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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4459, 28 August 1922, Page 2

It was mentioned at the annual meeting of the local bowling club that there was a likelihood of having the Goldfields Stars and Clothier’s Shield tournaments held in Paeroa this coming season.

The Thames County Council has for a long time past been trying to get the sanction of the Minister of Public Works to .allow of a toll-gate being erected bn the Coast Road between Thames and Waikawau, and they so impressed the Minister that at last he gave his consent, provided the Coromandel County would consent. To this, however,, the' Coromandel County has given an emphatic refusal. The object of the Thames council was to collect toll fefts for the upkeep of this road.

The matter o,f whether theije should be a sole selector or a selection committee of three brought forth* ,a good deal of discussion and some- pretty straight talk at the annual meeting of Che Paeroa Bowling Club 'on Saturday night. It was, after some considerable debate, decided, to aidhere to the present system and ha ye three selectors.

Speaking at a meeting of tomato growers in England, where it •was decided to spend £12,000 in advertising to popularise tomatoes, Major Monro, of Covent Gardens, London, stated that the National Federation »f British growers formed a distribution association. Some people were nit disposed to financially support the scheme, but did not mind the results. He added: "Last year when green gooseberries were low in price we sent out posters throughout England. Within a week the’ price for [gooseberries had doubled. This year oranges were down to 13s and. 14s a case, f got out a poster cn the efficiency of orange juice for combating influenza', and letter by doctors in support of? same. Three days after the poster was issued oranges, although -we were getting considerably more in, went up to 20s and 225. This shows what epn be done by advertising;”