LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4399, 5 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing ftp the Voluminous nature o£ the report on the visit of the Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) -to the Hauraki Plains and Paeroa, a portion of the report is held oven un!til next issue. At the by-election held on Monday for, tbe vacancy on the Waitekauri riding pf the Ohinemuri County Council Mr H. M. Corbett was elected by a majority pf 36 votes, the voting being: Mr Corbett 51, Mr Comes 15. Mr R. W. Evans was returning officer. A general meeting pf the TirohiaRotokohtP Ratepayers’ Association is called for Friday evening next in the Criterion Buildings.

The number pf new and up-to-date dredges imported from America by Mr J. B. Thompson, Chief Drainage Engineer, is nine, .and the total cost was £87,000. All the dredges have now arrived. The Hon. the Minister for Public Works, Mr J. G. Coates, will probably be visiting this district shortly, according to a statement made by Mr H. Poland, M.P. for Ohinemuri, to a deuutation which waited upon the Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. GiPhr’e) at. Paeroa yesterday. Attention is directed to Mr W. M. Cullen’s property advertisement on' our fourth page to-day “Although we are going to take you to the top of Cemetery Hill, we are not going to bury you ‘there,’’ was the reassuring remark made to the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Lands by a member of a deputation which waited upon him on Monday during the Hauraki Plains tour. When the case pf J. Pennell v. Robert Whitten, for alleged assault, was called at the Police Court this morning, before Messrs Tetley and •Flatt, J’s.P., Mr J. L. Hanna,, for the informant, objected to Mr Tetley hearing the case, as he was a mortgagee of the defendant. Mr Porrjtt, solicitor for the defence, objected to the other justice of the peace, Mr Flatt, as he was a Borough Councillor, and the informant, was an employee of the Council.. Both, •justices said that if-there was the least objection they would decline to act, and adjourned, the case Ao be heard before the magistrate, Mr J. H. Salmon, on the 26th instant.

: Everyone 1 pres,ent smote a .broad smile when, at the Ngatea Hall on Monday, Mr C. W. Harris, after asking the Hon. the .Minister off Lands for a piece of land in Waitakai\uru at a low price for a church sitej, gently insinuated that the Minister might see his way clear to give the land free for such a pious purpose. “We usually wait until a church 'is built before we erect a police stationl,” was the reply humorously given to a member of a Kerepeehi deputation who requested a Government official to erec.t a police statioh in Kerepeehi., The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., advertises that they will hold an autiien sale as, Ngatea on Monday next. .' A pleasing interlude occurred be-, tween Tahuna, and Patetonga when the Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) and party, toured' the Plains on Monday. While the party went up Cemetery Hill, morning Sea was being made on this roadside, and was served on the return by Messrs J. P. Jensen, F, Barnett, and K. Dalzell., It was obvious that ladies’ hands had shaped the tastefully arranged eatables in the hampers, which fact the Minister was not slow to observe, for when about! to resume the journey he said: "We are not going to leave without giving three cheers flor the ladies in ' recognition of their hospitality.” Needless to say, the cheers were lustily given, and it is to be hoped that they , echoed across the wide spaces to the respective abodes of the fair ones.who halve (the setitters’ sorrows and double their joys.

A good story is told of how a summons was served oh a cute gentleman living in the TO Aroha' district, and who was known to have the \annoying habit of refusing to accept, or take delivery of, summons notices, in wnich event tjhe eflurt would be unable to proceed, on the grounds that the summons was not served. The storekeeper desiring to serve the summons rang up Mr X, and said he wanted to sell him ja good cow, cheaply, and. that as he was passing in his car he would call to see Mr X. In due course the storekeeper arrived, and expatiated on the merits of the bovine brute, and to clinch masters he handed Mr X a paper, saying : "Here is the cow’s pedigree; you can see for yourself that she is a good one.” Guilelessly Mr X took the paper, opened it, and found that it was a summons! They say the language Mr X poured forth, in his ungovernable rage was so hot| that it caused some fuses in the Thames Valley Power Board’s electrical Ijine to burn out.

Exceptional interest it attached to the current issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review,’'’ a copy of which should be secured early. A wo colour scheme has been adopted in the cover, and art paper is used through for the illustrations, bringing the “Review” up to a commendably high standard that cannot easily be eclipsed. With this number a striking two-colour depicting bathers at a French seaside resort, is made a special feature, white the illustrations, which qre numerously studdpd through the pages include the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting, the Wellington Racing Club’s carnival, Wellington Bowling Centres tournament, the recent murder in Paris, fashion modes from New York and Paris, a bevy of graceful swimmers at Milford, the recent disastrous fire at Hamilton, popular photographs of theatrical and film ■favourites, novelties and entertainments in England, and an attractive miscellany of events covering a'.wide range of interest both locally and abroad. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Pepcprmlnt Cure.