LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3554, 6 December 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There is an unsatisfied demand in this district at present for men for harvesting, and it would seem that, despite tihe times, good wages are offered for reliable men.

A short sitting of the Court presided over by justices, is to be held to-morrow morning, and the usual monthly sitting* of ({he Magistrate’s Court at Te Awamutu is fixed for Monday next.

The par. in our last issue anent the bird caught in a bundle of hay and eventually deposited on top_ of a haystack has brought the information that, on another Te Awamutu dis - trict farm, a hare was actually treated in similar fashion.

A little girl pupil of the Parawera Native school. Eka Katima, had the misfortune to fall ot! a pony she was riding on Wednesday afternoon, with the result that she sustained a fracture of the left arm. The little sufferer was brought inlo Te Awamutu, and attended to by a medical man.

Yesterday the weather forecasts were that rain was imminent all over the South Auckland districts, but Te Awamutu is still waiting. Inquiry in some of the near-by districts indicates that no rain has fallen there, either.

A stranger to the town, whom the police declared was a statutory first offender for drunkennes, who made himself sSamewhat of a nuisance in town on Tuesday afternoon, was brought before Mr G. A- Empson at the local Court on Wednesday morning*, when he was convicted a.nd discharged, upon giving an undertaking to leave town immediately.

The secretary of the Waipa Racing Club requests us to make it clear that the donor of the canteen of -cutlery, which accompanies the stake for the Te Awamutu Cup Handicap at the annual race meeting, is Mr Ernest Montgomery, of the Imperial Hotel, Auckland, not Mr W. Montgomery, as inadvertently published recently.

Inquiry at Uio local Courthouse yesterday revealed that so far no date has been fixed for the January sitting of the Magistrate's Court at Te Awaniutu, but that Friday, February 15th and Friday, March 15th, have been listed. Apparently Mr S. L. Paterson of Harfiilton, will preside, for Mr J. H. Luxl’ord will be absent from the Dominion during those months carrying out magisterial duties at Samoa.

“The Mother Country still continues to be our best customer, and our dependence on her markets is brought home to us when we realise that the United Kingdom took practically 66 per cent of our total wool, 98 per cent of our dairy produce, and 99.7 per cent of our meat,” said Mr T. Currie to shareholders of the New Zealand I 1 arniers’ Co-operative Distributing Company at Feilding the other day. “We can and should reciprocate by buying British goods, thus encouraging revival of trade conditions at Home, to the benefit of our own produce.” Like woman, the post office exercises the prefogative of changing its mind. On Saturday morning the selfenveloping telegraph forms, to which the public had grown accustomed in (he last few years, were replaced in all post offices by a more business-like form enclosed in a separate envelope. But the self-enveloping form, now superseded, itself replaced the envelope, which had been in use from 1923 to 1927. From about 1912 until 1923 the self-enveloping form was in use throughout New Zealand, so that the public have been familiarised with both types of form during the last two and twenty years. Criticism of gambling was expressed by Mr S. L. Paterson, S-.M., in the Hamilton Police Court on Tuesday, when delivering* a reserved judgment in a case in which a. man was prosecuted for trespassing* on the Te Rapa racecourse during the progress of a race meeting. The magistrate said it could not be denied that gambling wlais the principal vice of the community. The large crowds that attended races did not go to see the horses run, hut they went with the hope of obtaining monetary gain as the result of gambling*. Such large crowds formed the happy hunting ground of undesirable characters, such as pickpockets and confidence men, and regulations had been framed prohibiting such men from racecourses,, with the object of protecting the public.

Following the liquidation of the Kiawhia Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. ; some time ago it was found that, the company had been trading as storekeepers, in contravention of the articles of association, and the liquidator was debarred from paying debts incurred under the storekeeping- arrangements, even though he had assets in. hand from the dairying enterprise. Mr Justice Herdman, -at the Hamilton Supreme Court on Tuesday, agreed with, counsel’s contention that the law was quite clear that the liquidator could not admit the merchant’s claims, saying thlaft apparently the only way the merchants could get their money, admittedly due to them, was by the company shareholders making a gift to them. Apparently after paying tihe shareholders 20s in the £1 there will be a surplus of slightly over £IOO. The merchant’s claims total nearly £3OO.

'The exchange was advanced 15 per cent, but the producers have not secured the benefit yet, Mr Richards, M| P. for Roskill, maintained in an address at Te Kuiti on Monday evening. But 107,000,000 lbs of wool were lying in store in New Zealand. The wool brokers owned 40,000,000 lbs and scooped £15,000 overnight as a result of the exchange. In the same way wealthy farm owners—there were still some in. New Zealand secured £127,000. The freezing companies, which had introduced the chain system of slaughtering, scooped £33,700, the wool scouring works £12,000, and shipping companies £48,000. In five instances £37,000 was scooped in one night. ‘‘You gave the Government <i buvnK cheque,’ ”he said. “ Now they are filling it in. But the Labour Party aim to take control of the banking and currency system, fix the price level, give a guranteed price for your products, and give an ever-increasing basic wage to buy those products.”'

The quarterly meeting of the Te Awamutu Fire Board is to be held this evening.

The programme for the Alexandra Racing Club’s seventieth annual race meeting (non-totalisator) at Pirongia is published elsewhere in this issue.

A meeting' of the Te Awamutu Beautfying Society will be held tlhis evening.

“Te Awamutu, with its wealth, of historic associations, has been left out in the cold,” commented a local resident when discussing- the altered itinerary for the visit of the Duke of Gloucester to the Waikato and King Country. He added that it would be interesting to know just why Ohaupo was selected las a stopping place for the Royal train, to enable his Royal Highness to proceed by motor to play polo at Cambridge on the 29th inst. That remark called forth an abundance of suggested reasons, including one that the authorities felt that the Te Awamutu railway station was so much behind the times that they ware ashamed of it; another said that Hamilton must have “engineered” the preference for Ohaupo; a third said the Te Awamutu civic authorities had failed to promptly (advance a claim for this town and district.