LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can understand.

' Mr J. Grimwood was appointed do§ registrar for the Hamilton / Borough last night out of five applicants. Last night the train from Thame* was very late, the cause being a mishap to the engine. It did not reach Hamilton until nearly 10 o’clock. During the past eight month? building permits, representing £205,798, were granted by the Hamilton Borough Council. The Piako County Council asked the Hamilton Council’s support last night of a protest against the closing of Te Waikato Sanatorium. The Council deckled to take no action in the matter.

“They are only a struggling body, and do not make anything out of their sports meeting.” “They should do; they’re all Scotch.” —Remarks passed at the A. and P, Association meeting this morning.

A large number of Maoris from Rotorua passed through Hamilton last night by the evening train, presumably en route to visit the Maori prophet Ratana. Amongst the pilgrims were several who were apparently sick and feeble.

The libel action, Arthur Leigh Hunt v. H. Beresford Maunsell, in which plaintiff claimed £ISOO damages for allegations of improper conduct, was concluded at Wellington yesterday, being decided on a nonsuit point raised by Sir John Findlay for the defence.

At the A. and P. executive meeting this morning it was elicited that no charge had hitherto been made fop the admission of motor cars to th* Association’s Show. It was tacitly agreed that this should Ke altered, and motor car owners will In future be called upon to contribute a quota to tlie Association's revenue.

The Hamilton Borough Council consented last night (Cr. Barton dissenting) to the exchange with the Education Department of the top portion of the saleyards site for 10 acres adjoining the railway settlement at Frankton. The saleyards site is to he used for educational purposes.

“We are giving too much away. It would be better if the members of the executive displayed more of the Scottish characteristic in dealing with their grounds.” So a member of the A. and P. Associaion expressed himself this morning when discussing the letting of a portion of the Showground. An echo of the recent electricity controversy was heard at a meeting of tlie Hamilton Borough Council last night, when the Lane Proprietary Co,, of Sydney, threatened legal action unless the Council gave them satisfaction regarding the electrical generator set ordered by the late electrical engineer, Mr G. T. Wilson on tlie Council’s behalf. The correspondence wap referred to the Borough solicitor. On Wednesday afternoon a territorial in uniform was riding at a fast pace down Victoria street, Cambridge, when he collided with a young telegraph messenger named Marcroft, who was riding a bicycle and knocked him down. The boy was stunned and his machine was badly broke, but no serious damage occurred to the lad.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Cambridge, on Wednesday, before Mr H. A. Young, S M„ a local resident named MoKinder was flood £lO and costs 10s for being in possession of a tarpaulin belonging to the New Zealand Railways. F. S. Reynolds was found guilty of a breach of the Leamington Town Board by-laws, in that lie allowed his horse to stray about the footpath. He was fined 15a ami costs £1 11s. E. A. May, on a similar charge was convicted and ordered to pay costs amounting to £1,13s 6d. “They only pay us if Hie sale shows a profit,” replied tlie secretary at Hie A. and P. Association .meeting tins morning, to a query in connection with the pedigree stock sales at Ciaudelands, “and I have not received anything.” Members were of opinion that the situation was most unsatisfactory, as at tlie pedigree cattle sales considerable damage was done to Uia Association’s property, for which no compensation was being received. Tile matter is to be gone into by the committee.

Yesterday afternoon there was a large attendance of Jersey cattle i reeders at Te Awamutu to witness a demonstration upon this particular breed. The demonstration was carried imt by Mr W. H. Booth, a leading Wairarapa breeder of Jerseys. Mr Booth, who was judge of this section at the recent Auckland Show, visited tlie Waikato at the invitation of the South Auckland Jersey Breeders’ Association. As indicating the interest taken in the demonstration, breeders attended from all parts of the district and from Otorohanga. There were several animals brought before Mr Booth for the purposes of demonstrating. The good and Hie defective points in each were referred to, and much valued information it. regard to the breed imparled. Mr Booth was later taken for a run through various parts of the district and the opportunity was offered him of inspecting several herds.

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There are twenty-nine inmates ot the Old People’s Home at Hamilton at present.

Force of habit 1 “Mr Wagstaff seems to misunderstand me Your Worship,” remarked Mr Tristram at the Hospital Board meeting to-day. The House of Commons, by 277 to 72, read a second time the Dyes Bill, prohibiting importation except under license.

. “All fairly clean and tidy,” reported the Native District Nurse to the Waikato Hospital Board to-day on the Maori Pas visited. “Speak louder, please. The noise from the main stree't comes into this Courthouse. The Courthouse should be away from the main street,” said his Honor to a. witness in the Supremo Court at Hamilton this morning. "I have had soma weird and wonderful experiences with this awful ambulance,” wrote a district nurse to the Waikato Hospital Board at to-day’s meeting. “The very thought of taking a patient out in it makes me shudder.” At to-day’s meeting of the Hospital Board, Mr Teasdale reported that the Auckland Harbour Board had voted £3 3s for purchasing Christmas toys for the children inmates of the hospital. To this sum Mr Teasdale placed£3, and the Board accorded him a vote of thanks by acclamation. It was reported to the Hospital Board to-day that Mr Jas. Taylor, of Cambridge, had donated ten turkeys to the Waikato Hospital for Christmas. The Board passed a vote by acclamation to the generous donor.

For \e three weeks ending December 8, 71 males and 35 females were admitted to the Waikato Hospital, and five males and three females died; 77 males and 32 females were discharged; 122 males and (17 females remained. The daily average of patients was 192, and the number of operations performed was 61. The sneak thief has been very busy at the Hamilton Public Library of late, and not only magazines, but their covers, have disappeared frequently. The committee has decided that if the practice continues the Library will be closed on Suhdays, when the thefts Usually occur. It is to be hoped that

'sthis contemptible practice will discontinue, for many people find the library a pleasure place of resort on a wet Sunday.

“We will have to depend on cattle for the future of our Show-*” said a member of the executive of the Waikato A. and P. Association to-day. “You see men leading round cattle today at the shows'who a few years ago would look at nothing but horses.” This sentiment found general endorsement round the table, it being affirmed that the dairy cow pens even eclipsed the jumping events as a centre of attraction to show patrons. The Waikato Hospital Board recently urged the severance of East Taupo and Rotorua from the Board’s district. The Minister of Public Health advised Uje Board to-day that it was not possible to give consideration to a question sum as this during the close of the session. The matter would be fully gone into during the recess, and a decision arrived at before next session. r fhc Board considered that progress was satisfactory as far as it had gone. At a meeting of the Hamilton Library Committee a donation of £2 2s' was received from the Draughts Club, and was accepted with thanks. Mr M. Priestley tendered his resignation owing to removal from the district. The resignation was accepted with regret, and Mr Priestley was thanked for his past services. It was decided to raise the subscription to -is, as from January Ist, owing to the big increase In the price of books. The annual meeting was llxed for the first Tuesday In March. ■ Recently the Hamilton Racing Club psked permission of the Borough Council to erect temporary loose boxes In the Horse Bazaar for the stabling race horses during race periods, in view of the shortage of stabling in the town. The Horse Bazaar Committee reported last night that, having regard to the fact that the bazaar is leased to the military authorities for drills, and that the building was also used for the storage of vehicles, and for horse sales, they could not recommend the granting of the request. Had there been a possible chance of

permitting the use of the building for tile purpose sought, the committee x would have only been too pleased to allow it.