THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4494, 20 November 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tn the Presbyterian Church this evening R. Tahupotiki Haddon will speak on the evils of liquor to the Maoris. Nebo Hemi Papakakura, a gifted tenor, will sing English and Maori songs.

A little excitement was caused in Paeroa on Friday afternoon, when.a horse attached to a buggy took fright in Hughcndon Street, and turning the corner safely careered madly down Belmont Road, narrowly missing several vehicles on the way. Two men rushed out of Mr, Marks’ auction rooms and succeeded in bringing the runaway tp a stop. The only damage that resulted was that a few spokes were broken in -one of the wheels, and both shafts were damaged.

An old man named Harry Kelgh, who has for some years lived at the Railway Boardinghouse, djed on Saturday morning. Deceased was unwed in the morning, and Dr, Little was called in. Very little is known of the deceased, but he is believed to have a niece living in Wanganui. Constable McClinchy Is making inquiries, and his effects have been taken charge of and handed to the Public Trust Department in the meantime. Included in the effects were a number of sovereigns and other money totalling £lO5 odd. An inquest will not be necessary.

Mr E. V. Slyfiel.d, who has Opened up as a gentlemen's outfitter in the last shop in Cullen’s Buildings, Belmont Road!, has an opening announcement in our advertising columns in this issue.

Arrangements are being made to hold a meeting of Hauraki Plains tennis club delegates in an endeavour to inaugurate a Hauraki Pthinfe Tennis Association. The meeting will most likely take place at Ngatea within a week 'or two.

In the course of his speech at Taupiri laSt week Mr R. F. Bollard, M.P., mentioned that the Hon. W. F. sey was receiving £2OOO a year as Prime Minister, but the speaker knew personally of an offer to Mr Massey, from a certain bank in Wellington, of £5OOO a year to take over is considerable.

Results pf, examination of eight New Zealand timbers, submitted for inspect’on to the Imperial Institute with reference to the possibilities’ of utilising the waste wood in the manufatcure of paper pulp, showed that all would be suitable for that purpose. The chemical examination and paper-making trials were 'carried out on wood freed from bark.

Explaining to a meeting of members of the Ellesmere branch of, the NZ. Fanners’ Union what a certain measurement was, a lecturer said that twenty-five spoonfuls of the horse medicine he was speaking about would fill an ordinary whisky bottle. No one asked for any further explanation of the measurement.

There is no more cllightful emendation of .a hymn than one that was made necessary by the advance of modern locomotion in “The Son of God goes forth .to war.” Bishop Heber wrote: “O God, to us may grace be given, to follow in the train I” Thus it stood in the earlier books. When the coming of the railway gave to following “in the train” a familiar meaning unknown to the Bishop of Calcutta, revision committees were obliged to provide against the laughter-provoking quality of the line by altering it “To follow in Thy train”

Taranaki is one of the few districts where toll gates survive the demand for the open road and the free highway for all. The charge for a car is 2s 6d, In some cases these pass through in hundreds daily. The trip round the mountain costs 7s 6d, there being no less than three en route. The direct relief to the rates is considerable,

A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce is tp be held to-morrow night.

The University examinations are Being held for the first time in Paeroa this year, and commence at the District High School on Thursday morning. For the Junior National. Scholarship and Junior Free Place examinations there will be 17 local candidates, and 25 candidates are sitting for the Senior National Scholarship and Public Service entrance examinations. Mrs W. L. Lawrence has been appointed by the Education Board as sole superivspr for these examinations.

At the meeting of the Beach Committee at the Waihi Borough Chambers op Thursday evening tenders for. cottages on the Waihi Beach Reserve were considered, but as the committee thought that most pf the tenders were unsatisfactory, it was decided .to accept only that submitted by Mr Roy Cullen in respect tb a four-roomed cottage, formerly owned by Mr E. Shaw, for a term of flour years at a rental ofl £ll5 for the full term. Regarding the other, cottages, the rental charges were fixed and the cottages concerned will be let on application. The question of the charge for annual business licenses on the reserve was considered, and it was decided to fix two prices, A and B, at £lO and £5 respectively. The charges will also apply to businesses conducted in tents or other temporary erections during the holiday period.

Mr R. L. Davies, of Kerepeehi, has donated a trophy to the cream service route supplying the highest percentage or "superfine” cream to the Ngate,a' butter factory from September 1 until the "superfine” grade is suspended at the end of the season.

A sidelight on the value of a State bank that relies on paper, is supplied by the experience of a Dunedin resident, states the "Star.” He sent to London £1 for speculation in Russian money, and the other day became the possessor of 3,100,000 roubles! By the same mail he received a letter from Vienna stating that the British £1 is woith 300,000 Austrian kronen, and the envelope conveying the letter carried postage stamps of the nominal value of £45.