THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4443, 21 July 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The committee appointed to arrange for community singing has not let the grass grow under its feet. A sample of f he song-sheets has been procured and the Central Theatre engaged for Thursday ,August 3. This was the earliest date that the Theatre was available.

A novel business idea was seen on tihe Piako River this week. It took the forwi of a launch, “De Vora” by name, which was labelled in large letters, “The floating warehouse and general store.”

An important- sale of laud is advertised to take place on Friday, August. 4, at 11 a.m., to be conducted by Messrs. T. Mandeno Jackson at their auction rooms, Customs Street East, Auckland.

In order to give those who have not yet had an opportunity pf visiting Mr. W. H. Mahony’s sale of stationery, fancy goods, crockery, and toys, he has decided to extend the sale period. Some extra special bargains a.re being offered in all classes cf books, pads, account books, crockery, jugs, tea-pots, and toys, and other lines too numerous to mention.

The Bucyrus dredge, since it started work again at Ngarua, has been doing excellent work widening the Piako River from the Kaihere Landing northwards. It has been working for a little over a week, and has done about a quarter of a mile of widening the river and throwing the spoil on to the roadside for future road formation.

The question of stopping the playing of football on Sunday came before the St. Kilda Borough Council. TJie playing of football was deplored by councillors, but it was considered that in order to be consistent golf, and also the trams, should be stopped on Sunday.

An Australian, who is travelling Germany, in a letter to his relations in Melbourne gives interesting figures of the cost of living in that country: "The luxury of the hotels is beyond all dreams. In normal tim'es one would need to be very wealthy to inhabit them. This place—Hotel der Furstenhof, Berlin —is costing mo about 6s a day. All foreigners -ire taxed 100 per cent., and all merchandise pays an export, duty of from 5 to 15 per cent., so that the Germans should be able to pay their debts. Meals and travelling are wonderfully cheap. The only holiday they take in Germany is Sunday. From Cologne to Hamburg, 279 miles, you are in sight of factories all the time. Australia’s -salvation is in her primary industries. We must develop our land, and not. tinker with factories that are only kept alive by an artificial tariff.”

It may be a pleasure to belong to a number of committees, but it certainly must be confusing at times; in fact, it appeared so at a recent meeting of football referees on the Hauraki P’f'ins. A prominent ■settler, who hails from a district which only recently formed a new body—a ratepayers'' association —-addressing th? football meeting, said during the course of his speech, . . and if •this ratepayers’ association' • • •” and be would have gone on oblivious of bis mistake had he not been corrected. A CHALLENGE TO THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Tlic 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 put pf first.—Advt.

■A reward to the value of £1 Is is offered to the first person to bring a marked copy of the advertisement containing an intentional error in one of the advertisements in the Football Programme for to-morrow to the editor of the "Gazette.”

At the Paeroa Police Court oil Tuesday Pikari, a native youth, on remand, was charged before Messrs. B. E. Brenan and G. Lajnb, Js.P., with breaking and entering a baker’s shop at Paeroa, and theft of small change from a till. Senior-Sergeant. O’Grady prosecuted. After hearing the- evidence Pikar iwas committed for trial at the Auckland Supreme Court He was further charged with and found guilty of obtaining goods under false pretences. Sentence was deferred, pending tihe action of the Supreme Court on the first charge.

On Wednesday last Nurse Jarrett, District Native Nurse under th? Health Department, was in Paeroa. She ihad been advised by her Department to inoculate Maori children and as many Europeans as possible with the serum of} antLtyphoid. The nurse is visiting all day schools first, and treated 39 Maori children here at the schoo’s. She will be visiting the schools again shortly, and will be glad to inoculate any European as well as Maori children.. In a conversation the nurse stated that European children really did nbt come under her Department, but she wouM be glad to extend the privilege to any child desiring to be treated. The serum of antityphoid makes the P> tient. practically immune from fever for a very considerable time.

Attention is directed to the Farmers’ Union Trading Co.’s advertisement, in which the firm gives a list of a few bf the cheap lines offered.

The Te Aroha War Memorial Committee has accepted a tender by McNab and Mason, of Auckland, for the erection of a figure memorial, at a cost of £l5OO. The pedestal is to be of granite, with a bronze figure of a Hauraki soldier (life size). The memorial is to be completed by Anzac Day next.

The Minister of Public Works told the House of Representatives on Tuesday that the wages earned by gangs on relief works ranged from 5s 2d. to 15s 8d per day. Only one gang earned the smaller amount. The men were working oh the co-operative contract system, and the payments were based on a wage of ,10s a day for single men and 12s a day for married men. The. unemployed were given a square deal, a,nd .most of; them vvere earning quite a reasonable wage. The actual wages he had quoted were averages over a period.

At the meeting of the Piako County Council on Monday at Te Aroha it was reported that 1346 yards of metal were produced for the month, worth 7s per yard, yielding £471 2s. Against this wages were set down at £250 12s. The chairman (Mr. Walters) said that the production last month was materially hampered, but despite the paucity o.f. output there was a substantial profit. The metal is of a first-class quality.

Some industries that ihave been started in New Zealand cannot hope for protection sufficiently heavy to give them a footing. One case of recent origin is brought to our notice (states the Dunedin “Star”) fo a line of goods that is made in New Zealand and so’d at £l, and has been imported f-iom England at a cost, after meeting all transit and other charges, of 12s.

An interesting test of the prowess of a "handcuff king” took place at Levin a few days ago. A man nanied Scott, who had travelled many land? giving exhibitions in which he defied all attempts to secure him, announced an exhibition at Levin, and offered co forfeit a considerable sum if he failed. The licensee of one of t,he Levin hotels (Mr. A. J. R. Isherwpod), who himself has had a wide experience in this class of work, took upt he challenge, and tihe test was made la?: week, in the presence of a very large and interested crowd. Scott was secured with four pairs of handcuffs, and securely tied with chains and ropes in almost every conceivable way, this operation occupying sixteen minutes, but Scott succeeded in extricating himself in nine minutes.

A sepcially attractive issue is the current number of tjhe "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” the wide range of illustrations giving it a universal appeal. The Wellington Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham is represented in a splendid series of snapshots, while photographs of delegates to the N.Z. Racing and the N.Z. Trotting conferences add to its interest from the sporting point of view. Waterloo coursing events in Sydney are the subject of a striking page, and the N.Z. Maori Rugby Football Team v. New South Wales is also included, and also depicted are stages of t.he game. Included in the overseas section are photographs of the Royal pilgrimage to the war graves in France and Belgium, the Balloun Grand Prix in Paris, Major Blake’s aerial venture. A full-page of up-to-date fashions and a profuse selection of. stage and screen favourites enhance the merits of. this week’s production.

The Wharepoa Road, which runs parallel to the river near the ferry, is at present in a very bad state, and ■motorists report that it is no unusual occurrence to get bogged on that portion. “There is only one thing I am sorry abntl— it is that the utility side is crowding out the fancy in New Zealand,” said Mr. C. A. House, the English poultry expert, at ,his poultry lecture in Masteiton on .Saturday night. “Utiln.y men can't do without the fancy breeders—their interests are bound up.”—“Age.” A CHALLENGE TO THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. T'he 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.