LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4404, 21 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Paeroa Post and Telegraph Office and telephone exchange, will be closed on Anzac Day, April 25.

A meeting of the R’otokohu Ratepayers’ Asosciation will be held tonight.

The date of Dalgety and Co.’s Paeroa sale h,as been altered from April 27 to Monday, May 1.

Nearly all the benzine storage places in Paeroa have ' been condemned by the' Government inspector, the use of some being forbidden and improvements to others being ordered.

A vacancy has occurred on the Paeroa Borough Council, by the resignation of Cr. Arch. White, whp is leaving the district. The town clerk (Mr P. C. Furley) h,as been instructed to take steps for a by-election.

The detriment to the outfall drains and septic tank outlet owing to the siltatipn of the Ohinemuri River was referred to at last night’s, meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council, and it was decided to bring the matter under the notice of. the, Minister ofi Public Works next week.

The chairman and Crs. Hayward, Harris, and Parfitt, of .the Hauraki Plains County Council, left on Tuesday to investigate the work of those from whom it is possible that the new county engineer will be selected.

At St. Paul’s Anglican Church on ( Anzac Day there will be a celebration of Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and 11 • a.m. and evening prayer at 7.30 p.m.

The shooting season for game starts at 6 .a.m. on Monday, May 1. Native game in the Auckland Acclimatisation Society’s district must not be'shot without ,a license. The imported and native game open to be killed are cock pheasants, grey'duck l , spoonbill, duck, brown teal, b,lack swan, - Californian and Australian quail. That part of the Waihou River between Waiorongomai bridge and Mangaiti bridge is closed againsjt shooting.

A Chevrolet car belonging to Mr D. Leach was practically destroyed by fire during Easter. Mr Leach and three friends were travelling bn the Rahu Road in the car, when it. ignited, presumably on account of shortcircuiting, and the heated state of the car due to hill-climbing, which would make the benzine very volatile. Despite the efforts of. the party to extinguish the flames, the car was gutted, possibly beyond repair. St was insured for £2OO, and had recently been overhauled.,

Acknowledgment of the services of the Paeroa Town Clerk (Mr P. C. Furley). in view of the satisfactory financial position, was majje by the Borough Council at ■the monthly meeting last evening. His Worship the Mayor (Mr P. E. Brerian) anl Cr. VZ. Marshall (chairman of the Finance Committee) moved and seconded, respectively, a resolution that a bonus of £25 be granted. Or. Marshall referred especially .to the clerk’s successful efforts in getting the rates in.

It has been pertinently suggested that a donation of butter, cheese, and meat by the Government of New Zealand to the Russian Famine Relief would not only serve a humanitarian purpose, but would create better market conditions for our produce. The Australian state governments have such gifts, and the New Zealand Government might well follow suit.

Complimentary references to the capabilities of Mr W. H. Taylor as Council inspector of-sewerage installation were contained in a confidential. report received by the Paeroa Borough Council at the monthly meeting last evening from Mesirt Gannon and Worley, supervising engineers. The tenour of the letter indicated that the Council’s, and therefore the ratepayers', interests ,are being alertly watched.

The annual meeting ofl the Paeroa Referees’ Association will be held in the Fire Brigade Shed on Wednesday at 8 o’clock.

The Lands Department has finished metalling the gap in the Pipiroa-Nga. tea road; and the trolley lines are now being pulled up to be moved to Ngatea, where they will again be put into use.

The following, from an English financial weekly, is a diverting example of the mixed metaphor: “The hum (or roar) of the boom-bird is heard on the Stock Exchange. It began with the gilt edged stocks anl has boiled over already to Home Rails. That it will drift on to the Oil market may be regarded as practically a foregone conclusion, for so the snowball rolls.” S'mall wonder the poor boom-bird roared. So miglianyone, if, after first boiling oyer, he were left drifting in tfie icy blast until he became a snowball.—W.L., in the “Newspaper World,” London.

This week’s issue of the “Sporting and Dramatic Review” is featured with a remarkably fine series of snapshots depicting principal events at the Auckland Racing Club’s autumn meeting at Ellerdlie. Of tragic interest are photographs of. the late Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant Bennett, while scenes concerning the election of the mew Pope in Paris further strike the topical note. Local interest is given in illustrations taken at the King’s College sports in the Domain, while the races on Sydney Harbour, boxing contests in America, scenes from the film “Over the Hill,” the Prince in India, and Princess Mary’s wedding are amongst a profusion of up-to-date pictures contained in this progressive magazine. A SAFE MEDICINE. Mothers of small children need not hesitate tp administer Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It contains np opiate or narcotic in any form, and may be given to a baby with as much, confidence as to an adult. It always relieves and relieves quickly.. Sold by all chemists .and storekeepers.

Footballers are directed to Mr J. Danby’s advertisement of football boots at special prices. The train services for Anzac Day are advertised. Mr Geo. Sar jant will buy pigs' at Paeroa on Monday , next, April 24. Divine services will be held at Ngatea on Anzac D.ay. The Lands Department announces that the survey of the new Awaiti block adjoining Kerepeehi has been completed. The recently imported dredges working on the Hauraki Plains are reported to be doing creditable .work. The Michigan walking dipper dredge, which commenced' digging a receptacle drain on November 10 last, has done about a mile and a half. The drain is 10ft wide. A Bucyrus dredge, engaged in building a stopbank on the lefjt bank of. the Piako River from Kerepeehi towards Kaihere Landing, has covered a distance of about a mile in about three months. Another Bucyrus dredge has improved about a mile of the Ngarua canal, depositing the spoil bn the roadside .to be used later for roadmaking. . From information received ’ from the Plains it is ascertained that the Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Public Works, will be visiting the Hauraki Plains on April 27. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Pepeprmlpt Cure.