THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4424, 7 June 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The most striking .testimony to the efficacy of advertising was shown to us (states the “Manawatu Daily Times ’) by the New .Zealand manager of a certain proprietary medicine. For the private information o* the head, office, a chart was made showing the rise and fall of the cost, and extent of newspaper advertising month "by month -for the year ending March 31. A corresponding line indicated the rise and fall of gross sales during the same period. For every rise or fall of 10 per cent, in cost of advertising there was a coincident average rise or ?all oi'. 32 per cent, in sales right through the term. This chart or graph is a most instructive lesson, and we regret that we may not publish the actual picture with the name of the firm thereon. At the meeting of the Power Board yesterday the proposed amendments to the regulations -for licensing wiremen were referred to the South Auckland Power Board League. The acting chairman of the Thames Valley Power Board, Mr. Claxton has been appointed the Boards’ representative ,and delegate to al! conferences during his occupation of; the position of acting chairman. The Paeroa Fire Brigade will hoi-1 a social in the Soldiers’ Hall on Tuesday evening next, in aid of the competition fund. A meeting of the Paeroa District School Committee is tp be held on Saturday night. A five-roomed residence with all conveniences is advertised for sale. Accounts totalling £8941 were presented and passed for payment at the Thames Valley Power Board meeting at Te Aroha yesterday. For the beekeepers on the Hauraki Plains the past season has been a bad one. While the wet summer was a great help to the dairy farmers, it was quite tlie opposite for the beekeepers who in consequence received a poor yield of honey. Having received instructions from Messrs. Wagstaff and Morrow, on behalf of the mortgagees, the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company will hold a clearance sale at the farm at Omaha on. Friday, June 9, at 11.30 a.m. Full particulars are advertised.

The annual meeting of the Netherton Ha!l debenture-holders will be held in the Netherton Hall on Friday, June 9 at 8 pm. The annual meeting of the Ohinemiiri Public Library will be held in the library on Tuesday. June 13, at 7.30 p.m. There is advertised for sale in this issue B S.A. Army bicycles at £l2 10s each-. Tenders are invited, up till noon on Thursday June 15, ter the purchase of horses, plant, and machinery at. present in use at the Government ■stop-bank contract at Tll’obia. Particulars are advertised. it was stated by the manager of the Power Board that sorpe polls and copper wire had . been lost in the wreck of the Wiltshire, and this would somewhat retard the work of the Board. Arrangements had been made for repeat orders.