LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4527, 14 February 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As an indication of the ainount rf shipping on the Piakp River, it is worthy of note that four s'teame r s, two scows, and a barge erme up on the early tide on Tuesday morning. In bur Monday’s issue a mistake was made in quoting the N.Z. Cooperative Dairy Co.’s' price for first grade butter-fat. Tlie price should have read Is 2%d per lb. to be pain on the 20th instant.

In connection with the annual school picnic, to be held at Thames on Friday, 23rd inst., the headmaster 1 (Mr G. H. Taylor) has received advice from the Railway' Department, that, the train will leave Paeroa at 8.5 a.m. for Thames, returning at. 4 p.m. The special fares are: School children under 15 years lOd, senior scholars and teachers Is 2d, adults travelling with children Is Bd.

Today is Ash, Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Although Ihe Lenten season is not now generally kept wi.t.h anything like the austerity that characterised its observance in earlier times, those who make any claim to being loyal churchmen still use the season as a period of self-discipline by abstaining from secular pleasures and amusements, being more careful in attending to their religious duties. A service of short evensong and devotions will be held in St. Paul’s Church this evening at 7.30, and throughout Lent at the conclusion of Um evening service a Litany will be sung, as an act of penitence.