Waihi telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 9364, 21 April 1939, Page 2

Waihi telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1939. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Requiem Mass for the repose of the souls of soldiers killed in the Great War will be offered in St. Joseph's Church at nine o'clock on the morning of Anzac Day, April 25.

Alleged breaches of motor regulations comprise most of the police cases set down for hearing at the monthly sitting of the Waihi Magistrate's Court next Wednesday, when Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M., will preside. Thirty-eight undefended and two defended civil cases will also be considered, together with 11 judgment summonses. As warden, MiFreeman will deal with eight unopposed applications.

Keen interest in the Waihi Wrestling and Physical Culture Club is being taken by boys and men who want to be lit. Every Wednesday evening parallel and horizontal bar exercise, and tumbling, together with other ways of developing the body, is done. An innovation last Wednesday evening was the playing of an American league, live-a-side basketball match. This is a strenuous game, the name of which may give, through common usage, another impression. Inter-town matches will, it is expected, be held soon.

Waihi riders secured their share of the prize at the Te Arolia cycle sports last Saturday. Leo Carr won the half-mile event, and in the mile race Doug. Kingsford got first place and his brother, W. Kingsford, third, while the one and a-half mile event was won by W. Kingsford, with D. Kingsford second. D, Kingsford won the two miles race and Leo Carr got second place, and W. Kingsford, who holds the lap record, won the "miss-and-out" event. Cups were brought back to Waihi by A. Moffatt (points cup and the T.M.C. Cup), D. Kingsford (Leander Cup and the Tretheway Cup) and W. Kingsford (Caledonian Cup and the Stockdale Cup).

Several members of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce expressed the opinion on Wednesday evening that New Zealanders should do more to help Jewish refugees, who would make good citizens. A report from the junior chamber recommended that representations should be made to the Government regarding the admission of Jews, and the chairman, Captain S. Holm, said he agreed something might be done. A member suggested that all unemployed men should be absorbed before aliens were admitted, but another said that New Zealanders should remember that their country could hold many more people. The Jews had been scverely discriminafed against and they made excellent citizens and nationals.

The deposit on loan in the Canterbury Museum of a collection of ."52 small adzes found at Motukarara has raised some interesting questions, slates the Christchurch "Press." Accord ins to (ho acting-curator and ethnologist of the museum (Mr R, S. Huff) (hoy are probably the work of craftsmen of the second, if not. the first, wave of Maori settlement in the

South Island, inoa-hunting tribes who | turned out more careful and skilled I work than the Ngaitabu, who came 'uter from the North Island. The adzes have been placed beside collections from Sumner, Kakaia and Marlborough; a noticeable similarity is shown, as all collection arc marked by the absence of greenstone, and the presence of high-backed adzes with short cutting edges among the i heavier and broader kind.

Hopes long deferred were raised in the minds o£ our farmer friends when slight showers fell last night, and again this morning, when the leaden skies promised a heavy downpour, but up to the time of going to press it had not materialised. Heavy rain in Hamilton was reported by Waihi visitors to that town yesterday.

To-d-.iy is poppy day, and so far as •an be learned at the time we went o pre", the sale of the emblems of •emembranee in Waihi bids fair to ;qual. if not exceed, that of last .•ear. Sellers of poppies were early it work, and long before noon few apels of men's coats were unadorned >y the little red flower.

At the monthly meeting of the Thames Hospital Board, held at Thames on Tuesday, the medical superintendent of the Waihi hospital. Dr. L. R. lletherington, reported that during the month 19 males and 22 females had been admitted and IS and 23 discharged, none and 11 remaining; nine outpatients had made 26 attendances, and there had been 23 operations.

Prospects for the opening hunt of the season in Waihi, which will take place over Mr T. R. C. Haszard's property in Beach road on Saturday, .fune 3, are excellent, according to statements made at a meeting of members of the Waihi ward of the Maramarua Hunt Club last evening. The president, Mr J. Purey, presided over a good attendance. The meet, which will open the third season of hunting over Waihi territory, will be followed by a gymkhana on the showgrounds on Monday, June 5.

Asked how the long spell of dry weather had affected him, a young Katikati farmer, Mr Hector Johnston, stated yesterday that he had been more fortunate than some of his fellows, and it was only his last cream cheque that had suffered appreciable reduction. He attributed this to the fact that he had put in five acres of turnips, which had tided his herd over in the absence of fresh grass. In the same neighbourhood Mr Lance Deverell and Mr Stan Deverell have' come through fairly well becaues of their areas of paspalum.