Local.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 66, 28 November 1913, Page 2

Local.

The Ackland Exhibition will be opened by the Governor on Monday. The Waikato Agricultural Show will take place at Hamilton on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Many potato crops in and around the district are badly infected with blight, otherwise fine crops being ruined. The use of the heavy six hor-e roller on the metal covering Ralph and Hakanoa Str* s has made a wood .ful difference to the surface of the roads. Two very fine photographs f the new bridge appear in tin* Public Works Statement predu week by the Hon. Mr Fraser. Two sisters of the Order of the Lady of the Mission (Notre Dame de Missions) vi -ited Huntly on Monday with a view of opening the Convent School early in January, While bathing in Lake Hakanoa at the beginning of the week, Master Billy Sheeran struck a piece of glass with liis elbow, til** result being a deep cut necessitating four stitches. The bathing season has commenced in earnest, the warm weather inducing many to k that coolness which the river affords. A few minor accidents, mainly cuts from pieces cf glas*, have been reported. Irish Maid, the somewhat, unlucky steeplechaser, own 1 by Mr Chas. Maxwell was scat back to Huntly from Eller- li” last Tuesday morning. Iti- tin intention of the owner to give the horse a spell in the c en tr. for some time. Tenders for carting gravel, an i for the supply and delivery road metal will he receive;! up i twelve noon on S iiuivl - December 20th., by the Clerk o the Huntly Road Board. Sp< i fications for the three contract;can be seen at the Board’s Oiri e Huntly.

Mr F. Harris, Returning Officer of the Huntly Road Hlk mi. gives notice in our advertising ! columns that in consequen e ■•}'[ the departure from tin* district Mr P. J. Hij the /aettonei of the Ti >l l 1 • >a• ; had occurred, and that nominations of candidates to fill tin vacancy will be received up till noon of Saturday, 6th. December. - Mr A. Crowder reports the f trout are very plentiful, and at present are feeding on k beetlo which are carried down in great numbers on the surface oi the water. At the beginning • f the week Mr C;• >w■ I • caught two very fine specimens of the finny trib\ and these on the edge of a sandbank in the centre of the river. On the 21st instant the New j Zealand Dairy Association Limi- i ted distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £64444 7s 64. This payment covered butt *rfat supplied during the month of October. The corresponding payment last year was £57,992 Is 6d. Thus the increase for th month as compared with lasi year is £6,453 5s lOd. Mr J. Parkes* garden in Hakanoa Street is one mass of colour and presents a magnificent sight. Poppies, Nemesia and Phlox satisfy the eye, while the perfume of his lovely rose-, beautiful stocks and fragrant wallflower fill the air with perfume that is indescribable. A visit to the garden will repay ih lover of flowers who cannot fail to be infected with Mr Parkes’ whole-hearted enthusiasm for their culture. The driving of the wooden piles to carry the eastern approaches to the bridge has not been attended with complete success. At first two lengths were splieml, and one or two piles successfully driven ; but afterwards it wis found necessary t > splice three together, and to drive these the machine had to be made considerably higher. The strata through which the piles have tog must be penetrated very deeply before a firm foundation can ho obtained. Each blow of the monkey sends the pile pretty well down. In connection with the Waikato Agricultural Show Holiday excursion tickets will he issued by the Railway Department from Ohakune and any station north of Ohakune to Hamilton or Kirikiriroa from Monday, December Ist. to Wednesday December 10th. Tickets issued from Taumarunui and stations north of Taumarunui will not be available on tiv Auck- j land —Wellington or Welling- ; ton —Auckland express trains. On Wednesday, 3rd December a train will leave Huntly at j 3.50 a.m. returning from Kirikiroa at 5.15 p.m.