THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4504, 15 December 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

« The number of entries in this year’s /show exceeded those of fast year by 105, the largest increase being shown in the light horses.,. Tllnis year’s entries totalled 601, 226 o£ which were cattle and 375 horses. Last year’s entries totalled 496. From to-day mails fo(r Auckland, Waikato offices, Kar.angahake, Waikino, Waihi, and Thames' will close' at 10 a.m. in lieu of 9.45 a.m. The amount collected for the British .and Foreign Bible Society (Miss Dobson, secretary) .totalled £l3 8s 6d. From Tuesday next until the sth proximo greetings messages will be accepted for Apia at 6d per word and far Rarotonga and Nukualofa at 9d per word. Messages must not contain reference to any matter other than greeting, but need not be confined to particulair wording.

An appreciation of the enthusiasm of some of the exhibitors at the Hauraki A. and P. Association’s show this week was made by Mr Parkinson, judge of the Friesian cattle. Mr Parkinson said that some of the beasts had been driven a long way, some as 1 many as 13 miles. ThJlough the entries were not as numerous as when he was judging in Paeroa three years ago the quality, he said, had shown a distinct improvement. /

Miss Muriel Taylor, pupil of Miss A. McGruer, L.T.C.L., A.L.C,M;, (cap and gown), was a successful candidate for the intermediate practical examination held ’last September by Mr Alfred Quaife, under the auspices O|f the Associated Board of the Royal Academy and Royal College of Musi& London. Miss M. Taylor was alst» successful in her theoretical examination (rudiments) held by the same coniege in November.

It was not a circus,. but the grand parade at the show yesterday was not entirely devoid of incidents such as one sees in the sawdust ring. A Jersey heifer calf, wearing a red ribbon for a first prize, and kd by a. small l»y, became unruly, b'lroke away from its young master, and careered across the show ring. It was cornered among the hurdles in the centre, and the leading rope was handed to the boy in charge, but the young animal was not to be Weld. It proved too strong for the boy, and, breaking into a run, dragged the little fellow to the ground. Quite a number .of youngsters! then joined in the chase, and when the little animal was recaptured throe boys took charge, two holding the loading rope, while one gripped its tail, urging it on when it refused to move. Thus the unruly little animal rejoined the grand parade.

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is of outstanding pictorial vailue, embracing as it does a wide variety off interesting subjects most artistically arranged. Snapshots on the Hamilton Bowling Club’s green make up a specially attractive page, while the Auckland A. and P. show, the Takapuna races, and the Fellding Jockey Club’s meeting are each represented in a striking set of pictures. A wide and interesting variety of overseas photographs' are also included.

At the show smoke concert last evening feeling references were made to the untiring efforts .and great help rendered to the association by the late Mr A. E. Fielder, and a vote of. condolence and sympathy was passed to the widow and relatives, the motion being carried in silence. The induction of the Rev. Richard Morgan to the charge of ; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Paeroa, has been fixed for Tuesday evening next, December 19. Members and adherents of the congregation arc looking forward with great interest to the settlement'of their new minister. The Waikato Presbytery has made the following arrangements’ for the induction: Rev. J. A., Ry burn to preside, Rev. H. C. Stuart to preach, and Rev’s T. H. Roseveare and M. Richards to address the minister and congregation. respectively. Mr Morgan comes to Paeroa from Centre Bush, Southland. A little mild excitement was cans ed in a horse enclosure outside the show ring at the Hauraki A. and P. show yesterday. A horse had evidently been frightened at something, for it commenced plunging round the enclosure, and for a moment it appeared that some of the onlookers we' - e in danger of being hit with the animal’s boofis. The horse, however, was taken in hand by its attendant; and the excitement subsided. As a Mr Williams’, of Netherton, was driving along Willson’s Road on his way to the show on Wednesday morning the horse he' was driving stepped into one of the ppt-holes and broke its (fetlock. The occupants of the sulky were not hurt, but it is understood tihat the horse had to be destroyed.