LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14136, 13 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

He loses his thanks who promises an«J delays. A Flower Show is likely to be held in Hamilton shortly. It is announced that 99,794 acres of Crown lands are to be opened for selection during the present month. In addition 8488 acres arc lo be opened in September. A meeting of the Hamilton Methodist Young People’s Guild was h.eld last night, taking the form of an “Impromptu Speeches” evening. A most interesting time was spent. Six ladies and three men entered, the choice of subjects being exceedingly wide, ranging from “Tram ears in Hamilton,” to China’s interest in Shantung.” Ah’ Hamcs acted as judge, and complimented the entrants on the quality of the speeches. He placed Misses IV, Laybourne and E. Clover and Dir Bradley equal. Most of tlie speakers reached the allotted time .of five minutes.

We are now showing our first lot of slimmer underclothing and corsets. Practically the whole of the goods for these two departments have been held on reserve for the last six months, and show very little advance on last summer’s goods. In fact, in a great many cases there is no advance whatever. We have a very nice range of camisoles, knickers, nights, etc. The leading lines of corsets are D.H.A., P.H.S., and Warner’s. We have also full stocks of woven underclothing in summer weights.—Hall’s Drapery Stores.* If you get a chill, with sore throat and tightness of chest, tackle it at once with “NAZOL.” It grips it quicker and more effectually than most remedies.*

As showing the disparity in labour values these clays it'is worthy of note that tenders for a fencing contract, which came before the Waipa City Council yesterday ranged from IGs to 5s Cid per chain. The man who got the job was a returned soldier. Ho was also the lowest tenderer. At least one member of the Waipa County Council does not hold too high an estimate of the labouring qualifications of some of the workmen wiio have come under his notice. He remarked yesterday that it was impossible to keep some men at their work even if one stood over them with a pitch-fork for the whole eight hours.

Mr C. S. Solomon, organiser for the Dominion 13oy Scouts, is at present in Hamilton in the interest of the movement. Ho will address a meeting: of all those interested in the movement, in the rooms next to St. Peter’s Hall, tomorrow (Thursday) evening, at 8 o’clock.

The Hospital Board’s selection of Webster’s bill site, near Taneatua, for the new hospital was yesterday opposed by the Whakatane County Council, which, by six to four, resolved in favour of Kirk’s site, in the Whakatane borough. This is the site already approved by the Health Department.— Whakatane message.

The management of the New Zealand Coal and Oil Company states that the fire which occurred in No. 2 mine, Kaitangata. on Saturday, is confined to a portion of the mine. The part affected consisted of oid workings which were nearly exhausted. This part has been sealed off permanently. The mine was working as usual to-day, and the output of coal will not he affected, the men being transferred to other sections of the mine.

The first rehearsal of “Floradora” will be held to-morrow (Thursday) night in tho Town Hall. All new members are requested to attend (with a song), at 7.30 p.m. sharp so that the private voice test may be finished by 8 p.m., when rehearsing will commence. Tho caste will lie chosen by this test, and all old members aspiring to a principal part are also requested to attend at 7.30 for ,a voice test.

A vigorous alarm was sounded on the Hamilton fire syren and l>ells last night about 8 o’clock. The brigade turned out promptly, only to find that there was no fire. Someone, with a perverted idea of humour, had rung up from the penny-in-the-slot. telephone booth at th e railway station. The matter has been placed' in the hands of the police, it being th e second occasion on which the brigade has been called out needlessly. We understand that the offender is liable to a fine not exceeding £SO, or imprisonnient for one month.

The Horotiu branch of the Farmers’ Union sought the Waipa Council yesterday to take such necessary steps as would lead to motorists using it being compelled to contribute to the upkeep of the main Hamilton-Ngaruawahia road. It was unfair, the Union held, for the ratepayers to have to keep the road in order while so many motorists who were the principal users of it and doing the greater damage, were providing nothing towards its maintenance. The Council see “eye to eye” with the Union on the subject and intend to give the motor taxation question every support when it comes before the Counties' Conference. A German internee died recently at the Holdsworth Camp, New South Wales. Following precedent, an inventory was taken of his effects with a view of forwarding them later to his next-of-kin. Two of the A.M.C. ticked them off. “A razor,” said one. And so it went on, articles of little or no value being enumerated “A bar of soap,” was called. “That’s no good to sell or keep,” said the other, and it was cast aside. r An A.S.G. man picked it up. Ho addcd- A if to his scrubbing kit. He 'wni>'TUbblhg a floor with it industriously .ncxCJtey, when he found lie had struck a gold mine The soap had concealed inTr2s sovereigns. The next-of-kin will,get them.

