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Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 475, 27 September 1923, Page 2

Should anything on a grander scale than what we have mentioned be sought after then there is an excellent site in the Recreation Ground, with a storm water drain adjacent to carry the water away. We understand a good, useful and commodious bath could be built for something in the neighbourhood of £SOO. But wherever the place and whatever the cost, and whatever the means employed to meet that cost, there is one thing that is badly wanted in Matamata, and that is a place where children can learn to swim.

Mesdames G. Johnston and A. H. Lambourne are on a visit to Wellington.

The Bay of Plenty Times (Tauranga) states that there is a shortage of store cattle in the Tauranga district.

The growth of grass in the Matamata district during the past few days has been really wonderful, it is really growing inches per day.

Mr. W. Wallace, chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, was oh a visit to Matamata yesterday on private business.

The Rotorua County Council has adopted the standard width of roads for the county as follows: Access roads. 12ft: through roads, 16ft; congested roads, 20ft.

The Tauranga Co-op. Dairy Co. has presented a case of pipes and a silver i whisky flask to Mi'. C. E. Macmillan. j M.P. (now chairman of the company), j as a token of appreciation of his ser- j vices as secretary. I

At the recent meeting of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board Mr. j David Jones was unanimously re- i elected chairman for the ensuing 12 j months and Mr. J. S. Jessep was simi- j larly re-elected to the position of . vice-chairman. j The Department of Internal Affairs has informed the Tauranga Ac- j climatisation Society that it is not prepared to sanction the introduction , of opossums into the district, pending , further enquiries. The society has decided to apply for permission to I liberate opossums on Mayor Island. J subject to the lessee giving consent. ! i Details of the fire which destroyed Mr. H. Mason's residence at Okauin on Saturday and which was reported , in our Monday's issue, are to the , effect that Mr. Mason and his wife : were awakened at about 11 p.m. by , the smoke. They just had time to j remove the piano, but everything else ; was destroyed. They could assign no reason for the outbreak. i i

The Rotorua Chamber of Commerce has decided to strenuously oppose the suggested alterations to the railway time-table as proposed by the Hamilton Chamber.. The proposals are meeting with opposition all along the Rotorua line, it being considered that they will benefit Hamilton to the inconvenience of travellers further away from Auckland. Municipal authorities at Bruges have devised a novel form of concert. A choir of eight, two first tenors, two second tenors, two baritones, and two basses will give a fortnightly concert, the choir standing on the second floor of the belfrey, facing the Grande Place of Bruges, and the carillonneur and his colleagues chiming the bolls in tunc to the singers.

The suggestion recently made in the Record that application be made '"or the appointment of more Justices of the Peace in Matamata was referred to at the Matamata branch of the New Zealand Farmers Union meeting on Saturday, and it was decided \to immediately write to the Minister for Justice on the matter. The names of several suitable gentlemen were mentioned. . ...

Despite the wet'weather good, progress is being made with the kerbinp and concreting of "the Arava street (east side) footpath. Over half of the street is now completed; - [The work has shown-up'the faulty levels of buildings, and m several cases the <,hop windows are oil a level wuh.rhe footpaths. On the other hand several business men will, have to instal a step. After a. lapse of ..a few weeks, .due to wet weather, the local Druids' held another of their series of euchre parties in the Farmers' Hall on Monday evening. The prizes for most points were won by Mrs. F. Hitchcock and Mr. Aicheson, and for least points by Mrs. Cooper and Mr. Yanko. There was a good attendance. Mr. Aichcson's prke was donated back to the oromoters.

Master E. R. Hardy, who landed at Plymouth a few weeks ago with his parents, Professor and Mrs. Hardy, from New York, is only 14 years old, but has' already graduated as Bache'or of Arts. He speaks 14 languages. After a holiday in England he will pursue his studies for 12 months prior to becoming a minister in the Episcopal Church of America.

A party of Tirau and Putaruru residents, Messrs. M. Harrison, Leslie, Portas and another, undertook the journey to Napier last week end, per Ford car. Despite a few minor mishaps the party arrived in time to see the Hawkes* Bay-Auckland football match, and considered it well worth the lory? overland journey. They ire certainly to be complimented upon making the journey successfully at this season of the year.

The mortality among young pigs in the Walton district has been considerable. One farmer has lost every young pig out of six litters, and another with five litters, aggregating forty, has lost twenty-five of them. At least 20 per cent of the young pigs at the Waharoa pig farm, despite the best of care and attention, have succumbed. The cause attributed is the late spring with its attendant cold and wet weather.

The Mayor of Cambridge indulged in a little plain speaking to council lors at a recent meeting of the Borough Council, says the Independent. In the course of a discussion the Mayor stated that there were far toj many council meetings held at the street corners, where matters that had come before the council in committee were discussed before they had actually been before open council. Mr. Priestley strongly condemned the continuance of this sort of thing, which he said caused much trouble and unpleasantness.

The opinion has been expressed that the letter "e" is the most unfortunate letter in the English alphabet, because it is always out of cash, forever in debt, never out of danger, and in hell all the time. It is fortunate that it is never in war and' always in peace. It is the beginning of existence, the commencement of ease, and the end of trouble. Without it there would be no meat, no life, and no heaven. Tt is the centre of honesty, and makes love perfect. It also starts off in error, and printing-, publishing, typography and lithography, can get along without out, although it is necessary in electrotyping, engraving, and typefoundintv. Tt is the beginning and end of editorial existence.—Type. Have you received a good spade and shovel at 7s Gd each? Don't miss this onnnrtnnitv. Stock nearly depleted. D. McL. Wallace.*