LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVII, Issue 7993, 24 April 1930, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The management announces that there will be no picture entertainment at the Academy Theatre tomorrow evening (Anzac Day). Teams representing the Waihi and Waikino Bowling Clubs will play a friendly inter-club match on the Waihi green on Saturday afternoon.

Mr R. C. D. Lightbourne, headmaster of the Waihi District High School, who has "been away recuperating his health following an attack of appendicitis, returned at the latter end of last week, and is looking quite his old self again.

Appreciation of her work and that of those associated with her in Waihi’s successful effort to raise funds to assist the New Zealand obstetrical endowment appeal is voiced in a letter to the Mayoress (Mrs W. M. Wallnutt) from the assistant hon. secretary at Auckland (Mrs E. H. Maguire). “We are quite sure that the success in your district is largely due to organising and hard work,” the letter stated.

Mr Gordon Firth, a member of Mr A. S. McNaughton’s prospecting party, which is operating at the head of the Mataura stream, died at the Rotorua hospital on Monday, after a rather sudden illness. Mr Firth, though farming at Ratorua, was in the habit of coming to Waihi every week-end to engage in the prospecting work with Mr McNaughton. At the time of his death he was only 45 years of age. He leaves a widow and six children.

While on his way to Auckland on Thursday evening last Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P. for Thames, had the misfortune to have the body of his motor car—an Essex sedan—completely destroyed by lire near Waitakaruru, a farming district and Maori settlement, some 14 miles from Thames. Mr Samuel, who was alone in the car, noticed flames issuing from beneath the bonnet and an effort was made to extinguish the fire with a sack, but without success.

The question of the amalgamation of the Waihi and Thames hospital districts, discussed off and on by the members of the respective boards and at conferences with the heads of the Health Department for some years past,-will again be raised at a special meeting of the Waihi Hospital Board on Tuesday evening next, April 29th. Representatives of the Borough Council, which contributes nearly £2OOO a year towards the maintenance of the Waihi hospital, will attend the meeting and take part in the discussion.

“The crime of theft is enormously on the increase. During the past ten years it has doubled,” said Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court at Hamilton. “This is out of all proportion to the increase in population. A very regrettable feature is that by far the highest percentage of convicted persons for this class of offence are young people. After the age of 30 the percentage falls considerably. It makes one wonder,” the magistrate continued, “whether one Is doing right in granting probation in such cases. While an individual may pot offend again such lenient treatment Is pot splflcient deterrent to others.”

The fifteenth anniversary of Anzap Pay—to-morrow, Friday, April 25th —rwili Jie ffttingly marked in Wailii with a cpmmempratiye service to be held on fhe Recreation Reserve, weather permitting. or alternatively in the Academy Theatre shpuld the conditions prove unfavourable for an out-door gathering. The service will be preceded by a procession of the bands, returned soldiers, territorials and cadets, the Fire Brigade, girl guides and Brownies, girl scouts and Salvation Army guides and scouts and tliose participating will assemble at the Seddoij MgmoriaJ in time to .move off at" 2.30'‘ SergeantMajor Ratprson will act" as marshal. The gathering will fee presided'over by the Mayor (Mr W. M. Wsssmtt). and the address will be delivered by the Rev. E. S. Wayne, vicar of St. John’s.

In view of the possibility of a reduction in the grade of the Waihi District High School as a result of the falling pfjf |n the attendance in the primary department £JJp following from the annual'report' of thp Now Zealand Secondary Schools Ast sociation will be read with interest: “We have bgep much concerned with the position of tpjffihers ip schools in which there has beep a falj i$ the roll numbers. The economic state of the country, and lower birth rate during the war period have detrimentally affected the attendance of about 12 schools in New Zealand, thereby seriously affecting the grade, | salary and superannuation allowance of a number of teachers. We have made endeavours to obtain an interview with the Minister in connection with this matter —so far without success.”

The executive of the Auckland provincial division of the New Zealand Fanners’ Union launched a campaign yesterday with' the object of strengthening the organisation and meetings of farmers syljj bin l t d |g .various centres, concluding' on ‘Sat^r^af; May 3rd. The speakers, app'oini&f by the executive, will emphasise the necessity for making the union stronger numerically in order to successfully handle the common business of the primary producers of the country, and point out that In the absence of unanimity in all matters pertaining to their welfare the case of farming will suffer. A rally will be held qt Whangamata on Friday, May 2nd, at 2.rid p.m,, and in Waihi the same evening at ?.*45 o’clock; All district settlers, and particularly Jamies and young men, are invited to attend j these meetings. The Rugby football season in Waihi will be officially opened on Saturday afternoon when. the Matajira senior fifteen will meet the Katikati cljjh’g team on the Recreation Ground gf ?. ’ o’clock. This match will be preceded by a juhio'r contest between the Athletic' “A‘i and “B” (Plains) juniors, timed to ! start at 2 o’clock. The Athletic seniors will journey to Walkino to meet the local men and the Mataura juniors to Katikati. The players are all keen and have been indulging in practice for the past.week or two so that patrons should witness good games and the season should start with a swing. The Athletic “B” junior, team will be as follows: Torrens, Haszard, Prendeville, Hoye, Taylor, Mackrell, Fallon, Findlay, Brown, Pocock, Hearn, flrooks, Hands, Mathers, and Nisbet; emergencies, Gibson, Scothern, Manning, and Wotherspoon