THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4473, 29 September 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A notice with reference to the.selection of a minister! for the Presbyterian Church is made ip. our advertisement columns.

At yesterday’s special meeting of the Hauraki-Plains County Council Cr. McLoughlin suggested that the county building now on the pound site at Ngatea should be fitted up so that the council could hold its meetings in it.

To-day is Michaelmas Day, the festival observed throughout the Western Church in honour of St. Michael and the Holy Angels. Sunday being within ,the Octave, there will be festival services at St. Paul’s Church, The Blessed Sacrament will" be celebrated at 8 a.m.., mattins at 11, ami festal evensong at 7 p.m.

;!It seems to be a far mote serious crime to pay an adult Is short wages than to keep a growing child feeding pigs instead of going to school,” said Mr Barton, SIM., at Wanganui, when he fined a defaulting parent the maximum of-ips, and wished ihle could have inflicted more. The child was nearly 12 years of age, and was only in the fourth standard. His record for attendance was very bad.

Several complaints have recently been made by shopkeepers in Paeroa as to petty thefts of money from cash drawers during the past few days. Constable McClinchy has been busy in the matter, and this morning succeeded in arresting a Maori girl of tender years who admitted the several offences. Thp delinquent will be brought up to answer the various charges on Monday week before the Juvenile Court.

“We desire to thank the chairman and councilors of the Hauraki Plains County Council for the prompt manner in which they have responded to our request for a bridge at the West Road ” was the text of a portion pf a petition of Patetonga settlers at yesterday’s special meeting of the Haiiraki Plains County Council. “In our opinion,” it continued, “construction of this necessary bridge proves that the Council is out to deal fairly with all the ratepayers within the area it controls and we take this opportunity of endorsing the Council’s bridgs policy, which makes all bridges a charge on the whole of t'he artepayers of the County.”

Owing to pressure on our space the report of the lecture by Dr. Mary Armor and other Jpcaijnews will 1 appear in Monday's issue.

Mr T. W. Rhodes, M.P., has notified us that the Land Laws Amendment Bill, now before Parliament, contains a provision extending the right of the freehold to holders of renewable lease of National Endowment areas within Hauraki Mining District.

Great interest is apparently taken by the Hauraki Plains County Councillors in the reported i emarks of ratepayers at their meetings. At lasu Satuday's Netherton meeting one speaker referred to the Plains Council as being “knock-kneed.” 'At yesterday’s special: meeting of! the County Council the councillors were seen examining each other’s knees and were heard asking of each other, “arp you kncck-kneed ?”

There is evidently a shortage of houses at Waitakaruru. At a special meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council yesterday Cr. Harris said the Waitakaruru surfaceman had had to send '.his. wife and child, to Thames while he (the surfaceman) lived in a wharc. Mr Harris said he would like to see a house provided as soon as possible. Commandant T. B. Holmes, an officer of many years’ standing, who is visiting Paeroa, will conduct very special and interesting meetings on Sunday in the Army Hall. The Commandant. is a very good speaker, and never fails to interest his audience. He has commanded the largest corps in the Salvation Army in New Zealand. and has done many years” service in the Old Land. Addresses on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. will be helpful to all. ( A meeting of the management committee of the Paeroa Cricket,. Club was held last evening, when itfcwas decided to have the official opening for the 1922-23 season bn Saturday week, October 7. A working bee to put the pitch in order and prepare for the coming season is called for tomorrow (Saturday), at 2 p.m., when all members and enthusiasts are asked to turn up and give a hand. A practice net, together with ether gear, has been ordered and is due to arrive very shortly. A story of how quickly a ratepayer will change his opinion was related at yesterday’s special meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council. A TaHuna ratepayer recently signed a petition, and after he had slept on it .a night he came back and struck his name out- - "He’s a very human natuied man,” remarked a councillor. - ‘‘Yes, very human,’’ agreed the storyteller.