Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8498, 5 August 1933, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER

SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. LOCAL AND GENERAL

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Exceptionally low prices for men’s and boys' clothing are announced in the Army Stores advertisement on page 4 of to-day’s issue. The demand for farmlets and farms in the Bay of Plenty district continues and several sales during the past few days are reported. In a replace advertisement on our first page Mr J. P. Gamble draws attention to the fact that his celebration sale, with an all-round price reduction of 6s 8d in the £l, will finally close on Wednesday next. Something like a local record for rod fishing has been established by Mr W. Walters, of Selwyn Street, Tauranga. Fishing from the town wharf his total for seven days’ was 1004 small kahawai. The biggest catch was 184 in one day. The Waihi Borough Council is offering temporary work to youths between the ages of 165 and 20 years, and those wishing to avail themselves of the offer are requested to leave their names with the borough engineer or the town clerk. A combined picture and concert programme was given in the Academy Theatre on Thursday evening in aid of the funds of the Athletic queen campaign. An excellent entertainment was provided by several Paeroa artists, including Mr and Mrs Jutson, Mrs Barrett, Miss Malcolm and Mr Stewart, Miss Upton, of Waikino, and Mr Caundle and Misses Comes and Skinner (sailor’s hornpipe accompanied by Piper MacDonald), Mrs Malcolm playing the accompaiiiments.

The prosepct of Waihi consumers of electricity obtaining any reduction in price unless the borough becomes part of the “inner area” served by the Thames Valley Power Board seems, to say the least, remote. At the last meeting of the board a letter was read from the secretary of the Waihi Hospital Board asking for a reduction in the price of current supplied to the hospital and the manager, reporting on the request, stated that he had already written the Hospital Board pointing out the impossibility of any reduction, owing to the district in which the hospital is situated being an "outer area” which is not carrying any loan liability. At the monthly meeting of the Waihi Borough Council on Wednesday the question of obtaining an expert report on the condition of the gasworks plant was introduced by the Mayor, Mr W. M. Wallnutt, who reminded councillors that the matter had been adjourned for a month and expressed the opinion that in view of the need for further data ft would bo as well to let the subject stand oyer for another month, Cr. A.. E. Robinson thought it advisable in order to give the gasworks staff an opportunity to check up to extend the period and moved that the matter of obtaining an expert report be deferred for eight weeks from date. This was seconded by Cr, H, W, Hopkins and carried.

Writing to the Thames Star ig humorous vein a correspondent, signing himself “Progress,” says: “A lot of us chaps don’t understand all this talking and writing about the Douglas credi.t system, but a man told me the other (hay it was a good thing, and explained it qs follows: You want a glass of beer and g'O into the pub and order a glass of whisky. You don’t drink the whisky, but tell the lady behind the bar you’ve just remembered the doctor told you not to drlnfc whisky, and would she mipd changing it for g handle. Having safely lodged the contents in the proper place and started for the door, the lady reminds you the beer isn’t paid for. 'No, miss, I gave you a glass of whisky for it.’ ‘But the whisky wasn’t paid for, either,’ says the lady. ‘Certainly not,’ you reply, ‘I didn’t drink it.' If that is the way the Douglas credit works, there’s a lot of us mighty sorry it wasn’t thought of before.”

Messrs Pearce and O’Buglien draw attention in a replace advertisement to their low cash prices for meat.

An attractive musical programme has been arranged for the Federal Band concert in the Miners’ Union Hall to-morrow (Sunday) night.

Mr A, E. Robinson, provincial secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, will speak on monetary reform in the Miners’ Union Hall this evening.

“ The Rev. H. J. Williams, who has resigned his position as vicar of St. John’s Church, left Waihi last Monday. The Rev. G. A. Hancock will conduct the services on Sunday week, while during the balance of the month they will be taken by lay readers.

An application has been received by the Mayor on behalf of the men in the No. 3 relief camp at Whangamata, for a supply of much-needed reading matter, and donations of books and mar.agines will be thankfully received by Mr Wallnutt and forwarded on.

The tug-o’-war events held in the Miners’ Hall last night in the interests of the Convent Old Boys’ queen proved a great success, the final pull between Eklund’s and Rudd’s teams resulted in a narrow win for the latter. Particulars of the various contests will appear in our next issue.

A “Mad Hatter’’ children’s party in aid of the Convent Old Boys queen carnival will be held in the King’s Hall on Saturday next between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. All interested are invited to attend and assist in driving away Old Man Depression and meeting Mr Prosperity. An excellent programme, including folk dancing, games and songs, will be provided.

Postings by the Waihi branch of the St. John Ambulance Association tor this afternoon’s sports fixtures are as follow: Recreation Ground, Sergeant H. Westcott, Privates H. Birse, A. Greenwood, D. KingsfordP. Pascoe, Probationers King and P. Bonnici; Katikati, Corporal N. R. Wynn; Tauranga, Honorary-Sergeant S. R. Birse and Private W. McConachie.

A suggestion was made at the annual meeting of the Morrinsville Cooperative Dairy Company that the dairy factories should put cream in cartons and retail it in the towns. It was contended that a valuable market was available in this direction and if prices for cream were brought down to a reasonable level there would be a large Increase in consumption.

According to Mr lan Idriess, the pearl divers of the Northern Territory of Australia are the best in the world. They have many adventures with sharks. When attacked, the native does not make for the surface, but clings tightly to the coral. This prevents the shark from turning him over. The shark then circles the diver, who bides his time and makes a dash for safety.

During the last two or three weeks certain property belonging to the Waihi High School has been removed without authority. Not being content with taking things that were readily removeable, depredators uprooted and took away a number of trees that were planted on Arbor Day as part of a shelter belt. A notice appears in another column notifying that trespassers on the school grounds will be prosecuted.

Many questions bearing on the problem of getting rid of the Coalition Government were asked Mr M. J. Savage, M.P. for Auckland West, at a meeting in Hamilton on Wednesday evening. Mr Savage said extension of the life of Parliament had closed the only safety valve to prevent revolution. He did not consider a general election likely this year. To another questioner, Mr Savage was doubtful whether legal action to compel the prorogation of Parliament would be successful.

The Waihi High School Committee recently decided to have removed a number of piuus insignus trees at the rear of the school which were useless for shelter, and were in the way of further grounds improvements. The trees are now being felled and removed by Mr Harvey Evans, sawmiller, of Paeroa. By means of a log hauler the logs are being taken across the Mangatoetoe stream to Martin road, where they are loaded on to lorries for conveyance to the mill at Paeroa. Branches and cones from the trees are providing a considerable amount of fuel for the heating of the school.

That land settlement must be an integral part of national policy, but that it was useless to talk of it without first laying a financial foundation which would allow the farmer to make a living was emphasised by Mr M. J. Savage, M.P., speaking in Hamilton on Wednesday evening. Unless those already on the land could be made secure it was hopeless to try and establish others. New Zealand standards could not be maintained if we were to rely on external prices and conditions. Public control of mppey apd plapped production and exchange of goods within New Zealand would raise standards