LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4451, 9 August 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The second Community Sing-song takes place in the Central Theatre tomorrow night.

A meeting of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club will be held in the Soldiers' Chib, Paeroa, bn Friday next, August 11, at 11 a.m.

Sixty acres in Taranaki ar.e offered in exchange for a dairy farm on the Hauraki Plains. Particulars are advertised.

Written tenders are invited by the Commissioner of Crown Lands fot the present, crop of flax growing on Section 42, block XII, Piako Survey District .Hauraki Pl.ains.

The population of New Zealand is 1,217,000. according to the latest estimate. For every person in New Zealand there are five in Australia, six in South Africa (four and a half, cf whom are coloured people), and seven in Canada, thirty-six in the United Kingdom, and ninety in America.

A proposal to run a motor service between the Hauraki Plains and Pokeuo has been discussed for some time, and now it appears that the scheme will shortly be put into practice. Mr W. Heaven, of Maramarua, has recently been active, while Mt’ Hansen, of Turua, ran a trial trip from Turua to Auckland yesterday. It is believed that it is Mr Hansen’s intention to run a daily morning service from Turua to Ppkeno, returning in .the evening.

A very enjoyable social under the auspices ■ of 1 the Catholic Committee was held in the Soldiers’ Club last evening. The floor was splendid, and was patronised by about thirty couples. Excellent music was supplied by Mesdames W. Bain and W. Pennell, and Misses C. Taylor and Houlihan, and was much appreciated. The duties of M.C. were ably carried out by Mr Les. Shaw. A very dainty supper was provided by the committee.

On Friday last the “Taranaki Herald” completed its seveptieth year of existence. There are only two older newspapers in existence in the Dominion—the "Lyttelton Times” and the "Otago Witness,” which are both about eighteen months older than the "Herald.” Seven other papers were in existence seventy years ago, but have either succumbed or been amalgamated with later ventures. At the time the "Herald” was launched in New Plymouth the population of the whole Taranaki provincial district was less than two thousand.

A Levin resident lost a valuable Jersey cow recently in an unusual way. The animal was drinking frpm the water race, and its horns, becoming entangled in the .wires of a fence en the edge of the race, it was unable to raise its. head foom the water, and was eventually drowned.

"I hear that you are all very poor in New Zealand; I hear that in every part of the world.” said Major E. A. Belcher, of the British Elmpire Exhibition mission, at the New Zealand Club luncheon at Wellington last week. “Yet the average wealth in New Zealand is £5OO, the highest in the world. Seventy-five per cent, of the people have savings bank accounts —quite different from the.usual overdraft accounts which you and I have —quite the average amount in those accounts is £B2 Is sd. So it appears that in spite of the alleged poverty there is an undercurrent of great financial strength in this country.” (Laughter.)

convincing evidence that the payment of a fee to a veterinary club is insurance aganist losses in the herds was given by Mr G. T, Davidson at the Farmers’ Veterinary Club’s meeting at Ngatea yesterday. Mr Davidson said that a farmer in a neighbouring district had 45 sick cows in a herd of 60 before he was convinced of the club’s utility. The speaker himself had already saved the value of his first year’s subscription with the attendance of the club’s veterinarian

An Ohakune firm of drapers is evidently adopting the Sydney Labour Council’s principle (hat shop assistants must, advise customers as to the defects in the goods they are selling. It advertises : “During our great winter sale you can buy boys,’ gloves for 9d per pair. These will only last a flew days.”

A horse which had not yet been broken in recently had rather an extended stay in a pound on .the Hauraki Plains. When it was sold the purchaser experienced considerable difficulty in taking possession, and it took four men, a good halMiour’s chasing, and a flew acrobatic feats befor;-. he was roped. The episode represented the nearest approach to a circus t.he Plains has seen for spme time.

In response to the advertised Community Sing-song a large number of the people of Ngate.a, and also some from Kerepeehi, filled .the Ngatea Public Hall last evening. Mr C; W. Shultz presided and took charge of the singing, which', if not up to the standard of Auckland’s efforts, wis very creditable indeed. Many old favourites were sung, as veil as the new cheer germ song. A mock Parlimentary election followed the singing, and a collection realised £1 13 s B%d, in additon to the sale of song sheets.

"Why not start off with "Shall we gather at the river ?” said Mr H. Irvine at a meeting in Gisborne of business men to initiate a "Better Times” campaign, when a suggestion was made that the harbour loan meeting in the Opera House would ge a gooil place to have a community (reports the "Poverty Bay Herald”). The suggestoin was greeted wi»h roars of laughter, and some inte"jected: "And have ‘Pull for the Shore’ as an encore.” The meeting had been considering storting community singing as a means of brightening people up.

For Children’s Hacking Cpugh, Woods’ Great Pepeprmint Cure.