LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of residents ’of Paeroa and district will be held,in the Coronation Chambers next Tuesday, at 1.30 p.m., to discuss ways and means of raising further funds for the Auck J land Orphans’ Home £25,000 Fund Campaign.

A rise of Id per lb in butter takes place to-day, this being consequent upon an improved tone in the Home market; The wholesale pride here Will be, Is 3%d ex-factory, and Is 5d cash (Is 6d booked) retail.

Parker and Marks, auctioneers and commission agents, held another successful sale yesterday at Mr Mullis’ Station Road. Furniture and effects realised excellent prices. Note their future sales as now advertised.

There was an interruption in the telephonic service between Netherton and Paeroa on Wednesday evening and yesterday morning. The Hauraki Plains post offices wer,e unabie to get into touch with Paeroa.

Among the losses suffered during the flood was a valuable Jersey bull, “Monte Carlo,” owned by M!r GeO. Buchanan. This bull won second prize at the Hauraki A. and P. Show (Paeroa) in the two-year-bld class, and first in the. class for bulls of any age. The drowning' of this bull is a loss not only to Mr Buchanan, but to dairying in the district generally.

An example of unemployment was brought before a “Gazette” reporter at Turua yesterday, when a man stated he had been travelling for three weeks in search of work. He started out from Auckland and tried various places along the railway line right down to the King Country, from whence he came to Thames and then to Turua. He estimates that to date it has cost him £5O in his so far frujtl less search for work. | Though the setters on the Haurakf Plains complain of bad roads and other backward conditions there are Other places in the North Island in a worse state than here.- Some Turua residents recently returned from a motor tour relate how on some of l the roads they traversed they stuck axle deep. They knew of roads in which service cars were continually being, bogged.

Mr Meek, Government Auditor, is now in the district auditing local body accounts. I ' '. ’

There are five Hauraki Plains tennis teams competing for a cup presented by Mr Robt. Laidlaw, of Auckland. The teams are KaiKere, Hopai, Turua, Waitakaruru, and Kopuarahi. The. first round is to be played tomorrow, when Turua is matched against Waitakaruru at Turua, and Kaihere and Hopai play at Hopai.

A youth scarcely 15 years of age, residing in Paeroa, has been making a name for himself, and incidentally landed himself within the clutches of the law. His first escapade, whicn Was the beginning of his undoing and led to his arrest by y the police on Saturday, occurred on the previous (Frin day) evening. On that occasion he entered the residence of Mrs Dutton, Brighton Street, and, it is alleged, committed a theft. The occupants, on seeing the youth in the neighbourhood of the house on tlje following evening, became suspicious of him. They secretly vacated the building and watched the movements of the youth. In due course he entered the house by the front door. Mrs Dutton sought the assistance of neighbours, and, following upon a short parley, it was determined to surround the house, after which a man entered’the house. In the passageway he was suddenly confronted by the youth, who, in a peremptory tone, shoutel, “hands up,” at the same time presenting a pistol. Instantly the youth’s wrist was seized, and in a twinkling the weapon was wrenched from his hand. Later on it was discovered that what was believed to be a revolver was a toy pistol. The youth appeared before the Court on Wednesday on two charges of breaking and entering, one with intent to steal, and the other with having committed a theft, and was convicted and an order made under the Industrial Schools Act by the Stipendiary Magistrate for the boy’s committal to the Whareora Training Farm. He was remanded in custody of the juvenile probation officer to appear at the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton. The parents of the lad were ordered to make restitution of the nioney stolen from Mrs Dutton s-. house and to pay witnesses.’ expenses.