LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14926, 21 April 1922, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The grave is but the threshold of eternity.—Southey,

A Gazette notification is published declaring carpel-beating to be an offensive trade under the Public Health Act, i 920.

Mr A. Graham, of Ranglora, lost 29 fat sheep out of a mob ready to be despatched to the freezing works through being worried by dogs. The chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, Mr G. Slade ,has received a cablegram definitely announcing that the French Rugby team will not visit New Zealand this season.

The Railway Department draw’ attention in the advertising columns of this issue to a special advertisement in connection with train arrangements for Anzac Day. The following are the leading players in the New Zealand Draughts Association's tourneys now’ being held at Dunedin: —Lucas 21 i points, Boreham 21Z points, Bijown 18, Carswell 17J, Rea 17, H. Morris 16. A Maori debtor being examined by counsel at the Hastings Court admitted not paying any debts for the past eight years. He did some harvesting four years ago. He was 42 years old. He did no work but had two boys who did. The debt was for motor car hire.

The following nominations have been received for the school committee election in connection with the Cambridge District High School: —S. Lewis, C. W. Boyce, H. Alan Bell, Frank Penn, P. T. Glanville, C. H. Priestley, W. Wilkinson, C. Miller, L. Lynds. The Beaux and Belles, a company of talented Hamilton entertainers, will make their first appearance at the Strand Theatre on Wednesday next. The proceeds will be devoted to the Orphanage appeal. As an indication of the size of the “pot holes” in a road under the jurisdiction of the Pelorus Road Board (Marlborough), a member of tiie board stated, at a meeting last week, that a ratepayer had asked him for permission to fill up one of the holes with a cow w’hich had died in the vicinity!

“There might be something in it,” said Mr J. V. Browm, at the meeting of the Napier Harbour Board, referring to a scheme before the board. He said there was “something in everything,” and he had seen a milk separator used down in the engine room of a steamer for the purpose of separating oil from water.

The popular New Zealand Diggers concluded their Hamilton season in the Theatre Royal last evening when there was a fair attendance. The Diggers once again demonstrated their cleverness as entertainers and their efforts were greatly appreciated. The public are invited to take flow’ers with them to the memorial service at the Soldiers’ Memorial Park, Hamilton, on Anzac Day. The flowers will be distributed around the base of the trees, which are planted in the park to the memory of fallen men of the town. Last year the contribution of flowers formed a very pretty and touching tribute.

A concert on behalf of the funds of the Girls’ Peace Scouts will be held in the Theatre Royal on Friday next. The programme, which is being arranged by Mrs H. G. Ross, should be of more than usual merit. Special interest attaches to the entertainment, because Her Excellency Lady Jellicoe will be present to present certificates won by the Scouts.

An investor on the totalisator at the Manawatu Club's meeting presented four tickets on a horse which was paying a good price. The pay-out clerk examined the tickets, and found that one of them, though of the same colour, was on a previous race. He thereupon refused to pay on any of the tickets, and threatened to call the police. The investor explained that it was a pure “accident,” and ultimately succeeded in getting his money.

A very satisfactory response has been received from teachers by the Auckland Education Board in connection with the recent Government instructions regarding the oath of allegiance. Every teacher in the Auckland province has responded to the circular issued, and in every case consented to take the oath. As there are approximately 3000 teachers in the province, including primary, secondary, and training college students, the task has occasioned a good deal of work. . A very pleasing instance of honesty has just come to light (writes a Greymouth correspondent). Mr G. A. Wood, the whitebait canner, of Hokitika, when packing some whitebait for shipment to Australia dropped a valuable gold medal, won at the Christchurch Exhibition, into one of the cases. Missing the medal after having sent the cases away, lie figured what had happened, but could not form any idea which of tiie twenty-live cases was the most likely, lie wrote to the people to whom the goods were senl asking them to request their staff to look out for the medal. Exactly one month after the loss, the recipients of the goods, The Mutual Stores, Ltd., Melbourne, returned the medal which had been found.

A largely-attended meeting of the Te Aroha District War Memorial Committee was held on Wednesday afternoon, Mr 11. Jackson presiding. There were also present, Mrs A. Gordon, Dr Gordon and

Messrs H. Carter, T. Stanley, F. M. Strange, G. W. Horn, N. J. Ray, A. A. Wagstaff, E. A. Bruce, F. W. Walters and A. L. Burton (secretary). The chairman explained that much delay had been occasioned owing to the prices tendered for the erection of the memorial being considerably in excess of I lie amount available for expenditure. About £IOOO is in hand, a further £SOO being promised. Latterly two tenders of £I.OOO and £ISOO had com e to hand. Mr Burlon said that the estimate was £ISOO, and the lowest tender received for that design was £1740, and the highest tender £3OOO. It was decided to call for fresh tenders, a committee consisting of Messrs Jackson, Strange, and Bruce, being appointed to arrange details.

