THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4501, 8 December 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

.An extraordinary general meeting of the Paeroa Tennis Club will be held in the Borough Council Chambers on Thursday next, December 14. ■ The chairman of the Thames County Council, at Wednesday’s meeting, appl’cd for a permit to erect a motor garage, Cr. Cox, hi. moving that the request should be. granted, smiled, and complimented the chairinan on his intention to possess himself of a motor car, and he was sure when the chairman ’motored round the district they would get better roads.

The motor and vehicular traffic was very heavy in the main street and Wharf Street yesterday, especially during the latter part of the afternoon-. Great credit is due to Constable" McClinchy for the successful way this traffic was handled. Tn consequence no accidents of any kind have been reported.

“What is a water-hammer?’’ asked a councillor at the last meeting of; tihe Timaru Borough Council. It was explained that the term was used in connection with a noise of hammer* ing in the water service pipes, wherever there was a: dead end. The only way to deni with it was to extend flie pipe.

it was stated in the course of an address at Palmerston North (says tho Manawatu Daily Times) that the town of Wanganui and the country surrounding it, from Kai Iwi to ’the river, was purchased by the Government from the Maoris for a case of clay pipes, of which the speaker retained one as a curiosity.

Relating some of the hardships of backblock settlers and their families, Mr H. T. Fly ger, in an address at Levin the other night, stated that not long ago he visited a back country school up north and saw a large tub of water at the door. On inquiring what it was for, he was told the children used it to wash the mud off tiieir legs before going into school, owing' to the state they got into through the bad condition of the roads.

The present, dairying season promises to be one of the best experienced in South (states the Mataura Ensign). All the district factories are receiving large supplies of milk, feed being plentiful all over the district. The Mataura factory is receiving over 10,000 galons of milk per day, Edcndale 8000, Wnydham 4000, Brydone nearly 4’ooo, and Tut.urau 2200Brydone, Wydham, Edendale, Tuturau and Mataura distr'ets’ things are looking partipularly well, grass being plentiful, and stock is consequently at its best, while the oat crops are coming away well. With -prospects for a good wool market, and encouraging fat lamb market, and a good sheep market, there .appear to be pros penous times ahead for the agriculturists and postoralists of South land and the Dominion generally.