Waihi Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9206, 7 April 1938, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

In addition to the Waihi meeting, Mr J. Thorn, M.P., has recently addressed meetings at Tapu, Kennedy’s Bay and Coromandel and received votes of confidence in each instance.

The official opening of the Waihi Golf Club, postponed from last Saturday on account of the inclement weather, wil lbe held on Saturday next, April 9, the draw for partners and opponents to be made at 1.30 p.m.

A Christchurch message states that there is an apparent deficiency of £13,249 7s 7d in the estate of the late Thomas Newburgh, a former Mayor of Sumner and well-known sharebroker, who was found dead in his car at Culverden on March 15. Assets totalled £07,384 3s lid, while the total indebtedness was £94,192 11s 9d. Thomas Newburgh estate’s proportion of this total (thirteenfifteenths) was £81,G33 11s 6d.

Officers elected at the annual meeting of the Waikino Women’s Institute are as follows: President, Mrs N. Lithgow; secretary, Mrs D. B. Currie; treasurer, Mrs L. Phillips; committee, Mesdames Bartlett, Bedford, Jesney, Cooper, Kennedy, Ayres and Pope and Miss Owens. The retiring president and secretary were presented with a bouquet and a small present. Mrs Jones and Mrs Lithgow saug a duet. The hostesses were the retiring committee. Mr S. M. Hovell, ethnologist to the Tauranga Art Gallery and Museum, leaves Waihi for Tauranga to-day to attend the museum council meeting to-night and arrange the exhibits of the Maori court for the opening day of the institute on Saturday next, April 9th. The Mayor and Mayoress of Waihi have been invited to attend the opening function. A Minister of the Crown, members of Parliament and representatives of scientific institutions throughout New Zealand will also attend.

Amongst the various matters dealt with at the annual meeting of the Waihi-Waikino-Waitekauri Ratepayers’ Association on Monday evening was the question of improving the local service provided by the Thames Valley Electric Power Board. In re-* ply to enquiries by the retiring secretary, Mr K. Bjerring, following the decision of the association at its previous meeting, advice was received to the effect that arrangements had been made by the Power Board for the permanent appointment of Mr D. Brown as troubleman, and the establishment of an office in upper Seddon Street.

“Surely a volunteer fireman shou

be insured up to the hilt; it is not as

if an accident occurred in the course of his ordinary work,” remarked Mr W. Bice (Government nominee) at the annual meeting of the Waihi Fire Board on Tuesday evening, when formal correspondence in regard to compensation paid a fireman who suffered a slight injury in the course of his duties at the Academy Theatre fire was being read. The fireman was away from his usual work for

several days. Mr W. Skegg (Auckland) said all claims for eompensa lion were dealt with under set head ings. The superintendent, Mr W. K

Roberts, said a fireman’s compensation was augmented by a special fund controlled by the Fire Brigades’ Association. In the case of the young man concerned an additional £2 5s would be received. "That’s not so bad, then,” reniakred Mr Bice.

Holidaying in Suva, according to Mr J. Lockington, who, along with Mrs Lockington, recently spent three weeks there, and who was in Waihi this week, presents many interesting features. The hotel at which they put up was staffed entirely by Fijians, anti their service, he said,

was quite good. A small tip to a big woolly-headed barefooted native when he brought the morning tea to their bedroom, and a few subsequent tips, not amounting in the aggregate to an ordinary single tip, ensured

loyal personal service during theii stay. Owing to the excessive heal the scantiest of apparel was worn and at least two baths a day seemed

to be necessary for personal comfort. The daily menu, as far as meat was concerned, was beef only, which varied ip quality. But here again Hr Locking top’s timely tip enabled the choicest to come his way. One of

lieir pleasures was attending church

services. The Fijian preacher, after discoursing in the native language, rendered it. info English. The sing-

ing, with no instrumental accompaniment, was marvellously good, the hymns being sung mostly to familiar

tunes. Tlie voices of the grouped singers rose and fell in a cadence of wonderful harmony. During the visit Mr Lockington inspected the principal mines situated about 130 miles from the town.

A meeting of the Waihi branch of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association will be held at Waikino on Saturday evening, cars leaving the Commercial Hotel at 7.45.

The recent railway disaster in New Zealand had the following across-page headlines in the “Sydney Sun”: —“Was maniac wrecker of New Zealand train?” “Foul play suspected.” “Two previous attempts foiled, but crazed culprit was never caught.” The removal of two of the four oak trees in the front portion of the Plunket Society and ladies’ restrooms' by the Borough Council’s staff will be generally welcomed by patrons of the rooms. It was considered by many people with the growth of years there was too much shade by the closely planted trees.

For the first time since the South School has been administered by a separate committee in 1933 an election will take place. There are 13 candidates to fill nine seats and the poll will be taken on April 13. Included in the candidates are two ladies, Mesdames Stokes and O’Neill, who have been nominated by the Waihi Women’s Institute.

“It is a fairly serious matter for motorists not to give way at pedestrian crossings,” said Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton. “Pedestrians think that they are safe on the zones and if motorists disregard the regulation* someone will be killed,” he added in imposing a tine of £1 on Frederick William Thomas, J.P., convicted of failing to give way to a‘pedestrian on a crossing in Victoria Street.

Should the weather be favourable there should be a large attendance of the public on the Recreation Ground on Sunday afternoon to witness the Waihi Federal and Paeroa Municipal Bands going through the quickstep evolutions. This event was to have taken place last Sunday, but it had to be postponed owing to the inability of the Paeroa band to receive their new uniforms in time. Sunday will be the last occasion on which'the general public will be able to sec both bands in action, and of hearing the various test selections being played. In the evening the Waihi band will give a grand concert in the Miners’ Theatre, commencing at 5.15, at which there will be a mixed programme of vocal and instrumental items and several band selections.

As a result of a round-the-tabie conference between representatives of the Waihi Agricultural and Pastoral Association and the Borough Council held last evening at the conclusion of the ordinary business, relative to the question of acquiring a permanent showground, and after the question had been discused at some length, the following resolution was passed by the council and approved of by the association representatives: “That the association be informed that the council is agreeable to hand over the land that is at present in use as a show ground (about 13 acres) on condition that, the association will obtain a clear title for the council to the four Tauranga road paddocks and it will at its own expense obtain the title to the whole of the abattoir lands which it wishes to acquire.”

The opening of the new Waitawheta stream bridge took place on Monday afternoon, in the presence of the chairman, clerk, engineer and most of the members of the Ohinemuri County Council, as well as representatives of the Waihi Borough Council and Chamber of Commerce. Also present was the Hon. E. Dye, M.L.C. The chairman of the function was Air C. Mason, of Waitawheta, a past, member of the Ohinemuri County Council. Air Jas. Thorn, M.P. for Thames, performed the ceremony. Air Alason briefly thanked the representatives of the various local bodies and organisations for their attendance. He stressed the drawback the settlers had experienced in not being able get goods across the stream when lijjgently needed. Other speakers were Alessrs A. C. Thomas (Waihi Chamber of Commerce), W. Crimmins (Ohincmuri County Council), A. R. Robinson (deputy-chairman of the Ohinemuri Council), T. A. Barrett (member of Thames Valley Power Board) and J. J. Callaghan (Waihi Borough Council). Following the ceremony, those present were entertained by the settlers’ wives to afternoon tea in the Waitawheta Hall.