September 1907

1,170 scholars entered the examination of the Auckland Sunday School Union. Cambridge Presbyterian successes were Ethel Ward, Louie Booth, Gladys Perkins, Margaret Grey, Ida Butler, Millie Smith, Mary Semmens, Agnes Johnston, Margaret Hopkirk, Hilda Russell, Pearl McCandlish, Muriel E Butler, Elsie Hardy, Dorothy Hopkirk, Lornie Perkins, Emma Christie, Clare Richards, Joseph Butler, W B Souter, Ken Hooker, Ken Butler, Newton Hooker, Ray Butler, Chas Sharp, Stan Wallis, Douglas Gow. Methodist were Evelyn Trythall, Olive Bycroft, Kathleen Treadgold and Ella Bycroft.
A roaring business was done at all the stalls, side shows and competitions of the Methodist Church bazaar and they made £75.
The Post Office made the ruling that locked letter boxes must be provided at the street as delivering letters to the door of a residence was too time consuming.
A poll was taken (of freeholders and ratepayers) on the proposal to borrow £5,650 for improvements to the gasworks; additions to the saleyards; repairing Karapiro bridge; tarring footpaths; building swimming baths and town hall.
(Footpaths, swimming baths and town hall were lost.) Mayor Buckland was overheard to remark, "That'll do; I'm satisfied. We'll get the others directly."

Mr C Boyce, proprietor of the Alexandra Hall, had six gas rings and water installed in the supper room for the convenience of those providing for social functions.
Boyce and Sons, baker and confectioners also installed the latest Peter Kupper dough kneading machine with the capacity for kneading 1,100 loaves of bread per hour.
Lost - On night of Town Band ball, pair white flannel trousers. Return to Independent Office.
Adjutant Elder, of the Salvation Army, arrived in Cambridge to superintend the building of the new Barracks.
Mr W R C Walker, headmaster at the District High School, interested himself in fitting up a rifle range at the rear of the school grounds. 'There was no danger of serious consequences resulting from stray shots.' Arms and ammunition could be procured at a small cost.
The Chamber of Commerce was agitating for telephone connections for Karapiro, Maungatautari and Pukeroro. The secretary for the Post Office wrote saying the tower for the chiming clock on the new post office had been approved.
Milking Machines were coming into favour in the district. Mr B Lund of Hautapu the latest to install one - the Hartnett.

Oscar Sayoll nearly lost his life while working on the Victoria Bridge. While removing some 'staging' from the Cambridge West end, he slipped and fell about 60 feet onto a shelf of sand. Fortunately he was only bruised and no limbs broken.
Philip McShane, a worker on the bridge, tried to get double wages of £3 16s by going to the foreman and the contractor's clerk - both on the same day.
The new refreshment room erected at the Borough saleyards was used for the first time by the lessee Miss Blackmore.
The government finally agreed to call the local T B sanatorium 'Te Waikato' instead of Cambridge Sanatorium so as not to cast a slur on the town. 114 cases had been admitted during the last year - 48 cases were discharged apparently in good health. There was trouble getting suitable nurses, and probationers got no certificate for the work they did.
On 13 September the Mayor (W F Buckland) opened the Presbyterian Fancy Fair and Flower Show saying he believed this to be the first year a spring flower show was held in Cambridge. He went on to take four of the eight prizes for best daffodils. £110 was raised.

On 26 September 1907 the name of New Zealand was gazetted Dominion of New Zealand and proclaimed a public holiday. A medal was struck for the children. In Cambridge flags were flown and the Mayor read the proclamation from the King. Captain W R C Walker, Officer commanding the D Squadron Waikato Mounted Rifles spoke on the possibility of compulsory training if a greater interest was not taken in volunteering. A new lamp was erected on the corner of Fort and Victoria Streets to commemorate the day.
A new By-Law came into effect 'to make it unlawful to ride or drive over Victoria Bridge at other than a walking pace.'
The Salvation Army purchased Bell's Island in the Auckland Harbour to establish a home for inebriates.
The spring horse fair was in progress at the saleyards with railway trucks dispersing about 1,800 horses all over the country. Mr Underwood had his application for a bar at the saleyards refused and there were reports of buckjumping exhibitions, run away wagons and Mr Adams 'drunk in charge of a horse'.
The Catholic Bazaar was well patronised with an Art Union, competitions, entertainment and goods for sale.

 

 

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