WAIKATO NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 218, 20 December 1909, Page 5

WAIKATO NOTES.

Own Correspondent.

We have had intensely hot weather these past two weeks. Th« temperature in the shade has been hotter than generally experienced in December, ami white suits and light dresses have accordingly appeared in keeping with the heat.

The Traffic bridge is causing much best (speaking of sultry things in general) without a corresponding amount of light. This great connectirg link between the east and west sides of the Waikato river is contributed to in proportion according to use by the borough and the counties &d ■ joining. The cost was to be under £20,000 and it was to have been up and in use, well, months ago. A series of unaccountable delays in delivery and now incompleteness in delivery of cetrain minor parts have occurred and there is no certainty it will be built at any rate, before next May. Progress is now being made, however. The great arch of one single span is being slowly pieced together from both sides, and may be completed within a month or so. After that there remains much work to do, and as 1 have said, if we get it into use by May next we shall be fortunate. The cost, meanwhile, has gone op and will ran nearer X 24,000 than any lower figure. Cambridge opened its new combined Town Ball and Carnegie library last Tuesday. The building is a very fine one of brick and stone, seating 800 people in the concert hall. It is probably ahead of the needs of the qiiet little town, bat is certainly a handsome architectural addition to its many other charms.

War is at all times a horrible thing, but necessity compels us all to do our best to defend our country. The need for nurses near the fighting front in war time, where they could immediately render first aid to the injured has led to' the formation in Hamilton of what ia probably the first corps of its kind in the world —I mean a mounted nurses' corps. A number of ladies who have the certificate of efficiency in connection with the St John's Ambulance Association have boined the body, which i 3 to work in conjuonction with the Waikato Mounted Infantry, I bfHovc.