LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 23 April 1926, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A floral fete anrl garden carnival, held at Tiinaru, resulted in the raising of £ti'.lS for Hie funds of the Ratepayers’ Association.

During 1 March the Postal Department installed 0528 telephones (says a Melbourne, paper). This was its record effort. There arc still, however, 7130 applications awaiting attention.

The Secretary or Ihe Post and Telegraph Department advises that mails which left Auckland on March 111, per Niagara, via Vancouver, arrived at London on the ,17th instant.

Preparations for Hie coming\Jrip of Hie Governor-General. Sir Charles Fergusson, and Lady Alice Fergusson. to the Pacific islands arc well under way. The Government steamer Tutanekai, in which the Vice-Regal party will undertake the cruise, is receiving the finishing touches. The council of the Royal Agricultural Society yesterday resolved that the next. Royal Show be held in Auckland, provided the Auckland City Council grants a half-holiday for people’s dav. Failing this the Royal Show will be held at Palmerston North.

At ihe meeting last night, the members of Hie Waikato Hunt passed a vote of condolence with (ho relatives of ihe late Mr Alfred Main, of Tamaherc, appreciation being expressed by the Master (Mr Wynn Brown) of the deceased gentleman’s kindly assistance to tile Hunt over several years. Lack of work and a consequent shortage of funds was pleaded by three husbands who appeared at the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, to-day, charged with wilful failure to maintain. After hearing their evidence, Mr Wyvern Wilson, SAL, said it was evident the men had been unfortunate and dismissed all informations.

Making deck chairs is the'work that a number of disabled soldiers in Wellington have started. The chairs arc strongly built, all the joints being made with bolts. Instead of canvas scats, strips of wood are united to licxiblo steel bands. This method combines strength with neatness. The chairs have been tested, and have been found to withstand a weight of 30st. The 4th Mounted Rifles, consisting of 150 Waikato men, will go into training for a week at ihe Hopuhopu Camp, Ngaruawahia, on Sunday. The unit will comprise men who have not (rained before as a mounted body. They will provide their own horses Colonel R. Wyman, D. 5.0., of Papaloetoc, will be officer commanding the unit, and Captain M. E. Johnson, M.C-, Hamilton, will be camp adjutant.

Perhaps the enthusiasm displayed by many motorists over Hie new registration plates is a little premature (says the Daily Telegraph). A Napier motorist, while adjusting his newlyacquired plate, chanced to spill some oil on it. Using a little benzine in wiping it off, lie was not a little chagrined to find that the so-called stove enamelled paint also came off, leaving the bare metal exposed.

There arc few institutions of the kind in the healthy financial position of the, Waikato Hunt Club. The various subjects, which have been the topic of particularly keen interest during the past couple of seasons, have proved a dccidcly lucrative means of accelerating the membership and building up the. finances. At the annual meeting last night 180 members exercised a vote and as eacli had to first, meet his subscription of two guineas, £378 was placed to the credit of the institution to commence the new season’s operations. In a review of the year’s operations, concluding on March 31, the Mayor of Maslcrton (Mr T. Jordan) informed the Council that ihe various accounts of the borough were all in credit, and there was a balance slightly greater than that left by the outgoing council. The net balance in Hie district fund to carry forward was £1827. Of this, the council’s share of heavy traffic licenses amounted to £538, and drivers’ licenses to £273, and this, in terms of the statute, had to be expended in permanent road work for the benefit of traffic.

With the growth of Auckland, the Minister of Health, Hon. J. A. Young, recognises it will be very desirable to remove the Mental Hospital at Avondale to the country, where the institution could be enlarged to provide nccommloclatiDn for voluntary patients who wished to undergo treatment to cheek incipient mental trouble. In this connection the Minister recently inspected a suggested site near Patuniahot, and tie slates that, the Department lias under offer quite a number of sites. The whole matter so far was receiving consideration only, no definite decisions having been made. licforc the vole was taken at the annual meeting last evening to chert the General Committee of Hie Waikato Hunt there was reference by more than one member, when mailing observations lo lire necessity for “speaking one’s mind," which warning it can he said was followed to its logical conclusion. This caused Mr Thus. Gherkin, one of the “pioneers of Hie Hunt,” to interject that. wl>u listening to these ' speakers the thought had been running through his mind, “Where was, the commilteo when wo were hard up?” Rightly or wrongly, the inference was that affluence bad caused a rush to be made for a scat on Hie Hunt Committee.

On the motion of Hie chairman, the members of the Waikato Hunt at Hie annual meeting last evening carried by acclamation a hearty vote of appreciation Lo Hie farmers who bad permitted hunting on their properties during the past season. Air Wynn Brown said that Hie best, sporting farmers in New Zealand were to be found in the Waikato. There was hardly an instance lo lie met with where this privilege had been withheld, and its granting had much to do with the success of the hunts in this district last season.

A strong appeal was made by Mr It. Windsor to the Waikato Hunt Committee last ovevning to extend more encouragement to the hunters on lhe race programmes of the Hunt. He claimed that tins would be an incentive towards Hie breeding of hunters and even if an owner did not wish to race his hunter himself, the value of his horse would he increased by the racing avenue being open to it. The Master (Mr Wynn Brown) admitted that (lie typical hunter dirt not gel much of a hearing on race programmes. In the interest of hunting its inlrcMuct.ion would he a good tiling. Mr M. Wells pointed out the necessity for careful-consideration before a decision was reached, as the scheme had not proved a success when tried elsewhere, and with the location of the race programme at Cambridge the financial return would be less than formerly. The meeting gave sanction to Mr Windsor’s suggestion being considered by Hie committee. Young children are very susceptible to colds—chilis—-and feverishness at this time of the year. The safest and most reliable remedy—as it gives prompt relief—is Nazol. (2)

A meeting of the various Bible Classes connected with St. Paul’s Methodist Church was held last night, when it was decided to form a club to be known as St. Paul’s Young People’s Club,” catering for the social, educational and spiritual life of Hie young people of Hie Church. Meetings will he held every alternate Tuesday, and a committee was set up to make arrangements.

/ Rev. P- R. Paris and Rev. It. L. Fiebig, who have commenced Ibrir ministry in Ihe Hamilton Methodist circuit, were lendered a cordial reception by a large 'number of church adherents at social this week. The preachers were welcomed by His Worship the Mayor (Mr ,T. R. Fow), anti Revs. F. E. Headley and A. Macdonald Aspland, and Adjutant Hawkins of ihe Salvation Army. Mr Paris and Mr Fiebig suitably replied. The testing officer of the Waikouaiti and Waihemo Herd Testing Association gives a striking instance of the value of herd testing. Two grade Friesian cows in the same herd, calving with only one day's difference, hove Hie following figures to their credit: —A 7-year-old gave 10.201 b of tultcrfat for March and 101.35 since calving: a 4-ycar-oUI gave 48.051 b for March and 301.201 b since calving—ji si double Hie returns of the other. According to accepted figures of costs in New Zealand, No. 1 will barely pay her way, while No. 2 is already £8 os ahead of expenses, and “still going strong.”