LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4406, 26 April 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeeti.ng of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce will be lheld on Saturday next April 29, at 8 p.m., in the Criterion Buildings.

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Paul’s Parish will be held in the Parish Hall to-morrow evening at 8* o’clock. All church members are cordially invited to be present.

At a meeting of the Paeroa High School Committee held after the householders meeting on Monday night, Mr W. H. Taylor was unanimously re-elected chairman for the ensuing year.

A ■ reminder is given of the opening df Misses Lipsey and Smales’ dances classes, which take place in the Soldiers’ Hall this afternoon an.l evening.

.An election of one councillor to fib the vacancy on the Paeroa Borough Council caused through the resignation gf‘Mr A. White will take place on Friday, May 12. Nomination of candidates will be received by the returning officer, Mr P.> C. Furley, until noon on Saturday, May 6.

The Hikuta’a Horse Fair is to take place to-morrow at 10 a.m., when 100 horses of all classes will be offered for disposal. The Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Auctioneering Co. will conduct the •sale.

Mr Edwin Edwards .advertises for sale in his advertising space to day a sound kauri house, with all conveniences, for £B5O. and a practically new house for £650. Full particulars are advertised.

A two-seater car, the property of Mr G. A. Avey, of Kerepeehi, was damaged on Monday morning by backing into a drain. The driver, wishing to turn on the narrow road outside Mr A. Chatfield’s residence, backed towards the drain, and the breaks failing, the machine dropped tail-light first. The driver extricated himself suffering from only minor bruises. The windscreen of <Jie car was broken and the rear, of the car was also damaged.

By the new regulations it is now necessary to hold a £1 license to shoot native game. This license also covers the holder for shooting imported game. The number of licenses printed is limited, so that early application is advisable, but the secretary of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. 23 Shortland Street, Auckland, will undertake o send a license to every applicant. Attention is drawn to regulation No. 7 New Zealand Zazette, 3/'3/’22, proliibiteing the use of automatic and autoloading guns. j