LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15319, 21 August 1923, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is expected that a start will shortly be made with the construction of the subway on the River Road, Claudelands. The girders for the work are now at the Claudelands station. The official opening of the new Prankton Junction Public Library has been postponed until Saturday, September 22nd. However the librarywill be opened for business on Saturday next.

By a mistake in the A.M.P. Society's advertisement, the first option which could be exercised by an insurer was nfade to read: "Terminate the policy and obtain £llß 18s lid in cash." The amount should have been £lllß ISs lid.'

At the weekly session of the Te Aroha Chess Club on Friday the postmaster, Mr W. Simons, and his assistant, Mr Grinlenton, were cacli presented with a silver-mounted pipe in recognition of the valuable services rendered in connection with the telegraphic chess match played against Thames.

It will pay you to buy your furnishings this week during Hooker and Kingston's "Furnishing Week." Best quality duro and sllvcrdown bedding at specially keen prices, best British linoleums in both 2yds wide and passage width, blinds', curtains, and carpet runners, arc being offered cheapest this week at Hooker and Kingston's. Furnish at the popular drapers. You will be surprised at what you will save.

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Coygtis ar.a Colas, never falls.

A telegram from'Dunedin states that exhibition shares now total £70,000. A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced at Ohakune at 7 a.m. yesterday. No damage is reported. The members of the Plunket Society are holding their spring flower day under somewhat adverse conditions, the weather and the paucity of blooms being the principal drawbacks. Nevertheless, business has been keenly plied, and the net result should be satisfactory.

Professor Ewart, of Edinburgh, outlining the history of the Merino sheep, urged experiments in Australia of a cross between the Merino and the fattailed sheep of Asia (acclimatised also in Africa), which subsist in drought periods for years on the fat of their tails in much the same way as a camel on the store of fat in its hump.

The prohibition of the capping day processions of the Auckland University College students was decided upon yesterday by the College CounciL, on the recommendation of the Professorial Board. The decision was reached as the result of complaints made regarding the behaviour of some students on the day of the last procession.

The Piako County Council decided at yesterday's meeting to ascertain f-cm other local bodies particulars in regard to contemplated or existing regulations concerning heavy traffic. The Council is firm in the conviction that the ttae has arrived to adopt very s!r:ngent methods to combat the continuous and flagrant destruction of '.ts roads.

The Hamilton Choral ' Society has submitted a statement giving the results of the recent appeal to the public. It is shown that the gross proceeds of the first concert were £25 19s. and of the second £26 8s lOd, while the proceeds from the cake stall were £l9 4s 3d, other receipts bringing the total income up to £BO 6s Id. The expenditure totalled £25 3s, leaving a balance of £55 3s Id.

A man named William Espiner, aged 30, single, a labourer employed on constructional work by the Public Works Department at the Hora Hora electrical power station extensions, was admitted to the Waikato Hospital yesterday suffering from shock and bruises sustained as the result of a fall.

A case will be heard at the court at Ngaruawahia on August 30, in which the Raglan County Councjl will take proceedings against a carrier for an alleged breach of the traffic by-laws, in respect of the limit of the load to be carted over roads in the county's area during certain months of the winter. The case will have'an important bearing on the administration of local bodies in this particular connection.

Although for several months there has been a s'erious leak in the roof of the corridor of the Hamilton Courthouse, the Public Works Department heeds it not, and the consequence is that on stormy days there is a constant stream of water falling from the ceiling, much to the discomfort of the staff and frequenters of the Court buildings. When the roof falls in, or one of the judges receives a second baptism, the department will probably be awakened to the l'act that something should be done. A light list of by-law breakers came before Mr. 11. A. Young, S.M., at the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, yesterday. The offence of driving his car through Victoria Street at night without a tail-light cost a motorist, F W. Bentley, 10s., and costs 7s. while another knight of the wheel, George Enoch Smith, was treated similarly for allowing his registered number" plate to become indistinguishable. An apprentice, John Shadbolt, was fined 35., without costs, for riding his bicycle at night without a light. On a'minor charge under the Arms Registration Act, Frederick Daniell, who pleaded ignorance of the. regulation, was ordered to pay costs 7s.

