LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4534, 2 March 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Following the usual Lenten custom at St. Paul’s Church,, the Litany of Penitence will be sung at the conclusion of evensong on Sunday evening.

In his will Sir William Herries left £loo’o for the purpose of beautifying the Borough of Te Aroha.

The Customs Department has declared Whakatane to be a “port of entry.” *

The following vital statistics for the month of February haye been supplied by the local registrar, Mr J. G. McDougall: Births 7, marriages 1, deaths 1.

At the South Auckland Land Board meeting on Wednesday it was decided to' recommend that the application of H. Poland for 450 land in the Ohinemuri South district should be granted.

The Lands Department's gauge at Kerepeehi records that rain fell on nine days during the. month of February. the total rainfall being 2.13 in.

“We want’no super-men, for most super-men, when they make a mess of Government make a super-mess.— Thus Mr T. M. Wilford, Leailer of the Opposition,, at Waverley.

The Art Union promoted by the Hauraki A. and P. Association was drawn by the president; Mr W. F. Johnstone, at the County, Chambers on Wednesday evening, in the presence of the police and show officials. The winning numbers are tp be found in an announcement in the advertising columns of this issue.

The Kerepechi Soprts Association has an advertisement appearing in this issue with reference to a general meeting to be held in the Kerepeehi Hall on Tuesday, March 6, tp commence energetic activities in connection with the annual sports on Easter Monday. As a special effort is being made this year to make these sports a huge success, it is requested that all interested should make a 'big bid to be present that night.

Attention must be called to the sterling worth of this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” which is yet, another excellent example of the work regularly published by the proprietors. The recent motor cycle sports at the Takapuna racecourse occupy a page of vivid snapshots that will arrest, attention, showing the starts, the competitors racing, and the thrilling finishes. In the miscellaneous division are photos of the late King Constantine of Greece, Prince Andrew of Greece on trial before the Revolutionary Tirbunal, which exiled him for life* etc.

A new tomb at Warrington Churcn has beer, erected by the Nevill family in commemoration of the primate (states the ‘‘Otago Daily Times”). It consists of a marble cross. The division wall has been taken out, and the two sections of the grave have, been connected. The whole of the inside section has been concreted, and the tiles, which are in keeping with those already set, fixed. The inscription, which combines the memory of both the primate and Mrs M. S. C. Nevill, is worded as follows: “In eternal memory. Samuel Tarrett Nevill, Bishop of Dunedin, 1871-1919, Primate of New Zealand, 1904-19. Died October 29, 1921. Mary Susan Cook Nevill, his wife, died November 27, 1905. Leaders of the people by the counsels, and by their knowledge cf learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instruction. Their bodies are buried in peace, but their names liveth for evermore.”