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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7912, 8 October 1929, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-morrow (Wednesday) will be “egg day” at the District High School, the money derived from the sales to go to the dental clinic fund.

A citizen’s meeting, convened by the Mayor, will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening to consider the question of arranging a suitable farewell function to Mr J. J. Fox.

A meeting ot the newly-formed Waihi Pigeon Racing Club will be held at the Miners’ Union reading room to-night at 7.30. All interested in the sport of pigeon flying are invited to attend.

Income to the Waihi Borough Council from all sources during September month totalled £lß6l 10s 7d, the chief sources being gas department £575 14s Od, gold duty £-550 10s, goldfields’ revenue £299 Os Gd, Tates £9l 15s 9d and abattoir £65 15s 3d.

Mr Charles A. Banks, who recenved his mining training in Waihi and who is a mining engineer in Vancouver, is visiting New Guinea to report on developments in connection with the Placer Development Company’s areas in that country. After inspecting the mining fields there Mr Banks intends visiting New Zealand with the object of investigating alluvial deposits in the South Island, then returning to Vancouver to report to his principals.

Members of the Waihi Golf Club played another four ball match last Saturday senior players partnering juniors. The honours for the day went to R. C. Cullen and C. D. Rollett, 8 up, A. H. V. Morgan and M. F. Haszard, 4 up, taking second place. Next Saturday will be the closing day, when mixed foursomes, players to choose their own partners and opponents, will be played. Competitions will follow, and the annual prize giving and afternoon tea will bring the season to a close.

Waihi and Hikutaia ladies' hockey representatives met at Paeroa on Saturday afternoon, when Waihi won the game by 3 goals to 1. Waihi fielded the stronger team, but the play was patchy and the winners should have given a better account of themselves than they did. Allowance has, of course, to be made for the fact that the Hikutaia team has not long been in existence. The scorers for Waihi were Misses C. Inglis, A. McMahon and E. McConnell. Mr C. Dunstan (Waihi) was the referee.

With a request that the Waihi Borough Council carry out the work of tar-sealing portion of the South School grounds, a deputation from the Schools Committee waited on the Works Committee of the council on Wednesday evening. The recommendation of the committee was that the work as requested by carried out by the council and charged to the Schools Committee, and that the engineer's staff be supplemented temporarily by the number of men employed in this work, was adopted at the ordinary meeting the following evening.

There are at present seventeen unemployed men on the Waihi list, twelve of them being urgent cases. The Mayor (Mr W. M. Wallnutt) has wired to Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P. for Thames, re the promise made by the Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Public Works, to place a number of these men on relief works in the district. So far the Minister has evidently not communicated with the Public Works Department at Paeroa on the subject as the engineer advises the Mayor that he has received no authority to go on with any work.

Mr E. G. Banks, formerly superintendent of the Waihi Gold Mining Company and now looking after the company’s interests in the Bast, writing to his brother, Mr J. H. G Banks, superintendent of the Victoria mill, Waikino, refers to his recent movements. Mr Banks, accompanied by Mr A. D. Hastle, secretary of the Waihi Gold Mining Company, left London early in September on a tour of Belgium, France and Holland, visiting the battlefields of Ypres and Dixmunde. After returning to London Mr Banks will leave for the Malay States on the 15th of this month.

The cash statement presented by the treasurer (Mr E. C. Westbury) at the monthly meeting; of the Waihi Borough Council on Thursday evening, and covering the first half of the current year ended September 30th, showed the gross receipts for the six months to he £11,890 13s lOd and the payments—including the extinction of a debit balance of £225 Os 3d at April Ist—as £10,992 9s sd, leaving a credit balance of £B9B ■ls sd. liabilities to bo met before October 31st were estimated at £1429 14s Id and revenge in hand and expected before that date at £2013 4s sd, leaves a credit balance of £.58,3 10s 4,d.

The origip p£ an pifthrepk of fire Mr W. Leach, Pukewera road, in the and a 8-cow plant, the property of Mr W. Jiukemera road, in the Waikino ridipg, is spinewhat of a mystery. Kverythipg appeared as usual when the evening milking at the shed was completed, but early on Wednesday morning the shed, which is some distance from the homestead, was found in flames. All hands formed a bucket brigade and after a strenuous fight succeeded in saving ono of the bails. The remainder of the building and plant were practically destroyed. The plant was covered by an insurance policy taken out by the company which supplied it. Preparations for replacing the shed and plant are already well in hand and in the meantime the herd is being milked by hand.

A farmer residing close to Hastings, who plants a small area in potatoes each year for home use, state,; that this year he obtained the phenomenally heavy crop of four tons of good table potatoes from an eighth of an acre. He explains that Ills heavy yield of approximately 80 tons per acre was the result of the method he employed in preparing his seel }. He went to the trouble, when planting th,o seed, pf picking out all th.e eyes except Uir.ee, which he left at one end. T|te resplt, he contends, is a much stronger plant, and more and much larger potatoes to the root. The seed was ordinary size and the cultivation that which is usually given to the crop. This is a very simple experiment that any potatogrower may try, and ascertain for himself if better results can be obtained than by following his usual practice.

Scrub burning in Boundary road resulted in the fire brigade being summoned at about 5.30 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The flames had spread rather extensively and were threatening to set alight the hedges of neighbouring properties. No damage was done.

Mr Walter A. G. Hume, well known to most old Waihi residents, passed away at his home on the outskirts of Hamilton early yesterday morning. After carrying on cattle dealing for many years deceased purchased a farm at Aongetete (Katikati district) on which he milked for the factory and also raised sheep and cattle. On disposing of the property some nine or ten years ago Mr Hume retired and took up his residence at Hamilton.

“A start has been made on the improvements at the Waihi Beach authorised last month,” stated the borough engineer (Mr M. F. Haszard) in his report to the monthly meeting of the Borough Council on Thursday evening. “Thirty-six trees have been secured and planted. To protect those from straying animals required a number of light posts. These have been secured from old timber lying in the Union Street yard. The footbridge has been erected from timber secured from the Grey Street bridge. Pipes for culverts have been taken out and those under the footpath laid. A man from the staff has been sent out to assist the caretaker in these works.”