LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4400, 7 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A handsome donation, fifty guineas, has been presented to the Hikutaia Bowling, Croquet, and Tennis Club (Alley Memorial Park) Fund.

A boy named Kenneth McKee, son of Mr D. G: McKee, met with a mishap this morning. The child was riding a horse around the yard., and got hung up in a clothes lino, with the result that the right, forearm, was broker:, and a number of teeth' were knocked out. Medical aid was rendered, and the bones set.

Sunday next, Palm Sunday, the first day of the. Holy Week, will be observed with the usual solemn services at St. Paul’s Church. M.attins will be said at eleven and evensong sung at seven. At the latter service the beautiful devotion, the “Story of the Cross,” will be sung,

Mr Walter Wood, of Auckland, announces in our advertising columns that should sufficient inducement offer he will visit Paeroa with a view to instruction in ballroom dancing and elocution. Particulars are advertised.

At the Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening next a memorial service to the late Mrs James McAndrew will be held by the Rev. F. McDonald.

A plate-glass window in Messrs Brenan arid Co.’s garage frontage was broken in a peculiar manner this morning. A piece of horseshoe metal cut off a shoe in Mr W. J. Ellis’ smithy on the opposite side of the road flew right across the street and penetrated the window with considerable force. A hole was made clean through', as though the projectile had been a. bullet, and the glass was cracked in four directions. Mad the pellet caught anyone it may have in--flicted serious injury. It is stated that a boy was standing by the window at the time, sucking an orange, and that he dropped the orange and “scaled for his life.”

The Railway Department draws attention in the advertising columns of this issue to a special advertisement in connection with train arrangement for the Easter holidays.

Tenders ,which came before the Thames County Council on Wednesday without the required deposits were rejected, irrespective pt’ whether they were lowest or highest. The Council considered that the rules must be abided by, otherwise there would soon be confusion.

The. delusion many farmers have that the washing out of cows after calving is as necessary as milking was dispelled by Dr. Jensen in a lecture at Ngatea on Wednesday evening. The doctor said .that this pro? cess was totally unessential, in fact detrimental, unless it was to combat disease.

The question of a Waihi represen tatlve contesting the Ohinemuri seat at (he general elections in the L'b-eral-Labour interests has been moot ed .'n the mining centre, and the name of the present Mayor (Mr Dawson Donaldson) has been mentioned in this connection. The sitting member is Mr Hugh Poland, who has represented the district for many years.

A statement showing the difficulties with which farmc?rs. on the Haur,aki Plains have to contend was male at a meeting at Ngatea on Wednesday evening by Dr.. Jenseni. who said that there was more trouble among the herds on one farm on the Pla-’ns than there was on 30 in Taranaki. A dancing class, to be conducted by Misses Lipsey and Smales, of Te Aroha* is shortly to be started in Paeroa. Particulars will be advertised later.