a quorum —due, of course, to the very wet and stormy weather conditions prevailing.

A reminder 1 is given that electric power supply to the Paterangi, Te Roue, Ohaupo and Kaipaki districts will be cut off to-morrow between the hours of 9 a.m: and 4 p.m., to allow of certain urgent works being done.

Prices for New Zealand butter on the London market show a reduction of Is to 78s to 79s per cwt, since the end of last week. The market is very quiet. Values for cheese are unchanged.

A Kawhia correspondent reports that while loading logs on the motor ship .Ronaki at Te Waitere yesterday morning a middle-aged man, Mr H. Draper, suffered serious internal injuries. He was taken by launch to Kawhia Cottage Hospital.

Owing tto the continuous heavy rain on Tuesday, which made the course unfit for racing, the committee of the Auckland Trotting Club decided yesterday morning tc postpone the first day's'events until Saturday. The second day will be held next Wednesday.

His Worship the Mayor, Mr C. G. Downes, advises us that he has received £lO for the Grandstand Building Fund, being a proportion of the proceeds from the recent presentation of the comedy, "The Mystic Mirror," by Te Awamutu Musical Club. A condition is attached providing that the nubney must be used for the building by November of next year. Mr Hall Raine has also forwarded a donation of £l.

In connection with the storm on Tuesday evening the story is told of two ardent bowlers desirous of attending the annual meeting of Te Awamutu Bowling Club. At the usual hour they duly repaired to the Club's pavilion, where annual meetings have been usually held for the past decade, but as nobody else arrived they concluded it was a case of others lacking the fortitude to venture out on such a wet night. They learned next morning that eight other members attdnded at another place of meeting—chosen,* f° r some unknown reason, by the executive instead of the pavilion. However, had the two gone to the appointed place there would still have been too few for the meeting to have been held. But, all the same, they are being "chaffed"' for their mistake.

Most districts of the North Island seem to have had a very good drenching of rain this week. Floods are reported ..from North Auckland, with consequent dislocation of road services. Te Awamutu district received its fair share, for Mr W. Jeffery, the official recorder, informs us that for the 24 hours to yesterday at 9 a.m. a total of 2.48 inches was registered. All the streams in the district are in spate, the Puniu especially so. That stream, was so high yesterday that settlers along the lower levels were greatly inconvenienced. One farmer had to traverse his neighbour's property to get from home to the milking shed yesterday. No losses of stock are reported, and to-day the streams seem to be less congested, and the high water mark has receded.