THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4508, 27 December 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1922. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Owing to Saturday evening being so wet the Ngatea Christmas tree festivities were postponed until probably New Year's Eve.

' The usual meeting-of the HaUraki Drainage Board, which was to be held at Turua on Friday last, was cancelled owing to the nearness pf the holidays.

A fire occurred in the treading room o,f the premises occupied by the Ohinemuri Club in the Criterion Hotel on Monday evening. Fortunately the outbreak was discovered in time to prevent a sdrious outbreak. The damage done was mot heavy, being confined to a couch and bookcase, and the wall was also charred. The cause of the outbreak has not been accounted for.

Advice has been received by Mr C. W. Harrisf president of the Waitaka.ruru Farmers’ Union, that Mr McLennan has decided to run a weekly launch service between' Waitakaruru and Auckland and Waitakaruru and Thames. There has been no regular service to Thames for a month or two, so Mr McLennan’s venture will be much appreciated.

Mrs H. M. Norfris, pf Ngatea, left on Friday evenirfg by the s.s. Gael for Auckland, en route to Vancouver; Canada, where she will visit a sistesi'. She was accompanied by Mr and, Miss Norris, who will remain in Auckland till after the R.M.S. Niagara sails on January 2.

Almost every district is proud ol the possession of some distinctive feature of its landscape, but familiarity gives indifference to those who live within sight of it. It is left to the visitors to discover the interesting features of such landmarks. The peop'e of Sanson and Bulls, for instance, states the “Manawatu Times,” are apt to forget that, they “own” one of the longest,.if not actually the longest, of traffic bridges in New Zealand, withi the added distinction of having one end about twenty fee,t higjher than the other. The only things about it which are common to nearly all bridges in the Dominion are that it Jacks another two feet in width to enable two vehicles to pass, and that both ends are obscured from view until one is actually on the bridge. It was built over forty .years ago, from totara grown on the spot, and is still sound. The cost was, about £17,000. To-day a contractor might ask £40,000-

For neglecting her six-months-old baby in a manner likely to cause injury to his health Mabel Robinson, 33, of Seel Street, Liverpool, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in the second division. The evidence showed th,at on two occasions the baby was left alone all night in a locked room on a floor lower than that in which Mrs Robinson lived at the top of a building. The baby was put there because his crying affected the health of the mother. Mrs Robinson said the child was put. to sleep before he was taken to the lower room, and she sometimes attended to j>t during the night. The magistrate thanked a gassflttor for notifying the police of the treatment of> the-child.