THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4461, 1 September 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• The Ven. Archdeacon E. W. Cowie, of St. Peter’s, Hamilton, was in Paeroa on Thursday.

The flag was flown half-mast at the, local post office on Wednesday as a mark of respect on the death o.f C. A- C. Hardy, M.L.C., of Rakaia.

The total rainfall as recorded by the Public Works Department in Paeroa for the month of August was 3.67 inches, as against 1.10 inches for the same month last year.

The attention of; our readers is drawn to the advertisement of Messrs Farrar and Parkes appearing in this issue. This firm is making a speciality of bread, which is being scientifically made by expert's to aid the health Of the present generation. They respectfully solicit, you to give them a trial

Jumping excitedly on to a cfliair, a supplier of; the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company at the annual meeting of suppliers at the Town Hall at Hamilton, caused a halt in the discussion that had been proceeding from one o’clock until nearly six, by calling put for silence, and waving wildly above his (head a cutting of an article which appeared in the previous Saturday’s Waikato Times, entitled “The Cockie,” in which our reporter gave his impressions of a typical dairy suppliers’ meeting, that might (have happened anywhere in the Auckland province. When, after a time, he managed to secure a hearing he told the meeting he had come there specially t'.iat day to comment on the Times’ article, which he considered a big “take-off” at the dairy farmer, and he had intended asking the meeting to pass a vote of condemnation on the Waikato Times for publishing such a satire on the poor hard-working cockie. “But, gentlemen,” lie declared with great •emphasis, and again brandishing aloft the offending article, “after sitting here and listening to the tawdry discussion and the silly questions asked this afternoon I ain satisfied that every word in it is true ” The rest of his remarks was drowned in the burst of applause and laughter that, followed.—Waikato Times.

Mr Liebmann, of Liebmann Bros, New York, large fur dealers., is at present in New Zealand. His company has up to the present purchased over 1% million rabbit skins, of about £70,000 in value. He reckons that New York requires annually between 70,000 000 and 100,000,000 skins, most of which, of course, would have to be got from Australia. New Zealand could supply from 12,000,000 to 15 - 000,000 skins. The output last yea>’ was about 4500 bales, fully 80 per cent, of which were procured in Southland and Otago.

“Listen to everybody, agree with everybody, and say nothing, and you’ll get on in business.” Mr Bryan, at the Turua smoke concert on Wednesday evening, said he had been told the above by an old Irishman, but Mr Bryan did not think it good advice, as we must disagree with somebody.

Wednesday’s fire brings home once again the need of up-to-date fire-fight-ing appliances in Paeroa. The hand reel and hose was pulled out of; the fire station on to the road, and some minutes were unavoidably lost befoie the reel could be coupled on to a motor vehicle and towed to the scene of the fire.

When the family of the late Chief Ngawaki heard of the fire in Wood Street on Wednesday last one remarked : “Py gorry, I know that happen ; the pie man (late Ngawaki) put the ’makutu’ (evil sign) on him.”

Recently a request was made by the Thames Chamber of Commerce to the Postal Department to run a subsidiary mail service between Thames and the Piakp River centres. It is now reported that the Postal Department has refused tihe request.

An average of 3351 b of butter fat per cow for the past season was attained by Mr Beck, of Turua. MBeck had offered a prize for the bass average per cow fon herds of 25 cows or under supplying cream to the Hauraki Plains factory. He won his own prize with the abovementioned figures, Mr J. Schmidt coming second with a 3251 b average.

Our readers’ attention is drawn to Mr A. E. Fielder’s advertisement appearing in this issue. Mr Fielder has been successful in arranging with Messrs Wiseman and Sons, Ltd., the well-known leather specialists and sports warehouse of Auckland, and is in a position to obtain anything required at the shortest notice. We recommed a visit to the shop in Hughendon Street to inspect the many lines in stock, all of which are absolutely new and up-to-date.

In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet at the Hauraki Plains Dairy Company’s annual meeting yesterday the chairman said it was necessary to adopt the report and balance-sheet before they got their bonus cheques. This had an electrifying effect on the business pf> the meeting till the bonus was paid out. It was then noticed that the number present began to gradually grow smaller.

The printing of the General Roll for Ohinemuri Electoral District is now in the press, and it is expected to bfe ready by Monday next. It will contain 98 pages and 4802 names. The general roll printed in June.. 1919, contained 6386, and the supplementary 1743, making a total of 8129- Of this number 755 were struck off, leaving the number of voters on the roll at 7374. If the number of electors in this electorate is going io be as large as on the last election 2572 persons will yet have to be enrolled, besides a number to provide for those names that have yet to be struck off.

It was unique in the history of the company, said the chairman (Mr, A. H, Rogers) at the Hauraki Plains Dairy Company’s annual meeting yesterday, that it was able to make tihe final payments at the annual meeting. That fact reflected upon the good business methods of their agents.

That the Kopu factory could be recommissioned within a month was a statement made by the directors of the N;Z. Co-operative Dairy Company at a meeting of suppliers to the Haurau Road factory yesterday. The directors promised that if it was found that the Ngatua factory could not handle all the cream they would reopen the Kopu factory for buttermaking.

It is not generally known that the New Zealand Mounted Rifles have the honour of being the only white people who can claim to have lived in the J'ordan Valley throughout the summer. This, however, is the case, and at the re-union social of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles at New Plymouth this week, the chairman (Major J. B, Davis) referred humorously to an incident during their sojourn there. While enduring the heat, dust, snakes, malaria, and other discomforts characteristic of the valley, he said that a copy of the London Times reached them, and opening it. they read of a question being asked in the House of Commons as to whether there were any white troops in the valley. The answer was : “No; only Indians and colonials!”

A speaker, shortly after the commencement of a smoke concert at Turua on Wednesday evening, began to apologise for not having a speech prepared. He had been taken by surprise when the chairman asked him to make a speech. “It’s taken the wind out of me,” he said. “Have some beer; that’ll jnake you talk,” interjected a bright one. Another man vowed he could not speak at a moment’s notice, “and, besides,” he said, “I’ve been drinking lemonade up till now.” Yet another had some excuse to offer for his inability to say much. He had been told over the phone that he was to propose the toast of th.e local bodies. Every spaie moment since he had been thinking of wihat to say, and by that evening had quite a nice speech prepared. He was lamenting, however, because his was not the local body toast, but an entirely different one.

A Palmerston North gentleman recently went through, a preparation for a serious operation, the result of which was believed to be 'try doubtful. After some weeks (relates the “Manawatu Daily Times") the fateful hour arrived, and when he was placed on the ward ambulance he asked for the tin whistle with which he had whiled away the weary anxious hours of waiting. All down the long corridors of the hospital en route to the operating theatre were heard the familiar strains of “The Girl I Left Behind Me.” The whistle is for a time laid aside, pending a return of the power to hold it; but the patients and nurses will long remember this episode, which was a new bright spot in all their experience.