April 1911

A meeting of those interested in the return of Mr T F Richards as Mayor of Cambridge was held with Mr Reid presiding. Mr Richards dealt fully with his proposed platform, including the acquisition of the 'Dismal Swamp' (now Middle School), the gravitation water scheme and to improve the street lighting. Also to extend the gas main.
Any people that have purchased a return rail ticket and did not use the return half could obtain a refund on applying to the station master where the ticket was purchased. This fact is not generally known.
At a committee meeting of the Cambridge Tennis Club, Mr L Isherwood presiding, it was decided to present a silver shield suitably engraved to the winner of the various competitions during this season.
Evening classes for adult pupils of backward education were to be started by Mrs Wilkie of Leamington who was prepared to coach pupils for exams.

The fact that Mr John Ferguson, local blacksmith, decided not to offer himself for re-election to the Cambridge Borough Council was regretted by many people in the community. He had been a councillor for over 20 years and his practical experience had been of the utmost value.
The shingles on St Andrews Anglican Church were becoming very perished after just thirty years. At a parish meeting the main points of discussion were that iron was cheaper but shingles were quieter when it rained. Kauri shingles were unobtainable and tanekaha, matai or Californian redwood could cost £150 and that was a lot of money to find.
A young lady, residing not a hundred miles from the Cambridge Domain, decided to try the new 'harem' style skirt for the benefit of a few personal friends. All agreed that for freedom of motion, neatness and comfort the 'harem' would be hard to beat.
House and four acres (corner Shakespeare and Wordsworth Streets) changed hands from J J Collis to Mr W Masterton.
Hawks were becoming a nuisance in the area and Richard Reynolds' recently released partridges were at risk. Mr Reynolds was carrying out a vigorous campaign against them.

Mr Brooks moved, at the St Andrew's Anglican Church Annual General Meeting, that a special effort be made to raise £150 for re-roofing the church with kauri shingles. Also that each of the parishioners be invited to make a golden offering if possible.
A cow that gave passers-by a pretty warm time by pinning two horsemen on a fence and knocking two cyclists from their machines – 'received its quietus in the shape of a bullet.'
In a Letter to the Editor A Blackman says,'I see there are a number of aspirants for honours at the forthcoming Borough elections. A note of warning is opportune. Electors should give more than a passing thought as to who they intend to vote for, otherwise history will repeat itself and we shall have a Council of muddlers.'
The weather was fine for the Easter holidays and all the available accommodation in Cambridge was taken.
The Primitive Methodist Ladies Missionary League committee (Mrs G Beer, Miss A Simpson and Miss J Jamieson) were organising a garden party at Fencourt in aid of their fund raising.
Friends of Miss Sissy Fisher gave her a farewell from Pukerimu on her upcoming marriage to Mr G M Watt.

During the month of March the Labour Department's Bureau in Wellington found employment or otherwise assisted 90 married and 119 single men, with 299 dependents. Of this total 150 were sent to private employment and 59 to public works.
Easter Weddings – in the Taotaoroa Schoolroom Miss Doris Overton to Mr Seymour Brunskill. Princes Street residence – Miss Bessie Atkinson to Mr Ceagus Henry Thomas George Twidle. At St Andrew's Church Mrs J Longley of 'Waterside' to Mr William White. At St Paul 's Methodist Church Miss Frieda Grace Vosper to Ernest G Martyn.
The former Cambridge Library Trustees decided to spend their carefully nursed nest egg of £90 on reference books for the new Carnegie Library.
Every male inhabitant of New Zealand, who on the first day of March 1911, had attained the age of fourteen years and upward, but had not attained the age of twenty-one years, was to fill in a prescribed form of registration in respect to military training.
Maungatautari School committee were Messrs T A Hicks (chairman and secretary), J T Hicks, R Heaslip and C E Hicks. As these were the only persons present three other members had to be elected by the government.

 

 

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