LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4388, 10 March 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, a case, Barton and Paulsen (Mr Porritt) v. E. Smith (Mr Hanna), edme before Mr J. H. Salmond, SM. Mr Hanna said an arrangement had been made the previous Court day that £4 Is would settle the amount. He would agree to settlement at £4- Is, including costs. Judgment was given for plaintiff for £5 8s including £1 7s already paid into Court. The Whitten v. Sorensen case was deferred. Referring tp the increased charges for Government auditing, 9s per, hour, the chairman of the Thames County Council (Mr Henry Lowe) said the accumulated charges made local body burdens overwhelming. The councillors would consider themselves well paid at 9s per hour. “It is only £2l 12s per week at six hours a day,” commented Cr. J. McCormick. Master Kenneth Couper, son of Mr Jas. Couper, of Paeroa, went to Auckland last week to commence his university course, he being the only scholar from Paeroa to have quali-i fled for the educational bursary. “Be as brief as it is possible for an insurance agent, to be,” was the adi monition the chairman of the Thames County Council (Mr H. Lowe) gave to an agent who waited on the Council on Wednesday seeking business. Mr Lowe remarked that when a company could show a profit of 42 per cent., surely it was time the premiums vzere lowered. It should pay the local bodies to run an insurance Scheme of their own. The uninitiated must have missed the full significance of the remark made by the Governor-General, Lord Jellicoe, at Ashburton, to the effect that naval men could not be trained in the time it took to make soldiers. The point is that from the raw recruit a passable soldier may be made in six months. A battle ship may be built within from six months to two years, according to size and design, but it takes twelve years, according to British naval practice, to make a thoroughly efficient naval man.

A clearance sale was conducted at Mr J. N, Reed’s farm, Mill Road, Paeroa, yesterday, Mr of the Farmers’ Cp-op. Auctioneering Co., Ltd., wielding the hammer. Good dairy cows brought £8 to £ll, and others £5 to £7; yearling heifers £2 2s, and others 19s ; six-months steers 10s; springing heifers £4 10s to £6 2s 6d; 2-year-old steers £2 2s; a working buttock, £4 ss. Pigs : Weani ers 12s, stores £1 15s 6d, sow in pig £3 Is. Poultry: Geese, 6s ; turkeys, 15s ; ducks, ss" 3d ; fowls, 2s 6d, and Rhode Islahd Reds 4s 3d. Mr Reed is leaving to occupy a property of his at Hamilton. The new owner of the Paeroa farm is Mr A. Birkett, late of Te Aroha.

Bee-keepers on the Hauraki Plains, on the north-eastern portion at any-t j’atA, have had a poor season. The weather has been too wet for good honey producing; in fact one beekeeper' stated that at a time when the honey should have been plentiful in the hives found that the bees were nearly starving.