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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4481, 18 October 1922, Page 2

There will be no publication of the "Gazette” pn Mbnday next, October 23 (Labour Day). Advertisers will therefore please make their arrangements accordingly.,

In our report of the Presbyterian sale Of work Mrs Tetley’s name was inadvertently omitted from the list cf ladies in charge pf the tea-room.

Mails wihich left Wellington on the 12th September via San Francisco by R.M.S. Mangahui arrived in London on 16th October,

In connection with the dispute over adjustments between the Turua Tpwn Board and the Hauraki Plains County Council Mr Meek, the Goverhemnt auditor, was’ recently in Thames. With Mr Meek as an arbitrator i. is hoped that arrangements suitable tp both parties will shortly be made.

Nature has endowed New Zealand with extraordinary wealth in coal, but it is being wasted wantonly, said Mr G. S. Booth in a, lecture in Christchurch (states an exchange). An American authority has stated recently that of every 2001 b. of coal in the seam only about 761 b. is finally converted into mechanical energy. The other 19241 b is lost in mining, xft transportation and handling, in gases going up the chimney stack, and so on—96 per cent, lost 4 per cent. used. Coal may well be called "black diamonds.” In all probability the figures for New Zealand would not compare favourably with these, and even in this little country the waste of wealth unden this heading must be enorptous.