August 1906

'The firm of Messrs M V Dixon and S Lewis, solicitors of Cambridge, are about to open a branch office in Hamilton. Mr Lewis will be in charge of the Hamilton branch.'
'A wedding of much interest took place at St Pauls Methodist church when Miss Belle Hill married H Cox. The bride wore a very pretty dress of creme silk and handsome veil with orange blossoms. The bridesmaids were Miss Bessie and Hilda Cox (sisters of the bridegroom) and wore white dresses and carried white bouquets.'
The Chamber of Commerce held its quarterly meeting and made donations of £2 2s to both the Cambridge Technical School fund and the Waikato Exhibition. Also £1 1s to the Town Band.
'On behalf of the 5000 Club C C Buckland asked the Cambridge Borough Council for a report on the cost of making a track from the Karapiro Bridge, along the river bank to the side of the new bridge.'
The petition concerning the 'compulsory' clause in the new Sanitary By-Law, was presented to Council - but lost. The scheme was introduced primarily to fight the spread of disease.

Fifteen meetings every week were held by Captain and Mrs Simpson, who kept the flag flying at the Cambridge Salvation Army. Their territory included Matamata where they had eight soldiers.
Tenders were called for 'erecting the whole of the buildings and making the necessary excavations at the gasworks site'. Andrews and Gall, the lowest tender of £972, were accepted with Mr Geo Smithies the engineer.
Representatives of local bodies, arranged by the Chamber of Commerce, met with H J Greenslade Member of the House of Representatives to discuss the requirements of the district. Signed petitions were presented for the telephone extension into Pukerimu, Kaipaki, Ohaupo, Pukeroro, Tamahere, Karapiro and Maungatautari districts. A new Post Office (with a clock tower) was needed; an increase in the railway facilities and an increased subsidy for the High Level Bridge. Cambridge wanted a mention in the Tourist Department's advertising and a new Courthouse. Greenslade advised that Cambridge was referred to as a place where 'they were fighting all the while or shooting somebody'. He advised everyone to bury their differences and work together for the good of all. Even the churchgoers fuelled Cambridge's differences. Letter to the Editor :- 'Sir, Will you please grant me space to say a few words, regarding Sunday golf playing. Have the Golf Club no rules to prevent members from playing? Have the players no regard for the feelings of others, who pass the links on the way to different places of worship? Do they quite forget that Sunday is the Lord's Day, and that they are breaking the fourth Commandment, "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it Holy". Perhaps those players would like their names to be known; at any rate I hope the club will stop the practice in future. - I am etc. Y.M.'
'Scotchman' in his letter to the Editor remarked, 'I wonder whether our friend Y.M. is any more righteous and holy than we poor miserable sinners, who play golf on Sunday morning and go to church in the evening?'
About 20 gentlemen met, with John Lundon in the chair, to form a social club. This became the Cambridge Gentlemen's Club.
Miss Ruby Skeet defeated Miss Kathleen Willis to become Waikato's Lady Golf Champion.

The Golf Club committee met with regards to members playing on Sunday, and passed a resolution - 'strongly disapproving of the practice and requested members to cease indulging in it in future'.
The children at the monthly Band of Hope meeting produced a lengthy programme of songs, recitations and choruses.
The newly formed '5000 Club' had a hard row to hoe engendering public spiritedness, loyalty and united endeavour. They aimed for the growth in population to be 5000 by 18 June 1910.
Rev Thos Scott (formerly pastor at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Cambridge) delivered a lecture entitled 'Sir Walter Scott'. Not on the novelist's life but of his leading characters. The lecture was illustrated by tableaux executed by local youngsters.
Motor cars were becoming almost as numerous as stray cows. Messrs Souter and Wilkinson were the latest to import 'one of these modern pace-eaters'.
A good floor, excellent music and a large crowd made for enjoyable entertainment by Madame Isherwood's pupils who showed they were making good progress in the Terpsichorean art.

Waikato farmers met to discuss buying McNicol & Co's auctioneering business and run it as a co-operative concern. Twenty farmers formed a provisional committee to negotiate a deal.
The Cambridge Court was crowded with spectators as William Francis Buckland, solicitor and Mayor of Cambridge was charged with using abusive language to George Edward Clark, in a public place. The words were, 'You are a lot of b----- scoundrels; d----- dogs; I wouldn't wipe my boots on you.' (Three newspaper columns of he said 'that' and he said 'this'. And in the end the Magistrate 'Reserved Judgment'.)
Crowther and Bell had some bad luck at the Waikato Hunt meeting at Bruntwood. Harold Crowther came a cropper and ended up unconscious with nine stitches in his head. His horse (which he refused 60 guineas for the previous week) broke its neck. Then their coach collided with some overhanging trees, alarming the lady occupants.
Young Moisley put his hand in a chaff-cutter and severely injured his hand - two fingers had to be amputated by Dr Reid at the Victoria Private Hospital.

A runaway created a little sensation in Victoria Street as a pair of horses attached to Mr Semmens' farm waggon took fright at Mr Bockeart's motor car. They bolted from C Roberts' butcher shop and eventually collided with the fence around the reserve in front of the National Hotel. The waggon was considerably damaged and a marvel the horses weren't killed.
A large number of spectators took advantage of a fine afternoon to watch Maungatautari versus City (Cambridge) at Rugby on Victoria Square. Nolan Peake was far the best player on the field and made many openings for the Maungatautari backs. Jack Allen scored by the post and O'Halloran kicked a beautiful goal. For City the backs Richardson, McLean, Potts and Black were safe and the forwards were responsible for several exciting rushes. The game ended in favour of City by 6 points to Maungatautari's 5.
They ended the day with a Dinner and Smoke Concert at the Masonic Hotel.
J H Wallace of Chille (former owner of 'Ratanui' estate at Taotaoroa) cabled to say he was safe and well and not a victim of the recent earthquakes in that country.

 

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