August 1907

The very stormy weather which prevailed in Cambridge during the last week, was experienced in many parts of the colony.
'For the benefit of the curious, we might explain that the two borough workmen who are at present going around the town armed with long spear-shaped iron rods, which every now and then they suddenly thrust into the ground, are ascertaining if there are any leaks in the municipal gas service pipes. So far they have discovered nothing to occasion any alarm.'
At a concert at Pukerimu Church, Miss E Cubis was presented with a book in recognition for her services to the church. Loud and long applause followed every item at the concert as instrumentalist and singers did their best to please the audience.
J Cowling, J Harris and H Hulse inserted a notice To Trespassers saying that any persons found trespassing on their properties at Whitehall with dog or gun would be prosecuted, and dogs shot.
The Primitive Methodists were about to build a church at Fencourt and the Salvation Army were about to start their barracks in Duke Street.

For Sale: Eighteen Beautiful New Post Cards of the prettiest spots in Cambridge; coloured glosso photos by Winkelman (copyright). Linzey, stationer.
'A very enjoyable entertainment was given in Mr Qualtrough's barn at Fencourt when T F Richards exhibited by means of his lantern a large variety of excellent views, and for fully two hours sustained the interest of those present.'
'Master Joseph Sharkey was today appointed borough lamplighter.'
The Piako County Council raised a loan of £1,600 to cover their contribution to the Victoria Bridge and rated one-fifth of a penny in the £ to cover the interest.
Waipa County Council convened a meeting of Waikato local bodies to call on the government to reduce the number of sparrows, larks, blackbirds, thrushes, yellow hammers and finches. Also to remove the protection from Californian quail and the pukeko as they were damaging to the farmers' interest.
At the annual meeting of the Presbyterian church it was reported that the roll stood at 168 and 90 youngsters attended Sunday School. The Junior Young Women's Class were preparing, with considerable enthusiasm and activity, for a Spring Flower Show for September.

His Worship the Mayor (W F Buckland), when asked how work on the Victoria Bridge was progressing, stated that he visited the bridge two or three times a day and work was progressing satisfactorily.
Cambridge, Hamilton and Auckland were finally connected by telephone and a number of townspeople assembled at the Borough Offices for a little ceremony. (Our Mayor rang the Mayor in Auckland - but nobody in the office could find him.)
A party of bushmen working on a bushfelling contract at Maungakawa, left camp at midday to indulge in some wild-pig shooting. But they got 'bushed', wandered on and on in the rain and found themselves at Richmond Downs near Matamata. Next day they returned to camp half famished and drenched.
1,000 acres of the Bruntwood estate were offered for sale but only 211 acres, opposite the homestead to Mr Thomson of Opotiki, sold for about £20 an acre.
'Jumbo' Reese, Morse, J Tucker and Keeley were selected for inclusion in the Waikato Reps football team.
Gay bunting was displayed from the ceiling and band instruments hung round the walls of the Alexandra Hall for the Cambridge Band's Plain and Poster Ball.

At the Cambridge Band's Plain and Poster Ball Miss Ada Boyce won the ladies 'Poster' costume as 'Butterfly Teas' with Miss M Taylor second as 'Good Old Butter Fat'. Mr Arthur Reese won the men's costume with 'Champion Muscle Raiser' and Mr 'Jumbo' Reese was second representing Brockelsby Bros. Butcher.
Miss Kathleen Ruth Wright, youngest daughter of Walter Wright married Arthur Hammond Nicoll at St Andrew's church in Cambridge. After the reception the couple left for Hamilton en route for Okoroire, where they spent their honeymoon.
Mr Hugh Fitzgerald was congratulated by the auditor of the Pukekura Road Board, for having the whole of last year's rates and all arrears of previous rates collected. The auditor said this was only the second board, out of forty-five inspected by him, in a similar position.
John Ferguson, chairman of the Cambridge Domain Board, stated the black and white swans had disappeared from Lake Te Koutu. He thought they'd probably been killed.
Eight young men petitioned the Board to be allowed to ride their bikes in the Domain - as the ladies were allowed to do. But their request was unanimously refused.

The derrick at the High Level bridge, composed of two large bluegum poles, fell on the concrete abutment and the nearby workmen just dodged the falling timber. Mr G M Fraser, the contractor suspected malicious tampering with the three inch hemp rope supporting the derrick.
Mr Archie Kingdon, who had been injured in a railway accident at Putaruru, was progressing slowly in the Rotorua hospital suffering from injury and shock.
T B Hill from Raglan, wrote a letter to the paper praising the new Seventh Day Adventist's 'School Farm' which was being built at Pukekura. Here pupils in addition to the ordinary curriculum, would acquire practical knowledge in fruit growing, agricultural, horticultural, dairying, and the raising of poultry and stock.
The Salvation Army's building permit for their new barracks in Duke Street, was remitted as the Borough Council considered them to be a philanthropic institution.
The new pumping plant for the waterworks was about to arrive. Gas consumers had risen to 95 and Mr Hugh Fitzgerald was given a five guineas bonus for gathering all the Pukekura Road Board rates.

 

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