LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4329, 12 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A local committee now. has designs ready to submit to the public for a Paeroa war memorial. Full particulars will appear in the “.Gazette” shortly.

The annual meeting of the Paeroa Tennis Club will b.e held in the Borough Chambers on Friday, 14th inst., at 7.30 p.m.

The Hauraki Plains County Council has decided to put the loan proposal; recently r,ejected, before the ratepayers again at an earlj' date, possibly with, very slight modifications in some respects.

A dance under the auspices of the Paeroa Cricket Club will be held in the Soldiers’ Club tp-morr.ow (Thursrday) evening. A good attendance is requested, as the club desires to raise funds for the coming season.

In respect to the death, of Mr and Mrs R>. Hodson’s little daughter, there seems to have been a misapprehension abroad as to the cause, some people thinking that diphtheria was the trouble. This is quite contrary to fact, the pause of death,, as proven by the medical officer in charge at the Waihi Hospital, being acute laryngitis —inflammation of the larynx—a common throat trouble.

The lightning storm on Saturday caused a good deal of perturbation in various parts of the district. As reported in the “Gazette” last Monday, a house in Buchanan Street, occupied by Mr Alp, was struck by the lightning, an iron chimney being knocked ovex* and weathei' boards being torn off. The occupants were not injured, but naturally received a great fright, and were removed by neighbours for the time being. It is also reported that a lady, Mrs Walls, had a distressing experience at Komata. She was passing along the road when i tree just behind her was splintered. Luckily she escaped injury.

A councillox* of the Hauraki Plains County Council, speaking at the meeting at Ngatea on Monday, said the settlers were complaining that the men on Wilson’s Road, Netherton, were not doing a fair day’s work for a fail’ day’s pay. The engineer said that there might possibly be some truth in the statement, as he’ had not been able .to get out to that are.a for a few days. “It is a big county to get over and do the engineering office work for, too,” admitted the councillor. “Yes,” replied the engineer,, “if I go out much they say I’m always gadding about, and if I stay in they say “Why the deuce does he not get out. ?” (Laughter,,)

A motion that men doing work which necessitated their being in water should receive a shilling a day extra while so engaged was passed at the Hauraki Plains County Council meeting at Ngatea on Monday. “That means that they must provide their own gum boots ?” asked a councillor. "To be sure it does,” was the' chorus in reply.

An interesting piece of information in regard, to the supply of reading m arterial for the Hauraki Plains was dropped by a member of the Council at the monthly meeting at Ngatea on Monday. He said that the Resident Engineer for the Land Drainage Department (Mr E. Taylor) had a sefieme to submit to his Department whereby the metal supply couM be brought down the Piakp River from Kaihere. At present a class of metal of rather indifferent quality is being shipped from one of. the islands off ths coas.t between Thames and Auckland, brought up 'the Piako and dumped at Kerepeehi and other landing places. The Kaihere metal; is said to be of good quality, and once the preliminary work was .accomplished the cost of supply of the better metal downstream into the heart of the County would be much cheaper than fox* the 'present low-grade material.