LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14798, 11 November 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The end of man Is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest. —Carlylc. The will of the late Bishop Neville, of Duncdin, has been filed for probate at under £38,000. Tim members of the Wilkie Bard Vaudeville Company will leave Hamilton to-night for Wanganui. Nurses M. Douglas, T. E. Lowes and D..Bestic resigned their positions at the Waikato Hospital, yesterday, and were thanked for their services. The daily average number of patients in the Waikato Hospital during the past monlh was 183. During that period 87 operations were performed. A working bee will be held at Claudelands on Saturday to make final preparation of the appointments for the show on Tuesday and Wednesday. Before Mr 11. W. Smales. J.P., at the Cambridge Police Court, Henry Albert Print, charged with the theft of cattle at To Miro, near Cambridge, was remanded in custody to November 18, to appear before the Cambridge Court. The following tenders were yesterday received by the Waikato Hospital Board, for the extension to the Bailey Ward:—Andrews Bros., £1931; Martin and Young £1877; Mortciiscn. £1999; Hollow, £235'0; Cooper, £2OBO. The lowest tender was accepted. In future the Department of Health will not reimburse hospital boards, as it has done in the past, for the cost of any special attendance that may be required to look after delirium tremens eases. The Waikato Board was notified to this effect to-day. At Wednesday's meeting of the Raglan County Council it was resolved to instruct the engineer to send a circular letter to all surfacemen employed, pointing out that eight hours per day must be actually put in by employees ; on the job on which they were engaged. I Writing to the Hospital Board, [yesterday, Dr. Valintiuc, Director-1 | General of Health, made il quite clear | that the Government subsidy could not be paid on the £350 proposed to ; be paid to the Board by the Pukcmiro \ Medical Association on condition that their wives and families were treated free. Unanimity has been reached by the business people of Hamilton in regard to Christmas week closing. The halfholiday in that week will be observed on Monday, December 19. Christmas Eve will be observed on Saturday, December 24, when premises will he open until to .p.m. The following Monday and Tuesday premises will be | closed. The longest passport ever seen by the immigration inspectors of New York was carried by G. Reyes, a Peruvian cotton merchant. The passport was more than six feet long, mid bore vises of nearly every country in Europe. Senor Reyes explained that its length was due to the fact that he had been away from Peru on business for more than two and a half years. At a meeting of the general committee of the Waikato Winter Show Association yesterday the executive committee was elected as follows: Messrs T. Barford, W. E. Clark, F. J. P. Currie, J. R. Fow, W. Gardiner, R. J. Johnston, R. Kay, A. T. Lemon, W. J. McKce, A. E, Missen, T. J. Mitchell, A. Oliver, F. ff. Pemberton, E. Rothwell, W. Bothwell, W. Runciman, J. B. Fainsbury, C. Sing, P. T. Snell, .las. E. Tddd, W. Wallace. A man who had booked a passage by the Mahcno for Sydney, was arrested on the wharf by Detective M. Gourlev just before the vessel sailed, lie was charged at the Police Court, Auckland, with obtaining several hundred pounds by fraudulent means. It is alleged that he obtained the use of a motor-car belonging to a Hamilton woman and sold it and also sold two motor-cycles, failing to account for I the money to the owners. At yesterday's meeting of the Waikato ! A. and P.Association's executive, Mr W, G. Park remarked that there must ] he a total area of 100,000 acres of swamp land in and around Hamilton. Some members were of opinion that the swamp land extent was even greater than that estimate. However, though slow, the redemption of the swamp land tn agricultural purposes appears to be coming in gradually. Mr Ncwell remarked that if its cultivation was undertaken to the same extent in the next 20 years as it had been in the past, there would soon be a further big slice off it. A claim for £8 15s 6d, the difference between a pauper and a private funeral, wa s heard before Mr J. 11. Salmon, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court, Morrinsville. yesterday. The plaintiffs. Messrs Mackenzie and Jackson (Mr I S. S. Allison), stated that defendant, VV. J. Enyon (Mr McGregor), called at their business premises, in company with others, ami requested that deceased, an employee of defendant, he piven a decent funeral. The question j of price was not mentioned. After evidence for the defence, and also | that of a. witness, plaintiff was nop- j suited, and ordered to pay costs I amounting to £1 15s.