The Waikato Times. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1914. DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Issue 12906, 29 June 1914, Page 4

The Waikato Times. MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1914. DAY BY DAY.

The public-Kpirited gentlemen who have come all the way from Town England to lighten tho Planning darkness of Xew ZeaVisitors. holders in tin? matter of town-planning might do worse (says the Lyttelton Times) than turn their attention to some of the raw new towns in the North Island when they have completed their tour of the main centres. In the back country, it anywhere, is a field for the apostles of tho it of beauty Ln town-designing, ft is clearly a matter of difficulty to make radical improvements in wellestablished cities, although msirh might he done evou in Christ rhureh if the civic authorities and the citizens could make up their minds to rid tlio city Of unsightly teatuivs. Hut in the new and rapidly grow ing provincial towns, which may i.e the great cities of the future, there is a wide field for the artistic and scientific town-planner. To Kuiti and Taumarunui, in tho heart of the North Island, are examples of the colonial town in its "half-baked" stage. These places, like many others in the newlybroken districts, are growing up without any definite civic plan. After tho fashion of the old mining camps, they just grow, houses and stores springing up anywhere and anyhow. Te Kuiti and Taumarunui must bo important cities some day, and they may be made very beautiful cities, lying in a ring of hills, with clear rivers flowing through them, Avons on a larger scale. The people of those parts are too busy just yet to trouble much about town adornment, but they should bo given a lead, and- Mr Charles Rondo and his fellowcrusader have an opportunity now of doing the country a service and earning the gratitude of future generations by studying the new-made provincial subcentres and conducting the pioneer town councils into the paths of sightliness and beaut v.

The scheme for the improvement of Jerusalem, mentioned Modernising in a cablegram reeentof ly, involves the disapJerusaJem. pearanee at' much of the old town. ' Very shortly the streets of the Holy City will hum with the noise of the electric car,'' writes a correspondent, "and its more important thoroughfares will be illuminated at night with the brilliant electric filament. Its old picturesque walls and massive towers are to be pulled down, and the city is to have an adequate water supply. The rapidity with wliich Jerusalem is extending through the return of the Jews in such large numbers to the city of their forefathers, has rendered these improvements necessary. Indeed, to the north and west of the old city there have sprung up, within the last decade, large Jewish colonies, populous residential sections, as well as convents, hospices, institutions, schools and other buildings, with the result that to-day there is a greater Jerusalem without the walls than within." Until last j ear the streets of Jerusalem were, wateied by natives, who carried the water in skins and sprinkled it ineffectively by hand. Now a water-cart built in Britain does the work. The Holy City ha-s been given a telephone system, and its police have been mounted on bic-ycles. A generation ago a proposal that a railway should be constructed from the coast to Jerusalem was regarded as positively sacrilegious.

A white cock pheasant has been shot near Puhipuhi, in the southern end of the Bay of Islands County. . An old man named Thomas Webb has been missing from his home in Avondale since Thursday evening A young man named Wright, a Tasmania n, aged 22, was killed on Friday afternoon at McHugh's sawmill, Taringamutu, by a blow from a rope. A young man, Arthur West, was charged before MriL ißawson, S.s£., today, at Hftnuttxtf, #itb furious riding. Evidence was givett that he chased a

Messrs Dalgety and Co. drar the attention of buyers of 'dairy stock to a clearing sale whicJi they are holding tomorrow at Gordonton, when they are offering the whole of "Mr F. SL Thomson's dairy herd, heifers in calf, store cattle, implements, etc. Full particulars may be found in their advertising j columns *of this issue.

\ "It is terrible t-hat they should supply these men <vith liquor, so that they can drink off the premises," remarked Mr E. Ravson, S.M., at the Hamilton Court to-day. The remark was occasioned by the appeirance of aJirst offender, who had been found d/unk last night..on ihe iivcr bank with an empty bottle of whisky by his side.

There is a good demand for dairying lands at the present time in the dis< trict, as evidenced by the fact that Messrs T. Mandeno Jackson have disposed of seven of the eleven subdivisions offen-d in connection with the Daradale estate at Hillside. We understand that the four remaining sections wiil be quitted within the next few days, negotiations having been opened re the disposal of the same.

There were four eases down on the list under the Dog Registration Act at the Hamilton Police Court tp-day before .Mr E. Rawson, S.M. Before they came un for hearing, however, it was announced that the fees laid been paid, and it was desired that the cases Ito withdrawn. Mr Rawson agreed, but .• tipulated that in future foes paid under similar circumstances must have •5s costs added to them.

Tho toliM'horn l service from Xgaruawahia to the new post office at (Jlon Masv T, tlio mining township, is now complete, and is proving of groat convenience to the public. Tlio office will be onon within a day or so. It understood that six settlors 011 the road between Xgaruawahia an<l Glen Massey are taking steps to form a party-line connecting with the Xgaruawahia exchange. The erection of the Te Kowliai service, for which the full complement of six members has been obtained, will shortly be put in hand, and services in other directions arc being contemplated, with a fair prospect of success. Owing to the increase in the number of subscribers it is highly probable that an extension of the hours of the service will shortly be granted.

A general meeting of shareholders of the Cambridge Co-operative Dairy Company was held at Cambridge on Saturday. There was a large attendance, Mr .John Fisher (chairman of directors) presiding. The object- of the meeting was to consider tho proposal to in-tall a dual plant, so that cheese, as well as butter, might be manufactured. The question was also the subject of a petition received from a number of Eencourt shareholders. A comprehensive report on the whole matter of cheese making was submitted by Mr Dempster (Government dairy expert) and Mr A. Beange (the company's manager at Hautapu). The report wholly favored manufacturing cheese as well as butter. Mr Hodgson, of Tama here, formerly chairman of the Eltham company when the latter went in for cheese making, gave figures and facts in favoi- of the manufacture of cheese, and said the company had lost £20,000 through not installing cheese-making plant when the subject emptied tip two years ago. He estimated the cost of installing a cheese plant at £'lo,ooo, but explained that this only involved the sacrifice of three-eights of a penny on their butter-fat. He was of opinion that the Waikato climate was exceptionally favorable for the manufacture ot the highest quality of cheese. Mr Dempster also addressed the meeting, saying that he believed cheese was the coming product of Xew Zealand. Mr John Fisher said the directors had obtained all available information, and they were quite willing to carry out the expressed wishes of the shareholders. At his suggestion, it was decided that the, directors should visit the company's several creameries and ascertain the feelings of suppliers. The directors will then submit a report to a meeting to be held on Saturday next.