The concert held at St. John's' Methodist Schoolroom, Hamilton East, last night, in connection with the Church Anniversary, proved a great success The hall was packed, and the applause which followed each item showed how much the concert was enjoyed. The programme was as fci ll oW s -.—Double quartettes, "Saviour Thy Children Keep," and "A. Perfect Dav" were beautifully rendered bymembers of St. Paul's Choir, London Street; solos (2), Mr Williams; recitations (2), Mrs Kirkpatrick; trio • A Little Farm," Messrs Young, Wood and Williams; solo, Miss Jean Mc~ Leod; solo, Miss I. Grice; solos (i), Mrs Hughes; solo, Mrs Le Petit; solo, Mr Riddell. At the close of the concert, Rev. W. Ready, who took the chair, owing to the unavoidable absence of Rev. Lcadley, thanked Mrs Le Petit, the pianist, and members of St. Paul's choir, who had made the concert so enjoyable. Mr Harris', on behalf of the Hamilton East Church members, also thanked the Choir for their services. Before departing the visiting Choir was entertained at supper by the ladies' of St. John's. Judgment by default, with costs, was given for plaintiffs in the followin" claims for debt, brought before Mr H?A. Young, S.M., at Hamilton, today"- Farmers' Auctioneering Co. v. W B. Beswick, £9O lis lid; H. Horsecraft v. R. Reicl, £2 4s 6d; Ethel Maud Leslie v. W. D. Leslie, £ll ss; Fanners' Auctioneering Co., Ltd., v. 11. L Ulams, £l3 10s 4d; Commissioner of Taxes v. IT. R. Vail, £lO Cs 9d; Mangawara River Board v. T. S. Sowerby, £8 14s 3d; Dalgety and Co., Ltd., v. H. Allen, £93 15s 6d; A. L. Yule v. E. Adams. £8 as Gd; Dalgety and Co. v. 11. Kldd. £l3 lis C.d; T. J. Ladd v. R. Noble, £l2 ss; Martha Riley and J. B. Pomeroy v. W. Lane, £7 10s. Orders on judgment summonses were made in the following eases:—J. Pomeroy and Co., Ltd. v. P. Lowry, £33 18s, in default 35 days' imprisonment; Harry Holmes v. G. Iremonger, forthwith or three days; H. K. Simpson v. S. Galiichan, £27 15s Gd forthwith, or 29 day*: L. Griffiths v. W. O'Brien, £7 7s 3d, forthwith or eight days.

A deputation consisting of settlers in the Waitoa riding waited on the Piako Council yesterday and presented a petition praying for exemption from the proposed special rating area created for the purpose of bitumen coating the several roads north of the railway line, and bounded by the Waitoa River on on side and the WaiharakeUe on the other side, and consider that their interests will be better served by creating a special area for the purpose of bitumen coating No. 7 road from railway line to No. 2 road (two miles); No. 8 road from railway line to No. 2 road (two miles); such rating to include ail the land north of railway line, and bounded on the east by No! G drain to No. 2 road; thence in" line to No. 8 and on to the Waiharakeke in direct line south of property owned by Mrs Saxton. The petition was signed by 28 signatories. It was further staled that the creation of a special rating district would save the ratepayers interested in the petition Id in the£ in their rales. The chairman said that the idea of a special area would be welcomed. If a saving could be effected the ratepayers were quite justified in carrying out their proposals.

A young man named William Houston was charged at Hamilton, today, with failing to maintain his illegitimate child. He was remanded on bail of £IOO to appear at Christchurch.

The Hamilton Shakespeare Grub will give a public reading of "Alice Sit-by-Ihe-Fire" (J. M. Barrie) at the Methodist Schoolroom tomorrow (Wednesday) evening. The cast will be as follows: —Amy Grey, Miss Norris Reeves; Ginevra Dunbar, Miss Jean Wohlmann; Cosmo Grey, Master Arthur Peterson; Nurse, Mrs M. Bell; Colonel Grey, Mr E. Wilson; Alice Grey, Mrs Kaber Harrison; Stephen ißollo, Mr W. .T. King; Richardson, Miss Madeleine Dowd.

Avoidable losses estimated by the New Zealand Dairyman at £750,000 per annum are being made by cheese manufacturers of the Dominion. The journal assigns a loss of £250,000 to the use of the rim in the cheese press; £250,000 to £270,000 to excessive temperature in the cheese -ing rooms; and another £250,001 TLloss attributable to extraction of a certain proportion of fat from the milk used in cheese-making in order that whey butter may be made, and "starter" cream obtained.