HAMILTON NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 715, 15 July 1929, Page 14

HAMILTON NEWS

Advice that the requests of many x* Rapa and Te Kowhai residents f - the retention of the officer in charge of the Te Rapa station would be consideration has been received frer the Minister of Railways, the Hon w B. Taverner, by Mr. S. Fullerton, t Rapa. A recent indignation meeting at the proposed action of the department • remove the official because busing was said to be slack was held. strong protests forwarded to the ter. Local funds for the relief of earth, quake sufferers continue to increasi and are expected to receive a distinc fillip on Tuesday evening, when another big concert is planned. n, f Hamilton fund today amounted • £1,781 10s 3d. General regret has been expressed in the Waikato at the unstable statof the Hamilton Horticultural Societr whose annual meeing was held last week. At the meeting, doubts wer? held whether the society could continue owing to lack of public support while it was stated to be quite possible that the next show would be abandoned. “It is really disgraceful that a district of such fertility, containing »c many enthusiastic gardeners and floriculturalists, cannot stage a decent annual show, and be sure of public support,” stated a prominent member of the society. “The whole trouble can be traced to the fact that the shows have beer, run by a clique, and have not beer truly representative of the district, he added. The informant went on to say that the backbone of previous shows had been the entries received from outsit country districts, which had fallen of lately. The society had had seven;: vicissitudes, and with capable people at the head of affairs should again revive and become one of the most successful organisations in the town. * • * Record entries have been received for the annual show of the Hamilton Kennel Club, to be held next Thursday and Friday. A large number of dogs recently imported from England will be exhibited. The club has beer, fortunate in securing the services of two of Xew Zealand’s leading dog judges—Messrs. T>. Sinclair, of Dannevirke, and X. Wade, of Auckland.