THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4442, 19 July 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A wheelbarrow will stand on its two legs and never move a foot unless you lift it up and push it along. So would business. You ? ve got to pick it up and push it along by advertising.

Can a. sheep live without a tongue? is a problem that, confronts a farmer in the Wairarapa district, as the result of the depredations ofl a hawk (states the “Age”). On going up to a ewe that had been cast in a small hollow a shepherd found tnat one of its eyes had been taken out. He opened .'ts mouth to give it a drink, and was astonished to discover that about two inches had been torn off the from part of the tongue. As there are fef dead sheep about and little food of a meaty nature the hawks have become very daring.

Mr. E. Shaw, Ohinemuri County Engineer, paid another of his frequent visits ofl late to this end of the area of country controlled by the county (says the Waihi Daily Telegraph), chiefly as the outcome of complaints from settlers on the outskirts of the Waihi Bproitgh boundaries. Quite a number of complaints have, during t,he past month, reached the Ohinmeuri County Council concerning the bad state of the roads giv-, ing access to the various holdings cn the Waihi Plains in all directions. A very gratifying feature, says Mr. Shaw, is the desire of many ofl the settlers to help themselves and assist the county in the formation and. maintenance of the various roadways. He instanced the case of Mr. Otto, .Bjening (a •settler whose property is a part of the Mataura block), who, in settle ment of rates amounting to £4B, due Ly him to the County Council, lias c’.’tered upon an agreement with the Council to do £96 worth of work on the Waihi-Whangamata Road. Recently 1000. acres, owned by Mr. J. Paterson, between Waihi and the Waihi Coast, were disposed of, the purchasers being four Danes, who are described by Mr. Shaw as first-class settlers. These men applied to the County fpr asssitance for road formation to give access to their respective properties, and on their part undertook to provide the labour, with, assistance in material. The County Council, pa tiie recommendation of the engineer, is supplying the necessary culverts free on rail, and other material, the men doing their own carting from the Waihi railway station. The County is giving similar assistance to others. A CHALLENGE TO. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Tiie liquor traffic in its officihl organ "Continuance,” dated July Iss.L, says : “ Tiie Licensed Trade yields £2,500,000 annually to the Treasury',” We say, prove it. Also, whose pockets do they take it. out of first. —Advt. Can Be Checked. Many persons find themselves 'affected with a persistent cough titter an attack of influenza. As this cough can Im promptly checked by the use of Chamberlain s Cough Remedy, it should not be allowed to run on until It becomes troublesome. Sold by) all chemists .and storekeepers.

During a discussion at the Dairy Farmers’ Union at Hamilton Mr. A. Fear (organising secretary) expressed the opinion that 75 per cent, ofl the farmers in New Zealand were behind in their interests to-day; ofl these 25 per cent, could not be saved, but 50 per cent, might be.

A business man of Parkes, N.S.W., desired to send a parcel to Sydney by the goods train. He was quite willing to pay the charge for a 141 b parcel (the departmental minimum), though the parcel was only 101 b, but (says the Sydney Sun) the railway authorities refused to accept it because it was “underweight.” The sender took the parcel back to his shop, unwrapped it, added a brick to the contents, and sent it along to the goods shed again, where it was accepted for despatch without demur. The brick had done the frick by making up the deficiency in weight.

Sitting in an easy chair on one side of the room and resting your feet on the opposite wall was given as one of the comforts of life in a flat by a witness in a tenement case at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court. Witness said that he paid three guineas a week for a fairly large room, wjiica had been cut in two. There were also extras, such as 6d per hour for the use of the laundry, and 6d for the use of the bathroom key. Mr. F. K. Hun:, S.M.: “How much did you pay to walk in rhe garden ?” (Laughter). Witness said that walking in the garden was one of the free items.

At gatherings of pioneers it is customary to relate heroic deeds and feats of endurance in “them was the days,” but now and again the modern girl can still put up a performance that is not easily outclassed (states the Whakatane Press). To get io the RS.A. ball at Whakatane Miss Grant, of Galatea, rode 40 miles; she had to swim her horse over the rushing Rangitaiki at Waiopu ford and come round the old frack that the armed constabulary cut round the foothills of Mt. Edgecombe in the sixties ; for 30 miles of the journey she did not see a human being. She arrived in time to attend the ball: an-1 enjoy a thoroughly good evening ; and with a party was present at the children's ball on the following evening.

A schoolboy who attacked his teacher and punched her, slapped her face, pulled her hair down, kicked tiie skin off her legs, and made her faint, was summoned at Canterbury (stales an exchange). The boy, aged nine, was cne of 50 children in a mixed school at Hqatli left in charge of Miss Harris’ when the headmistress was away. Miss Harris had no power to use the canc, but tried io eject the boy for misbehaviour. Then he attacked her. The Bench bound over the father as surety for his son’s good behaviour, and advised him to administer corporal. punishment, which the Bench had no power th orUer.

“If people must jazz in the College Hall let them not desecrate the fine old building with hideous “decoration's” (writes a student to the editor ofl the “Canterbury University College Review”). At one dance the hall looked like a butcher’s shop with scraggy scraps qE green and pink paperchops suspended by a string from the ceiling. At another we are outraged, and the architect of the hall affronted, by absurd excursions into post-ifutu.ristic art, suggestive of •a bloody Sinn Fein massacre. When stringing their pieces of cheap paper round the walls have our incipient Michael Angelos ever observed that the. hall is a stately structure—not a Sunday school or an extremely doubtful laundry?

A rabbit trapper in the Mossburn district recently sold his catch of a month’s trapping to an Invercargill buyer, the price paid being just over £2OO. About the same period a buyer took 12.000 skins out of the Lakes district, where the best skins are obtained, at £6 10s per hundred, or a total cash transaction of something like £BOO.

The Feilding Star, says: We met a man in Feilding to-day who met i man from Wellington who knows a man who saw a letter received by another man from Sir Joseph Ward, in which the latter stated that he had made up his mind to stand for a Weilinaton seat at the elections in December next. Is it a case of Luke out for his opponent, will Wright) be wrong, will it be a new man, or will it be another denial?

An Auckland correspondent writes : “Community singing is getting a stronger and stronger hold in Auckland, and if you want, to get a seat at the Town Hall on a sing-song day yon must put in an appearance there a good half an hour before the singing starts. The craze has even extended to tiie theatre, for at His Majesty’s a few rights ago the audience whiled away the internal before the rise of the curtain with a singlsong. I have even heard of- an Auckland church, at whicn community singing is a feature of the Sunday evening services, Uf course the “selections” on these occasions are sacred and not secular, “nice little hymns,” to quite Archbishop Julius. A sign of the times, nevertheless. Special inducements •have to be offered to people nowadays to tempt them to go to church.” A! CHALLENGE TO THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. The liquor traffic in its official organ “ Continuance,” dated July Ist, says: “ The Licensed Trade yields £2,500,000 annually to the Treasury.” We say, prove it. Also, whose pockets do they take it. out of first. —Advt. O, make a cake! Bake a cake 1 Baker’s man I Deck it with tapers as quick as you can I Dozens of kiddies are coining to tea, Dear little Cuddles has just turned three. Poor little girlie ! we thought she'd die, Dread croup is so prevalent in July ; Watching her gasping was hard to endure Till she had Woods’. Great Peppermint Cure.