LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4405, 24 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

- The dancing classes unedr the conductorghip of - Mifcses and Smales, of Te Aroha, are to commence in Paeroa on Wednesday next in the Soldiers’ Hall. Instruction will be given in all the latest ballroom dancing, including jazzing, etc. The children's classes commence at 3.30 p.m. and the adults’ classes at 7.30 p.m.

Attention is drawn by advertisement in this .issue to the Ohinemuri County Council’s heavy-traffic bylaw, which comes into , force from May 1, and remains effective until September 30.

A deputation of Elstow settlers waited on Mr F. M. Strange, of Mangaiti, recently, and asked him to allow himself to be nominated for the Ohinemuri seat in the interests of the Farmers’ Party at the forthcoming election. Mr Strange thanked ■tfhe deputation for waiting on him, but declined the honour.

At a meeting of delegates of the various branches of' the Farmers Union within the Ohinemuri electorate held at Te Aroha on Saturday night, Captain Frank Colbeck was chosen to contest the Ohinemuri seat against Mr H. Poland, the present member. Mr Colbeck has consented to the nomination.

The clerk of the Magistrate’s Court, Mr C. W. Carver, was advised ♦this morning that the Magistrate!, Mr J. H. Salmon was indisposed, suffering from an attack of influenza. In consequence, he will not be able to bokl the sitting of the Court on Wednesday next. The Court will therefore be adjourned until May 15.

The small number of branches of the Farmers’ Union in the Thames electorate represented at the conference at Ngatea on" Saturday to elect a farmers’ candidate makes one wonder whether the Farmers’ Union are still existent and, if sc, are they taking any interest in politics ? ■

Certain callow- youths made noisy nuisances of themselves during an addres;-. last evening on faminestricken Russia; it was remarked that tho same "tender-hearted patriots” Object to parading with the Defence Forces on Anzac Day. They are certainly consistent in -their rude, crude, and contemptible conduct.

“You’ve brought rotten weather with you,” said a Hauraki Plains county councillor to a visitor to the Plain.-- at Ngatea on Saturday. “No worse weather than you have roads,” was the retort.

In addition -to the Kaihere, Ngatea, and Matatoki branches who attended tho conference ot Ngatea on Saturday, two other branches 'in the Thame;- electorate, Cleveden and Te Hoe. have also decided to. support the farmers’ political movement There may possibly be other branches supporting the movement, but the abovementioned are those -which have been officially announced.