LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 32, 4 August 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The formal opening of the additions to the public school, which was to have taken place to-day, has has been postponed till 2 p.m. on Wednesday next, 9th inst. This should prove a most interesting function, as it has been arranged for an exhibition of the pupils’ work, and the cadets under Sergeant-Major Hatt are to be put through physical exercises. Tea will be provided for the visitors.

A meeting of the provisional committee appointed to draft rules and make preliminary arrangements for the formation of the Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce was held in the public library on Tuesday afternoon. There were present: Messrs Bowden (chairman), von Stunner, Stewart, Cox, Fear, and Warburton, The draft rules were considered and. amended where necessary, and other preliminary arrangements were made.

News was received in Te Awamutu yesterday morning of the death of an old resident in the person of Mr J.F. Andrew, which occurred at Henderson on Wednesday. Until five years ago Mr Andrew was in business at Te Awamutiv when he sold his property and business to Messrs Hoyte and Montalk, and went to Henderson, where he has resided until the time of his decease. The late Mr Andrew was a very highly respected resident, and had many friends here, who express their deepest regret at the news of his death.

Sixteen cases of honey from Featherston, sent through Messrs Dalgety and Co., reached London recently. The prices realised from 37s 6d to 38s per cwt., or a fraction over 4d per lb. The colour was considered a trifle pale, and the honey possessed rather a grainy tendency, but was of fair flavour. The highest price for honey at Home is generally obtained in the winter months, whereas this shipment' reached Home in the summer. Satisfactory , prices can scarcely be obtained for New Zealand honey, but it is received in regular quantities. The report received from Messrs Dalgety and Co’s London agents states that there is a good demand at Home at present for all good and fine honey, as the supplies are short, and owing to the bee disease, the production in Britain is likely to be materially reduced.