LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipa Post, Volume II, Issue 64, 24 November 1911, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Rev. W. Woollass will conduct Divine service in the Presbyterian church on Sunday evening next at 7. 30p.m.

The amount paid out for butter fat for the month of October at the New Zealand Dairy Association's creamery at Te Awamutu was £1097 19s. A well-known architect estimates that it costs 33 per cent. more to build a cottage to-day than it did six years ago. The increased cost of labour accounts for 25 per cent. Sir John Findlay, whose address so greatly delighted the children this morning, has promised, if his engagements will permit, to attend the Band of Hope meeting to-night and give a short address.

The New Zealand Dairy Union's payment's during the four week's for the October period just ended total £6684>7s iod. The rate of the advances was ildforbutter-fatand is o%d for cheese.

The revenue returns for the North Island main railv/ay lines and branches for the period ending October 14th, was £131,635, as compared with £121,371 for the similar period last year.

A replace advertisement received from Mr R. G. Blennerhassett gives particulars of the 86 fine residential sites in the Greenmeadows estate, The advertisement will appear in our next issue, and will doubtless be of considerable interest to all those in search of residential sites.

The Band of Hope meeting this evening promises to be of an exceptionally interesting character. Some forty children are taking part in the marches, songs, etc. The recitations have been written especially for this meeting, and with reference to the coming election. . All parents are especially invited to be present.

The magnificent trophies presented to the Te Awamutu Lawn Tennis Club by Mr and Mrs J. Jackson are now on view at Messrs C. T. Rickit and Son's window. These trophies a magnificent cup and rose bowl, are to be competed for during the present season, and the committee are now arranging a Championship Singles tournament. They are to be won three times by a player before ceasing to be the property of the club. Both are very valuable, and already the greatest interest is being taken by Club members in the forthcoming tournament.

A rather painful accident occurred at the Kawa railway station on Saturday morning, when in alighting from a waggon, Miss Cunningham tripped and fell to the ground. When picked up, she was found to be suffering from what was thought to be a fractured hip. She was conveyed to Te Awamutu, where Dr Reekie gave temporary relief preparatory to her journey to the •Waikato hospital at Hamilton, where the patient was thoroughly examined while under chloroform. It is hoped that an actual fracture has not occurred, and a report received by Dr Reekie yesterday afternoon showed that Miss Cunningham was making as satisfactory a recovery as could be expected.

It is invariably a wise plan to assure yourself what the contents of any package are by reading the attached label. Had Te Anga, a native residing at Kawa, taken this precaution he would not have unthinkingly swallowed a dose of poison with almost fatal results in the early part of last week. It appears that Te Anga and Health Inspector Bennett were fellow passengers in a coach bound for the railway station when, by some means, Tc Anga got possession of a flask belonging to the Inspector, which contained formalin. The result was that the native had to be hastily conveyed to Dr Reekie's surgery, where it was only after the greatest difficulty and the utmost promptitude that the incident was prevented from terminating fatally.