Waihi Telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXX, Issue 9681, 18 June 1941, Page 2

Waihi Telegraph With which is incorporated THE WAIHI MINER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The first ordinary monthly meeting of the Waihi Borough Council as at present constituted will be held his evening.

The Waihi Federal Band will .veather permitting, play a musical programme on the hospital grounds, .m Sunday afternoon, commencing at two o'clock. A collection will be taken up at the gate 3in aid of tin funds of the hospital.

A man who watched with keen interest Saturday's Rugby at Rhodes Park was the junior selector, Mr G. S Buchan. Class players are at a premium in Thames, as in most other centres, but a union official staled on Monday that a solid team would be fielded in the representative match with Waihi. —"Thames Star."

Speaking at a meting of the Tc Awamutu Borough Council, Cr. L. S. Armstrong made a strong plea that the council purchase a Mayoral robe and chain of office. The Mayor, he said, was called upon to attend, open, or preside at all sorts of gatherings, besides tendering civic receptions to visitors to the town. It was fittina; that this insignia of office should be provided. The council decided to consider the proposal at a future meeting. Adverse comment on the quality of petrol now being supplied was made in the Arbitration Court in Wellington. The general opinion in the taxi industry, where petrol consumption is very closely watched, was given by Mr 11. J. Knight, secretary of the New Zealand Taxi Proprietors' Federation, as being that the petrol now supplied ■is considerably less effective than it used to be. He had heard estimates ranging from 5 to 10 per cent.

"Docs the Bible foretell the future?" will be the subject of an illustrated lecture to be given in the Victoria Hall, Waikino, next Saturday, June 21, at 7.30 p.m. The .speaker will be Mr J. 0. Sanders, superintendent of the New Zealand llible Training Institute (Auckland), who is staled to deal with his subject in a most interesting way. Trained i'.s a lawyer, Mr Sanders is a wellknown speaker in both Australia and New Zealand. In order to afford Waihi residents an opportunity of attending the lecture, a 'bus will leave Transport, Ltd., at 7 o'clock. j

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Murchison earthquake, which occurred during the morning of Juno jl7, 1929. Seventeen lives were lost ' and much damage was done in the Buller district. The shake, which was felt very decidedly in Wellington, and which was followed by booming noises, was easily (he most disastrous earthquake in New Zealand's history since the first days Of settlement, but the subsequent Hawke's Bay earthquake took from it that distinction." Between June 17 and the end of 1*929, no fewer than G 32 other shocks wero recorded as the

result of the initial disturbances

Eight degrees of frosf were registered in Waihi this morning, according to the official local weather recorder, Mr M. F. Haszard. Waihi, for its size, is a particularly law-abiding town; but it is not often that there is not even one erring citizen to face the bench at the monthly sitting of the Magistrate's Court. Such was the position at today's sitting, however, for there were no police cases requiring the attention of Mr W. H. Freeman, S.M. '

Head injuries, abrasions to parts of his body and shock were suffered by Mr Henry W. Shergold, miner, a married man, when he was struck by the rear portion of one of Messrs Wallace Supplies, Ltd.'s, lorries while riding his cycle in Pipe Lane yesterday afternoon. The lorry was driven by Mr Ralph Allison, who did not notice the cyclist as he was backing, I and whose first knowledge that anything was amiss was when he saw Mr Shergold lying unconscious on the ground. The injured man was attended to by Dr. L. It. Hetherington and taken to his home.

"South Africans must choose their friends for the future," declare! General Smuts in a recent speech at Winburg, in the Orange Free State. "I choose the country under which we suffered 40 or 50 years ago, but , ■which, when we were at her mercy, I treated us as a Christian people | should. England—when I speak of j I England I take off my hat. We who I have been through something similar can appreciate it when a nation stands as fast as a wall. Our choice in South Africa, no matter what our language or our origin may be, is to remain on the road of independence of self-government, of parliamentary institutions, of justice and humanity. On that road we shall persevere."