King Country Chronicle Saturday, July 15, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 378, 15 July 1911, Page 4

King Country Chronicle Saturday, July 15, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL

«►►♦♦ A Bowling Club social will be held on Thursday next in the Town Hall. Mr F. VV. Butler, consulting engineer of Cambridge, has been appointed engineer to the Borough of Hamilton

"I never saw so many land speculators in my life, as in New Zea!an'\" said Profesor Mills in a southern town recently. New Zealand, he also said, had established more public enterprises in the past twenty years than any other country.

Mr R. H. Chester has disposed of his Te Awamutu and Mangapiko apiaries to Mr Halfovd, of Auckland. It is Mr Chester's intention to return to Jamaica, where he lived for some years, and he has booked a pasfage per s.s. Mnraaia, sailing for Vancouver on August 4th.

Mr C. Thrush, of Ifelensville, has been appointed manager to the Marokopa Dairy Co. He takes up his duties next week.

Mr W. W. Gunson has been appointed teacher of the Mapara school. Mr Gunson takes up his duties next week.

A Terminating Building Society is in process of formation in Te Kutii. Mr N. B. Lusk is acting as secretary, and has met with very encouraging results in his canvass of the town.

A fine sample of three table carrots grown on Mr J. Innes' farm, Waiteti, has been on view at Young and Co.'s for the past few days. The carrots were grown without any manure and collectively weigh 91bs 14ozs. Mr P. R. Golebrook has very generously presented Te Kuiti Boy Scouts with a handsome bugle for parade purposes. "Go thou, and do likewise." A drum and a flag are wanted still.

A preliminary notice announcing a Catholic social to be held in the Town Hall, Te Kuiti, on Thursday, August 3rd, appears in this issue. A strong committee of ladies is organising the function, and it is anticipated that the event will be a huge sucess. A special feature of the social will be the number of nfie instrumental and vocal items that will be given.

The Boundaries Commission, which is to decide how the Parliamentary electorates are to be altered in view of the increase in population, is to be called together by Sir James Carroll, Minister in charge of the matter today. Two vacancies have to be filled on the Commission those of Messrs Weston and Quick, who have retired. The Commission, when they (feet, will consider their line of future procedure. It is understood that the Survey Department has ready the map which it has been preparing for the Commission. This map shows in full detail the old electoral boundaries and thhe present population in each.

A great reform movement has been spreading over England in the direction of the manufacure of wholemeal Hour and bread. The rapid decay of teeth in young children has made imaginative writers picture a toothless age to come. Children do not eat enough hard substances, and the bread they usually get is not body-building. To get the genuine old-fashioned wholemeal was something of a difficulty, but it has been successfully overcome by Messrs Green and Colebrook, Ltd., of Tc Kuiti, who are now advertising the real whole wheatmeal bread such as our grandparents used and at exactly the price of other kinds of bread.