LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4376, 10 February 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Telegraphic work at the Paeroa Post Office between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m. is to be discontinued as from to-morrow night, which- -will bb the final evening for this service. The volume of business transacted does not warrant the continuance of the service. ( 1 Mr D. McWatters, draper and clothier, announces on our first page today that he has extended his summer sale for a few more days. A committee meeting to arrange de - tails of the Great One Day Drive for collections to help the Protestant Orphanages of the Auckland district is arranged for 8 p.m. on Monday in the County Chambers.* We understand that, the Lands Department on the Hauraki Plains rs end.eavouring to secure the whole of Thames Quarries,' Ltd., output of’ metal. As far as .can be ascertained it is the intention of the Department to lay spalls for the foundation of new roads, building up finer stuff on top.,

1 Messrs Wirth Bros’, circus and menagerie will be visiting Paeroa on Thursday, March 16, when the public will have an opportunity of again seeing this great combined show, to which many striking additions from overseas have lately been made.. “Our bridges are in a serious state of disrepair,” said the chairman of the Thames County Council on Wednesday at the monthly meeting. If a loaded char-a-banc went over some of the bridges in the county they would not stand the .strain. Such bridges would have tp be repaired, no matter where the money came from. It would be a dreadful tjiing to have an accident occur; this must be prevented at all costs;” A suggestion that several districts on the Hauraki Plains should join to make ohe central sports meeting was made by Mr A. Chatfield at the Kerepeehi Sports meeting on Wednesday evening. Mr Henry was doubtful whether this was practicable. Turua had a strong sports club and he did not think they would join. He thought each place should have a sports club of its own, “I am disgusted with the state of the main Thames-Paeroa road,” said Or. H. Lowe, chairman of the Thames County Council, at a meeting oh Wednesday. He felt ashamed', as chairman, to see such roads, but as' the Council had only about £9op between it and the overdraft limit there would have to be strict economy until March 31. In the meantime money would have to bo kept in hand for the removal of slips, breakage of culverts, or other dangerous occurrences.

“Now and again I read every advertisement in the ‘Gazette’; -I find some of them very interesting,, and they have often been the means of my making purchases- in Paeroa which I would otherwise have sent to Auckland for,” remarked an putdistrict farmer tp a representative of the “Gazette” during the country rounds a day o'r two ago. elt is not the first time a similar thing has been said, and goes to -shew that advertisers should make their advertisement spaces as large as they can reasonably afford, and .as readable as. they can possibly compose them. In these days of tightness of finance the public, especially the .housewives, study advertisements very, diligently, because it pays them tp do so. “I Could show you some of our launch property in a back yard at Kopu,” said a member of the Thames County Council at a meeting on Wednesday. The [chairman, commenting on the statement, said there would appear to have been a great deal of laxity in respeet to the caretaking of the Council’s property. Cr. R. Cox said the Council had trusted its eihr ployees to look after its property, but that trust had been misplaced. The Methodist Sunday School children with their friends are having their annual picnic to-morrow., They leave by the. 8.5 a.-m. train for Thames and will be Conveyed from there lo Waiomio by motor bus.

"Beautiful Waikawau” is an apt description of some parts of the Waikawau beach, on the Thames Coast, a seaside holiday resort of ever-in-creasing popularity. 'At this charming spot several building sites are being offered for sale by Major BlackH ett, of Waikawau. These sections, which slope down to a good beach, are beautifully situated-, the pick of this portion -of the coast, where the lovely pohutukawas add beauty to the scene, and also give shelter from the noonday sun, while the Waikawau River ensures a good fresh water supply for the property, and also provides excellent fishing at the rise of the tide. Flat-fishing is a favourite -pursuit at Waikawau,. but the outstanding feature in the piscatorial line is the unrivalled excellence of the' mussels their quality being unsurpassed anywhere. The Waikawau mussels have earned special distinction, while in other respects the at-i tractions are considerable. It is the intention of the Lands Department to remetal the KerepeehiNgatea road. Work will commence at the Kerepeehi corner next week. This road is at present in a very bad state and the Department’s announcement will undoubtedly be receive.! with pleasure by those who continually use that road. Referring to financial arrangements by the Government in respect to local body grants, Ch Henry Lowe, chairman of the Thames County Council, said the Government ought to give progress payments. Under the present rules a local body might spend thousands of pounds on a work, hut could not get the grant until all the work was completed, although it might be paying 7 per cent, interest on the- money being used to pay for the work as it was going op. There was need for revision- pf the legislation in this respect. Fresh tenders arc invited per advertisement by the Thames Borougn Council for Waltoa endowments.