LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 43, 12 September 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the committee of the Lawn Tennis Club is being arranged for Thursday evening for the purpose of having the property of the club moved from the present courts to the Victoria Park. It is hoped to open the season on the new courts.

While pulling down the old building known as Elmsly's corner the contractors yesterday discovered an exceptionally large stone axe, which is, in all probability, still another relic of the many battles fought with the natives in this district.

Messrs Lawson and Swain have further particulars of the sale of produce, etc., advertised. This firm intend to arrange regular sales, which will doubtless be, greatly appreciated by all,

Mr J. A. Young, Mayor of Hamilton, has announced his intention of contesting the Waikato seat as an Independent.

In another column Messrs Richard Arthur and Co., the wellknown auctioneers, of Auckland, advertise a great sale of Irish linens to be held at Tackson's sample rooms on Saturday next.

The bottom is out of the potato market, says the Dunedin " Star." Potatoes are going to be cheap. Otago has been growing more than we can eat or sell, and being a perishable commodity, they must be got rid of. Recent sales in the country have been at the rate of 40s per ton, or 3s 4d per bag on trucks, and already in some southern districts potatoes are being fed to the pigs.

One of Mr Isitt's first experiences in the New Zealand Parliament is unfortunate. He has had his overcoat stolen. The coat disappeared on Wednesday last and so far all efforts to trace it have been as futile as the attempt of the police to ascertain the whereabouts of Powelka. No doubt some " stranger" has taken the garment from the corridor by mistake or of malice prepense, but in any case Mr Isitt is the victim of his independence in politics. Were he a party man and as such entitled to hang his hat (and coat) in the Whip's room of either party, he would not now be lamenting his loss.

Says the Te Kuiti paper: There is no question but that thoughtless purchasing of househoM and other requirements in the large cities is injuring to a considerable extent the trade of this district. The public have it dinned into their ears that city stores offer better goods at lower prices, when the real truth is that the personal, individual attention given to customers in country towns enables supplies to be furnished at equal quality and prices to those of the city stores. Unfortunately it has to be admitted that some of the v/orst offenders in this supporting local industries doctrine are traders themselves.

The Raglan Chronicle reports the committee appointed to carry out the Public, Baths scheme, and raise a fund, for which a £ for £ subsidy was expected from the Government, have met with defeat in an unexpected quarter. Substantial support was got from the public, but when the powers that hold the strings of the National Purse were approached, it was found that the application ought to have been in on or before Coronation Day. We understand that the necessary application has been made by the local Town Board, and that when the necessary amount is subscribed locally, the £ for £ subsidy will be forthcoming. It is regrettable that some definite action is not being taken. Raglan evidently failed to do what Te Awamufu has done, but unless Te Awamutu gets to work and finds the necessary money we will meet with a defeat equally as regrettable as experienced at .Raglan. Doubtless the matter will receive the attention of the Town Board at the meeting on Thursday.

In the course of his remarks at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, Mr P. Hercus, president of the Industrial Association, said that there was no doubt that the future of the Dominion and the Dominion's industries depended upon the estimation of them by the public and of the way they were carried out. The men responsible for the management of the industries endeavoured to make them a little better than the industries of other centres. In the year ending March 11, 1911, the wages distributed in the factories amounted to £855,000. He was an optimist, and looked to a prosperous future for New Zealand. The Dominion was at the beginning of things, and would be a great country. It would carry a population of five millions. In the North there was a great expanse of country awaiting population. He had visited Helensville and Dargaville, and the Northern Wairoa, and the country he had seen had amazed him. Aratapu had surprised him. The Wairoa was a wonderful waterway, and the traffic upon it had been remarkable. At Whangarei there was a splendid expanse of agricultural land. When that land was occupied there would be an immense outlet for the Dominion's manufactures. There was a great future for the King Country, and no matter what was done in the North Island, Canterbury would always be the granary, and would be relied upon for grain,

The ladies of St. John's Anglican Guild have decided to postpone the garden party, which was to have been held to-morrow afternoon, until a future date, on account of the unfavourable weather conditions. The adjourned date of the party will be advertised in our of Friday.