June 1906

'It is worthy to note that the electric arc light used in the Gaumont Chronophone gives a light equal to 8000 candle power, and it requires a 10 h.p. engine to produce this tremendous light.'
Music, songs, stories and parlour games helped to while away a pleasant evening at the St Andrews' first Winter social. There was a large attendance and refreshments were handed around at the close of the entertainment.
The Saleyards were still to the fore. The farmers did not want them moved.
Mr Mackereth said all the yards in the Old Country were situated in boroughs.
Mr J R S Richardson said it was not fair to compare the yards at Home with those out here.
Mr W McFarland: "Who is most interested in the yards; the farmers or the townspeople?"
The Chairman: "Who fills the yards with stock?"
Mr McFarland: "The townspeople have to put up with the whims of the farmer."
Mr E N Souter: "Who keeps the town?"
Farmers (in chorus) : "The farmers."

Little knots of people gathered in the streets and discussed the sad death of the Premier Richard Seddon. At the Post Office, District High School, Fire Station and many business premises flags were flown at half mast.
The Library Ball was well attended with all in fancy dress. Miss Williams, as a 'Lady of the 17th Century', won the lady's first prize of a dressing case with comb, brush and mirror. The gentlemen's prize went to Mr J L S Richardson who was dressed as 'Nellie Wilson' - a ballet dancer with short frock of pale blue with numerous underskirts trimmed with white lace, white muslin apron, long black stockings and black shoes, and a beautiful golden wig with a pink rose in it. (His prize was an ashtray and matchbox.)
The girls prize - a Ladies Companion - was won by Eva Savage as a 'Gypsy' and the boys prize - an inkstand - by Kenneth McDermott as 'Cachucha'.
C C Buckland was elected to the Borough Council with 204 votes (fought on the question of moving the saleyards out of town) against James Taylor's 193 votes.

A new attitude to teaching was in the wind and a Technical Training School was being muted. 'No School Board of twenty years ago could foretell the exact educational tendency of to-day. Manual training does not mean carpentry and joinery. Domestic Science does not mean the art of cooking. They both mean the art of care, the importance of correctness, the necessity of 'just right'. Mr Arnold Wilkinson and Mr A Beuth made a canvass for the proposed Manual and Technical School and raised £107.
The Chamber of Commerce received a petition signed by residents in Pukerimu, Karapiro, Ohaupo, Kaipaki, Maungatautari and Pukeroro requesting these places be connected with Cambridge by telephone.
C C Buckland (returning from America) called a meeting to form a 'Five Thousand Club'. They met to advance Cambridge in popularity and progress so that in ten years time the population would be 5000. Advertising with booklets and postcards and up to date accommodation were suggested to attract the tourist and keep Cambridge's name to the fore.

Mr T E Pearson from Rotorua, (head gardener for the Tourist Department) reported that the Cambridge Domain had the best specimens of deciduous trees he had seen in the Colony. He suggested planting copper beech, scarlet oak and silver birch on the bank under the railway. He also suggested planting native trees and ferns beneath the trees and make a miniature native bush. As for the lake he said, "This is one of the finest sanctuaries for acclimatising water fowl in the Auckland Province. The large quantity of raupo growing would give excellent cover for breeding." He also suggested that boats be kept off the lake and those with a boating inclination could use the Waikato River.
H Vandyke, in a letter to the Editor pointed out that recently many trees had been cut down to let more light and warmth onto the lower walks and the expense of more trees may not be what the residents want. Leaving the rushes for breeding water fowl as opposed to clearing them for local boaties had to be argued as 'the Waikato River is too uncanny and treacherous for the majority.'

 

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