LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4331, 17 October 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A reminder is given of the public meeting fp be held in the Central Theatre to-morrow night, at, eight o’clock, to discuss the matter of the proposed war memorial to the soldiers Of Paeroa and district who fell in the Great War,.

In response to an inquiry from Mr T. W. Rhodes (Thames) the Prime Minister seated on Thursday that the report of the Royal Commission set up under the Thames Harbour Boar 1 Loan and Empowering Act, 1920, was to be printed immediately and made available.

The sool effrontery of some Hamilton folk is amusing. A letter .and book of tickets were received from the Hamilton Associated Tennis Club, asking that the local secretary should endeavour to sell Is tickets (no prize) for the benefit, of the Hamilton organisation. Tile letter was “received,” and the tickets returned. I “Will you take ’er for ten bob ? ’ shouted an exasperated auctioneer in a final attempt to sell an uninviting quadruped at a recent stock sale... Receiving no reply he said drear'ly: “Then will you take ’er for nothing ?” There was silence till a businesslooking “cocky” ventured forth with “Will you give us a bob to take ’er away ?”

A petition from the Ohinemuri County Council asking for a quota of the proceeds of auction sales of timber and flax on Crown lands within its boundaries was presented to Parliament on Thursday by Mr H. Poland (Ohinemuri). It is on the same lines as a similar petition from the Thames County presented the previous week. The present document states that from 1913 t.o 1921 such sales realised over £13,000 within the county.