Hamilton News

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 968, 10 May 1930, Page 6

Hamilton News

The Hamilton Fire Brigade received a call at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday to a chimney fire in the Hamilton West Primary School. No damage was done.

The wireless apparatus installed at the Waikato Hospital some time ago through the efforts of the Waikato Sunshine League has so frequently been out of order, and has been such a recurring expense, that the Hospital Board has decided to dismantle r.nd dispose of the machine. ... Speaking on the collection of outstanding fees by the Waifcato Hospital Board, Mr. Campbell Johnstone, the chairman, said that in the board’s experience young people were the most difficult to collect from, as they were generally travelling about Government employees came under . the same category. Emphasising Mr. Johnstone’s remarks, the secretary, f Mr. E. G. Johnson, said that 50 dead letters had been returned that morning. Late entries will be received for the Waikato Winter Show up to Thursday, May 15. The show will be opened by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27, and will conclude on Tuesday. . June 3. In order to conserve as much space as possible, the butter exhibits will be piled in pyramids. The Government intends to occupy a large area of space this year to demonstrate the many activities of its departments. Entries are coming to hand freely, and it is expected that, as in the dairy section, they will exceed all previous records. There now seems every prospect of Hamilton becoming the permanent location of the annual provincial polo tournament, and trienuially of the Savile Cup tournament. Both the Agricultural and Pastoral Association • (the controlling authority of the Claudelands showgrounds) and the Waikato Trotting Club (lessees of the racing tracks within the grounds;, favour granting the use of the inner area to the Polo Association, provided such can be given without any dis turbance of existing rights and privileges. Commenting on the annual report at the meeting of the Hamilton Beautifying Society, the Mayor, Mr. J. R. Fow, said he had heard on all sides compliments expressed on Hamilton’s green spaces. The work was appreciated more than anything else done in the town. He had received many letters asking how it was done, and where the money came from. His reply had been that a few publicspirited citizens did the work, and the bulk of the money came from the borough council, and sometimes from outside. They got a good deal and asked for more. The borough council was alive to the work accomplished, .and appreciated it as well as anyone else. ... Giving evidence before the committee inquiring into regional planning boundaries, the town clerk, Mr. VV. L. Waddel, said that in the opinion Df the Hamilton Borough Council the region should comprise the counties of Raglan, Waikato, Piako, Matamata, Waipa, Otorohanga and Waitomo. with all the boroughs and town districts within the boundaries of those coun- . ties. The council believed that the population within the counties named was rapidly coming to look on Hamilton as its centre. Buses ran daily from Hamilton to Te Aroha, Cam bridge, Te Awamutu, Huntly, Glen Massey. Te Kuiti, Kawhia and Raglan. The areas in the Waikato and Raglan counties north of Rangiriri had little interest in common with Hamilton. Mr. R. Worley, borough engineer, Hamilton, said that in a few years all the roads converging on Hamilton would be asphalted, and those dis- '! tricts which now did not appear to have much community of interest with Hamilton would come to realise with improved transport facilities that Hamilton would be their economic centre.