The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 10, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 60, 10 November 1911, Page 2

The Waipa Post. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 10, 1911. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tenders are invited by Mr F.C. Danieil for the erection of a dwelling in Mahoe street.

We give a final reminder of the selection of items to be played by the Town Band in the main street to-morrow evening.

Owing to pressure upon outspace we have been compelled to withdraw the report of the Waikato Show held at Hamilton on Wednesday.

As we go to press we receive another very interesting letter from Mr John Mandeno dealing with the early history of Te Awamutu. This letter will be published in our issue of Tuesday, and we feel sure will be welcomed by our readers.

'The most severe storm experienced at Te Awamutu for many years passed over the district last night. The thunder was exceptionally violent and the lightning most vivid. According to reports several drain pipes in Park Road were bodily wrenched out of the ground and broken into several pieces.

It is now generally understood that the ceremony of turning the first sod in connection with the railway works of the northern end of the Stratford-Ongarue line will take place next week, and that the Premier will be present. Te Kaura, five miles south of Ongarue, will be the terminus from Stratford. This saves six and a quarter miles of line construction at a cost oi £7O, 000, besides upkeep for all time. It is stated that the line will shorten the distance to Taranaki centres by fifteen miles.

The Girls’ Club of St. John’s church will hold a meeting on Monday as advertised.

Considerable interest was taken throughout the district on Wednesday in the election of councillors for the various ridings of the Waipa County Council. An announcement of the results of tiie poll appears in another column.

After twelve months’ trial, for l obvious reasons, my premises i will be closed at 9 p.m., Saturday nights excepted. Room may be engaged for private supper parties, smoke concerts, etc., with use of piano, by arrangement.— Henry Heerdegen, Empire Cafe.* Alterations to telephone exchange charges will come into operation on January Ist, and will specially benefit subscribers to “party lines,” whereby two subscribers using the same circuit within a mile from the exchange pay the reduced annual charge of £3 10s per annum each, and three to six subscribers from one and a half miles to three miles distant will pay £3 per annum each. The concession should be of great benefit to country settlers. In our advertising columns today the Waikato Fanners’ Cooperative Bacon Company Ltd., announce that 4%d per pound nett weight will be paid for good bacon pigs, delivered at the various stations notified, or at the factory, Frankton Junction. The scarcity of bacon and hams is well known, but it is for farmers themselves to judge how far the above price, which is probably the highest touched for some years past, is due to the advent of a co-operative bacon company into the market. In view of all the circumstances it is manifestly the interest of farmers and dairymen to give a hearty support to their own organisation, not merely by taking shares, but also by sending their pigs to the Frankton works.