What is a “semi-ready-to-wear” suit? The term is often advertised (says a Melbourne paper), but perhaps is little understood by the average buyer of a suit of clothes. In a case heard in the First Civil Court, in which the various forms of manufacture of suits of clothes were much in evidence, it was explained that a ‘semi-ready-to-wear” suit, of clot lies was an ordinary readymade suit, with the sleeves, trouser legs, coat collar and coat length left incomplete, so as to permit of their adjustment later to the approximate measurements of the wearer. Thus, it, was explained, it was possible for Ihc tallest and. shortest persons io get a “perfect lit” from a “semi-ready-to-wear.” always provided that in shoulder breadth, hips, and waist they corresponded more or less to the suit as made. As these suits are “built up in times of slackness, and assist the organisation of a tailoring establishment,” it was stated that it was possible to make these “semi-ready-to-wear” or semi-made-to-measure suits much cheaper than the ordinary tailored suit, though the workmanship and the finish might—emphasis was laid on the “might,”—be as good as much super-ior-priced tailor-made suits.

Nelson .Brothers have paid an interim dividend of four per rent free of income tax. —London cable.

A meeting of the Hamilton Rugby Union club delegates will be held in the Bath Buildings to-morrow at eight o’clock.

Over ninety fanners have now been enrolled for the Farmers’ Farm School to be held at the Ruakura State Farm, commencing on May 15. A meeting of the Hamilton Wanderers, A.F.G., will take place on Wednesday, April 26, at Seddon Park. AH intending players and all interested should make a point of being present. A wireless message received at Pernambuco states that owing to an accident to their plane, the Portuguese aviators must abandon or indefinitely delay the remainder of their transAtlantic flight. The annual conference of the Australian State Teachers’ Federation adopted a resolution that the compulsory school age should be raised to 16, also that a uniform matriculation standard should be adopted. We have been requested to state that the Hamilton Borough Council in refusing the use of the Town Hath to Mr T. G. Wilkes for an Orphans’ appeal concert, did so on the ground that it was against the Council’s prinpiple to grant the free use of the hall for any than a municipal purpose. On Saturday an important conference of representatives of Farmers’ Union branches will be held at Te Aroha. There will be representatives from Morrinsville, Springdale, Waihou, Elstow, and other places. The object is to discuss the question of appointing a Farmers’ Union candidate to make a bid for the Tauranga seat. In connection with the Foresters’ Rugby football match, Court Waihi versus Court Pride of Waikato, for a challenge shield kindly donated by Court Waihi, to be played at 3 p.m. on the Claudelands racecourse to-morrow (Saturday), a banquet will be tendered the visiting team jn the evening in the Alexandra Hall supper room. Local Foresters are invited to be present. “The runholders about the Haast and that part of South Westland,” said Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., after his recent trip, “are now beginning to complain that the deer have become so numerous that in six or seven years they will have eaten out the feed from the forests which previously afforded sustenance to herds of cattle. Unless something is done the deer are going to be a serious menace.”

Community singing has become so popular in Wellington that the committee is now considering the publication of a book of songs suitable to such gatherings. A list of songs has been prepared and distributed among the members of the committee, and at the next meeting this list is to be conned over, and suggestions for additional numbers will be considered. The Electoral Department, with the co-operation of the Postal Department, shortly commence the preparation of the rolls to be used at the general election at the end of this year. The revisio n of the electoral boundaries will necessitate the compilation of new rolls, in some cases rendering a house-to-house canvass essential. As usual, the work of purging and extending the roll will be largely done by postmen.

A minor change has been made in the present stamp issue. Formerly both the 8d and 2£d stamps were printed in blue, of only a slightly different shade, which caused some confusion, and the 7Ad, an unusual denomination, was printed in Drown. The department has now withdrawn the 7Ad stamp, and the new Sd stamp is printed in the colour of the old 7Ad one, instead of blue. . The green 4Ad stamp has also been withdrawn. This week’s issue of the Sporting and Dramatic Review is featured with a remarkably fine series of snapshots depicting principal events at the Auckland Racing Club’s autumn meeting at Ellerslie. Of tragic interest are photographs of the late Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant Bennett, while scenes concerning tiie election of the new Pope in Paris further strike the topical note. Local interest is given in illustrations taken at the King’s College sports in the Domain, while the races on Sydney Harbour, boxing contests in America, scenes from the Aim “Over the Hill,” the Prince in India, and Princess Mary’s wedding aro amongst a profusion of up-to-date pictures contained in this progressive magazine.