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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4450, 7 August 1922, Page 2

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

The decorations at the Golf Club Ball on Friday last easily surpassed any previous attempts at decorations in the Central Theatre.,

“I'm aiming tor an export trade of 2,000,000 pigs a year, and I’ll ge.t it before I’m finished,” said Mr K. W. Gorringe, instructor of swine husbandly, at Ngatea on Friday.

The usual monthly meeting of the PAeroa Borough Council will be held on Wednesday next, instead ofl Thursday, the alteration being made to afford the councillors an opportunity of taking part in the community sing, which has been arranged for Thursday next.

The sum of £4700 compensation lor the land taken at the Waihi Bea.cn by the, Waihi Borough Council was awarded to Mrs Shaw at. tlie Supreme Court at Auckland last week. Tlie claim was for £12.500’, but this value was rot upheld by the Court.

“America produces more pork than all the rest of the world together. In one block the size of New Zealand it. was once all dairying; now it was all in pigs,” were the remarks of Mr Govringe, instructor in swine husbandry, at Ngatea on Friday.

At the last meeting of the Turua. Town Board, the chairman remarked that the steps they had taken to clear the roads of stray stock had been effectual. Even Mr Blank’s cow and So-and-so’s goat were now not to be seen on the roads.

Community singing is finding its way into even the smaller places. The Ngatea folk will do their best to radiate the cheer germ in their ha’l to-morrow evening, at 7.30. The singsong will be followed by a parliamentary debate, and each political party will be represented. The debate should be interesting, and it is the fi'-st of its kind yet held in Ngatea.

Something like disaster has overtaken the good work ofl the Bucyrus dredge, which is widening the Piako River from the Kaihere Landing northwards. The excavations are 12ft deep along tlie roadside. The bank is now beginning to fall away and .-t one place, opposite Mr Stitchbury’s house the entire width of the road Ims slipped into the river. Vehicular traffic is impeded, but tnc workmen have made it possible for traffic to get through.

Another striking example of the urgent need a larger hail or theatre in Paeroa was amply illustrated at the Golf Club Ball on Friday last, when the buiding was more thar filled for comfortable dancing. As vhe outcome of the continued need for a. theatre in Paeroa a number of prominent men are now discussing the formation of a company to erect a suitable theatre for the town.