DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17750, 29 June 1929, Page 6

DAY BY DAY.

An important decision was reached at the annual National Dairy Conference of And the National Meeting at Hamilton Dairy Associa-

tion at Whangarei this week, when Hamilton was fixed upon as the venue of next year’s gathering. This resolution was carried by the delegates, despite alternative proposals favouring Wellington and Palmerston North, so that the verdict in Hamilton’s favour was not a barren one. The conference, which is to be attended by several hundred representatives of dairy companies, including some from oversea ranks of first rate importance, and it is fitting Waikato, the leading dairying district of New Zealand, should be the locality chosen for the next Dairy Parliament. The end of June, 1930, will be the period of assembly, and this district can be relied upon to do the occasion full justice.

Among the legislative measures to be considered during Two Boards the present session

for of Parliament will Main Highways, be provision for setting up two Main Highways Boards, one for the North Island and the other for the South Island. Since the Highways Act has been in operation the administration ol' it has been carried on by a Central Board. The step aiming at separate control has been hinted at for some time by motoring and local body interests in the South Island. Whether the setting up of two tribunals is going to prove the panacea for all the ills attached to this particular phase of operations remains to be seen. There is no doubt that it should, if brought into effect, do much to speed up the important works set down for attention under the Main Highways schedule, which, it is held in some quarters, are not going ahead with the rapidity that is desired.

The parishioners or Christ Church will regret that the Rev. 11. S. Hamilton, assistant priest of the parish, has been offered the parochial district of Whangamomona by the Bishop of Waikato, and has decided to accept it, says the Wanganui Chronicle. Mr Hamilton will leave for his new work early in August. Whangamomona is a large and scattered parish with much backblock work, and many roads are impassable except on horseback. It needs a vicar who can constantly travel. Archdeacon Creed Meredith, though reluctant to lose an excellent colleague, approves of this call being accepted. Mr Hamilton has endeared himself to many in Wanganui by faithful, patient work, and his departure will be felt acutely.