LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4524, 7 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Last evening the Thames Harbour Board decided to take a poll on April 26 on a proposal to raise £60,000 for Harbour improvements on the lines of a report submitted by Mr E. S. Adams.

Certain instr actions' are issued by the Thames Valley Powpr Board for safeguarding the employees ami others, and at yesterday’s meeting it was decided that any employee not taking the necessary precautions laid down by the Board should be instantly dismissed.

In connection with the protest made by the Waihi Borough Council to the Prime Minister against the action of the Treasury in retaining the goldfields revenue as a payment to the river silting account, the borough has been advised that its protest. has been upheld and a sum of £293 (the amount previously retained) has been remitted to the credit of the council.

Both victims' explosion accident on a fishing boat at Waihi Beach (Messrs F. Quintal and H. A. Pipe) are making satisfactory progress towards recovery in Waihi Hospital. Campers at Waihi Beach are moving in the direction of making a’presentation to Mr Pipe. During a concert. at the beach on Saturday evening Mr Poland, member for the district, said the campers wished to recognise in some tangible form the pluck exhibited by Mr Pipe, who, though seriously Injured himself, pulled the boat to the shore and attended 1 Quintal's injuries.

At yesterday’s Thames Valley Electric Power Board meeting a Tatuaniii farmer expressed his approval of the satisfactory manner in which a 2 h.p. motor had been .installed for his milking plant. The chairman remarked that, this was one of the few bouquets that the Board received instead of bricks.

Mr J. Price, who had been in illhealth for some three months, was heartily welcomed on reoccupying his seat at yesterday’s Thames Valley Power Board meeting.

The Thames Valley Power Board yesterday decided te reduce the charges made in connection wit.i small herds where a 1 h.p. motor was installed.

On Monday Mr C. Vincent brought into the “Gazette” Office an excellent sample of Tuscan wheat, which was taken from a 3-acre crop on Mr Porritt’s farm. Tlhe sample was particularly healthy looking. Mr Vincent said, he thought this was the first wheat grown in Paeroa since the early day.' “I have been here about 30 years,” he said, “and I haven’t seen any since then.” Judging by the sample shown, wih.ich .was Said to he an average one, there is ho apparent reason why wheat should not do grown in this district.

At the Railway Conference, held recently at Auckland, Mr C. W. Harris, representing the Hauraki Plains County Council, mpved the follow'ing resolution, which was seconded by Mr J. T. Barry, of the Whakatane Chamber of Commerce, and carried unanimously : “That the Elast Coast main trunk line from Pokeno to Gisborne has a county population of 30,340, one-fifth of the total population of the provincial district, an area of 4,975,360 acres, one-third of the Auckland district area, and that the valuations to 1921 of £29,906,363, onethird of the total gross valuations of the counties, demand, in justice, and fairness, to the Dominion and the provincial district, that these unfinished sections should be linked up to give through traffic from Gisborne ‘0 Auckland, which has been delayed over fifty years.” ,