There is a certain land agent in Auckland who is now looking out all his old holdings in the way of farming lands as the result of an application that was made to him this week (says the “Star.”) , A young man entered his office with the usual request for description and prices of farming lands. “Roads are the "difficulties these days,” said the agent. “Oh, but that doesn’t matter,” came the astonishing reply, "You see, I intend to run an aeroplane just quietly. As long as the old ranch is an hour or so from a village, it’ll be all right.”, “What' do you mean by an ‘hour' from a, village?” asked the somewhat dazed agent. “About a hundred miles would be near enough,” answered the futurist farmer.

The Waipa County Council, like so many local bodies, has come to tho conclusion that the horse is fast being relegated to the past, as an efficient factor in at least the essential portion of the work it undertakes. For some tirpe past the Council has been considering ways and means for fitting itself out with up-to-date mechanical plant, and yesterday “turfi-cd the first sod,” as it wei e, when it decided to place an order for the purchase 1 of a small tractor and scoop for grading- work. jA complete plant for tho crushing and haulage of metal, and also a road roller are important appliances which the Council appears to have set its mind on adding to its stock-in-trade. However, the engineer is to gather more data on the “big items” before definite action is taken.

! Before a Council can make'a special order constituting a drainage district under tho Act, it was made known at Tuesday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council, an essential step to be taken is in the form of a petition, signed by not less than half of tho ratepayers within the proposed district. Opposite each ratepayer’s name must be stated in the petition the number of votes to ■ which each ratepayer is entitled. In ! the calculation of the number of signaI tures the number of votes, and not merely the number of names, must be added. The boundaries of the district, is another essential point to bo defined |in the petition. In short, the first ■ step is to prepare a petition in proper form, advertise for a month, and the Council to deposit and advertise --lans for a month on receipt of the petition. After the Council passed tho resolution and confirmed it by special order the district is then constituted, and tho Council can proceed to raise a loan, , and levy the rates under the Act.

I Dr. Ocser has arrived in Auckland to commence Jus tour of the Dominion as examiner for the local practical examinations under the auspices of the Trinity College of Music. London. The candidates for the Hamilton centre number over 80, which constitutes a record for this district, five subjects comprising pianoforte, violin and elocution. The examination will commence at Hamilton on or about September 2nd. Dr. CVcser has had a distinguished musical career. In his early professional life he was known as a composer of chamber and orchestral music, and for some years was conductor of the Leeds Choral Society. During that period ho composed a mass, a secular cantata, and a choral and orchestral work, which was produced at the Leeds Musical Festival, probably the niost important musical festival outside London that is held in Great Britain. Later, he held the appointment of organist and composer to the Chapel Royal and had the directorship ol the music on all higher ceremonials at St. James’ Palace, Buckingham Palace, ore. Dr. Creser was Director of Music at the marriage eeremonv of King George and Queen Mary. 1 n later years his energies have been devoted to educational music.

Tlw2 Christchurch' City Council, after a lengthy debate, decided, on the casting vote of the Mayor, to- continue permanently in municipal coal trading. A meeting of Scotchmen and descendants of Scotchmen will be held iu the Baths Room, Hamilton, on Monday next, at 8 p.m., for the purpose of forming a Burns Club.

The Waipa County Council lost little time in coming to a decision at yesterday’s meeting to pay its permanent employees for the two Peace Days. The employees who worked those days wilhreceive one day’s pd^ptra. At Dunedin, a little girl named Joyce Pomeroy., aged two years and nine months, climbed over a fire screen and upset a kettle of boiling water, with the result that she was badly burned on the face, neck, arms, chest and legs, subsequently dying in the hospital. On the suggestion of Cr. Peacocke, the Waipa County Council yesterday decided to put up suitable barricades in about three of the worst places on the Ohaupo-Hamilton road, with the object of preventing stock which was being driven from leaving the main route and going up the sides of the steep banks to tiie higher ground. Jibe councillor said that such cheap, but very essential provision would prevent the damage to animals that was now occurring, not to mention that warranted bad language would come down to a minimum. In pointing out the bad state of his road a ratepayer told the Waipa County Council, in a communication yesterday, that his children, going to and from school often slipped down in the clay, and often came homo like mudlarks. “I myself, have been down once, and it was not by drinking XXX cither,” the ratepayer concluded. The legitimate complaining one runs tho risk of “getting down” again until the sun shines with greater force, money becomes more plentiful, trains run more frequently, and the metal supply returns to normal.

