Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1937. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9063, 24 April 1937, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1937. LOCAL AND GENERAL

To-day is the final day of daylight, saving time and at 2 a.m. to-morrow morning New Zealand will officially revert to standard time. Household-

ers are reminded to make the necessary half hour adjustment to their clocks to-niglit before retiring.

The Mayor and members and officials of the Waihi Borough Council will attend the Anzac service at the Methodist Church on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Members of the Returned Soldiers' Association will also parade and attend the service.

The secretary of the Waihi Citizens' Committee, Mrs A. Carlyon, which was formed to consider tlm question of entertaining the children on Coronation Day, notifies that a meeting of the committee will be held in the Borough Council Chambers this evening at 7.30. An Anzac service will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock, the preacher being the Rev. A. Marshall. The solo "Thou'rt Passing Hence" (Sullivan) will be sung by Mr F. G. Bourke. A retiring collection will be taken up for the maintenance of Anzac grave 3 in the Waihi cemetery.

"Many New Zealanders hold up their hands in horror when we read about the dust storms and floods in America, but we fail to see that the position is ever more menacing right here in New Zealand," said Captain E. V. Sanderson, president of the New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society, in an address at Wellington on the serious consequences resulting from the destruction of native bush and vegetation. It was only a matter of years, he said, before New Zealand would be a desert.

Speaking at a meeting of farmers held at Kerepeehi on Monday, Mr A. H. Blackmore, referring to the proposed Coronation Week celebrations, said that Waihi and Thames were cooperating marvellously. They have taken up the idea absolutely wonderfully, in Waihi the business people are as keen as the farmers. All sports bodies in the Waihi district bad combined to provide displays, including wrestling and boxing. Even little places like Colville and Hikuai were putting on sports meetings.

Only one application for the position of assistant medical superintendent at the Waihi hospital was received at a special meeting of the Waihi Hospital Board last evening. It was from Dr. Rosa Collier, of Kurow, who resigned the position some months ago. The salary then was £2OO a year, but was last advertised at £3OO a year. Dr. Collier offered to make an agreement with the board to remain for one, two or threo years. The board decided, however, to call further applications, which will close next Wednesday fortnight. Dr. Collier's application would be considered in conjunction with any further replies.

"I have a tame Australian magpie at home," said Mr Royal Nelson at the annual meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of, New Zealand the other evening at WellingJ ton. • "It is better than any cats at I cleaning up the sparrows and other small birds. It is death on them." I Several speakers at the meeting gave I instances pf the depredations of the I magpie, -which was described as not a true magpie, though sljghtly related to it, being in effect a sort of crow-shrike. The president (Mr S 3. V, Sanderson) said that he knew of magpies killing native pigeons, and had seen them chasing pipits. Many reports had been sent to him of their having "cleaned out" fantalls wholesale. '

A general meeting of members of the Ohinemuri Mines and Batteries Union will be held in , the Miners' Hall on Tuesday evening next at 7.30 to consider the report of the delegates to the conference and general business. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., will conduct a combined cattle and pig sale in the Waihi saleyards on Thursday. next, April 29. On Wednesday, the J company will conduct a stock sale at Katikati. Estimates for the financial year 1937-38 were considered at a special meeting of the Waihi Hospital Board last evening. Without exception, the items as prepared by the manag-ing-secretary, Mr W. C. Collier, were approved. The total expenditure for the year was estimated at £7125 5s sd, compared with £7678 3s last year. A suspected case of infantile paralysis from Paeroa was taken to the Thames hospital on Wednesday. The suspect is a girl attending school. By order of the Health Department the schools in Paeroa have ' again been closed in order to minimise the risk of the spread of infection. The Anzac Day service has been abandoned. Consumers of electricity in the Borough of Waihi will be interested to know that' their petition to the Government, asking for inclusion of the borough within the Thames Valley Electric Power Board's district, is about to bear fruit. The UnderSecretary of the Public Works Department has intimated that, all requirements having been complied with, the department has approved of the inclusion of the area, and that the necessary proclamation for publication in the "New Zealand Gazette" is only awaiing the signature of the Governor-General. It will be remembered that, as the result of a poll of electors of Waihi taken some years ago, the borough was excluded from the Thaves Valley electric power district. In consequence, since the introduction of electricity into Waihi local consumers have been required to pay for their supply at a higher rate than residents of other districts. On the inclusion of Waihi within the Thames Valley electric power district there will be a considerable saving to Waihi consumers, especially in view of the fact that a further reduction in charges is likely to be . made by the board.