LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4420, 29 May 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The heavy rain which fell on Friday caused a lot of the freshly opened up drains in connection with the sewerage contract to fall in, anti the completing of; this work will thus be somewhat delayed. - '

•Thames will puddle in the mud and we will continue to bask in the sand,” said Mr, Kenrick, of Te Aroha, when drawing comparisons at the. Drainage Reference Board conference last Thursday.

In view of Mr Furkert’s statement at the Conference on Thursday that the Criterion Bridge was “ due to fall at any time,” the Borough Council would do well tp investigate the matter and thus possibly prevent a serious accident.

Prior -to his departure this morning Mr. T. E. McMillan, late managereditor of “The Hauraki Plains Gazette,” was farewelled “round the stone,’ 1 ’ when the staff wished him good health and God speed.

The weather on Friday, especially on Friday night , was exceedingly boisterous, and a .considerable amount of rain fell, Fortunately the gale ended early on Saturday, and fine weather prevailed during the day. The rootball fixtures for Saturday had, however, been postponed late on Friday night, this course having to be decided early to enable the country members to be notified;

That, the modern draining and excavating devices do not work any cheaper than hand labour was stated by Mr. Furkert at the conference on Thursday. The work, however, was done much more quickly. Mr, Fun kert also stated that while the work of cutting the Panama Canal was in progress at the same time as the Main Trunk railway was being put through, figures concerning these werks had, been compared and it had been found that the Panama, Canal work, with the latest excavating devices, was costing more per yard of spoil shifted than the Main Trunk railway exqavatihg work, on which only the spade and banpw were used. Work with the modern machinery, however, could be done more expeditiously. z ; ; .'

At a meeting of to the fund criginally collected for the erection of a Soldiers’ Club in Hamilton it was z decided to utilise the money in the erection a* a cenotaph, at a cos; of £l5OO, and the balance of the fund to. be invested and the'interest?spent on the maintenance of: a memorial park. The committee: reported that there was a sum Qf £2060 in hand and an additional sum of £3OOO promised.

At a meeting of the Thames Cpi/nty Council on Wednesday last ii was. decided to. get a report on the equipment and development of the Mata--toki quarry from the engineer. Several councillors were of the opinion that the opening up of this quarry would pay the Council well.

The Railway Department draw attention in the advertising columns of this journal tp a special advertisement in connection with train arrangements for the Waikato Winter Show at Hamilton and the King’" Birthday.

Tenders for culverting and formation "work at Waikinp are called for by the Ohinemuri County Council.

Messrs Stansfield and Co. conducted a. very successful auction sale at Mr. T. E. McMillan’s residence on Saturday last, prices for everything being very good.

The public, as we}l as members of the Beautifying Society, are invited to the annual meeting, which is to be held in the County Chambers tonight, at 7.30.

A party inspecting the Galatea r:oad (says the Opotiki Guardian) were very much interested in a big -shag “rookery” situated in a. strip of kahikatea bush that grew along the river at the foot of a big stretch of cliffs, towering 300 feet above the river. Ther'i must have been hundreds of the birds.

According to a well-iknown Vevin sheep-farmer, fats should prove good property during the next few months. By August he, predicted that good wethers would be worth £2 per head, and- over.

At a meeting of settlers at Tanranga on Saturday it was resolved to form a Jersey Breeders’ Club, to be known as the Bay of Plenty' Cattle Club. Mr. W. T. London was elected president. The usual fortnightly sale of the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company will be held at Hikutaia on Wednesday next. ■ For Children’s Hacking Cpugh,Woods’ Great Pcpeprmipt Cute.