LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4348, 28 November 1921, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A.reminder is given of the opening function in connexion with the Paeroa District High School additions which takes place nexjt Friday. Further reference will appear in Wednesday's “Gazette.” In the meantime articles for sale at the stalls will be thankfully received by the secretary, Mr Jas. Cpuper. - Entries are pouring in for the Hauraki A. and P. Show, to be held at Paeroa on December 7 and 8, but the totals are not yet ascertainable.. Full references will apepar in tjhe “Gazette” on Wednesday. From now on everyone interested should do all in his or her power to help the committee along, as there is a tremendous amount of work to be accomplished We regret to record the death of William James Moylan, only son of Mrs C. Rolton, of Paeroa. Tjhe deceased met with an accident at the races .at Takapuna on Saturday, and passed away yesterday at, the age of 15 years. He was a promising young rider and a bright and popular’ littl? lad, and much sympathy is felt for his bereaved relatives in their sad affliction. In the shipping advertisements column in tjhe “ Gazette ” to-day will be note.d tjhe time-table pf the dlevedon Steam Navigation Co’s. Auck-land-Waitakaruru service for December.

The Ohinemuri County Clerk (Mr R. W. Evans) has advised the councils concerned of the final reckoning in connection with claims arising on* of the Puke bridge fatality some t months ago’. Payments are in the following proportion's: Ohinemuri County £2Ol 7s 6dl, - Hauraki Plains County £ll3 18s, Piako County £6l Is 2d. Total, £376 6s Bd. The inclement weather prevailing on Saturday last prevented the match, versus Waikino being played, the wicket being under water. A scratch game was, however, played, which resulted in an easy win for Paeroa. The return match with Te Aroha will be played at Paeroa on Saturday next. The Paeroa team will be selected toanorrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at practice, when it behoves those who would like to find a place in the team to be present. Through, the efforts of. some of the members on Friday evening last, tjhe wicket has been put in good order, and a good game is anticipated next The gate takings at the Te Aroih.l--wr were just in excess of £lOO, which thus beaft last year’s “People’s Day” total by about £2O. Five hundred and ten ratepayers of the borough of Marton, Rankitikei, have petitioned Parliament praying for legislation which .will enable a fresh poll to be taken in the borough on the question of a Saturday halfholiday. 'When the poll was taken in which the proposal was carried by 104 votes (404 against 300), i<t, is claimed that the voting-papers were misleading, and in many instances voters did not record their votes in the way they wished. The Saturday half-holiday, the petition states, ha.s seriously affecjted business in the borough, and is etxremely inconvenient. Failing statutory authority to take a further poll, the petitioners ask that the Shops and Offices Act be amended so that a poll may be taken annually instead of biennially, as' at present.

Ikey had a car for sale, and as Abraham was a very great friend jf his, he offered the car to him at a special price. Said Ikey, “Look /Abraham, I have a perfectly wonderful car for which I ’gave £l5OO ; but. I want to sell it, and as you are a very great friend of mine I will let you have it for £500.” Now Abraham knew a thing or two about cars, and alter he had .thoroughly overhauls 1 it, said to Ikey, “Well, old man, I am afraid I am going to give you a bit of a shock, for I will give you £5O for the car.” Whereupon Ikey leapt in the air for joy, exclaiming, “Abraham, I am now going to give you a shock ; I’ll accept your offe 1 ’ with the greatest pleasure.” At the r.ate of l nine shillings for one auditor, and six shillings and eightpence for another per hour, ifc cost the Invercargill Town Council £2OO to have its books audited by the Government auditors on the last occasion. The average girl—and woman—in Wellington, in addition to smoking in the privacy of the home, is now not afraid to enter a tobacconist’s shop and calmly order whait species of cigarette she requires. At least, that is what several tobacconists 1 stated when questioned on the subject, says a Wellington paper. One tobacconist said he served nearly as many women as men in his establishment. He was much struck by the number, of girls between the ages of 16 and 26 who came into his shop and called for cigarettes, asking for their particular fancies by the colloquialisms used by men smokers.

Owing to the drought in England beer was used to put out a fire which started in the early hours of the morning at Harrow Inn, a wayside hostel on the Oxford main road. The efforts of the village fire fighters were successful, though, at what a sacrifice. With willing hands, but soft hearts, 9% gallons of good old English beer, with a twpi-gallon cask of ginger beer, were poured on the fire before it subsided—or, as one villager put it, M 152 ha’lf-pihfcs, bf the best.” Illustrations in this week’s issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review’ reach a high standard of excellence, the subjects covered being of wide interest. Included are snapshots of the opening of the Otahuhu Trotting Club’s meeting, congests at Riccarton on Canterbury Cup and New Zealand Oaks day, eVents at the Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club’s meeting, cattle show at Wales? the Stanley Bay Bowling Club’s opening, sports and pdstimes in. the Old Country, and miscellaneous happenings of general interest..