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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4369, 4 February 1909, Page 2

A plentiful supply of feed is reported from all parts of the district, and stock i 3 in good condition. The Second Ballot in connection with the Thames By-Election takes place today.

Last Monday morning thirty-one witnesses were examined on behalf of the respondents in connection with the Ohinemuri Licensing Poll Case. All the books and documents of the old Colonial Bank have just been carried away from the Dunedin Stock Exchange building to the paper mills at Woodhaugh for conversion into pulp. In connection with the 40,000 acres of

land shortly to be thrown open for occupation on a leasehold tenure, in the vicinity of Rotorua, the Thames Advertiser considers that in a few years dairy factories should be quite a feature of the district.

Some of the residents of Te Aroha are

making complaints regarding Ithe inferior quality of the milk supplied to them by their milk vendors. The milk they say is of extremely poor quality, and turns sour even when they put it on the fire to scald in order to prevent its doing so.

The St. Mark’s Sunday School Festival is to be held at Morrinsville on Saturday, 13th inst. The children of . the school will wait upon the parents and those interested in the school during the next few days for subscriptions, and it is hoped that there will be the usual kindly response. We regret to learn that owing to our new runner hot having quite got into the swing of his work several of our subscribers have suffered the inconvenience of the non-delivery of their papers. We have .taken steps to have this corrected, but we shall esteem it a favour if any who have suffered this inconvenience will acquaint us with the fact, in order that we may make reparation for any loss they may have sustained.

Mr J. A. Young, of Hamilton, has acceded to the request of a deputation to stand for election to the mayorality in the forthcoming election. The present Mayor (Mr J. 8. Bond) said, ia speaking- for the deputation, that they felt that Mr Young was the most capable man fir the position. Mr Young has been nine years a member of the Hamilton Borough Council.

The footpaths in the back streets are receiving very generous attention at the hands of the Borough Council and by the ?ud of the fine weather (when it sets in) should be iu a very good condition. The recent heavy rain somewhat retarded the progress of work on Murphy’s bridge contract. Owing to the flooding of the rain, which backed up into the lagoon, the men erecting the bridge were unable to work to advantage for a couple of days. However, the flood has gone down, and Mr Murphy is pushing on with the work at both ends of his contract.

Visitors to Te Aroha this season have been somewhat doubtful as to the right termination of their journey. This has. been owing to the metamorphosis of our railway station into a fine up-to-date erection. But they find all (heir doubts as to their destination dispelled the instant they turn down Rewi-street and find themselves confronted bj- our prehistoric Court-house and and Post Office. In Monday’s issue the Auckland Star devotes a leader to the Immigration Restriction Bill now before the Canadian Parliament, and draws attention to the evils from which Canada has suffered owing to having been made the dumping ground for England’s undesirables. We are not surprised that Canada should be taking more defini'e steps to protect herself, for we recollect being told by Mr Frank Bullen that he was surprised to see the promiscuous loads of immigrants whichiCanada allowe 1 to bo shipped there.

Tilt; tourist season is one of the best we have had. and the visitors have derived great pleasure from walking round our lovely domain. Mr Dalton and his staff a»e just now busy with their operations for converting the piece of ground on the left of the path leading up to the kiosk into an ornamental pond to be set in one of Mr Dalton’s pretty backgrounds of rock and flower bed. We are to be congratulated upon our splendid facilities for introducing water effects into our landscape girdening so freely, for there could be nothing prettier. The flowerbeds in the Domain are at present very attractive with particularly delic te blue larkspur and a wealth of many hued mangolds

Mr Hasz rd, Government surveyor, ha I discovei ed near Mercury Bay a relic of , the M iOri stone age. in the form of a |

workshop for the manufacture of Maori axe* a"d anvils in stone. The truly gruesome feature of the find is provided oy 'he cannibal ovens, and the remains of the bones which had been split to admit of the marrow being extracted. The find is reminiscent of the slaughter of 1000 of the Ngatihe tribe by the Ngatitamatera about the year 1880, the discovery having been made near the Whatetawa Pah. Specimen copies of the wages and time sheets required under the Arbitration Act of last session are being sent out to employers from the Labour Dcparfme it, says the Northern Advocate ” The time sheet provides for the entry of the number of hours worked daily, the total number per week, the amount of overtime, the wages paid, etc. The provision covers every employer bound by an industrial award, and later on the unions propose to add the insertion of a like provision in the Shops and Offices Act. The amended Arbitration Act came into operation on January 1 st, and it is understood that its provision will be strictly enforced. We would remind readers of the special train, announced in another part of this issue, which will leave Te Aroha at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday next, to convey those who wish to attend the Ada Crossley concert to Paeroa. The train will return after the concert. It is a most uncommon piece of good fortune for the whole of the district that we should be afforded this opportunity of hearing the brilliant Australian contralto, and we have not a doubt but that the Criterian Theatre mil be packed. This is the one and only concert to be given in the district. “ The poverty and misery that I saw in the Old Country were appalling,” said the Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., when interviewed on his arrival in Wellington from tne Home Land. “lam fully convinced,” he added, “ that tariff reform js coming.” The following ten candidates out of thirteen presented from the Thames High School passed the Civil Service Junior examination : Annie Wylie, Mabel Smith, Esther M. O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Paltridge, G. E. Alley, Olive M. Baker, Yera M. Hoskins, Sarah Isabel Whitehouse, Margaret McCaskill, Elsie B. Sykes. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued by the Railway Department to Hamilton from Thames, etc., on Saturday, sth February. Mr Franklin, Government Health Department Inspector, was here on Tuesday, and yesterday, and with the local Inspector made a tour of the various works in progress.

The staff and pupils of the Convent School have this week taken possession of their new building, which is very commodious and convenient,and possesses a pleasant music room, a truly important feature of a modern school building. B. Spitz begs to remind the public that he has just opened up another big line in drapery and boots, and is offering special bargains. Sale will continue during Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Everything at sacrifice. Come and see the goods, they will open your eyes. Goods must go. Address opposite! Palace Hotel. On Friday last at the University Senate Session it was announced that Mr T. W. J. Johnson had passed his final medical examination with distinction—the only one of seven who passed and eleven who sat, says the Thames Advertiser. The student is an old Thames boy, hiß father was one of the first Hauraki and Deep Sinker engineers. Mr Johnson gained his Junior scholarship at Tararu, Senior scholarship at Thames High School, and University scholarship at the Auckland Grammar School. He is the first Thames boy to qualify as a doctor. This fact was mentioned at yesterday’s meeting of the Thames High School Board of Governors and satisfaction expressed that an old High School boy had gained such distinction.