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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4373, 3 February 1922, Page 2

At the Methodist Chufch on Sum day evening the anthem "The Sun shall be no more” will be rendered by the choir.

It is estimated that the total cost of the Waitoa dried milk factory and plant slightly exceeds £lBO,OOO.

Last year 281 persons in the Dominion met their death by accident or external violence in some form or other.

“My motto has always been that a police officer should be- prosecutor and not a persecutor/’ said SuMnr speetor Eccles when being farewelled at the Invercargill Courthouse the other week. “He is plalced in a position of great trust, and should not use it as he might his baton.”

The great value of the draining works done by the Lands Department has been exemplified during the recent week of rain, when from Wednesday of last week till yesterday morning 4!38 inches of r.ain fell °h the Hauraki Plains. Notwithstanding the heavy downpours, there has been practically no flooding on the Hauraki Plains in the Piako River areas where the drainage works were mostly in progress.

Speaking with regard to ferries at Turua yesterday some local residents recently returned from a motor (tour say they encountered one of the queerest contrivan'ces they have met. They had occasion to cross‘the Mokau River, over which they had to go by ferry. They were obliged to wait for m hours till the tide was high enough for the contraption to operate.. The approaches were difficult to drive over, and when on board the ferry, which was attached to an overhead cable, vehicles were liable to become entangled in ropes ; in fact one motoi car containing some of the local tourists did become entangled with a rope, from which they were extricated witn a great deal ofl trouble.

Racing finds a favoured portion in Llie current issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review,” among the cvcntt represented pictorinlly being tlic Wellington' Racing and Trotting Clubs’ recent meetings. Interesting siibjccts abroad include, th® International Ladies’ Athletic Championships at Paris, Armistice Day in London and France, and America’s tribute tr the nation's Unknown Warrior., The, miscellaneous sectio's cover stage and varied forms of sport, making the issue of exceptional merit.