A meeting of the Hamilton Amateur Photographic Society was held last night, Mr Jas. Treloar presiding over a very good attendance. Two new merabeis were elected. It was announced that Mr C. R. Cooke had beep successful in winning the June competition for animal studies. Eight entries in each were received for the July and August competitions, still life and child studies. During the evening, Mr C. R. Cooke gave an interesting exhibition of gaslight printing with various negatives and pa'pers. Much enthusiasm is being displayed in the work of the Society. The engineer stated at yesterday’s meeting of the Waipa County Council that the question of giving access to private property was an ever recurring one, and he thought it time for the Council, by resolution, to definitely set out its attitude for the future in this matter Where it has made a road it has always been the practice of the Council in the past to give one access to a property, but this is not universally followed by other local bodies. Cr. Cavanagh stating yesterday that the Kirikiriroa Road Board definitely refused under all conditions. However, the Council has now decided fo afford assistance in providing an entrance only where it is legally bound to do so.

The motor car, belonging to Mr A. Anderson, and which was removed from outside the Presbyterian Church while th ? owner was at service on Sunday evening, was recovered about three miles from Ngaruawahia, on the road opoosite Mr Paterson’s farm. Other than being covered in mud and out of benzine, the ear was not damaged. The “joy-riders,” on getting that far met with misfortune—deserved to them—so that even a had reading policy does a good turn at times. The car got into a hole in the road, and obviously refused to get out, being found in that situation, but the “joyriders” had made themselves scarce. However, they were heard iu . the vicinity on the Sunday evening when some hours of labour brought them the reward they deserved but did not desire. - :

A painful scene, or rather a series of scenes, marked the proceedings in the Marlborough Council Chambers recently, when the Borough Council with a number of members of the Blenheim Progressive League in attendance, discussed the water and sewerage proposals. The antagonism of Councillor Carr to the project, resolved itself into an attitude and. forms of expression that evoked from the Mayor a direction to the Town Clerk to ring up the Police Station This was done, and in a few minutes Sergeant O’Hara, in uniform, entered the room, and, at the request of the Mayor took a seat, which he occupied for the remainder of the meeting, nearly an hour Councillor Carr confinned to make the proceedings vitrolic at intervals.

Many local body members see a danger in the formation of special rating areas for tho purpose of raising money to make good roads. It is quite admitted that ratepayers pay for what they get, but the disadvantage county councillors see was given expression to when a special rating subject was before th e Waipa County Council yesterday, is that once satisfactory* direct access is secured many ratepayers are content to rest on their oars, so to speak, and are averse to giving srp-„ port to general loan proposals benefiting other parts, and the district in a general sense. Consequently, voting day sees the scheme turned down, mainly through the vote of those who are already provided for. In the “Bigtrers’ Bible,” in its humorous passages, it reminds one of the well-known active service motto, “Blow you. Bill, I’m all right!”

As indicating what the increase in the price of building material means to local bodies, Messrs Thompson and Farrer pointed out to the Waipa County Council yesterday, that the lowest tender for a concrete culvert the Council had to construct leading to the new bridge at Horotiu, was £‘64o, which did not include the cost of filling. The tender had not been accepted, and it was with the object of reducing the size of the culvert, and correspondingly reducing the cost, that Mr Farrer waited on the Council yesterday. The original culvert was 60ft. long, 12ft. wide .and Oft. deep. The width could not be reduced as two streams conjoined, but the length could lie curtailed and the grade of the road slightly increased from 1 in 20 to 1 in 15. Tlie Council instructed its engineer to confer with Mr Farrer and draw up amended plans, and have tenders in by next meeting.

Every man, woman and child on an average throughout their life spends at least one-third of it in bed—what a lot therefore depends on the quality of mattress. It must not only be "well made to ensure every ounce of rest to the occupier, hut it must he good healthy hygienic bedding. To he sure of the quality of your bedding purchase the “Hygienic Mattress” from Hooker and Kingston’s, which goes through a sterilising process during the whole of the manufacture. Stocked in cot, single bed, and double bed sizes at a lower price Hum you pay for_ ordinary bedding. See Hooker and Kingston's price? for Hygienic Bedding on page 6.

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The Esquimaux, mid realms of snow. Dwells in his dome-shaped home of

And though its space is small, we know. For all his needs it doth suffice. But how much happier his lot, And how much better he’d endure.

If he, like we, had haply got Supplies of Moods’ Great Peppermint Cure.