Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8494, 27 July 1933, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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The Waihi Men’s Golf Club will play a four-ball, best-ball bogey sweep next Saturday.

In an announcement on our front page Mr P. G. Brady calls attention to his stock-taking winter sale, with special reference to ladles’ wear. The Waihi Labour Party’s fortnightly socials and card tournaments will be continued to-morrow (Friday) evening, the Blue Boys’ Orchestra supplying the dance music. Housewives will find a fresh list of prices at which groceries and other requirements can be obtained at the Self Help Co-op Store, Seddon Street, on- page 4 of to-day’s issue.

Thames prospectors searching for gold under the Unemployment Board’s subsidised scheme are dissatisfied with some of the conditions and contemplate holding a meeting of protest.

"We will now sing "Lead, Kindly Light," announced a minister in a Wanganui church on a recent Sunday evening. Just at that moment, with - out even a flicker of preliminary warping, the lights temporarily failed and the building was plunged into darkness.

On page 4 of to-day’s issue Caro’s Great Bargain Stores, upper Seddon Street, announce a special sale of a big job purchase of a warehouse stock, many of the prices being listed. To-morrow (Friday) every customer spending 20e will be allowed to choose any article valued at Is, paying Id for same. “We of the present generation may possess wonderful knowledge, but I cannot say that we are wiser than our fathers. The strides made by science are such that if we do noi know a great deal more than our forefathers we should be ashamed of ourselves,” said Archbishop Jujins, preaching at the South African Veteran’s service at the Christchurch Cathedral.

The audacity which characterises the movements of certain lightfingered gentry was illustrated last Sunday night, when two overcoats were removed from the vestibule of a Hamilton church during the service, Strangely enough, the text for the sermon at this church was, “And whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which h? peemeth to have.”

“One of the results of the Ottawa Conference, I feel sure,” said Lord Bledisloe to a Rotorua Morning Post representative at the Rotorua Show, “is that it is going to open an enormous market for the kind of pig that I know New Zealand can produce. As it is, the New Zealand pig (pointing f.o one he was inspecting) has too much 'Wglg.hjt, at the shoulder and not enough at the hap)s,” The Waihi Nigger Minstrels will give a performance ip the Academy , Theatre this evening to further th,e campaign of the Convent Old Boys Rugby queen (Miss M, Spiers) and the producers are quite confident that a first-class show will be put before the audience. On Saturday the same committee will hold a gala day on the Recreation Ground, record entries having been received for tho tug-o-war .tvtfn.ts. Particulars of tho programme appepy in another column.

Various rumours and inaccurate statements have been in circulation in the town with reference to the Waihi Rugby Football Union’s effort to provide a new playing area and .ojpo that Is at present going the rounds freely is to the effect that the union is only getting a ground pf its own so that it will in future be in a position to make any charge it lik js to the public for admission to matches. This, an official of the union informs us, is absolutely incorrect. A small charge of course will be made for seats on the grandstand, which is only reasonable, but there is no intention of raising the charges of admission whatsoever—lndeed, it is realised that it would be diametrically opposed to the interests of the game in Waihi to do so. We are also informed that where possible the improvements to be carried out on the ground will be effected by unemployed labour.

"New Zealand Is the only country in the world with a cow population which exceeds its human population,” said Mr C. M. Hume in an address at Oakura last week.

The monthly meeting of the Waihi branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union will be held In the Miners’ Hall readying room to-morrow (Friday) evening. The St. John Ambulance lecture whtich was to have been given tonight by Dr. Hetherington has been postponed for a fortnight, but the usual practice will take place at 7.30 o’clock.

The Waihi Coursing Club will hold its third meeting on the plumptou, Willows road, on Saturday next when an all-aged stake will be contested, the first course commencing at 2.30 p.m.

In the Waihi ladies’ basketball competition the High School Old Girls will play the High School (on the school’s courts) on Saturday and the Arawas will play the Rangers on the Recreation Ground, both games starting at 2.30 p.m. A social evening will be held in Si. Joseph’s Hall on Saturday by the combined committees in the Rugby Football Union’s queen campaign. Several good items will be interspersed with the dances and supper will be provided, the charges for admission being 1/- and 1/6.

Speaking of loyalty and patriotism at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Navy League on Tuesday evening, the secretary, Mr R. Darroch, made a plea for the support of Empire trade and of British shipping, if the Empire were to survive. When one found representative men and women travelling on non-British ships, he remarked, one could only say that they were helping to scuttle the British merchant service. The Navy League felt very strongly on that.

A Bay of Plenty farmer recently sent just over four hundredweight of good sound pumpkins to market and in two months received his sales account and eightpence in stamps. He had had deducted from receipts, railage, cartage and commission. He feels justified in saying he is contributing substantially towards keeping the transport services of the country going and the auctioneers’ flag flying, all of which one must agree is very laudable and should produce a warm feeling about the heart. But as he says, “I’m farming for a livelihood.”