THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4551, 16 April 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce is called for Tuesday evening in the, Coronation Buildings. Tlie Thames Harbour Board delegation will address the ratepayers on the subject of the £60,000 loan at the Returned Soldiers’ Hall this evening.

At the services at St. Paul’s Church yesterday notice was. given that the Commemoration Service, which has been held in the church every year on Anzac Day since the historic landing, will be held this year as usual, and there will also be evensong, with special prayers, at 7 p.m.

A delegation representing opponents to the Thames Harbour Jjoard, loan will address the Paeroa ratepayers in the Central Theatre to-morrow (Tuesday) evening at 8 o’clock.

Messrs Stansfield and Co. report that their weekly auction sales are on the increase, and that at last Friday’s sale there was a very good attendance, and quite a large quantity of furniture and other useful goods was disposed of at very satisfactory prices, whilst poultry and ducks and drakes are. realising from Is 6d to 3s each at present, according to quality ■ and condition.

A one time Paeroaite,, writing front Merredin, Western Australia, to a friend in Paeroa says:—We hate acclimatized by now and de not feel the heat very much. The mercury all last month averaged over the century mark in the shade, and once reached 110. degrees. No rain, with the exception of showers following isofated thunderstorms, has fallen for the last six months. All the grass and herbage is brown and dead, and roads are tracks of dust. When the wind blows the dust is picked up in immense clouds and efiuses duststorms. We have had several lately, and are experiencing one at the time of writing; it is impossible to see across the road. The conditions out back are rapidly becoming serious, as the dams, the only source of water supply, have given out or ar very low. and long lines of waggons wait at the sidings for the arrival of the water trains. The water is sold at the rate of 2s 6d per 100 gallons, cash with order. Some of the farmers are carting upwards of 30 1 miles.

An interesting return has been prepared by tile local branch of the N.Z. Dairy Co. pertaining to the dairying on the Waihi Plains. During the flush months, December, January, and February, a total of 68.2791 b of cream was railed to the Paeroa factory. This is a very considerable Increase on last year’s, figures. It has been proved. beyond all doubt,, that the "Waihi Plains are eminently suitable for dairying, despite the adverse comments that have often been passed as to the productivity of the land in this area. The figures supplied indicate in no small degree what the land will produce by judicious farming combined with hard work and optimism.