LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 31, 1 August 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Bridge party in Town Hall next Friday night.

The formal opening of the additional room recently built at the State school will take place on Friday next at 2 p.m. In connection with the opening the children are giving a display of their work. All parents and friends are invited to inspect the school building and the work of the children.

The residents of Wharepuhunga have been moving in the matter of ’obtaining telegraph and telephone facilities, and we are glad to hear that there are prospects of the early establishment of a telegraph office and telephone bureau in that growing district. The other outlying districts if alive to their own interests will move in the same direction. Why there is no wire communication to Kawa is something we would like to know.

The Postal Department advises that the “ Radio” telegraph office is now open for public business in Wellington. Telegrams may be accepted for vessels fitted with wireless when approaching or departing from New Zealand within a radius of 300 miles of Wellington. The word “Radio” must appear in the instructions of all messages transmitted by wireless. The hours of attendance are from Ba.m. till midnight. The charge for messages accepted within New Zealand is tenpence per word.

The Dominion reports, that over 402 third-class passengers arrived in Wellington by the Ruahine from London on Thursday, included in which were 103 “ assistetls.” Of the latter 68 were adults and 35 children, and 36 adults were approved by the High Commissioner in London. Thirty-nine domestics were included among the passengers and three farm hands. There were nineteen wives on board who came out to rejoin their husbands.

A correspondent from Huntly reports the death at Oparuari, of the well-known octogenarian chief Mahutu. The deceased fought through the Waikato war, and was present at the battle of Orakau, holding the rank of sergeant under Tawhana, and was the last of the three fighting chiefs who went through the war. On peace being declared in the Waikato, Mahutu proceeded to Taranaki, where he fought in many engagements. A big tangi is being held at Oparuari.

The Labour Department sent an official from Wellington to Feilding to prosecute a builder for failing to erect a scaffolding over 16ft high. Defendant was fined is, and the Magistrate pointblank refused to allow the inspector his expenses, there being no occasion to send an officer from Wellington.

In our advertising columns of to-day Mr J. R. Graham announces an auction sale of fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, and shelter trees. These are all well grown healthy plants from the well-known Wanganui nursery of Mr C. Rasmussen. Being from a harder climate they should do exceptionally well in the mild climate of Te Awamutu. Full particulars date and place in advertisement.

The grass grub has caused such serious damage in portions of the Forty Mile Bush and Wairarapa that, according to the information given to “Wairarapa Daily Times” representative by a Masterton settler, who has just returned from a visit to those districts, many farmers are ploughing up land attacked, in the hope of eradicating the pest. So rapidly has the grub been carrying on its work that farmers despair of being able to stay its progress by any other means than ploughing the grass in.