LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4435, 3 July 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Paeroa Business Men’s Association is to be held to night in the Criterion Hal] at 8 o’clock. The usual monthly meeting of; the Oihinemuri County Council will he held on Thursday next. A special meeting of the council is to be held after the ordinary meeting for the purpose of making a special order authorising the raising of a loan of £4200 for the liquidation of the Council’s antecedent liability. “New Zealand has got into a habit of extreme extravagance,’’ said a speaker at a Farmers’ Cooperative meeting at Hawera (states the “Taranaki Newsf), He added that Taranaki was the worpt offender. He said they could not get a man to buy a dairy cow unless he was taken to see it in a costly motor-car.

Mr. Forbes Eadie, provincial brganisei‘ of the Auckland Farmers’ Union, who is described by the Southern press as the most forcible speaker on farmers’ union matters ip the Southern Hemisphere, is to be in Paeroa or Saturday night, when he will meet local farmers and others interested to discuss Upion matters. The future policy and platform pf the N.Z. Farmers’ Union will be expounded, and as never before in the history of New Zealand has the farmer been up against it as he is to-day, there is reason to believe that Mr. Eadie’s address will give them some considerable food for thought.

Cadbury’s and Fry’s, Ltd., through their representative in New Zealand, Mr, F. Meadowcroft, have offered the City Council of each of the four centres of New Zealand half-h-ton of cocoa for distribution among thie poor and needy in such a manner as the authorities think fit. Each of the four authorities mentioned have accepted the timely gift, thanking the donors for their generosity at tihis, the most trying, time of the year.

In commenting on the solar eclipse which will: be observed in parts of Australia on September 21 next Professor Cook-e told the Graf ion correspondent of tihe Sydney Sun that a few minutes after throe o’clock the moon would be just alongside the sun. almost touching it.. Before nine minutes past three-o’clock the moon’s edge would go across the sun. For the next hour tjhe people would simply see the black moon over the sun. “Your next thrill, ’ he said, “will be when the eclipse is complete. During the eclipse everything will be still. The fowls will' go to roost. A weir-1 wind will blow towards you. Then that shadow will come rushing at you at a speed unimaginably, and just at a moment's notice you look up to see one o-* the most wonderful events ir< the total eclipse. In that wonderful magnificent event tihe corona forms a completely dazzling halo of glory flashing round the sun.”

The sudden death of Monsieur Bonin, one of the ablest magistrates of. the Paris Courts, recalls a curious prophecy made by Landrn, who was executed a few weeks ago after being found guilty of murdering ten women. During the trial Landru protested against wihat he alleged was M. Bonin’s continuous hostility, explaiming, in a dramatic voice, “iif he condemns me. in three months I will be avenged, for within three months he will also be dead.” Bonin has died within the period.

The rainfall on the Hauraki Plains for the month of June, as gauged at the Lands Department office at Kerepeehi, is 3.03 inches. Rain fell on eleven days during the month, there being 19 fine days. The heaviest fall was at the beginning ofj the month, and on one day 1.54' inches were recorded.