LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21363, 6 March 1941, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Oscar N'atzke at Te Awamutu A concert was given at Te Awamutu last night by the Oscar Natzke concert party. There was a large audience, and the performers were greeted with great enthusiasm. Compensation Court The Compensation Court presided over by Mr Justice O'Regan which has been sitting in Auckland will open its Hamilton sittings on Tuesday, March 11. Farmer’s Injury Falling from a disc while working on a farm at Moerangi yesterday, Kupeku Tamati, aged 30, suffered a fractured left leg and was admitted to the Waikato Hospital. Use of School Baths A decision to advise all schools in the board’s area that its policy was the prohibition of the use of schooi baths by the public, was reached at a meeting of the Auck--1 land Education Board yesterday. Onions Stole the Show At the Royal Horticultural Society’s spring show, says a London paper, women visitors brushed past beautiful carnations, brilliant orchids, and early tulips to gaze rapturously at a display of onions, which they surrounded all day. Many were seeing onions for the first time for weeks. Municipal Conference Delegates from all over New Zealand who have been attending the annual conference of the Municipal Association in Auckland, are the guests of the Auckland City Council and local bodies in the metropolitan area today. The conference sat throughout Monday, Tuesday and W ednesday. Warmer Weather Summer temperatures were registered in Hamilton yesterday when after a cool, fresh morning the thermometer rose to 80 degrees in the afternoon. Conditions were not so chilly this morning as in previous days, the lowest reading being 57 degrees. Following an early morning haze of log and smoke the weather today was again beautifully fine. Cheap Working Suit Made possible by the interest of several city businessmen a cheap working dress, costing about £1 was offered to members of the One Tree Hill unit of the Home Guard. The idea is to save the wear and tear of the men’s own clothes until such time as the promised issue of uniforms is made. Over 90 per cent of men on parade accepted the opportunity, the working dress being ideal for the occasion and having the added advantage of cheapness. Simplest Language in the World Speaking at the annual meeting of the Manawatu Honorary Justices’ Association in favour of the Maori language being taught in the schools, the president said: “Any person can be taught in a single lesson how to pronounce and spell every word in this ideally simple language. Every syllable ends with a vowel, each pronounced as in French. Only nine consonants are used, and they are pronounced as in English.” Oil Sand in Australia The announcement that promising oil sa’nd had been encountered at the Roma Blocks Oil Company's property at Roma, Queensland, resulted in a sharp rise in values of the contributing shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. Prices moved from Is 9d, ruling on Monday, to 3s sd. Authorised capital of the company is £155,000, made up of 29,500 fullypaid shares of £1 each and 120,500 £1 shares paid to 15s. This year’s values had previously ranged from Is 6d to Is 9d. School Excursion Annual train excursions for school children are being arranged by school committees in various districts. A special train will leave Frankton tomorrow morning for Auckland, picking up children from the Te Rapa, Horotiu, Ngaruawahia, Horsham Downs, Komakorau, Taupiri and Netherby Schools, totalling about 250, with 75 adults, on a visit to the Auckland War Memorial Museum and other points of interest. This is the third annual educational tour for children from Lower Waikato schools.

Hospital For Soldiers No further steps have yet been taken by the Government to either erect a permanent military hospital in Hamilton or secure temporary accommodation alternative to the Hamilton West School. The Ruakura Animal Research Station, which was suggested as a suitable temporary hospital by Mr C. R. Edwards at the combined West and Technical schools’ meeting on Tuesday evening, is at present unoccupied and is used only by members of the National Military Reserve for week-end training. German Mine Helps

In London they exhibit captured Heinkels and Messerschmitts to raise funds for patriotic purposes, but in New Zealand such a source of profit is denied patriotic bodies. However, at the Cambridge Show yesterday an indication of Dominion enterprise of a similar nature was seen. The Nazi mine washed ashore at Thames has not been relegated to the waste metal heap but is earning money for the Thames Patriotic Committee, and at the Cambridge Show yesterday it was on exhibition. Hundreds paid a small admission fee to see the mine and a substantial sum was raised for patriotic purposes. Mayors Swim Mayors, town clerks and councillors attending the Municipal Conference in Auckland competed in special events at the carnival in the Newmarket Olympic Pool last night. Auckland produced the mayors’ champion in Mr C. M. McCullough, Mayor of Mount Roskill. The councillors’ championship was won by Mr T. S. Hayton, of Eltham. The town clerks faced up to the full 33 1-3 yards, the fastest being Mr D. Coutts Scath, of Manunui. Each winner was presented with a silver cup donated by the Newmarket Borough Council. Success of Anglers Fishing from the launch Alma G2 off Cape Brett, Bay of Islands, on Tuesday afternoon, a party including Messrs Clark and Nodder. of Auckland. and Mr R. Healey, of Hamilton, had the experience of landing a black marlin tipping the scales at 64r3.i1). The actual catch was made by Mr Clark. The fish fought hard for its liberty, and all the wiles ol the anglers and the. boatman were required to bring the marin alongside tlv? launch, and the full energies of the whole party of seven on board were utilised in putting the final touches on the rapture—well over an hour after the marlin had. taken the baat.