THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4512, 8 January 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly nieeting of the Paeroa- Borough Council will be held tomorrow evening.

Messrs A. Buckland and Sons’ Turua stock sale notice appears in this issue. In 1 future the Turua and Waitakaruru stock sales will be advertised each month.

A very severe thunderstorm passed over Paeroa -on Saturday atfemoon, and although the sky pas overcast no rain fell. Throughout the evening very vivid sheet lightning was to be seen, brilliantly lighting up the heavens at times.

Mr R. Burke, of Te Arpha, buyer for the Kiwi Bacon Company, of Palmerston North, notifies .that he will be purchasing pigs at Hikutaia every Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and at Paeroa every Wednesday from 11 ,a.m. to 3 p.m.

Turua is aiming to be more like Auckland every day, and though there is no siren on the waterfront there is a whistle at the factory, and if .the Town Board’s request is granted it will be blown daily at 8 a.m., noon, and 5 p.m.

Mr Bert Carter arrived in Paeroa with a carload of passengers for the express train this morning. Despite the very rough condition of the roads at present he made good time, the trip frfom Tauranga to Paeroa occupying just under four hours actual travelling time.

Mr Skitrop, of the Union Asphalt Co., will be in Turua on Wednesday next. He will inspect the roads in the town area in the morning and report to the Town Board, and at 7.30 in the evening will address a public meeting of ratepayers in the Public Hall. An invitation to be present is extended t.o all who are interested in bituminous roads.

A local working man who is out. of a job was heard to say (says the “Eltliam Argus”), "I wish to heaven the watersiders would go out on strike. There are hundreds of men in the country towns who would gladly tackle their jobs ; we did it before, and would do it again.” Well, the opportunity may come, for .the watersiders are balloting as to whether or not they shall accept the Arbitration Courts’ award.