LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVIII, Issue 5963, 14 July 1920, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The hockey teams chosen to visit Auckland are to attend at the Drill Hall tonight tor practice. A hockey social will be held in the King's Theatre on Friday evening next to defray the expenses of the ladies' team to Auckland. The attendance of the firing party of the Waihi Returned Soldiers' Association, as well as oiher returned soldiers, is requested at the Drill Hall on Tuuraday at 7 p.m. The collection made at the Convent School, Waihi, in aid of the Starving Children Fund amounted to £8 10s 9d, which amount has been handed to the Town Clerk by the Rev. Father Wright.

The burial of the remains of the late Sapper H. B. S. Dargan, who died at the Pukeroa Sanatorium, will take place at the Waihi Cemetery on Friday afternoon. . The arrangements are in the hands of the Defence authorities, ani deceased will be accorded a military funeral.

At the Literary and Debating Society's meeting last evening the question was asked who are the people that have a to rise in life to-day than had the people of 20 years agoP Have the members of the teaching profession? To this question the clmrnSan gave a resounding and most emphatic " Wo."

The annual general meeting ot members of the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries' Union will be held in the Miners' Hall on Friday evening next at 7.30 o'clock. The auditors' report and balance sheet will be received, and nominations for all offices in the union for the ensuing term may Be banded in up till the close of the meeting. During the three months, ended June 30th, the miners' rights issued by the Waihi Warden's Court numbered 70, and one business site license was issued. There were 140 miscellaneous registrations, and the miscellaneous applications received totalled 112. Of these latter the number granted by the Warden was 86.

A preliminary notice in connection with the opening of an evangelistic mission in Waihi appears in our advertising columns. The opening service will be conducted at the Baptist Church on Sunday by the Be v. W. Perry, and on iTuosday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week the Rev, A. A. Murray, of Auckland, will conduct tho services, at which Miss Lind, of Auckland, will assist by singing Gospel solos.

The discussion at the Waihi Literary and Debating Society last evening was most illuminating. Constant reference was made to the high cost of living, and the difficulty of making ends meet iu these days. And yet when it came to the vote the audience showed by an overwhelming majority that it considered the average man and woman are a great deal better off to-day thin they were in the days when the cost of liviog was much lower.

Mr James Loekington, one of the pineer settlers of Katikati, has just disposed of his farm, comprising 176 acres, on which his home stands. The property is within the township area and in close proximity to the Post Office. The original holding was taken up by Mr Loekington when the settlement was founded 46 years ago, and was subsequently added to. The purchase price is £3O per acre, and along with it are included a dwelling and out • buildings. Mr and Mrs Lockington hare taken up their residence in Waihi.

The death took place at an early hour this morning at his late residence, Moresby Avenue, of Mr Henry Haslett, husband of Mrs Haslett, who has been on tho, teaching staff of the Central I School tor a number of years. The de« | ceased had been a great sufferer, and although unable to leave his bed for years, he bore bis illness with marvellous patience. He was a clever and wellread man, and practically up to the time of his death took a lively interest in literature and current affairs. Much sympathy is felt for his widow and son. The interment takes place to-morrow attemoon at, 2 o'clock at the Waihi Cemetery. A reply has been received to the telegram sent by the Town Clerk "to the Board of Trade, Auokhnd, asking the Board to relieve the urgent need for coal m Waibi. Tha reply, which is from the scoretary of the Auckland Coal Trade Committee, states that unfortunately there is a shortage of household coal throughout the Dominion, and that every district is suffering more or less, but that in view of the special circumstances every effort will bo made to relievo the position. The reply also states that the fukeniiro Coal Company his sent for- j ward instructions to the mine that supplies of household coal for Waihi t>hould be / increased to the fullest extent possible. Relief may then be expected in a day or two.

" A Lady's Name " is the title of the star film to be screened at the Academy Theatre this evening. In connection wiih| this story a procession of young men, old men, strong men, weak men, nice men, toughs, nasty men chases after Constance Ta'.madge in " A Lady's Name." She advertises for a husband to get some copy for her new novel, and the- various applications are responsible for situations that could only have been conceived by the author of "A Pair of Bilk Stockings." As the advertisement in question set out many attractions that lent it roseate jhucs—which attractions, by the way, Constance herself possesses in plenty—the replies were multitudinous and multifarious.

The grass and plovers on the Waihi Plains are coming away nicely, and with the increased areas brought under aultivalion diring Ihe past twelve months there will be a marked increase of green feed as pompared with }ast milking season. There are aUo indicia Uons of |;ood hay crops, provided no heavy frosts are experienced, and there should therefore be a considerable increase in the cream output durieg tbo approaching milking season. Settlers are apparently waking up to the necessity of improving and increasing their herds, ar.d apaTt from dairying on adjacent areas, farmers on the plains should he shortly milking the best part of 300 ro?*/ .■.-'''..■ .1