LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4344, 18 November 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ferro-concrete foundations are now being laid for the band rotunda which is to be erected in the main •street by the Paeroa Beautifying Society.

Tenders are’ called by Messrs Lockie Gannon and -Worley for the installation of the main and branch sewers, No. 1 area, Paeroa.

There are 1,796,033 acres of la?nd in New Zealand held on .lease from private individuals and 1,750,805 acres leased from

At a recent beekeepers’ meeting, when registration of hives was being discussed, an individual thought a proposed new system would tend to make men perverters of the truth. “It won’t make them liars,” drawled a rather emphatic kind of voice, “men are already liars.”

A native named Thomas Muriwai, who was remanded at Paeroa on a charge of obtaining from D. Clotworthy .a cheque for £l2 by means of false pretence, was brought up again on Monday. After hearing the evidence of the bank manager and Clotworthy the accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court at Auckland for sentence.

Protest against the sweeping of the footpaths in front of shops just at the time when children are going to school was made at the monthly meeting of the Paeroa District High School Committee, and it was decided to take the protest to the Borough Council. In some towns the by-laws state that all such sweeping must be completed by 8.30 in the morning.

In connection with the cricket match, Thames v. Paeroa, to be played in the Domain, Paeroa, on Saturday, the. 19th inst., the local eleven will be chosen from following, who are requested to roll up at 1.45 p.m. sharp: Pivott, Furley, Shand, Walmsley, Lawrence, - Beetham, Bishop, Ryde, Martin, Bowden, Halliday, and Jenkinson.

The Methodist Sunday School Anniversary is to be held this year in the Central Theatre on November 20, when a feature of the services will be the singing of the children assisted by the choir. The Rev. Henderson, chairman of the South^ Auckland district, will conduct the services at 11 am., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m.

Master R. Baxter and Miss Phyllis Hayward, of! the Ngatea School, are the winners of the competition for Mr D. Vincent’s prize for the best essays on the subject, “Hauraki Plains, Past, Present, and Future.” Seven boys and three girls entered, and the winning essays will be published in the “Gazette” next week.

“Beekeeping is a most fickle industry,” said Mr Hutchinson at the beekeepers’: meeting a.t Ngatea on Wednesday. The speaker went on to say that a number of men start at the work, but fail to keep at it.

The Postmaster-General announces that special arrangements have been made to accept Christmas and New Year cable messages, via Pacific, addressed “U.K,” and lodged not later than twentieth and twenty-eighth of December, for delivery Christmas morning and New Year morning, respectively. Charges, six shillings and eightpence for ten words, additional words eightpence each. The' text mus'; be confined to greetings or purely social matters. Business matters are not permitted.

A pleasant preliminary function took place at MorrinsviUe yesterday, when the various delegates met to discuss the proposed Parliamentary visit to the< Hauraki Plains. On behalf of the citizens of Te Aroha, Mr F. L Kenrick (president Te Aroha Chamber of Commerce) presented Mr J. B Thomas, of MorrinsviUe, and late of Te Aroha, and a member of the Piako County Council, with a beautiful framed illuminated address. The speaker made eulogistic references to Mr Thomas’ many good qualities and his record of public service to which the recipient suitably responded.