LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4409, 3 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Rotpkohu Rate.payers’ Association is advertised to be held on Friday evening.

Nominations for the vacancy on the Paeroa Borough Conucil, due to the resignation of Cr. Arch. White, close next Saturday. SO. far, we have heard of only one person who will be standing, Mr J. W. Silcock.

Electric poles to . the number of 583 have been placed on the Hauraki Plains by the Thames Valley Power Board.

Under circumstances that a,re at present “sub judice,” and therefore cannot be published in' the meantime, leave of absence from three meetings was granted by the Thames Valley Electric Power Board to its chairman, Mr F. M. Strange. Those conversant with l the position vei; much regret that certain anomalies and seemingly mere legal technicalities necessitate Mr Strange absenting himself from the Board’s meetings for the time being.

A “Gazette” newsboy now travels on the Thames express every Monday, Wednesday, andi Friday, selling papers, which, innovation should result in making the district better known by people from other parts of New Zealand.

On Monday last the Rev. A. T. Thompson, M'A> General Secretary to the British and Foreign Bible Society, met with a rather painful and severe accident. It appears that while cranking his motor-car It back-fired and broke his wrist. Acting on medical advice, Mr Thompson left for his home, at, Wellington, where the broken limb will be placed under the X-ray and the exact extent of his injuries defined. The meeting arranged. for last night had, in consequence, to be abandoned.

The . Kopu and Turua Northern Steamship Company Auckland, service time-tables are advertised.

The overdue steamer "Manurewa” has on board a consignment of poles for the Thames Valley Electric Power Board. The “Louis Theriault” company l , it is stated, lost £lOOO on the four trips to Thames, on account of not being able to get back freight. The vessel, had to buy ballast, and pay for dumping it in Australia;

All'written communications to the Gazette ’’ office, whether in reference to literary, advertising, printing, or general business, should be addressed to the editor or manager, and not in the name of! any individual member of the staff/, as otherwise delay is likely to occur should that member be away when; the letter ar rives. There is usually no way of telling whether a letter addressed in the name of a member of the staff is personal or for the office, and should the addressee be absent for" a day or two there is delay £o that extent before- the .contents are known, should they .happen to concern the office.

Recently one of the N.S.S. Co.'s boats took a good load of cargo right up to Ta'huna landing, and received a good back load. If the vessel is well patronised the company hopes to develop the service into a weekly one.

No business concern can become great and no individutil can become famous, without a Reputation, and, to deliberately rob anyone of his Reputation is an act more dastardly than any in the criminal code. To be screened at the Central Theatre on Wednesday. May 10.