LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4302, 10 August 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails which left Wellington on June 30, per R.M.S.. Marama, via San Francisco, arrived at London on. August 7.

The meeting of the Paeroa Benevolent Society which was tp have been held last Monday night ’ lapsed, for want of a quorum. The meeting has been postponed until next Monday.

A man named C. E. Bishoprick, employed by the Public Works Department, broke his leg this morning by slipping off a plank while working a.t the stop-bank near Paeroa. The sufferer was taken to the Waihi Hospital.

Regulations iVere gazetted recently for the purpose of section 142 of the Public Health Act, 1920, which provide for the removal to suitable institutions of any aged, infirm, or destitute person found’ to be living in insanitary conditions or without proper care.

“It. has been suggested that we should eat margarine,” said Dr. Blackmore, in’ a lecture at Christchurch. “It is undoubtedly inferior to butter, and 1 think the suggestin'i that we should eat and give our children to eat margarine while this great butter-producing country exports butter to the est of the world deserves nothing but condemnation.”

The recent heavy rains have taxed many of the drains on the Hauraki Plains beyond their capacity, though the conditions are much better in most places than during former years. Settlers on the Awaiti Settlement, between Puke bridge and Nehherton, petitioned the Hauraki Plains County Council, in a communication received at the monthly meeting of the Council at Ngafea. on Monday, for assistance in cleaning out the drains in order to free their lands from the partial immersion due to the flood waters coming down frpm the direction of Tirohia. The Coun.'il, on the recommendation of Crs. G. Death and C. W, Harris, decided to accede to the request. These councillors, with the engineer and Cr. A. Chatfield, were deputed to inspect thq locality and make arrangements to afford relief.