LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5608, 3 May 1919, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Private E. Dunstan, of Waib’, returns by the troopship Rimutaka, due at Wellington on May 17.

Weather permitting, the Salvation Array Hand will render a programme ot music at the hospital to-morrow at 2 80 p.m.

In our advertising columns Mr J. J. Callaghan thanks the electors for electing him a member of ihe Waihi Borough Council.

Mails fer the United Kingdom and Continent ot Europe, per Ajana, close here on Monday, oth May, at 1.45 p.m. Correspondence must be specially endorsed “Per Ajana.”

A pubuc farewell social will be given in the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday to Bandmaster Geard and family, also a welcome to Captain E, BadcliiTe, Waihi’s new commanding officer, His Worship the Mayor will pieside.

“The present cost of high living in this country is appalling,” was a remark made by a returned sclditr, and which caused no little amusement at the last meeting of the Aldington Returned Soldiers' Association.

In another column of this issue the Waihi Hospital Board invites ladies, ot some nursing experience, who would, in the event ot a recurrence of influenza taking place, be willing to render voluntaiy service in temporary hospitals, to send in their names to the secretary.

In another column thanks are tendered by Messrs W. J. Comes and H. a. Pipe to those who supported them at the Borough Council election. Mr Peter Melrose has a similar announcement in reference to the Hospital Board election.

Mr J. E. Sleviu returns thanks to all who voted far him at the election of the Waihi Hospital Board. Mr Slevin has put up a record m local election in Waihi, having headed the poll at the Hospital Board election twice iu succession.

A novel form of election meeting was held in the King’s Theatre, Wellington, on the eve of the election, when Mrs J. R. Gibbons and Messrs E. J. Bightou and Bert Eojle, candidates for the Wellington City Council, delivered addresses, between which were given musical items and moving pictures. A meeting of the Waihi Repatriation Committee will be held in the Borough Council Chambers at 7.30 p.m., on Monday, when all soldiers desiring assistance should appear before the committee. The secretary, Mr J. J. Ritchie, will be in attendance at his office between 630 and 7.30, for the purpose of receiving applications before the meeting.

Speaking in Christchurch, Dr Chesson, District Health Officer, said be • ,’J like to warn people against the :e. uey they bad to box themselves up as soon as odd weather approaches. "With the slightest breath of cold air,” said the doctor, “up go all windows and free ventilation is shut out," By doing this people rendered themselves more liable to catch diseases, which would be the more readily disseminated.

The extent to which pilfering of cargo is practised is illustrated by the recent experience of a Dunedin shoe store proprietor. A esse containing 35 pairs of boots was shipped to him by a Wellington firm. When the case, which presented no external evidence of having been tampered with, was opened, no fewer than 11 pairs 6f boots were missing. The] thieves had considerately left in the case the empty cardboard boxes.

Much has been said about the products pf the Waihi soil, particularly in regard to root crops, but it is doubtful whether anything has yet Jbeep recorded locally that has equalled either in quality or size a small area of parsnips grown bv the manager (Mr A. Findlay) of Mr J. Bay's Waitete farm. Three roots, idea), From a grower’s point, in shape, and ex-cellent-in flavour, turned the scale at 114 lbs. Prior to tbs weighing the tops and tails were cut off, so that nothing superfluous was included in what might be called a record weight.

A curious scene was witnessed at the Highgate Police Court recently, when a girl who was giving evidence fainted, A woman accompanying her loudly called for a cigarette, and the solicitors engaged passed their cases to a constable, who was told by the woman to light it atd " pull hard.” He did so, and was quickly breathing forth huge clouds of smoke, “That’ll do,” said the woman, adding: “Now blow a cloud ot smoke on to her face near the nose.” The officer did so, with immediate effect on the fainting girl. In a moment she bad recovered consciousness, and was instantly on her Feet. This method of restoration was unknown to the police, but the woman said it has always been effectual with the girl, who was subject to faints.

Spurigus half-crowns are in circulation. iff Waihi, and judging by the sample brought under pur notice are a very good imitation of the genuine coin. The imitation is such that it ,is not surprising that business people, apart from others who do not so frequently handle silver currency, should in the ordinary interchange of silver become possessed of the undesirable specimen. However, the discrepancies are noticeable on examination. The coin is slightly Fighter and is darker in colour, and when dropped on to a table the ring of the genuine coin is conspicuously absent. Otherwise ii is an almost perfect fadsamile of the real thing.' If is composed of lead and alirnfiiium . J Special preparations have boon made for the celebration of the twenty-first anniversary elf the Methodist Church on Sunday and Monday. The church, which was opened in 1808, was enlarged, remodelled, and greatly beautified in ■ 014. at a cost of £430. Less than LjUKJ noV remains ns debt upon the property, and Oh '‘/foj't is being made to reduce the amount by £SO. The ftey. P. Quicker has kindly consented to preach in the morning, and the llev. J. Oliphert will conduct t}ie evening scrvacet Misses Winnie Laybouni pnd Eva Clover, of Hamilton, will assist m ilio musical part of the services. On | Monday night an excellent programme . yoca 1 and instrumental music and j elocutionary items will he given in the j Miners’ Union Hall. Misses Laybouni j and Clover and Mr 11. HaJtou will be assisted by a number of local ladies | and gentlemen. The Salvation Army i is expected to play outside the hall prior to the concert.

The Waihi Rugby Union are holding a meeting on Monday evening at 730 Enthusiasts of the game are invited to attend.

The ptogramme to be screened to night at the'King’s Theatre is headed by a Fox production entitled “ Unknown 274,” featuring Miss June Caprice, who appears at first a poor, ill treated chil l of sixteen in an orphanage in Maine. Then two scheming New Yorkers, a man and a woman, believing they can make a fortune by mvrying her to one of the spendthrift millionaires in New York City, take her to the big city, educate her at a fashionable school and put her in fine clothes. The young millionaires admire Juno, but the one whom the schemers try to trick into marrying June does some tricking on his own account after he learns that June is nut the weman's adopted daughter. Another stirring and pleasant part of the story is that ot how June’s father's old violin brings back bis daughter to him after sixteen years. In addition to the ; above Miss Edith Storey will take the lead m “ Kovenge.”

The Minister of Public Health, replying to a resolution of the Waihi Miners' Union asking that moneys granted to widows and orphans as the result of the epidemic, and that the expenses incurred by the local bodies on behalf of the epidemic, be paid immediately, spates:—“l regret the delays in the payment ot epidemic expenses. Had the Hospital Board carried out the instructions and gent a requisition tor the money it would have been paid. The Government does not pay money to .public bodies m advance. A list of proposed pensions from Waihi reached my department on April 14, and came before me yesterday evening. I dealt with it at once, and wired the Board my decision lam also sending money this day. Waihi is Ihe only Hospital Board which has caused trouble by not paying the epidemic pensions." The hospital authorities explain in connection with the above that when the Board found that some delay would ensue before all the accounts could be sent in they followed the example of Auckland and wrote the Minister on February 13 urgently asking for £6OO on account. The only financial response made so far by the Minister has been a telegram received by the Board on April 23rd as follows: —>“ Sum of £IOO sent you this day on account epidemic widows and widowers, approved as per schedule, provided they are attending to families and are not engaged in employment. . . . Payment to vridows to date from January Ist and for widowers from April Ist.” Perhaps the local Board will now sab the Hon the Minister why the widows should not be paid for the whole time of their widowhood.