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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4554, 23 April 1923, Page 2

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

Will - our advertisers please note that all matters for our Wednesday’s issue must reach the office not later than 4. o’clock on Tuesday afternoon ? Building permits in the borough for the last two years totalled £15,997. Speaking on the publicity question at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on Wednesday evening a speaker said thar Day and Martin, the blacking one of the most prosperous firms in England ten years ago, was now practically insolvent, on their own admission of lack of advei tising.

While playing with another child on Saturday a little boy of Mr EFathers, Te Aroha Road,, fell and had the misfortune to break a small bone in his leg. Owing to the bad state of the roads he was unable to be taken to the Waihi Hospital until Sunday morning.

Mr F. R, Howard, eyesight specialist, representing Samuel Barry, 299 Queen Street, Auckland, may be consulteu at Mrs Crosby’s, Paeroa Hotel, from Monday, 23rd inst., until Thursday, 26th inst*

Although there was np rain on Saturday afternoon most of the football grounds on the Plains were under water, so all matches were postponed for a week. This will have the effect of putting back by one week all the matches of the first, and second rounds.

Enough butter to supply every man, woman, and child in New Zealand with their normal consumption of butter fpr two years ahead has been made in the present season by the NZ. Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., to March 31. The exact manufacture to that date is 19,772 tons, or 44,289,0001 b. For statistical purposes ft, is usual to allow 201 b of butter per head per annum, so that this company’s output alone represents two years’ consumption for the whole population of New Zealand.

The Mayor of Waihi, Mr D. Donaldson, dealing with the financial situation of the Waihi Borough (reports the Waihi Telegraph), said “thac strenuous efforts would have to be made to get a reduction of the excessive, charge made on the Council in connection with the rivers’ improvement scheme, as until this was done it would be impossible to place the Council’s finances on a sound basis. One means towards this end was the Thames Harbour Improvement Scheme, which, if carried out as proposed, should help to ease the burden on Waihi. With a wide district served by the Harbour Board the contributions towards the river scheme would naturally be extended over‘a much greater area, and the demands upon Waihi would be proportionately reduced.” A statement .of this sort from Waihi is only to be expected, and is quite sufficient t.o show why Mr Donaldson is advocating the harbour scheme.

Owing to pressure on our space today several articles and reports are unavoidably held over until our next issue.

The General Manager, N.Z. Railways, has advised the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce that the matter cf changing the name of Paeroa to Pa 3 roa Junction had been considered, and it was thought that no good purpose would be served, and that it would be likely to cause confusion.

On inquiry this morning we learn that there has not been any interruption to the telegraph wires during the recent storm.

The local office of the public Works Department advises the following rainfall Figures : Since 9 a.m. on Wednesday until 9 a.m. yesterday 8.12 in of rain were registered. The heaviest, fall wa? recorded on Friday, 20th, when the phenomenal fall of 6.15 in was registered.

Mr E. Shaw, county engineer, stated in an interview that the roads in the county have suffered very considerably ; in fact, far more than by previous flcods. He is not yet in a position to estimate the total damage.

A commemoration service will, as usual, be held in St. Paul’s Church on Wednesday next, Ahzac Day, at 10 a.m., when the Holy EUcharisf, will be offered, with special prayers for all those who fell in the Great War. Following the custom of previous years, a temporary shrine will be prepared, and the faithful are invited to pay a loving tribute to the gallant dead by placing wreaths or floral emblems beneath the Roll of Honour m the church. A special evensong, with the same intention, will also be sung at 7 p.m. Both morning and evening the hymn “O Valiant Hearts,” specially written for Anzac Day, will be sung, and all are cordially invited to assist at both services.

The manufacture for the month of March by the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd., was 2185 tons, an increase of 16-2 per cent, over the same month last yeai;. The total manufacture of 19,772 tons represents an increase of 26.6 per cent for the same period last season, and also exceeds the total manufacture for the whole of last season, ’namely, 22,218 tons. The company’s year does not dose til] the end of May., and it, is as likely as estimates can be that the level of 22 000 tons will be reached and exceeded.