LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16710, 28 January 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thieves,, entered the rooms of boarders a'tWhyte's and the Family Hotels;at Fbxton. Approximately £5 was stolen at each hotel. ,

4- The I Railway Board advised that the .department.'would in future pay the water |.e«cou,nts for the Frankton railway (milages. The, .Hamilton Borough Council will he represented at.the second proposed visit of inspection to the swamp areas of the district, which is being organisecPby the Swamp Development League. The Education Department has notified the education boards that a conference will be held on training of teachers on February 9, and requests that a representative of each board be appointed to attend.

The far side of the western approach .to (he Traffic Bridge, which is at present rather untidy, is to be kerbed and channelled at a total cost of about £IOO, which will include stormwater drainage.

In reference to the motor-lorry regulations, the Public Works Department notified Hie Hamilton Council last night, that there was nothing lo prevent a police officer being appointed the controlling authority. The Council decided lo arrange with Hie Justice Department Cor the local police officers to act as inspectors for the regulation of heavy traffic. The attention of Messrs R. C. D. Lighlbourne and R. F. Reid, J's.P. were occupied at the Lower Court this morning in hearing a charge of drunkenness and assault preferred against Robert Patrick McGoldrick. The facts of Hie assault charge were that Mr Cameron, solicitor of Frankton, hart preparing some papers in a case in which accused was interested. Yesterday when Mr Cameron had taken the documents to a Justice of the Peace to have them signed, accused pushed in. took the. papers and destroyed them. On consenting to lake out a prohibition order accused was convicted and discharged on each information.

Commissioner David C. Lamb, of the Solvation Army Migration Department, will give a lecture on empire migration in Hamilton to-morrow afternoon.

Strong opposition to the change of code words to five letters has been offered by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce on the ground that it will upset private codes, which arc all ten letter.

The Hamilton Fire Brigade approached the Borough Council last evening for a donation towards the expenses of the local team which is to compete at the Dunedin Exhibition. The Council decided to contribute £lO to the brigade funds. A sad feature of-" the motor car smash at Papakura on Sunday is the fact that Miss Oisft-n, one of the passengers, was so badly injured that it has been found necessary to remove one of her eyes. It is reported that she will probably lose the sight of the other eye. The Hamilton Council last night decided to forward its condolences with His Worship the Mayor (Mr J. R. Fow), who is away on holiday in the South, on the accidental death of his grandson, who was killed yesterday afternoon.

The refresher course for staff officers of the Auckland military district, which has been in session at Okoroire for the past fortnight, broke up to-day. Colonel Potter, C.M.G., O.C. Northern Command, was in charge of the course, and the chief instructor was Colonel Duigan, D.S.O. . The Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce is co-operating with the School Committee in an endeavour to comply with the Health Department's requirements for establishing a school dental clinic in Te Awamutu. The Borough Council is to be waited on next Monday asking for further assistance. The first rotor ship, the Buckau, has proved a failure, owing to the difficulty experienced in obtaining frieghts says a message from Berlin. The owners are going into liquidation. Tl)e rotor ship, invented by Anton Flettncr, had the usual masts and sails replaced by enormous ribbed cylindrical funnels. She averaged nine knots in heavy winds in the Baltio on her trials in January,- 1925. She subsequently visited England. About 25 ratepayers in Colombo Street, Frankton Junction, requested the Hamilton Council last night- to clear up their thoroughfare at the sides and to give their footpaths immediate attention. The engineer, Mr R. Worley, said the streets in this area would receive attention in the autumn, when the weather would be more suitable for making a better job of the sanding.

A proposal for extending the verandah of Wesley Chambers downwards to form a sun-blind was forwarded by the Borough Inspector, who, however, reminded the Council that it had recently decided that no ironwork fixture was to be brought.down lower than 10 feet from the kerb. The proposal for the Wesley Chambers meant the fixture would be only 8£ feet above the kerb, which, in the Inspector's opinion, was dangerously low. The matter was referred to the Works Committee.

The Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister in charge of the Tourist 'and Health Resorts, states that work of wiring the'main corridors and caverns of the Waitomo, Ruakuri, and Aranui caves has been completed by the Public Works Department, and these are now electrically lighted by power supplied by the Waitomo Power Board from tile Hora Hora works. There is still much to be done in the way of effect lighting, shadow lighting, flood lights, etc., and this work is being proceeded with as fast as possible. "It is my opinion, after a tour of Europe, that New Zealand has spent enough money on hospitals for the time being," said Dr T. H. A. Valintine, Director-General of Health when opening the new nurses' home at the' Patea Hospital. Dr. Valintine said he was convinced that there were sufficient hospital beds in New Zealand, there being about 6,000 beds for a population of less than 1,500,000 persons. What New Zealand did want was more maternity hospitals. A large and representative gathering of Te Awamutu and district residents assembled to bid farewell to Dr St. Leger H. Gribben, who has for a number of years been medical superintendant of Waikeria Reformatory and Tokanui Mental Hospital, and who is leaving to take up a new appointment as superinlendant at Scacliff Mental Hospital near Dunedin. The chairman remarked that it was intended to present Dr. Gribben with a memento to constantly remind him of ihc years he spent in Te Awamutu. The article could not be handed over that evening,- but he could assure Dr. Gribben that it would be an appropriate gift. Dr. and Mrs. Gribben leave to-day for their new home.