LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4431, 23 June 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In connection with the football match, Hamilton versus Thames, at Thames to-morrow a special train will leave Thames at 8 p.m.

The clerk to the Ohinemuri County Council gives notice that all outstanding rates must be paid, pr arrangements for payment made, within fourteen days from June 23, otherwise steps will be taken to recover the amount.

Sunday next being within the octave of the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist Festal evensong will be sung at St. Paul’s Church at 7 p.m. There will be a sung Eucharist at 11 a.m. a,t which those who were confirmed this week will make their first communion.

That the proposal by the Thames Harbour Board to get control of the wharves on the Waihou is not favourably received in Paeroa was evident by the expression of opinions obtaining at the Chamber of Commeice meeting on Tuesday last

Commencing to-day, C. Keller’s winter sale of drapery is now In progress, Great reductions have taken place in all departments, and a glance at the advertisement on our first page will give readers some idea of the bargains that are being offered.

The riyal claims of Ngatea and Kerepeehi for acknowledgement as the centre of the Plains is a cause for much friendly argument, not only among the Plains men themselves, but a, s° among commercial travellers. One group off “the men of the road” were discussing this topic when one ended the discussion just as the dinner gong went by declaring “The place which gets the first ’pub’ will be the centre.”

Tn connection with the closing of the morning mails for registered letters the postmaster, Mr. J. G. McDougall, informs us that the hour of; closing these mails has been extended to 9.30. This- alteration had been made prior to the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday last, but the fact had been overlooked by the president, Mr. El W. Porritt, when submitting his report. This alteration should now meet the requirements of persons desirpus of registering letters to catch the outgoing morning mails.

Special church anniversary services will be held on Sunday in the Methodist Church at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and at 3 p.m. the new Sunday School will be opened. The Rev. A. MitcheA of Thames, chairman of the district, will be the preacher for the day, and the choir will render special anthems and Mr. Mitchell will sing.

The following is an interesting extract from the Hauraki Drainage Board’s outward correspondence“We have a different rate,’-’ wrote th-; clerk in one instance, “on A. lands, B, lands, and C. lands in five different sub-divisions, which- is equivalent to 15 different rates bn t'he general account alone, and three on the loan account.”

The Tauranga Chamber ofl Commerce suggested that toll-gates be installed pn the Kaimai road, the revenue from which would be devoted to tho upkeep of the road. It, was stated that to put it in good order the sum of £20,000 would be required. It was also computed that one taxi firm alone carried nearly 3000 passengers over the road in a season. A committee was- set up to collect information and submit a report to the next meeting pf the chamber. The Tauranga County Council will then be approached.

A company with £30,000 capital is being floated in Palmerston to exploit a secret process claimed to have been discovered by a poultry farmer there by which it is possible to determine the sex of eggs. The vendors claim to have secured 90 per cent of pullets, and the company is to take oven their poultry farm and work the patent. An inducement held out to investors is that “by being able to offer such a big percentage of pullets the company would have at its door the whole of the one-day-old chick trade.”

Nurse Hope Commins, the Paeroa district representative, of Viavi for the past 18 months, who was under transfer to America on promotion, and. was due to leave in a week or two, has now received advice that she is to take up duties at the Auckland head office (for a fjew months, later proceeding to America. Miss Commins' many friends her t e will be interested tp know that though she leaves the district at the end of this month she will be visiting Paeroa again from time to time before going overseas. We understand that Nurse Commins’ transfer to Auckland temporarily is to assist the new chief manageress for the Dominion, who has lately arrived from U.S.A 1 ., in succession to Miss Lens, who has returned to America, where Nurse Commons follows later on.

With reference to the recent cablegram that the late Sir Thomas Birken. the Nottingham lace manufacturer, left estate valued at £2.000,000, one of his sons was formerly a hotelkeeper at Greymouth and Kumara Juncton. He has recently, it is reported, been advised that he benefits considerably, and £2OOO has been cabled from Home to meet the ex'penses of his journey to England to prove his claim on his father's estate. It. is understood that the legatee is now resident in Wellington.

The Farmers’ Auctioneering Company’s Hikutaia stock sale takes place next Wednesday, June 28.

“I am not enamoured of. hot-lwater beating for schools,” said Mr. J. FMannings, architect, at a meeting of the Masterton High School Board of Governors. “It is up-to-date, but unsatisfactory.” The school was a fresh air building, he explained, and eithe” hot water or hot air would not warm the rooms properly unless all the windows and do’ors were closed *, that would be defeating the object of the fresh air system.—"Wairarapa Age.”

Not 100 miles from Dunedin (relates the Dunedin “Star”) a coal merchant got delivered to him in one day three trucks of coaj. They were ordered to arrive on different days, but somebody blundered; The dealer, whose plant was limited, found at the end of the time allowed for discharging trucks that he had failed to empty the last truck, which had two tons left in it. He approached the stationmaster for some latitude. But rule something or other was quoted: “If not emptied, then demurrage charge of 14s would be enforced.” Pondering this over and making inquiries re' freight, the astute one found he could consign it to the next station, some three miles pn, for 5s 9d This he promptly did. Next day the truck started on its travels. For five days it ran up and down the line. The owner of the coal used to amuse himself by waving his hand at it daily as it passed. On the fifth day it was brought to a stand at the station, and the coal merchant got his coal, and saved 8s 3d. The Railway Department’s- profit is not disclosed.

New Zealand postmasters are f|reely exercising their rights to open parcels and unfold newspapers in search of enclosed letters (says the Dunedin Star). The higher postal rates now in force constitute a temptation to evade the regulations by this form of smuggling. This is known, and the remedy is known. Now and again the officials have opened and examined parcels and newspapers whenever suspicion was aroused.. Of late these examinations have been more frequent, and not without cause, if it be true, as rumoured, that in a certain Otago town 240 inserted letters were brought to light in one haul.

“There is a certain class of. individual whom we meet at Home as well as abroad,” said Mr. D. F. Wilbur, United States Consul-General, speaking at the New Zealand Club, at Wellington. He refened to the “bumptious American.” Governor Fraser, one of the finest men the •speaker ever knew, on one occasion at a dinner in Nova Scotia, at Halifax, referred to the bumptious American in proposing the toast “Nova Scotia." He said that the Government, extended the right hand of welcome to all who came within the boundaries of the province, providing they came for legitimate purposes, but there were two kinds of men they did not want; these were the bumptious American and the English snpb!

Youth calls to youth along life’s golden years, Within a maze of fevered hopes and fears. Love loves but one, tho’ many may adore— Love shrines the faded Hower that beauty wore. Youth should be health and all the world to win. With vigour, hope and courage to endure. Love springs to love when health impels within— Remember Woods' Great Peppermint Cube.