MORRINSVILLE NEWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 895, 12 February 1930, Page 12

MORRINSVILLE NEWS

The Morrinsville Dairy Company’s figures for January are as follow: those for January, 1929, being given in parentheses: Butter manufactured, 193 tons (154 tons); total production for the season to date, 1,073 tons (886 tons), an increase of 21.5 per cent.

The gate receipts from the Morrinsville Swimming Club’s carnival last week amounted to £3B Bs, or nearly £lO more than the previous record takings, £2B 11s, at the carnival held during the 1926-27 season. The amount will be swelled by entry fees amounting to £5.

Fishing from a launch off the eastern shores of Lake Taupo during the week-end, a party of Morrinsville anglers, Messrs. A. and T. Bremner H. G. and T. E. Oates and W. Watson, secured 18 trout, the largest weighing 6|lb. Mr. Watson, with seven fish, was the most successful.

Mr. C. H. McKay, who for the past 11 years has been practising as a barrister and solicitor in Morrinsville has purchased a practice in Queenstown and will be shortly leaving Morrinsville. Mr. McKay has been town clerk for over eight years. He is also secretary for the A. and P. Society

A very successful stall was conducted in Thames Street on Friday bv members oC the Morrinsville Croquet „ The takings amounted to about ™ he results the competitions were: Chocolate eake, Miss Murdochpair of roosters, Mrs. C. Mackay; iced cakf, Mrs. Stirling.

To enable Morrinsville farmers to dispose of cull cows without the danf/ r ml thelr '! einK Eold as dairy cows, tlie Thames Valley Co-operative Farm TSy-product Company intends holding fortnightly cull cow drives, commencing on February 27. These will he the hrst cull cow drives to be held in the l°i; in , SVIUe distrlct - A similar drive The yieldert 600 reject cows, win be e grounding districts Horpthi. and driven dir ®ct to

* ♦ ♦ Examination successes gained bv Seb llS i° £ the M °rrinsville District High School are as follow: Proficiency 41shh,= et i nCy ’ 1 ? : j unior national scholar! ships 1, senior national scholarships -.public service entrance, 2; matri-’ culation, 15; including two medic" 1 preliminaries and one accountants' preliminary partial pass. A large number of sheep being railed through Morrinsville at the present time is taxing to the full the ivagon accommodation at the disposal of the Railway Department.

A party of Public Works engineers has commenced the survey of the Mor rinsviile section of the route for ! projected super-high-tension power me fiom Arapuni to Penrose. This i=the only section that remains to be ™ t extends in practical^ ‘v 1 e from about five miles south to about 10 miles north of Mor rinsviile, crossing the Hamilton “road ™ “ le pas . t „ V le Hotel The line mil be erected in the near future to meet the increased demand for power in Auckland. The roike is practically a straight line from Arapum to Auckland, and the s ur™ - now being carried out takes iim = V, Of hills and dales. notlce