LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4387, 8 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

, As our annual balance takes place at the end of this month the proprietors of the “Gazette” will appreciate settlement of accounts by the 27th inst. Wages of Thames Valley Power Board employees were reduced in accordance with the resolution passed at the last board meeting, as, per the following : Labourers, Is 9d- per hour; pole fitters, Is ioy 2 d ; wiremen, 2s; gangers, 2s l%d. Some Turua cheese, amounting to about. 50 crates, sent per steamer io Auckland last week, is said now to be unsaleable. The mode of carriage is thought to be responsible for its condition. Mr W. E. G. Willy (Hauraki Plains) stated in a letter which came before the Thames Valley Electric Power Board yesterday, that he .believed there were more cows on the, farms fronting the Kopuar.ahi-Turua Road than on any similar area in New Zealand, A house to house canvass for funds to help the Auckland Protestant Orphanage Fund will be made on Friday of this week.. An effort to raise £2OO on this one day is the Paeroa objective.

The Ohinemuri County Council reminds ratepayers, by advertisement, that on .and after Wednesday, 15tn inst., all unpaid rates will be subject to an additional charge of 10 per cent.

Mr L. E. Cassrels remarked at a meeting of the Chamber of Commence last night that there was material for a comic opera in Paeroa, inasmuch as the Borough Council was selling the band instruments and yet a hand rotunda was being erected in the main street, Mr E, W. Porritt said the trustees board of the original instruments had never been dissolved, and the Council had no right to sell them. This comment did not apply to other instruments since purchased.

In addition to the .ceremony in connection with the official opening of the Te Puke Gold Reefs Company’s battery on Thursday afternoon next there will be a banquet in the evening to which all invited to attend the opening will be the guests of the management Quite a. large number of invitations have been sent out, and there should be a thoroughly representative gathering. The Prime Mini ister, Hon. W. F. Massey,, will officially open the battery. Regarding the. inquiry into the Hauraki Plains loan poll, the S.M. has fixed March 16 as the date of the decision as to whether or riot the pei tition was filed within the proper time allowed. If in the affirmative the inquiry will proceed.

Subscribers to the “Gazette” who are considerably overdue in their payments are-requested to settle’ accounts by the end of* this month, after which date the paper will not be sunplied to persons whpse subscriptions are more than one month in arrears.

A* batch of ten pheasants were received by .the Ohinemuri Acclimatisation Society last week. In order to increase the interest shown by the Hikutaia sportsmen, who formed a sub-branch some time ago, it was decided to allocate these pheasants to them. Mr D. Leach (secretary of the society) therefore delivered the birds to Mr E. J. Walters, who has underi taken to liberate them in a suitable locality.

In connection with the bowling match, Paeroa v. Thames, nt Thames on Saturday, conveyances will leave the Paeroa bowling green at 12.45 p.m P’ayers are requested to ’ be punctual.