LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4386, 6 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Notice is given by the Ohniemuri County Council that the water supply will be entirely cut off at five o’clock to morrow (Tuesday) evening in order to allow some extensive repairs to be made to the J main.

In Mi Cullen’s advertising space on our fourth page to-day is an. advertisement headed “For Sale —i golden opportunity for a man with. £350 cash,” to which w.e direct, special attention.

The band rotunda which the Paeroa Beautifying Society brought from Karangahake, and tor which a concrete base was erected some time ago at the intersection of Belmont Road, Wharf and Princes streets, is now being fitted up.

Messrs Stansfield and Co. advertise for sale two sections and a six-roomed house in the heart of Paeroa for £650 cash.

For a variety of reasons, mainly because it is election year, and members of Parliament will be busy in their own constituencies, it has been decided to postpone the proposed visit, by Parliamentarians to the Hauraki Plains and Thames Valley until next January, when the new Parliament will have been elected.

“Why is Paeroa district (Rotokohu area in particular) a good place for a poultry farm?" is the conundrum one of the owners of flooded farms has propounded. Answer: Because all the women are ducks, and the men are web-footed. The same pioneer says he is sending the following wire to the Minister for Public Works (Hom J. G. Coates) : “Am like the dove in Noah’s ark. Will yon send a rainbow across ?”

Messi’s Hayward Bros, have secure I the contract for the erection of Mr W. M. Cullen’s two new shops on the corner of Belmont Road (42 feet frontage) and Williams Street. These two shops will be 24ft by 22ft, and 24ft by 18ft, respectively; with back rooms 22ft by 9ft and 18ft by 9ft, with scope for extension should a prospective occupier desire it. The base of the building will be in brick and Concrete, and the outside walls in brick, and brick and plaster, for the base in front, with woodwork frontage. The premises will be fitted up well, with municipal water supply and electric lighting. The ceiling of one shop will he of fibrous plaster and ths other of artistically embossed st'oel while attractive lead lights will set off the frontage,

. “Kapai te contract system," remarked a local resident in reference to the progress being made witji the Paeroa drainage and sewerage sys--tern.

The officers of the Post and Telegraph Department are experiencing not a little difficulty in putting their lines along the roads on the Hauraki Plains. The drains on either side of the road do not leave a great deal of space for the erection of poles, and in some cases private property must be crossed. This entails a great deal of travelling about obtaining the necessary sanction of property owners before the poles can be put in.

A member of the Ngatea Farm® l ' s ' Union complained at its meeting on Saturday that a numb,er of farmers spoke of “The” Farmers’ Union, when it should be termed "Our” Farmers' Union. The speaker further contended that all the farmers should be alive to the valuable work the union was doing for the district.

Great dissatisfaction was expressed at the Ngatea Farmers’ Union meeting on Saturday at the delay in enlarging the Ngatea school. The greatly overcrowded state was commented on, and some members urged that drastic action should be taken. Though no motion was put before the meeting, there appeared to be a feeling of resentment against the authorities for allowing such a congested state to exist.

Wellington City Council recently discussed the housing question, and eventually adopted the Public Health Committee’s recommendation granting the Public Works Department’s request to, be allowed to construct three pairs of semi-detached buildings at Miramar under the Dorlpnco system, with Bft studs instead of 9ft, as required by the by-law. It was pointed out that this was an experiment whereby it was hoped to show that such buildings could be construct,ed more cheaply than under the present system. The 9ft stud is required in Paeroa, hut for certain Cintos, of building, where .ample window space is allowed, an Bft stud would he quite sufficient.