LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4477, 9 October 1922, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advance Paeroa! The meeting of the Rotpkohu ratepayers called fbr last Friday ‘ night liapsed again for want of a Quorum, This is the second Friday night the meeting has been called and then has lapsed. -Is the night selected unsuitable, or do tfhe ratepayers require another flood before they become interested in their association ?

The social committee of the Roman Catholic Church are sparing no pains to ensure the success of their dance to morrow night. An advertisement pertaining to the same appears in this issue.

Saturday’s warm rain has had a wonderful effect on the grass on the Hauraki Plains. It is now growing very well indeed. The rain commenced early Saturday morning and continued steadily until late in tlhe evening.

At the Hikutaia stock sale on Thursday last young bulls in good forward condition were being knocked down to buyers' ■at the ridiculous prices of 5s to 10s each. Surely a golden opportunity for the farmer ■with a little spare feed to buy up all the stock offering at that place. The hide alone would be worth more than the ptvehase price.

At the Court this morning, when the case of B. Brunei!, charged with wilfully killing a foal, valued at £5. was called for hearing, Mr J. F. Montague, who is,defending the case, applied for a remand owing to the allness of the accused, and tendering a doctor’s certificate in support of the application. A remand was granted until the 16th inst.

The actual travelling time for Brenan’s big Napier char-a-banc witn twelve passengers aboard to Hamilton last Friday night was two and a quarter hours, a very creditable performance, ..considering the state of the roads and the load on. The passengers speak very favourably of the comfort of the char-fa-banc, the bumps in the road being scarcely felt. A meeting of supporters of LieutColonel S. S. Allen will be held in the Soldiers’ Club on Friday evening next at 8 o'clock. Attention is directed to the advertisement of the St. Andrew’s Ladies’ Guild Sale of Work, which appears in to-day’s issue. The following hav.e been nominated for the committee of the _ Ohinenauri Jockey Club: P.. E. Brenan. W. Neil, E. Shaw, W. J. Towers, J. J. Barrett, W. D Nicholas. As there are only four vacancies to fill a ballot will be held at the annual meeting next week. The visiting bowlers to Paeroa on Saturday were unanimous in their praise of the beauty of the shrubs in the Domain and of the bowling green and surroundings generally. Undoubtedly the place is looking very fresh and picturesque at present, and reflects great credit on the caretaker, Mr W. Hamilton. ‘‘Practically the greatest trouble I have h.ad in the past.” said Mr J. Costello, veterinary surgeon, to a "Gazette” reported recently, "is getting the fanners to follow put instruction laid down and having scientific measures carried out.” The death occurred at his parents’ home on Tuseday .last of Norman Ernest Vowles, the 11-months-old child of Mr and Mrs E. A. Vowles, of Piako, and lately of Netherton. At the inquest, held before Mr W. C. Cargill, J.P., and a jury of four on Wednesday, evidence was given that the child was put to sleep in its cot at 9 o'clock. At 10 o’clock it was all right, and at 12.30 o’clock it was found with its body hanging out. of the cot and its head caught between a bar of the cot and the mattress. Dr. Craig said the child had dislocated its neck in its struggles to extricate itself, and that death had beer, instantaneous. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The jury passed a motion of sympathy to the bereaved parents.

The Hauraki Plains County Council has advised the Thames County Council that it was intended to carry out certain improvements tp the bed and bank of the Hikutaia stream, including clearing willows and straightening some of the bends. “As the same will be a benefit to your ccuhty from a drainage point of view,” the letter pointed out, “ I have been directed to ask your council whether it can see its way to contribute £4O towards the cost of the work.” Cr. Alley moved thrrt the Plains County Council be Informed that as far as the Thames Council was concerned the work would be no benefit and the Council could not contribute. The motion was seconded and carried. Two small children had an almost miraculous escape from injury in Cathedral Square, Christchurch (states the “Press"). They were being whee'ed across the street in a perambulator, when a two-seater motorcar struck it and carried it about thirty yards, without throwing the children out. The woman driving the car had endeavoured to pass a boy on a bicycle and her attention was so taken up that she did not notice the perambulator, which luckily was qaught and held by the front axle. The car was proceeding at a slow rate, and although the brakes were immediately applied the vehicle had enough way bn to take it. a considerable distance. Two men saw the accident and endeavoured to stop the car, and it was perhaps due to their efforts that the children escaped injury. The perambulator was consid erably damaged. Ample evidence of the popularity of dancing even ih this humid weather- is the large number which attended the Ngatea Factory Employees' ball on Wednesday and the masquerade hall at Kerepeehi on Friday. At Kerepeehi there was a particularly large crowd, numbers coming long distances. For Influenza, take Woods' Great Peppermint Core.