Waihi telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9207, 9 April 1938, Page 2

Waihi telegraph WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WAIHI MINER SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1938. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Owing to labour regulations governing the Easter and other holidays, the “Waihi Telegraph” will not he

published on Saturday next, April IG, Tuesday, April 19, or Tuesday,

April 2G, the day following Anzac

Day. Advertisers are requested to

make their arrangements accordingly

A dance will he held in Kennedy s Hall, Waihi Beach, on Easter Saturday, the Dixie Boys’ Band supplying the music. The prices of admission will he 2s and Is 6d.

The annual meeting of the Convent Old Boys’ Football Club will be held in the Pavilion, Rugby Park, to-mor-row (Sunday) morning at 10.30 sharp. All players and intending players are requested to attend. Prior to their departure for Geneva, Mr J. Thorn, M.P., and Mrs Thorn were the guests of honour at a largely-attended function in the Miners’ Union Hall at Thames the other evening, when opportunity was taken to bid them farewell. The principal speakers were the Mayor, Mr S. Ensor, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr K. S. Hetherington, and Mr W. Boswell, president of the Thames branch of the Labour Party. Mr and Mrs Thorn were each presented with a travelling rug.

When general business on the order paper came up for discussion at the monthly meeting of the Waibi Borough Council on Wednesday evening, Cr. J. F. Robertson referred to the comments of the chairman, Mr W. H. Johnston, made at the annual meeting of the Wailii School of Mines, on the work of the institution and the position of its finances. Quoting from the report in the local press, Mr Johnston had emphasised the value of the institution to students which, he said, were to be found in every mining country in the world. Cr. Robertson said the institution deserved every encouragement and the best support the council could give it. He would move that it be a recommendation to the incoming council that the council renew its donation of £l5O. This was seconded by Cr. A. J. Pollock and carried unanimously. For the past two years the council’s annual donation has been £IOO instead of £l5O, on which the School of Mines receives a subsidy of £ for £.

1 The story of the Katikati settlel ment as told by Mr A. J. Gray, M.A., in ‘‘An Ulster Plantation,” makes 1 very interesting reading even to those of tiie present generation. The author is a grandson of the late Mr William J. Gray, one of the bestknown of die earlier settlers. The book deals with the assembling of the Ulster party in 1575 and the sailing of the Carisbrooke Castle which was reserved for the special settlement party; the sailing of the Dover Castle with a body of free emigrants, and the departure of the Lady Jocelyn in IS7S. The chapters “Years of Difficulty” and "Life In the Early Days" set out the struggles of those sturdy pioneers and incidentally include reference to the depression of the eighties. The frontispiece is it photograph of the founder of the settlement —George Vesey Stewart taken about 1557, and in the latter end of tiie book is described his passing at the age of SS which took place on March 3. 1020, Show Day at Katikati. Many of the names ol' the first ; and second parties are given, such as Dunne, Fletcher, Noble Johnston, Leech, Mulgrew, Mulgan, Stewart, Slevin, R. Simms, Middlebrook, Rae, McCauley, Earl, Busby, Blomquist, Dean, Everard, Gallagher, Canon Johnston, Morton, MeClung, Surtees, ( Hoeing, Gledstanes, and other settlers , such as Lockington, T. Tanner and ICillen. The book is on sale at Spearing’s.

The Railway Department directs

tention to an advertisement appear-

ing in another column in connection with the running of express trains during the forthcoming Easter holi-

Our report of the meeting of young farmers, held under the auspices of the Waihi branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union in the Foresters’ Hall on Tuesday, when a young farmers’ club was formed, is crowded out and will appear in our next issue.

Our readers are reminded of the social to be held under the auspices of the Waihi Agricultural and Pastoral Association in St. Joseph’s Hall on Monday evening next, when the cups will be presented to the various winning competitors at the annual show in February last.

Parents of Waihi children now at the community sunshine camp at Motuihi will be glad to hear that the period of their stay has been extended to four weeks. The secretary of the local committee, Mr J. J. Callaghan, has been advised to this effect by Mrs B. J. McKenrick, who reports that it is the opinion of: the authorities in charge of the camp that the extended stay on the island as proposed would prove beneficial to the children. They will therefore not return to Waihi until Wednesday, April 27.

A pleasing ceremony took place at Waihi on Wednesday afternoon when Mr A. Davies, who has for some years been in the employ of the Ohienmuri County Council as quarryman, was the recipient of a presentation from his fellow employees on the occasion of his severing his connection with the quarry to take up a position in Tauranga. The gift took the shape of a set of carvers and a set of cutlery, and was made on behalf of the men by Mr D. Hassett. Mr Davies left for Tauranga on Thursday.

A meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board was held at Te Aroha on Tuesday. In a letter to the board, reports the “News,” the clerk of the Waihi Borough Council stated that in the opinion of the council the time had arrived when the office of the Power Board in Waihi should be open for business for a week or longer following each reading of the meters in the district and further that in view of the business now done in Waihi by the board, the services of a fulltime troubleman resident in the district was warranted. It added that the council felt that up to the present the town had been somewhat neglected. The engineer stated that an officer as requested had already been appointed, and the office would be open continuously.

We have received a copy or the Rugby Annanac of New Zealand for 1935, a comprehensive and valuable production, a copy of which all footballers and football enthusiasts should possess. Excellent full-page photographs of the 1937 Springboks and of the New Zealand team at Christchurch, together with the Almanac’s New Zealand XV, and a selection, with 1 photographic plate, of five players of 1937—G. H. Brand', L. Babrow and P. J. Nell (South Africa) and It. M. McKenzie and C. A. Crossman (New Zealand). Particulars of the various unions, including Thames Valley, with their respective records, also appear in this very handy football compendium, which is published by Sporting Publications, SO, Lambton Quay, Wellington.

To-day week the annual Auckland Provincial hands’ contest opens at the Thames. The Waihi Federal and Paeroa Municipal Bands are participating in the “B” and “C” grade competitions and both have been practicing hard with the object of making a good showing before the adjudicator. To-morrow afternoon the Paeroa band, decked out in their new uniforms, will join in with the local hand at a grand recital in the Recreation Ground. The quickstep evolutions of the two bands should be worth seeing, and in addition the different test selections and hymns will also be played. In the evening the Waihi Federal Band will give a grand concert in the Miners’ Hall, commencing at 5.15 o’clock. There will be a silver coin collection at the doors in aid of the contest funds.

The returning officer for the County of Oliinemuri, Mr A. A. Jenkinson, gives particulars in our advertising columns of the elections to be held on May 11 of councillors for. each riding of the county; including one representative lor the Waihi West riding and two representatives for the Waihi riding; also for the election of two county representatives on the Thames Hospital Board and one county representative on the Thames Valley Power Board. Nominations in each instance close before noon on Wednesday, April 27, at the county office, Paeroa. The returning officer also notifies that no person whose rates or any portion of same are unpaid shall be competent to nominate any person as a candidate or to be himself nominated as a candidate or entitled to vote at any of the above elections.