LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4562, 11 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The official closing of the bowling season will be held on the lock! green to-morrow, when a 4-rink intefclub match with Thames will be played. As many plkyers as possible are asked to attend. Reserve Thursday, June 14, for the Paeroa Tennis Club’s Dance* There is at present on a wharf on the Plains a quantity of manure. On each sack is branded "Kainit, with 2% per cent. Peat, and 14' per cent. Pure Potash. Made in Germany.” Fancy bringing peat to the Plains, and from Germany. Mr Erriek Charmers, who, it will be remembered, gave a successful song recital here last year, will be in attendance at the Soldiers’ Hall, Paeroa, every Friday morning for lesions in singing, elocution, pianoforte, and dancing. It is a year to-day since arthur William Page was convicted of the manslaughter of Mrs G. Hutchinson at, Pipiroa on February 7 and sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Salvation Army Hall, Sunday, Mothers’ Day. Special decorations, singing, and addresses. All are welcome.* The annual meeting of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce is to be held on Tuesday night A deputy returning officer at the Plains County election on Wednesday discovered, while unfolding the ballot papers, that in some cases electors had voted once for each candidate.

The following players have bee'a selected to represent West seniors against Netherton in the football match at Netherton to-morrow: B. Rae, E. Clarke, L. Shaw,, A. Farrelly, Ellis, K* Dean, I. Poland, J. Crosby, Nelson, Wilton, Hanlon, H. Shaw, W. Tavlor, T. Morrison, Tomich. Emergencies,, J. Morrison and V. Towers. '

The Bucyrus dredge that has? just, completed one side of the Puhonga Canal was on Wednesday shipped to the other side. The undertaking was a difficult one, for though the dredge stands on an area of ground 10ft by lift it weighs 45 tons.

A Patlmerston North tinn of builders (reports the “Manawatu Daily Times”) has just received an invitation to submit a tender to a firm in Sydney -for the supply of a ship load, of pumice and flax tow, to be used in the manufacture of building, material by a process for which the local firm referred to holds the letters patent. This opens up the prospect of a new industry of great importance' to the Dominion.

Overheard at the last sitting of the Patea Magistrate’s Court and reported in the local Press. Counsel (to witness) : “Now, sir, did you or did you not on the date in question, or at any other time, say to the defendant or anyone else, that-the statement imputed to you arid denied by the plaintiff was a matter of no moment or otherwise —answer me, yes or no ?” Bewildered witness: “Yes or, no, what ?”

Another portion of the Puhonga Canal road slipped into the canal on Wednesday morning. A gang of men had reopened the road by afternoon.

Generously studded, with a wide selection of pictures secured from the berf local and overseas sources, this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” stands pre-eminent, in illustrated journals in this part cf the world, and, indeed, compares favourably with similar British magazines of long-established fame. The centre pages are attractively designed to show winter sports in Switzerland, the United States, and Canada, with brililant acheivements of the various champions in fancy and speed skating and ski-ing. Snapshots at the Auckland Trotting Culb’s autumn fixture occupy a prominent position, and the opening meet of the Manawatu Hunt, at Mrs Shannon’s residence is a subject, of interest. Another animated page of portraits is devoted to the Prince of Wales’ participation in point-to-point steeplechases.