THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMVRI . GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4490, 10 November 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMVRI . GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow wifi be the fourth anniversary of Armistice Day, and the customary two minutes’ silence will be observed.

The Central Theatre was’ by no means sb wd);l filled last evening as one would have thought, considering the star who was to take the boards. “Pussyfoot” rehearsed his speech on the lines already"reported, and after giving more or less satisfaction to a large number of questions asked by Mr W. D. Keys, and also questions by the Rev. Mr Dobson, E. Edwards, and G. Buchanan, a vote of thanks, on the motion of Mr North, was accorded hiffi.

Thanksgiving will be made at the evensong at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday next, for the signing of the Armistice on November 11. 1918, and special prayers offered for all those who fell in the Great War. The beautiful hymn "O Valiant Hearts,” written in commemoration of those who made the supreme sacrifice, will also be sung. After the sermon Mr T,. Venables, oif To Aroha, will sing Kahn’s "Ave Maria.”

There was only a moderate yarding of fat and dairy stock at Messi’s Dalgety aiid Cp v s. PaerOa sale yesterday. Although there was a fair attendance of the public prices generally were very low, and Mr H. Harris, the auctioneer, had to do a Jot of coaxing to quit th© lines offered.

Owing to the increasing demand for all classes of building timber Mr R. Phillips, proprietor of the Paerpa Cash Sawmills, has found it necessary to considerably increase the size and capacity of his miUl. He is at present installing an up-to-date planing machine, whdc’lii .will enable him to dress and handle any class of timber, which will be ■supplied at the shortest notice. A replace advertisement pertaining to the sawmill appears in this issue.

In speaking on “Prisoners and Their , After Care,” Miss B. R. Baughan divided tilie people ip our gaols into the subnormal and the abnormal. In Addington, where she was a visitor, quite 25 per cent, of the women she came in contact .with could not run straight. They had not the brain to do it, They were not insane, but unsane; they were not normal in brain power. One woman she knew there, who was 40 years of age, could not learn to crochet or sew, yet was very anxious to do so. It was a fact that it was impossible for her to loam such a simple thingShe had been to sec this woman’s mother, who told her that the girl’s brain had never been normal. She could not earn her living. "What was this woman going to do when she went out ? She was going in and out of gaol for the rest of her life, and was a costly fa.ilure to the community.

Mr James McNamara, well known in Paeroa, announces that he had commenced business as a tonsorial artist in the premises now occupied by Mr W. Smith; in Wharf Street.

Mr H. Poland, M.P., will address the electors of Paeroa and district in the Central Theatre on Tuesday next, 14th inst. The Hauraki Plains farmers bordering the Piako River are indeed fortunate in having their owh steamer, especially in this time pf disorganisation to some of the coastal shipping at Auckland. The s.s. Oneroa has been in no way affected by the seamen’s strike, and ran bier, usual trips with large cargoes. This week au extra trip was found necessary, making three trips this week. The first Northern Company’s steamer since the commencement of the strike came up the Piako River this morning.

The Director of Live Stock has wrttten to the Thames County Council that the Crown Law officers upheld the opinion that a county council was unable legally to contribute to the cost of erecting a dip outside the county. It appeared impossible to bring down legislation this session giving th.e necessary power, but the writer would endeavour to get some’ thing done.

A meeting of the Presbytery of Waika.ta was held at St- Andrew’s Church, Hamilton, on Tuesday. A cal'li from the Paeroa congregation in favour of the Rev. R, Morgan, of Centre Bush, was sustained, to be forwarded to the Presbytery of Southland. The Rev. J. A. Ryburn reported that the call was very hearty, having been signed by 57 members out of a roll of 68, and by 62 adherents. Messrs Couper and Wilson appeared as commissioners in support of the call. The Revs. R. Mackie, T. H. Roseveare, and R. Burrows strongly supported the motion that the call should be sustained, and stated that from personal knowledge of Mr Morgan’s work in Southland they believed that, he would do very successful work also in Paeroa and the surrounding places.

Mrs L, G. Cook, of Ahuriri Fliat, South Otago, the inventor of the ‘‘Dorothy’’ patent attachment for milking machines, has disposed of; her patent right in America to the Industrial Stock Exchange, New York, for the sum of 35,000 dollars, equivalent to about £BOOO. Mrs Cook has now offered the world’s rights to the same firm for 100,000 dollars, and is awaiting a reply (says the “Otagp Daily Times”). The stripper attachment is being widely used in New Zealand, where Mrs Cook holds the patent rights' in the meantime, and she has received many testimonials as to its usefulness. Mrs Cook was born in Birmingham, and was for nine years a nurse at Guy’s Hospital, London. She met and nursed Mr Cook when she was on active service, and cam? out here with her New Zealand soldier husband some six and a half years ago. She then made her first acquaintance with farming life, and she speaks enthusiastically of its attractions.

“Thirteen years have passed since first we opened our doprs for the purpose of trying to carry out our. motto, ‘For the help of the fallen, the relief of the needy, and the comfort pf the sorrowful,’ ” states the Rev. V. G. Bryan King in his report on the Dunedin Men’s Mission House, “and during that period close On 20,000 visits have been paid by persons who belonged to one or other pf these classes. ... A special feature of the work carried on has been the very great increase of cases dealt with of men failing to provide for their families, and of men and women who have been guilty of, to put it very, mildly, infidelity. These have necessitated a great amount of< time being spent at the Police CoSrt in conducting cases, and I would be failing in my duty it I did not asknowledge in unbounded thanks to th,e Magistrates and police officers for unfailing kindness, and as-i sistance rendered to me. It would be absolutely impossible tp detail the class of work dealt with from time to time, but suffice it to say that one is expected to know, and give advice on, every subject. Maintenance orders, neglected wives and children, drunken 'husbands and wives, remittance men, poor, destitute, and sorrowful persons—/ill have to be attended to. The amount of correspondence to all parts of the world in regard to cases entails considerable time and thought.”—Dunedin “Star.”