Waihi telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL. 9,1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXV, Issue 8902, 9 April 1936, Page 2

Waihi telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL. 9,1936. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The “Waihi Telegraph” will not be published on Tuesday, April 14th. Advertisers will please make their arrangements accordingly. Little more than two weeks of summertime are now left to New Zealanders. April 2Gth will mark the Anal day of summertime, and at 2 o’clock on that morning clocks throughout the Dominion will be put back 30 minutes.

Furniture manufacturers report extreme difficulty in securing the services of qualified cabinet makers. There is a shortage throughout the North Island, and with the inauguration of the 4 0-hour week the position is expected to become much more acute.

After a visit to the United States, where he inquired into the apprenticeship position on behalf of the New South Wales Government, Mr W. J. Napier said in Sydney: “The period of five years’ apprenticeship in trades these days is a waste of time, as automatic machine tools arc the order of the day.”

The Northern S.S. Company’s Taniwha, which will have its annual overhaul on Easter Monday, will be off the Paeroa-Aueltland run for about five days. There will be no passenger service during this period, but an oil vessel will run with cargo only. The Taniwha is expected to resume her running on Sunday, April 19th.

Interesting regulations in connection with the taking of blue cod have been gazetted. They provide that persons shall not take, buy, sell or expose for sale blue cod of less length, than 13in in the natural state, or less than 10 i{in with the head cut off. For private fishermen the length under which they are prohibited from taking fish is 12in in the natural state, or lOin with the head removed. A representative of Japanese importing interests, Mr K. Yoneda, in; terviewed by the Napier “Daily Telegraph” was asked if there was any possibility of New Zealand meat be- | ing marketed in Japan in tinned form. His reply was that he thought there were big possibilities of the Japanese taking meat from New Zealand. Experimenting which had been in progress in Japanese colleges had shown that since the introduction of meat the average height of the students had increased by half an inch. Mr Yoneda was entering into negotiations for large consignments of tinned meat to be shipped to Japan.

There is already a nourishing Maori Arts School in Rotorua, hut Sir Apirana Ngata is of the opinion that, there should he one in Wellington, too. This, he thinks, woould be more convenient for Maoris from the South Island and from the southern portion of the North Island. Such a school, he suggests, might ho established in the Sydney Street shed, which is part of the old Dominion Museum buildings, and where Maori carvers and plaiters tire tit present working on the big Maori carved house which is to be a feature of the new museum, or it; might be deemed advisable to house the school in the now Dominion Museum building on the Mount Cook site. The Maoris attending such a school, if established in Wellington, would be within easy reach of their homes, whereas to reach Rotorua from some parts of the Dominion means much travelling.

Under the auspices of the Waihi Girls’ Friendly Society a chrysanthemum show will be held in the Miners’ Union Hall on Friday, April 24 th.

The Waihi Coursing Club will hold a meeting on the plumpton, Willows road, on Monday next when a full 16dog stake will be decided. Mr E. Brown’s bus will run to the grounds from the town.

The Waihi Cycle Club will hold a meeting on the cinder track, Tauranga road, on Saturday afternoon. Good entries have been received, including riders from Te Aroha, Auckland, Whakataue, Hamilton and New Pylmouth, and excellent racing should be witnessed.

A winner of note two seasons ago, Royal Artist, has been presented by Mr R. T. Reid, of Hamilton, to Mr Maurice Crimmins, of Waikino. In future he will probably be seen in the district show rings, as he is not to be raced again. Royal Artist was a competitor at the recent race meeting at Gate Pa, Tauranga.

“Wagon Wheels,” the popular Zane Grey action story, will bo screened for the last time at the Academy Theatre to-night. On Good Friday night “The Return of Peter Grimm,” featuring Lionel Barrymore, will be shown, while for Easter Saturday two fine attractions have been secured, “Men Without Names” and the Tom Walls-Ralph Lynn comedy, “Stormy Weather.” Eruera Reti, a Maori girl, aged six years, of Waimana, was admitted to the Opotiki hospital in an unconscious state as a result of eating tutu berries. The father said a brother of tiie girl came home and said that she had eaten a large quantity of the berries. The father immediately took steps to stop poisoning, but the girl gradually became worse. The child was taken to the hospital, where she later recovered.

An urgent request from Mr J. E. Harris, a resident of the Waihi Beach to have the seaside health resort linked up by rail was before the Waihi Borough Council at its meeting last night. The letter, which had been addressed to Mr J. Thorn, M.P. for Thames, was sent on to the council with a request for its comment thereon. A full report of the discussion, in the course of which the council decided not to take any action in the matter, will appear in our next issue.

Our Waikino correspondent writes as follows: The third of a series of euchre evenings by the ladies’ committee of the local branch of the Labour Party was held in the supperroom, Victoria Hall, on Tuesday evening, when the ladies’ prize was won by Mrs W. McAra and the men’s by Mr H. Bothell. The final tournament of this popular series will be held on Tuesday next and the promise of a good evening’s play followed by a homemade supper should ensure a large gathering.

The inspector, Mr J. Spence, drew the attention of members at the Waihi Borough Council's meeting last evening to the neglect of the contractors engaged in the construction of the new Tauranga bridge in not placing red lights on the bridge. In the absence of these the bridge was a menace to the safety of the travelling public, while the approaches to the temporary bridge were also in very bad shape. It was decided to instruct the contractors to place the danger lights on the bridge forthwith. The “Waikato Times” of Monday, in referring to the closing stages of tile Auckland Bowling Centre’s champion of champions singles title, states that the Waihi representative, Mr C. Dunstan, made a hold bid to win his way into the final. It says: The second semi-final, between the ultimate winner, W. Barclay, and Dunstan, was a hard tussle throughout the 21 heads, Barclay getting Llie decision by a single point with the score 18—17. This game was not won until the last head, Barclay scoring three after being two down at the twentieth. Dunstan played a sound game, and made a good light of it, the score see-sawing all the way. “The last war didn’t pay, and everybody knows it. The American people will not get into khaki again to light for France or anybody else, and I think New Zealanders and Australians feel the same.” So said Mr Franklin Kilne, editor of an American shipping annual, who is visiting Christchurch in the course of his twenty-third tour round the world. “There won’t be any war in Europe, anyway, because there is no money for war. Italy is not going to get out of Ethiopia. She must have the territory she needs, and sanctions will never be effective. America isn’t going to go to war with Japan over (lie .Pacific. Japan and America arc each other’s best customer, and they are not going to spoil their trade by quarrelling.” “The method of the milk distribution in Waihi is in a chaotic condition,” said Mr W. McAra, who attended the Waihi Borough Council’s monthly meeting last night as a delegate from the Waihi branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. Mr McAra asked the council if it would take the preliminary steps towards improving matters by calling a meeting of the milk vendors, and in support of his statement with regard to the method of distribution he said the overlapping was such that in one sparsely inhabited street live vendors supplied milk to customers. The I opinion expressed by members in the course of discussion was that the mat- \ ter was outside the province of the council and Cr. J. Mitchell remarked that if it was taken up the council might find itself in hot water, judging by tile trouble and controversy on the subject in Auckland