HAMILTON PUBLIC HILL COMPANY.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 573, 22 January 1876, Page 3

HAMILTON PUBLIC HILL COMPANY.

Sir, - Can you tell myself and otheri what has become of the Public Hall Company? Hai the movement after being bo successfully advanced up to a cerium po.nt been allowed to. fall through. It would bun pit} after all tho oiertio ia made by Air Xenedj Hill in the matter, "that this should be to. If I mistake not, considerably more than one half the required capital wad subscribed, and there was every reason to believo that a little more exertion would secure the remainder. Of the want of a Public Hall in Hamilton none can doubt, and thi« is tendered all the more so, now that the old building used as a public fcu-hool turn been void and rom >ved It n not every It "aidoat Magistrate who would be so accommodating as Mr Searaucko in tho matter of giving the use of the Court House for this or that meeliugor entertainment nor strictly speaking is it altogether dosirable. It id therefore all the more nect-'taary that the project, whioh hu» been^o fur »cry laroumbly rocci\ed of building a Public Hull buttable for all public requirements, Lud^o Meetings, Knteituumt its, &c , be pro- • ejeded with ut once. — I am, &c, HaajiliONlAK. Haaulton West, Jan 18th, 187 G.

Penny Savimjjj' Bank.— Our leaders will remember thtit somo little time since v\e renewed a pamphlet issued fioin Dunedin, recommending tl.e istablishißoiit of Penny Savings' liunka .>n schools for the ohildieu, the amount when reachlug one .a hilling to be tr.insfei red to thoir accounts iia the Q-jvcnuneut Savings' Bank. A Penny Savings' Bank on this jjnucip'e haH since been stilted in Auckland, and has met with suutas since it was opened on the 4th of the pit'scnt month. Already, we learn, it hai oue hundred und fifty depositors, who have paid in -sum* varying tfioin threepence te five shillings. The '* Herald alluding to ita operations says : "It is quite amusing to bee the clul.lrcu doing thoir business, and examining their books to usceitaiu tKe amount of credit balance. The bauk will exercise a very important educational influence upon the children who serve an apprenticeship to habits of care, forethought, and self-denial, by becoming bank depositors iv aem ill way. Too frequently tho nnpoitanco of what are called triliea is entirely disregarded, and, for want of a little early training, children giow up spendthrifts." Application of the scheme to their respective schools bj the s<iTeral masters of the public schools iv the Wuiltabo h a matter well worthy of consideration.