Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 71, 28 February 1918, Page 2

Brief Mention of all Minor Happenings in Matamata and Vicinity.

Rev. Brown will preach his farewell sermons in Matamata on Sunday next. Mr W. Richards left Matamata on Monday evening to attend the Annual Methodist conference at Dunedin. Twenty calves lost from Te Poi last week are advertised for. Five pounds reward will be given for knowledge of their whereabouts. The Waikato Co-operative Dairy company's advance payments for butter-fat received 'n January totalled £26,098, as against £20,648 for the same month last year. Notice is given in this issue that all youths under the age of seventeen years, residing within two miles of the Matamata technical school, must present themselves for enrolment at the school on Monday, March 11th. Whilst indulging in childish pranks a few days ago, the seven-year-old son (Jim) of Mr J. W. Finnerty had the misfortune to fall and break his collar-bone. The sufferer was taken to Morrinsville for attention, and is now progressing favorably. Mr H. O. Cooper, Waihou, announces that he has consented to be nominated for a s,eat on the Auckland Land Board. Mr Cooper is a leaseholder at Waihou of twenty years standing, and thus should be a suitable man to merit the support of leaseholders in this district. Notice has been received by the town clerk, Mr B. Blennerhassett, that an order-in-council has been made declaring the Matamata, town area to cease to form part of the Matamata county as from April'lst next, and also that Saturday has been declared the day each week for the halfholiday. This also operates from April Ist.

Mr W. T. Darby notifies that he has appointed Mr R. Lennard (late of Sharkey's, Auckland) to personally conduct his hairdressing and billiard saloon in Tower Road. Mr Lennard is considered one of the most expert tradesmen in the Province. Mr Darby intends to devote much time and expense to making the saloon thoroughly up-to-date.

The - Waikato Co-operative Cheese Company advance payments for butter-fat received in January, with the 1917 figures in parenthesis, were as follows : —AkaAka £2003 (£1473), East Tamaki £1522 (£1128), Hairini £1430 (£936), Matamata £1427 (£396), Turanga-o-moana £1176. The total for January, 1918, was £7588 as against £3933 for the corresponding month of the previous year.

At a meeting of the technical school advisory committee last week the matter of arranging shorthand and typewriting classes was discussed, and Mr Kalaugher explained that the difficulty would be in obtaining sufficient typewriting machines. However, if the committee could raise £3O locally the amount would carry a subsidy of £3O from the Government, and possibly £2O from the Education Board. This would be sufficient for the. purchase of six first-class machines.

On Thursday morning last a pleasing incident took place at the Matamata Glaxo factory, the employees gathering together to make a presentation to Miss T. Robertson, who had been lady clerk at the factory since its commencement. The presentation of a lovely silver mirror, comb, brush and other knickknacks which make up a dressing companion, was accompanied by many good wishes. Miss Robertson left Matamata on Thursday with her father.