Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7899, 7 September 1929, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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The third term of the Waihi School of Mines will begin on Tuesday next, September 10. As the annual examinations will be held at the end of the term students are urged to continue to attend regularly. No fewer than C 7 people took the air during the recent visit to Otorohanga and Kio Kio of the Gipsy Moth ’plane piloted by Captain McGregor, of Hamilton Airways. Assuming that each passenger was charged £1 Is the trip must have been a highly prolitable one as this would mean a total of £7O 7s. Visitors to Waihi include Mr George Colebrook, a well-known <exresident, who for quite a number of years has been dairy farming and stock raising in the Whakatane district. Mr Colebrook recently retired from active participation in farm work, which is being carried on by his sons. Revenue from all sources to the Waihi Borough Council for the month ended August 31st totalled £l9Bl 19s sd. Towards this gold duty and revenue contributed £632 5s 3d, rates (current £492 Is lid and arrears £47 9s) £539 10s lid, gasworks department £483 14s lid and highways subsidy £ll4 16s 4d.

Overheard at a street corner in Cambridge the other day:—First Lady: “Did you see in the “Independent” what Mr P. Lye, M.P. for Waikato said about gambling, being such a terrible evil? Isn’t he a good man?” Second Lady: “Yes; you know, I often feel really puzzled as to how he gets his shirt on over his wings.” Ruling that a cash docket was a receipt and must be stamped if the amount is over £2, Mr W. Wilson, S.M., fined the Hamilton manager of the Farmers’ Trading Company £1 for failing to stamp such a docket for cash sales totalling over £4. Counsel for the defence claimed that the docket was issued simply as a guide to the delivery man, indicating that the goods were paid for. The magistrate said he must conclude that the docket constituted a receipt, as the amount of the sale and the name of the vendor appeared for the customer’s information, When the requests of residents at the Waihi Beach for various improvements to the resort, including provision for tennis courts, etc., were before the Borough Council on Thursday evening it was quite evident that members recognised the necessity for increasing the attractions and would have been prepared to do much more towards popularising the reserve had money been available for the purpose. When the provision of grounds for games was touched on Cr. H. W. Hopkins fiaifl that this was desirable and had his sympathy but lack of means made it impossible for the council to move in the matter. He suggested that those residing at the seaside should take the initiative by establishing the nucleus of a fund, say £SO, the Borough Council to then endeavour to get a £ for £ subsidy from the Government to have the work of forming the recreation areas carried out by unemployed labour.

The Waihi Soccer Football Club is bolding a dance to-night in the Foresters’ Hall, the admission charges being gents Is 6d and ladies Is. The following players will represent Paeroa in the Poland Cup football match against Waihi (at Paeroa) this afternoon: —Rare, McCollum, Swann, McNeil, McGarvey, McCollum, H. Moore, Page, N. Neil, Henderson, Pitch, Garrick, Taylor, Johnson, Murray. Emergencies: Neild, Bax, McQuarters. The condition of the twelve-year-old boy, George Manning, who was admitted to the Waihi hospital yesterday week suffering from serious injuries sustained when he came into collision with the mid-day train from Tauranga while cycling at the Ford road crossing, is improving. The lad is now practically out of danger.

Outside employees of the Waihi Borough Council must decide whether they will smoke at their work and go without the morning and afternoon “smokos” —each of fifteen minutes’ duration —or continue to have their "smokos” and not smoke at other times. This is the decision of the Finance Committee of the coun'cil, and the borough engineer has been asked to test the men’s feelings on the matter.

Members of Court Waihi, A.0.F., are requested to attend the usual fortnightly meeting at the Foresters’ Hall on Monday evening next, commencing at 7.30 o’clock, for the purpose of meeting Bro. R. Darlow, district secretary, who is paying an official visit to the town. Preceding the meeting of the senior court Bro. Darlow will address the members of the newly-formed juvenile court between 6.30 and 7.30 o’clock.

Many, of the homesteads in the Waitawheta Valley have both vegetable and flower gardens, and during a visit to the district on Thursday a “Telegraph” representative noticed in one of the garden plots a splendid growth of sweet peas, promising a wealth of bloom in midspring. There was also seen a garden plot of about 40 feet square attached to the new schoolhouse, situated near the centre of the valley. The area contained about a dozffn raised beds, obviously the work of the pupils.

That the , tar-sealing of Seddon Street from Rosemont road to Devon Street be proceeded with as soon as the tarring programme for the forthcoming year was in operation, and that the kerbing in Moresby Avenue, from Seddon Street to the Central School, be renewed in concrete and the opposite side from Seddon Street to the existing kerb near Mr Slevin’s residence be treated similarly, were among the recommendations of the Works Committee which were adopted at the monthly meeting of the Waihi Borough Council on Thursday evening.

It was expected that the action in which Dean G. R. Barnett, formerly vicar of St. John’s, Waihi, is seeking an injunction against Bishop C. A. Cherrington restraining him from getting up a commission to inquire into the dean's fitness to retain office would come up for hearing at the Supreme Court sessions in Hamilton this week. Private advices have, however, been received in Waihi that the action has been withdrawn as the result of a compromise reached between the parties out of court. The nature of the compromise has not so far been made public. The cash statement submitted by the treasurer (Mr E. C. Westbury) to the Waihi Borough Council on Thursday night showed that the receipts for the first five months of the current financial year (April Ist to August 31st) amounted to £9931 Gs lid, and payments for the same period to £9128 11s 4d (including extinction of the bank debit of £225 Os 3d), leaving a credit balance of £BO2 15s 7d. Liabilities to be met before Thursday’s meeting were given as £1259 4s 5d and revenue in hand and expected as £1857 15s sd, leaving an estimated credit balance on October 3rd of £598 11s 2d.

That much discussed hook of the Great War, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” is to be placed in the Waihi library—for distribution among adults only. This decision was reached at a monthly meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday evening, when the report of the Library Committee that the book be placed upon the shelves because it was “the most powerful indictment against war yet written” was adopted. The Mayor (Mr W. M. Wallnutt) said that Cr. (Dr.) Short and he, as' members of the Library Committee, had read the book and had considered that it should be circulated. Reporting at the monthly meeting of the Waihi Borough Council on Thursday evening the Lighting Committee stated that it had made an inspection of the street lights on the evening of August 30 and recommended that the light on the tram former at the intersection of Maigaret Street and Seddon Avenue he moved to a new pole on the edge of the pavement; that a new electric light he erected on the bend in Seddon Street, to the east of the Mangatoetoe stream; and that the gas light at the intersection of Kenny Street and Barry road be fixed to the telegraph post if the consent of the Telegraph Department could be obtained. The recommendations were adopted.

Misfortune attended the car journey of Mr and Mrs C, Copestake and their companion, Mrs B. McLeay, to New Plymouth last week. The party left Waihi last Monday week and on the following day, while passing through the Awakipo gorge, about 00 miles from New Plymouth, something suddenly went wrong with the steering gear and the next moment the car (a comparatively new Chandler) went over the embankment, coming to rest about 4 0 feet down. Writing to a friend in Waihi, Mrs Copestake states that they were very fortunate in getting off as lightly as they did, but the car was very badly damaged and was ultimately towed into New Plymouth, A curious co-incidence in connection with the mishap ip the fact that a comprehensive policy over the car expirpd at 4 p.m. on the day of the accident and it was only a tew hours earlier that the vehicle went over the bank. Mr Copestake had, prior to leaving Waihi, taken out a new policy dating from September Ist, and after 4 p.m. on the Tuesday, August 27th, he would have carried no insurance for three days.