THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4543, 23 March 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Heavy rain fell during last night and this morning. This was badly needed, and, will have a beneficial effect on the pastures in the district.

The Hauraki A. and P. Association will hold a e\;mmittee meeting tomorrow evening. f

The adjourned annual meeting of the Paeroa Golf Club is to be held this evening. Owing to the somewhat poor attendance of members at the annual meeting a deadlock was reached when nominations for officers were called for. To avoid a recurrence of such a position it is hoped that all players will be present tonight and elect officers for, the ensuing season.

If blackberries are to be controlled ,'iere should be uniformity of action. Dannevirke auctioneers and shopkeepers have been prohibited from selling the berries - by the noxious weeds inspector, while in Hastings the berries are publicly sold at the marts.

“If the people could Jte got away from thin jazz stuff a service would be rendered to the community,” said Mr J. A. Flesher at the civic reception to the Westminster Glee Singers in Christchurch. Unfortunately for him, he’ did not get the support from the musicians that he probably counted on. Mr A. Bunz said that, it was all very well to talk about jazz music, but it did not matter greatly because the serious works were being played more to-day than ever they were. But apart from that, -there was nothing terrible about jazz music, because as a mat.ter of fact Beethoven was full of it. The jazz was no less musical than waltz rhythms or any other dances. The tiling that was of real importance was the manner in which it, was played.

“As long as I’ve got clothes on in;/ back I’ll always give my wife a drop of brandy if I think she deserves ft,” declared a man in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court when charged with being on licensed premises after hours. “A husband any woman should be pleased to have, no doubt,” said the magistrate, “but the law throws upon you the onus of showing what you were doing upon the hotel premises. You will be fined £l, and costs 75.”

During his address on Up-to-date Egg Pulping and Drying” at. the New Zealand Poultry-keepers’ conference in Nelson, whilst emphasising the necessity for extreme care in the manufacture of egg-pulp, Dr. Telford surprised his audience by informing them that it was necessary that, every person engaged in thg process should be medically examined for the purpore of precluding the employment of germ-carriers.

A progressive croquet, match will be played by the ladies of the local croquet club to-morrow.

In reply to the Hon. J. G. Coates the other day, Mr L. May, engineer to the Public Works Department, Paeroa, said the estimated amount re quired to carry on the drainage and Hood protection works in this district for the ensuing year would be approximately £60,000.

On Tuesday, reports the Waihi Dairy Telegraph, Senior-Sergeant O’Grady proceeded to Paeroa for the purpose of investigating the circumstances in connection with breaking, entering and theft from a house at Mangaiti. Numerous articles were stolen, including clothing, and some of them have been recovered. Further particulars of the theft were obtained by the sergeant, disclosing the fact that some of the stolen goods were sold-. It is likely that the perpetrator will be called to answer charges in connection with the burglarious entry into the house at the next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Paeroa.

Palm Sunday will be solemnly observed in the services at St. Paul’s Church. There will be a sung celebration of the Holy Eucharist with sermon at 11 a.m. At this serivce, as also at the evensong, the old processional “All glory, land and honour,’* which has been sung on Palm Sunday in the English Church ever since the landing of St. Augustine in England, will be used. Evensong will be sung at 7, and following this the solemn devotion “The Story of the Cross” will be sung.

The settlers on Gumtown and Huirau roads, Turua, have decided to overcome the problem of a water supply for form purposes by erecting a reservoir on the river bank at the end of Gumtpwn Road and piping the water to holding troughs on Yheir farms. One-inch steel pipes have been obtained from the Power Board at 15s a chain, and it is proposed to pump river water into a 1000-gallon tank an electric motor. The motor will work automatically, and tend io keep the tank full. The cost is estimated to be very small, and the benefits of a good water supply will be very great.

' The Otago Medical School has enrolled this year 43 new students, 37 of whom are first-year students and the other six second-year students, who have completed their first year’s studies in one of the other centres. The total is much the same as last year’s, but considerably below the record of two years ago. The Dental School has established a record in its history by enrolling 26 new students.

While returning frbm Auckland on Wednesday night Mr H. P. Whittaker, carrier, of Mangatarata, met with an accident at the Razorback. Full particulars of the accident are not available, but it is understood that the lights failed and the brakes were not strong enough f.o stop the car, so it was driven into a bank. Mr Whittaker and Mr Kayes, of Mangatarata, received a severe shaking, and Mrs Whittaker was rendered unconscious, and had to be .taken to the Pukekohe Hospital for treatment.

Says an exchange: “Football jerseys are an expensive item nowadays, and recognising this the Wanganui Rugby \Unipn last year ordered a quantity direct from the Old Country. These came to hand recently, and are of excellent quality. The landed cost of the : jerseys ran out at about a third less than what they would have cost if purchased in Wanganui.” It looks, all right on the surface, but it is the New Zealand people who support Rugby football, • and in most towns it is the business people who provide the trophies and medals to be played for.

On Wednesday evening last five full rinks from the local bowling club journeyed to Te Arolia and took part in a match played by electric light. To the majority of the local bowlers the altered conditions were a new experience, and it took them some little time to become accustomed to the electric light. The Te Aroha team was victorious by eleven points, after a very interesting contest. The visitors were hospitably entertained to supper by the Te Aroha club on the completion of the match. Below are the scores, Te Aroha being mentioned first in each instance: Austin, Simons, Heathcote, Wylie (skip) 20, w. Sprague, Pascoe, Le Cocq, Wells (skip) 18 ; Hedge, Boles, McKechnie, Clothier (skip) 32, v. Pivott, Ellis, Byrne, Towers (skip) 22; Hesketh, Ray, Maingay, Noonan (skip) 24, v. Sing, Frith, G. H. Taylor, Cane (skip) 16 ; Cornish, Porter, Hinton, Petersen (skip) 15, v. Halo, Dr. Smith, Power, Busby (skip) 19 ; Whyte, McCormick, Bath, Bygrave (skip) 18, v. Tait, Brown, Garry, Pinder (skip) 23. Totals: Te Aroha 109, Paeroa 98/

According to some interesting figures given by Mr W. Goodfellow, managing director of the fa.Z. -Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd., in an interview, the dairy industry has placed into circulation for the months of November, December, January,, and February at least £1,000,000 in cash more this season than for the same period last season. The payments of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., last season for the four months mentioned amounted to £808,758, whereas the payments for the same'four months this season exceeded £1,500,000, ; so that this company alone has put into distribution £700,000 more than was available in the same space last season. As about 75 per cent, of the total butter output of the Auckland province is made by the N.Z. Dairy Co., these figures mean' that, allowing for a similar increase in other companies’ pay-outs, an extra million has been distributed this season. In commenting upon these figures Mr Goodfellow stated that the dairy industry was obviously contributing its full quota to the restoration of normal times. Of course, a good deal of the extra money had been badly needed by the producer' to liquidate arrears of back debts, which accumulated of necessity in the slump years, but that process was proceeding rapidly, and the stream of dairy money would coutinually tend brighten the trading pulse of thes community.