LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17966, 11 March 1930, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs Dalgcty and Company, Ltd., local agents, advise, that the Lonnthic is due at Auckland from Southampton at midnight on Saturday. The cinnabar moth canot yet be looked to for a solution of the farmers problem of keeping in check or eradicating ragwort, Other methods, involving effort by farmers, must be persisted in. This view is strongly held by officers of the Agricultural Department in Auckland. Of the £33,722 I9s 8d rates struck in Ihc Waipa County, £22,093 9s was collected by February 28 and since that time £2595 2s Sd lias come in. These fl.gurcs show that 75 per cent, of European and natives rates ha\e been collected to-date. Overheard in an Auckland hotel where- several motorists were discussing their experiences: "I have just done a long trip, and Ihc worst piece of road I struck was that between Hamilton and Ngaruawahia. condition is absolutely disgraceful." A decrease in the number oi births lasi month, as compared with those for February, 1929, is reported by the registrar of births, deaths and marriages at Palmerston North. The number of births in February, 1929, was 01, whereas in February iasl year only 36 babies were born. There is a decrease in'the numb A' of deaths, the figures being: 1929, 25; 1930, 10. The marriage figures arc the same — 15. ' At ihc meeting of the Waikato Sub-Provincial Branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union keen disappointment was expressed at the fact that members had been depriaed of the opportunity of meeting the British and South African farmers, through a misunderstanding wilh Morrins ,’itie farmers, who arrived in Hamilton wilh more than flic expected quota of cars, in which llie entire party found accommodation. The cars arranged by the Waikato Sub-Provincial Branch arrived at the respective hotels only lo find that their services ware not needed. “Wc- have heard nothing about it, and even if Die Auckland division of th e association had been approach;.! i think that it would have passed the matter on Lo us,” said Mr 11. M. Gore, secretary of tho British Medical Association, when discussing the •statement of llie Rev. Edward Ward, o.i -• t Church of the Ascension, Po.nt Chevalier, that lie intended to suomit his specific for tuberculosis-to Lest by llm B.M.A. Mr Gore, who had justreturned from llie -association contercnoc at Christchurch, said that he had heard nothing there of any doMors having been approached by Mr Ward, or anything more than the statement of Mr Ward that he intended to ask the association to give the tuberculosis remedy a trial. The Timaru and District S.chool Committees’ Association lias issued an appeal lo all school committees in the Dominion io form a strong organisation Uu-uuMi which to approach Ministers on matters affecting primary education. it is pointed out that such an organisation would have stronger membership than the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute and that representations it made would have considerable weight with the Minister, whereas under present conditions school committees’ representations are practically ignored. A small payment of is 3d per member per year would provide a fund of £IOO0 —a very useful liMilins unci. 1

The Stratford Hospital Board today voted £lO to the Obstetrical Society’s appeal. The Minister of Education, Hon. 11. Atmore, has notified the Te Awamutu District High School Committee that Cabinet lias approved a grant for three additional classrooms at the Te Awamutu main school. The work is to be started as quickly as possible. The new classrooms will reduce the overcrowding that has prevailed for many months. Reporting at the meeting of the Waikato County Council to-day, the chairman, Mr T. Hinton, said that matters were shaping well with the proposed new traffic bridge across the Waikato River, and the Minister of Public Works and the Chief Engineer of Public Works had given him lo understand that they were favourable to the scheme. A Maori youth, Mihaia Runga, brought a large mass of ambergris into Kawhia on Saturday afternoon and deposited it at tho local branch of the Bank of New Zealand. The find was made on the previous day at the Aotea Heads on a block of land situated nearby. Its value cannot definitely be decided until it has been examined by experts but a local resident made an offer of £SOO cash, which was refused. Three stowaways who were found on the steamer Aorangi three hours after she left Sydney on the voyage to Auckland appeared in the Police Court at Auckland on charges of secreting themselves on the vessel without permission. All the.accused, George Mochen, aged 25. Joseph Thorpe, aged 28, and Harry Darby, aged 28, labourers, pleaded guilty. The three men were sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment, Sub-Inspector McCarthy stating that none of the accused possessed any money.