LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4367, 18 January 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting at Patetonga on Mom day evening Mr E. Walton, Hauraki Plains County Clerk, stated that of £7OOO of rates struck only £lOOO had been received to date.

The dates for receiving pigs in this district are advertised in the N.Z. Co-op. Bacon Co.’s advertisement on page three of the “Gazette” to-day. Paeroa, Hikutaia, and Ngatea dates are given.

Full accounts of the meetings held at Ngatea, Turua, and Pate'tonga on Monday in reference to loan proposals were circulated over the Hauraki Plains yesterday in the form of -an advance report.

A Great Economy Sale of drapery commences at C. Keller’s to-morrow.. A list of some of the bargains to be obtained appear in the advertisement on our first page.

A poll is being taken on two .loan proposals, on the’Hauraki Plains toi day. One is for the raising of £30,600 for county machinery, quarries, etc.-, and the other for a special road,ing scheme for Turua-Netherton, the amount being £33,000. The results of the poll will appear in Friday’s “Gazette.”

“The member for Ohinemuri (Mr H. Poland) is one of the most apt exponents of the art of interjection. Yesterday he scored a hit that was appreciated even by the victims,. The Minister of Lands had been asked a question 1 , and replied : ‘A decision has nolt been reached.’ It was then that Mr Poland added the two words ne thought essential. Thtey were: ‘On anything.’ ’’—“Evening Post,” Wellington, January 13, 1922,

Ah all-night telephone service for Paeroa is advocated by some people, but enquiry has elicited the informal tion that there must be 151 subscribers or more before such a service can be obtained. Paeroa connexions total fewer than 140 altogether, and as each party-line 'counts for only one in respect to an all-night service, the number is considerably below requirements.