LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7898, 5 September 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual meeting of the Waihi Defence Rifle Club will be held in the Drill Hall on Saturday evening next at 7.30 o’clock. Intending members are invited to attend.

There were five marriages in Waihi last month, compared with none for the corresponding month last year. Births numbered five, as against nine, and deaths seven, as against six.

Six applications, all of which will be unopposed, will be heard by Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., at the monthly sitting of the Waihi Warden’s Court on Tuesday. There will also be one application for an ordinary prospecting license.

Shares in the Waihi Gold Mining Company are still advancing and at yesterday afternoon’s call on the Auckland Stock Exchange buyers were offering 13s 3d, with sellers holding for 13s 6d. Waihi Grand Junction shares were also up, sellers asking Is lid, with buyers at Is Bd.

It is stated in the Australian Theosophist that there was once a tribe of Indians who allowed an orator to speak only for so long as he could stand on one leg. Would it not be a good rule to adopt in Parliament (writes a correspondent), as it costs the country £5 a minute for its oratory.

It is expected that a flight comprising six aeroplanes of the Auckland Aero Club, under the command of Major Cowper, will be made to Paeroa in the course of the next two or three weeks. The object of the visit will be to search out and inspect various areas which might be possible as landing grounds, a policy the club is energetically pursuing.

Few police cases will come before Mr F. W. Platts, S.M., at the monthly sitting of the Waihi Magistrate’s Court next Tuesday. As well as hearing several charges of breaches of the borough by-laws and the motor regulations, the magistrate will be asked to deal with one charge of assault and one of receiving stolen property.

' A smile is but a fleeting thing, and this is why it is so hard for artists to convey a proper lasting impression of it to canvas, said Professor Shelley at the Jellicoe Hall, Christchurch, when explaining the psychology of laughter. There was supposed to be only one painting, he said, where a smile had been perfectly put on canvas, and this was in the picture, “The Topers,” by the Spaniard Velasquez.

At the next sitting of the Waihi Children’s Court (on Tuesday) there will be preferred one charge of assault, two of disorderly behaviour, one each of unlawfully converting to use a bicycle and a horse, three of committing mischief by breaking locks valued at £ 1 2s 6d in unoccupied houses and one of the theft of newspapers to the value of £1 11s 4d. In connection with the theft charge, an adult will be charged in the open court with receiving.

Mr Frederick Arthur Pollen, an old and respected resident of Patetonga, passed away suddenly on Sunday morning last of heart failure. Mr Pollen, who was the third son of the late Hon. Dr. Pollen, was one of the pioneers of the southern portion of the Hauraki Plains, having taken up a block of land there about 26 years ago. He will be greatly missed in the district as he had always given a helping hand to new settlers arriving in the locality. He is survived by his widow, who is a sister arriving in the locality. Deceased is survived by his widow, who is a sister of Messrs Haszard bros., of Waihi.

“Fifty per cent, of Englishwomen suffer from foot trouble of some kind,” said Mr J. H. Handy, of the London Foot Hospital and School of Chiropody, to a Daily Mail representative. High heels throw an unbearable strain upon the front arch of the foot. Once this drops, the toes become splayed out, with the inevitable result that a tight shoe begins to press and cause corns, bunions and ingrowing nails. The Foot Hospital’s honorary staff treats from 100 to ICO cases every evening, and it is associated with similar institutions in Manchester, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.

Following the recent steps taken by tire Waihi Borough Council to have certain special sites held by the local mining companies within the borough—subject, of course, to sam« not being required in connection with mining or milling—thrown open for seelction for agricultural purposes several applications have been lodged at the Warden’s Court for areas. The sites being applied for are mainly at the eastern and northern ends of the town and vary in size from an acre or two up to nine or ten acres. Subject to the granting of the applications these sites will in due course be converted into farmlets, mainly for dairying.

The president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce (Mr E. Salmond) stated at a meeting of the council of that body the other evening that he had discussed with the chairman of the Associated' Insurance Companies the question of earthquake insurance. The insurance companies were meeting shortly to consider the question. The proposal had been made that earthquake insurance should vary, as did fire insurance, according to the nature of the building. Mr Salmoud remarked that this was an important matter to the whole of New Zealand, and it would be well to wait, before proceeding further, until the companies came to a decision on the matter.

The New Guinea goldfield has claimed another ex-Waihi resident in the person of Mr J. Pollard, who sailed from Sydney by the Montpro on August 17th with Mr H. W. Clark, consulting engineer to the New Guinea Development Company, to take up the duties of mine manager and assayer to the company. Mr Pollard, who came to New Zealand from New South Wales as a lad with his parents, was educated at the Karangahake public school and afterwards >vas a student at the Waihi School of Mines, where he gained the certificates qualifying him for the position he is now taking up. The mission of Mr Clark in New Guinea is to inspect and re* port on recent discoveries made on the company’s leases and to arrange for the securing of additional native labour, with a view to pushing on with an active policy of development of the large area held by the company on the field.

In so far as house property is concerned there is practically no demand at the present time in Thames, but the demand for small farming areas is still unsatisfied and buyers are inspecting properties further afield in the peninsula.—Thames Star. Fourteen civil cases, one of which will be defended, have been set down for hearing at the < monthly sitting of the Waihi Magistrate’s Court next Tuesday. In addition, six judgment summonses will be heard.

“You must get the local paper if you live in the district. It is part of the life of its own public, a bit of themselves, and the advertiser who leaves it out of his calculations is, in my opinion, missing one of the greatest assets in securing sales.” This is the considered statement of Mr R. T. Lang, of Sells, Ltd., London, based on his own experiences and observations during 40 years’ association with big business.