LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bequest to Church The sum of £SOO has been bequeathed to St. Aidan’s Anglican Church, Claudelands, under the will of the late Mr Harry Campbell Ross, of Hamilton, who died suddenly in Sydney on July 9. Greater Production Effort Urging the farmers to increase production to the limit of their ability, Mr W. S. Goosman, M.P., stated at a meeting in Hamilton that the Government had agreed to purchase all that the farmers could produce, but had not said When it would pay for it. Donations For Guards Members of the National Military Reserve who are engaged on guard duty at the Hopu Hopu camp would welcome gifts of magazines and books for their entertainment during periods off duty. Although the men are not much in the public eye they are, nevertheless, engaged on extremely important work. Ninth Successive Frost This morning’s severe frost, of 12 degrees at Ruakura, marked the ninth successive morning upon which .a frost has occurred. Of the nine frosts, the recording this morning was the highest. In Hamilton 9 degrees was the reading. Each of these mornings has been followed by a sunny day, and no rain has fallen in Hamilton for eleven days. Margarine in Schools “It has been reported that our children are being taught to us» margarine in the schools,” said Mr C. M. Alexander at the annual meeting of the Te Awamutu Dairy Company yesterday. Such a procedure was inadvisable, he said, as it tended to discourage the use of butter. A resolution strongly protesting against the use of margarine in technical schools was carried unanimously. School Punishment There v/as no particular part of a child’s body defined for punishment, said Mr G. R. Ashbridge, Dominion secretary, in an address to the Manawatu branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. An English Judge had ruled that, until a chart was drawn up defining by medical agreement the parts of the body on which punishment should be inflicted, a teacher could punish a child anywhere. Jehovah’s Witnesses The leaflet Kingdom News, the publication of the organisation Jehovah’s Witnesses, which was banned by the Canadian Government, is being distributed in Hamilton and books offered for sale by a representative of the organisation. Jehovah’s witnesses maintain in accordance with their principles a position of neutrality, which makes them unable to take part in anything of a military nature.

Food Welcomed “We in England cannot express our thanks enough for your help in fighting and your efforts in helping to keep food on our tables,” states a resident of Cheshire, England, writing to a friend in Hamilton. “This morning we had eggs from New Zealand, and a leg of mutton.for dinner, also from there. So you can tell how much indebted we are to you. When the war is over we may be able to show our gratitude in a more substantial way.”

“The H.M.S ” No retired naval officers have as yet been admitted to hospital as a result of listening in recently to the speech of a Cabinet Minister, during which he perpetuated a common error by consistently referring to “the H.M.S. Philomel” (remarks the Christchurch Star-Sun). When the letters are given their full value, ‘“the His Majesty’s Ship Philomel” is obviously absurd. The Navy has always carried the practice further by dropping the “the” even when not preceded by “H.M.S.” Shareholders’ Rights

The Stock Exchange Association of New Zealand has been advised by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand that Dominion shareholders in the Herald and Weekly Times, Limited, Melbourne, and, the Swan Brewery Company, Limited, Perth, Western Australia, who recently have been offered new shares for subscription, may either sell those rights in Australia and pay the proceeds of the sales to the credit of the Reserve Bank accounts there, or sell in Australia sufficient of their original holdings of shares to provide funds to enable them to take up the rights.

Trip to Museum About 80 children from the Hamilton East School visited the Auckland War Memorial Museum yesterday to continue a study begun earlier in the year on the history of ancient Egypt. The children were under the care of their headmaster, Mr W. A. Curteis, and were conducted round the museum by the education officer, Mr R. A. Scobie. Most of the party were paying their second visit for the year. The subject is one chosen by the children themselves for study. Co-operating with the museum authorities, the Railway Department offers a special scale of fares for parties of school-children visiting the museum. Memorial to Airman A lasting memorial to New Zealand’s first air ace of the war, the late Flying-Officer Edgar Kain, has been installed at Marton in the transformation of the lane and area formerly known as the gasworks reserve into a beauty spot henceforth to be called the Kain Memorial Avenue. The avenue consists of 40 flowering cherry trees, and has a background of native trees, a number of which were a contribution from the Wellington Beautifying Society. The trees were planted by the Mayor and Mayoress, Mr and Mrs F. Purnell, councillors and their wives, excouncillors, and others present.

House Cow’s Record

A 10-year-old cow at Stratford has provided household milk on 365 days a year for four years and for 366 days on leap years, which she does not overlook. During the four years she has been milked twice a day without fail. She is entering her fifth milking year as she will have her birthday in a week’s time. She is well fed, sleek and happy. She belongs to Mr W. Hardy-Janes, Stratford, who keeps her as a house cow. She calved when he bought her and has been milked constantly for four years. After her birthday she will be in her fifth year of milk without having calved. Mr Jones feeds her well and she responds generously, though he doubts if she gives as much over a whole year as she would in a season after calving.