THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4455, 18 August 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Community Sing takes place in the Central Theatre next Tuesday evening.

The annual meeting ofj the Hauraki A. and P. Association will be held in the Soldiers’ Club to-morrow evening (Saturday) at 8 o’clock. At the Police Court on Wednesday morning, before Messrs G. A. Wilson and W. Marshall, J’s.P., James Williams pleaded guilty to three charges bf having made false declarations with reference to the registration of his children. Accused had since the date of the offence been married. There were seven children and accused was, according to the evidence of both O’Grady and Constable McClinchy, a steady, spber, and hard working man. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, hail being allowed in his own recognisance ofj £59. Mr Montague appeared for the accused.

The Farmers’ Union Trading Cois holding a drapery sale, 5s in the £ being deducted from all purchases.

Tenders will be received until noon of Monday, September 11, for the conveyance of mails for a period of two years from January 1, 1923. Particulars are advertised.

Spring goods have been opened ur at C. Keller’s, and the latest spring millinery is now on view in the premises.

The travelling public who use the railway on the Waihi-Paeroa section will be pleased to learn that as a result of the Waihi delegates’ recent visit to Wellington and their interview with Mr MCVilly, general manager of the New Zealand Railways, the stuffy tour compartment carriages at present in use are to be taken off and replaced by comfortable com ■ posite carriages. The Mayor received a communication from the geperal manager this morning (says Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph) advising him that the change of cars would take place forthwith. The discomfort of the small carriage has been a source of annoyance to a sectiop of the travelling public for a considerable period, and the efforts of the Waihi Borough Council to get the Department to effect the improvement |iad, until i.ow, been unavailing.