Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9062, 22 April 1937, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1937. LOCAL AND GENERAL

«. . The Waihi branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers* Association will hold a re-union in the Band Hall on Saturday next at 8 p.m. and all ex-servicemen are asked to attend. Members of neighbouring associations will be present. The Waihi Rugby Union's cup competitions will be commenced on Saturday next, the matches being as follows: —Rugby Park: 1 p.m., third grade, High School A v. Mataura; 2 p.m., Seniors, Katikati v. Athenree; 3 p.m., Convent Old Boys v. High School Old Boys. Recreation Ground: 1.30 p.m., juniors, High School v. Mataura. A Hamilton message states that a hundred schools out of 310 in the South Auckland area were closed on Tuesday as a precaution against paralysis. All the Hamilton secondary and private schools were closed at mid-day and children are to be excluded from picture theatres and other amusements. Homework will probably be posted to them. In the ladies' hockey competition on Saturday the Rovers will play the Ramblers, the teams being as follow: Ramblers — A. Craig, B. Craig, P. Purey, J. Currie, K. Furey, R. Leach, G. Dyke, S. Kurney, M. Garvey and C. Taylor. Rovers —Mrs Vuglar, B. Pipe, A. Gilbert, B. Quinlan, R. Johnson, P. Seath, M. Berryman, T. Taylor, L. Lloyd and M. Walters. The High School players are asked to turn up for practice. The following is the draw for next Saturday, when the second round of the Men's Gold Club competition for the captain's trophy will be played: Whitehead v. Hollis, Greenwood v. Payze, Henderson v. T. Clarke, Cullen v. Boyd, D. Haszard v. F. C. V. Clark, Watters v. Metcalfe, Norton v. Ludwig, Stainton v. Spence senr., McDonald v. Hetherington, Coleman v. Rapson, Fraser v. M. F. Haszard senr., Lowrie v. Spence junr., R. Clark v. Morgan, Barrowclough v. another. Players unable to be present are requested to notify the captain or secretary before Saturday. "There should be no poor in New Zealand and there should be no men living on thousands of pounds they have never earned," said the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple), in an address to workmen at Claverley, on the South Island Main Trunk (reports the "Press"). Mr Semple asserted that if the Labour Government was in power long enough the man who was a parasite, living on other people and not on the rewards of his own toil, would be "as extinct as the dodo." He had nothing but contempt for the man who sat on the top of a so-called society and thrived on the toil of others.

The retail-prices index (base: 1926-30 equals 1000) for the three food groups rose 6 points during February (from 910 in January to 916), states the "Monthly Abstract of Statistics," the group contributing principally tp this result being that for dairy produce, which rose 23 points (from 827 to 850) during the month, due to increased prices for eggs. The February inquiry into house rents revealed an increase of 8 points in the index (from 812 to 820) as compared with the position six months previously, when the last collection of data was undertaken. The February "all groups" index stands at 9 00, which is 12 points above that for the previous month and 43.3 per cent, above the 19.14 level,

> The first case of infantile paralysis ' to occur in the Waihi district was reported by Dr. A. Jenkins, medical superintendent of the Waihi hosnital, on Wednesday morning, and who was called to the case. The patient is the little daughter, aged 10 years, of a farmer residing on the Tauranga road, Waihi Plains, who has been attending the Waimata school. She was taken suddenly ill on Tuesday night and the case, we understand, jis a fairly definite one. Owing to I the fact that the family resides in the Thames hospital district, the l child was sent to the Thames hospital I yesterday morning. It is pointed out that she had not mixed with Waihi children and that she had spent her holidays in the Pokeno district. It is anticipated that the health authorities will now impose certain restrictions in regard to the congregation of children in Waihi and district -

Mr James Thorn, M.P., who is chairman of the Fisheries Investigation Committee, informs us that the committee will be in Dunedin and neighbouring fishing ports until the end of the present week. The committee's itinerary will then include Omaru, Timaru, Christchurch, Greymouth, Nelson and French Pass. Mr Thorn will be in Thames for the Coronation celebrations.

Mr de Gielgud, a delegate from the. international headquarters of the Red Cross Society, Paris, will pay an official visit to New Zealand in September. Accompanied by Mrs T. H. Lowry, Dominion president, he will tour the Dominion, and while in Christchurch he will be the guest of Lady Wigram, Christchurch. It is probable that he will address public meetings in each town he visits. The shooting season for the Waihi district opens on May 1 and will remain open for two months. Followers of the sport should bear in mind that the season will not be opened in the Tauranga district until a month later (June 1). The boundary line between the two districts extends from the Waihi stream at the Waihi Beach through Mr P. Hicks' farm on the plains and thence in a straight line to Mount Te Aroha.

Summer time officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday next when all clocks must be put back thirty minutes, since the last Sunday in April is the day decreed by the Act for the reversion to standard time. The immediate effect, of course, will be to make the latter part of the day perceptibly shorter, and there will not be much in the way of daylight after 6 p.m. The mornings, on the other hand, will be correspondingly lighter, which will be appreciated by early risers.

The sum of £IOOO for a nose is being claimed from a Danish exhibition committee by R. von LiphartRatshoff, an Italian count. The nose belonged to the bust of Voltaire by the famous French sculptor, Jean Houdon. It was to be exhibited at Charlottenborg in Denmark. On arrival a Copenhagen the bust was found to have had its nose knocked off during transit. Count LiphartRatshoff thereupon demanded £IOOO from the exhibition committee. They refused to pay and the claim has been taken to law.

Considerable alarm and indignation is expressed by a number of ratepayers in the Waihi, Waikino and Waitekauri riding of the Ohinemuri County who have opened valuation notices recently. Revaluations in a number of instances exceed by 100 per cent, the previous valuation and this may mean heavy increases in rates. The remedy of the ratepayer is to lodge his objection to the valuation and have the consideration of the Assessment Court. The matter is to be fully dealt with at the annual meeting of the Farmers' Union to be held in Waihi on Friday night.

The decision to hold a combined goldfields reunion in Auckland on a date to be arranged, also a social gathering in the Town Hall, and a picnic on one of Auckland's seaside beaches, was made on Tuesday evening at a conference in Auckland of delegates from various goldfields centres. The organisations represented were the Thames Girls' Club, Old Thames Girls' Association, Old Thames Boys' Association, Karangahake Old Boys and Girls' Association, and Coromandel County Old Boys, and Girls' Association. Mr R. B. Boswell was appointed chairman for the meeting, and Mr A. Montgomery secretary.

An enthusiastic meeting of the Waihi Hockey Association was held in the Methodist Schoolroom on Tuesday evening, about twenty members being present. Mr C. Dunstan presided. Mr P. Panapa, a keen player, presented a silver medal for competition. A lengthy discussion ensued relative to the proposed •amalgamation of the ladies' and men's associations, and it was finally decided to send delegates to the; riext meeting ofihe ladies' executive. The following clubs will be represented in cup fixtures this season: Martha, Trades and Wesley. The first match will be played between Martha and Trades on May 1. A practice match will take place on Saturday. 'I

Mr T. Mark, a Public Service Commissioner, accompanied by his typiste Miss Barrett, and Mr Miller, secretary of the Public Service Association, arrived in Waihi yesterday at 5 p.m. and in the evening attended at the Waihi Courthouse, where he met the local public servants, the clerk of the court, the mining inspector, the Government meat inspector, the labour bureau officer, the forestry manager (Whangamata) and a member of his staff, for the purpose of gathering data in connection with the regrading of public servants which takes place this year. Later in the evening they left for Waikino to interview public servants there, after which the party proceeded to Paeroa. To-day they will be paying Thames an official visit.