LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4422, 2 June 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The s.s. Tahiwha will leave the lower wharf at 11.30 this evening for Auckland.

On Saturday, June 3, King’s Birthday, the Post Office, Telegraph Office, and Telephone Exchange will be closed.

Mr, Woods informs us that the floor of the Central Theatre has undergone a process which has proved very successful, and that the floor will be in perfect dancing order by the end of next week.

A long evening in connection with the dancing class conducted by Misses Smales and Lipsey will take place on Wednesday next, June 7.

Now that the winter, is here everyone requires warmer clothing, and readers will do well to peruse C. Keller’s advertisement on our first page. This firm has just opened up a new kt suitable for the season.

A lost wallet is advertised fpr in this issue. The wallet is the last gift that the advertiser received from his mother before her death and in consequence is much prized by him as a keepsake. The reward for the return of the wallet is the contents, namely, £l,

Mr. "Walter Wood, dancing master, advises that he will be at the Soldiers’ Hall on Thursday next, June 8, from 10.30 a.m. The usual class will be held at 8.

The annual meeting of the Thames Valley Dairy Finance Company is to •be-held on Monday next at 11 a.m; in the Dairy Company’s office at Paeroa.

"Your counsel suggests," said Mr. Justice Chapman to a prisoner at the Supreme ’ Court at Wellington, "that receiving is less serious than thieving. I do not agree with that, nor does the law, for it treats the offence rather as more serious than thieving.”

“I must ask the clerk to read this letter. I can’t read it,” said Ma A. R. Robinson, Ohinemuri County chairman, at yesterday's meeting. “There have been several letters today which have been difficult to read, and they .all seem to come frpm the Waitekauri riding.” Some of the wording of the letters also occasioned a little amusement.

The absence of the refreshment stall at Morrinsville is often felt by the travelling public, especially those travelling by the slow trains. It is a long stretch from Frankton to Paeroa without a chance of obtaining a refreshing cup of tea, .and it isi maintained by many that the stall shiduld be re-established.

The closing of the school yesterday was to allow the teachers to .attend an address by the chief physical instructor of the Education Depart, merit, Wellington, on the subject ’of; physical training. In view of the importance of the subject to the children the Board required the teachers to attend the lecture and authorised the closing of the school for the day. In a letter to the committee the Board regretted the unavoidable dislocation of the school work for the day; but felt assured that the ultimate benefit to the children that would be derived, firpm such instruction to teachers would more than compensate for the loss of one school day. As it to 'happens the holiday, so far as Paeroa was concerned, was greeted with pleasure by a large number of parents, who took advantage of the holiday to attend the Winter Show at Hamilton’, which is an object lesson that the children who attended are not likely to forget.

The Public Works Department has just let a contract for two of the largest water turbines that are likely to be installed in New Zealand for some time to come. These two turbines—each of which will give 3100 horsepower—will be installed at the Hora'hora Power Station, which was taken over by the Government from the Waihi Gold Mining Co., a few years ago. The turbines are of special interest because of the low head on which they will work, namely, 26ft. This low head pnd- the speed of 150 revolution a minute account for the huge dimensions of these machines. The diameter of the runners alone is over' 8% feet, and each Turbine weighs over 85 tons.

A number of prizes were won at the Waikato Winter Show by pupils attending the Paeroa High. School. For sewing Bessie Ryan secured third prize for treasure bag, Nance Fitch first prize for sewing apron, Annie S.outhby first for camisole and first for darned stocking, Daisy Ryan first for cooking, apron. For an essay on “Our Friends the Trees,” Dorothy Towers gained second prize. For freehand drawing, Annie Rare, of the Hikutaia School, secured second prize.

Mention is made in Monday’s news of a Russian ship’s do.ctor with a badly-fitting suit that Cost 12,000,000 roubles. This difference in the exchange with roubles by the million to the pound sterling is sometimes quite useful- I have just heard of an English traveller in Moscow who found himself in uncomfortable quarters, and dec'ded to change a very small amount of English money into an unthinkable number of roubles, and buy an hotel. Here he lived in contentment for a fortnight. Leaving for home, he gave the hotel to the head waiter as a tip.

Sydney papei's to hand state that an Australian aviator was to leave recently on a daring flight to the big, savage populated island of Papua, to the north of Australia. The man is Mr. William W. Marshall, an ex-Syd-ney Grammar School boy, and a capable aviator and cinematographer. His object is to explore the interior of wildest Papua, and return with interesting films. The airplane to be used in this adventure is a singleseater Baby Avro seaplane, and is the machine in which daring Hinckler attempted to fly alone from London to. Australia. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

In a recent article on the recent murders in Ireland the “Dominion” says : “The foul murder of, two British soldiers in Dublin may appear to lie a comparatively small thing in the orgy of crime which is making l life in many parts of Ireland a perpetual nightmare of horrors. Yet it serves to throw into further relief ope arresting fact. For a long time past Irishmen have not been murdering English soldiers or Englishmen. Irishmen have been murdering Irishmen. This fact has been rioted before, but it is one worth stressing. Irishmen are murdering Irishmen. Wny ? Is it because they cannot agree amongst themselves as to the form of Government they want ? Is the cruel killing of women and little children, the heartless slaughter of old men', the brutal and deliberate murder of husbands and fathers before the eyee of their, wives and children—are these revolting things signposts' on the road to political (freedom ? Or have the Irish been seized with the madness which lias brought Russia where she is to-day—a country described as, outrivalling die worst descriptions of hell ever penned.

A local business firm last week, as an inducement to effect a clearance in a particular line, says' the Waikato “Independent,” advertised that these goods were being sold at h,alf-price, for a few days only. The advertisement only appeared twice in the “Independent,” and the result was so pronounced that the firm had to sell 'considerably more goods at half-price than they wished to. Undoubtedly it pays to advertise!

A dairy farmer in the neighbourhood of Palmerston North writes to tfie Manawatu Daily Times: "If anybody should be in the dumps just now, it is the small farmer, apd not the town dweller. I would suggest, if community singing is s cure for the dumps, that the farmers knock -off work for an hour every day, proceed to the nearest hall, arid engage in a sing-song. It would be delightful, wouldn’t it ?”

A stationholder in the Eketahuna district recently quoted some figures to show the effect of the recent market depression. For the last four years the returns from bis station were £11,400, £9300, £6300, and £3250 respectively. For the last year very big inroads had to be made oh capital to meet current expenses, but, said he, “this was .not an inexhaustible fund.” The quality of the output, he added, was much superior in the last year to formerly. A For Children’s Hacking CQUgh, Woods’ Great Pepeprmipt Cure.