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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4564, 16 May 1923, Page 2

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

The meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was a long one last night, and an adjournment had to be made until next Tuesday in order to clean up the order paper. The chief matter for discussion is a notice of motion with reference to an endeavour to get licensed hotelsjiack in Paeroa. As the subject is a very debatable on-'- it was decided to allot next Tuesday evening for a full discussion.

The Paeroa office of the N.Z. Cooperative Dairy Co., Ltd., advises that the advance rates for April butterfat. will be :—Butter : Superfine Is 3d, first grade Is 2%d, under standard test Is 2d, second grade Is o%d. Cheese : Superfine Is 3%d, first grade Is 3d. Casein 2d in advance of above prices.

•Tf the retail men are not going to back up the Chamber of Commerce, then I’m not,” said Mr Marshall at the meeting of that body last night.

“ Have you ever had any dealings with the Government Departments,” asked the chairman at. a meeting of the R.S.A. in Masterton. “Yes, only once,” replied a member. “ I went to the Repatriation Department to ask for a loan and they greeted me with, ‘ It’s like your cheek.’”

A crop of carrots in a Waily garden has given exceptional results (says the local paper). The area4s about the 16th of an acre, and, judging by the harvest, it would work out. kt the rate of about 36 tons to the acre.

Wire received.—” ‘Gazette,’ Paeroa : Advertise special purchase Mens Raincoats, 39s 6d, 555, 60s 6d. Startling values showing next week.—Slyfield, Wellington.”*

“ I have seen—this fs not a yarn,” remarked Commissioner Hoggard in the 'course of a recent lecture on Korea (relates an exchange). “ I have seen a Chinaman in Seoul take a live rat through which he drove a nail, spinning it to piece of wood. The next operation was to pour kerosene over the animal, roasting it alive. That done. John sat down to one of the banquets of his life.

Referring to the decision of the electors of Invercargill to revert to the Wednesday half-Jioliday, the “Southland News” says: “The evidence of loss to business submitted by the retailers was unassailable, and it mav be taken for'granted that 90 per cent, of the shopkeepers were mpt appealing for a change simply for the sake of being contrary. We believe that. everyone in Southland has the interests of football at heart People are reasonably proud of their representatives, and if the alternative halfholiday seriously affects the game pressure should be brought upon our members of Parliament to ask, for legislation in the direction of giving the law general application to shops, factories, and offices. Saturday closing is not suited £o the market town of an extensive agricultural district, and had the country been afforded a vote Saturday would never have been chosen. The demand that business shall come first is quite’ natural, and the principle must be enforced m spite of the inclination towards sport on the part of some and leisure on the part of others.”

For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

“I have just completed my thir- [ teenth year as President of the i Chamber of Commerce,” said Mr B. W. Porritt at' last night’s meeting, “and 1 feel it has been an unlucky year for the Chamber.” A meeting of the Jersey Breeder./ Association is to be held on Friday morning next, to arrange details al the Pedigree Jersey Sale, which it, it proposed to hold in Paeroa. The meeting which was called by the secretaries of the East and Komata football clubs to discuss the amalgamation of these two cltlb> lapsed on Monday evening. The East Club was fully represented, but. Komata Club appeared to be quite disinterested. Although the advertisement, calling the meeting was signed by the secretaries of Komata and East clubs the secretary of the former club felt it incumbent, upon himself to attend the pictures. Although some of his friends entered the theatre and tried to persuade him to attend the meeting he remained obdurate, and in consequence a deadlock has been reached.

“ How do you account for ' duds ’ in a case where the sire and dam are of first-class milk-producing animals,,’’ questioned a farmer at a lecture given in Stratford by Mr Johnson (states the Stratford Evening Post). “If I could tell you that. I would make my fortune,” was the quick reply.

It is almost, forgotten that, New Zealand has a memorial to the late Lord Kitchener, and that to-day is its 12th, anniversary (says the Feilding Star). It was on May 5, 1911, that compulsory military training came into force in our Dominion, and that policy, which aimed at using the raw material of our youth, was part of the Empire plan of Lord Kitchener, who toured New Zealand on behalf of the scheme. He is dead—his scheme goes marching on.

\ Roll up to Mr Edgar’s Special Sale at our Mart on Friday and Saturday at 11 a.m. each day—Bernard Stansfield.*

. The Waihi Borough Council, at its meeting on Thursday,i had some discussion on the Mayor's honora,rium, the Mayor (Mr Walnutt,) -having reti>'ed from the room. Mr Donaldson’:: honorarium had increased in his term from £lOO to £2OO per annum, but he had always handed back £5O to the clerk to provide for, travelling charges, etc. It was finally decided to pay the Mayor £l5O per annum quarterly in advance. .

By topping the poll for the Wellington Hospital Board with 16.420 votes the Rev. Herman Van Staveren put up a unique record for the whole of the Dominion. It ■is stated that no one in local body or national politics in Wellington has ever polled so many votes. Mr Van Staveren has received congratulations from all parts of the country on his achievement.

Man’s ingratitude usually appears at election time. A case in point has reference to the Tauranga County elections. Just before the business of the final meeting commenced the clerk read the following letter from the chairman (Cr. H. Southey) : “It is with extreme ilegrct that under the doctor’s emphatic orders I am unable to attend this our last council meeting. After forty-five years of rather strenuous local bodies work in all its branches.—over twenty years in this district—and holding during that period a, practically unbroken record as regards election, this is, as far as I can remember, the first time of having missed a meeting.” A*, the last elections Mr Southey was defeated!

It is not often that the public'hears of banknotes being used to stoke a fire with. Such actually occurred al the Dannevirke gasworks recently, when quite a big pile went up i» smoke (states an exchange). They had outlived usefulness, had all been cancelled, and their destruction possibly accounted for millions of microbes which are popularly presumed to have their habitation in the grimy notes so commonly in circulation.

“Pff ! It’s as old as Adam’s wife,” exclaimed a member of the medical fraternity when approached recently with regard to an affliction of the fingernails which was stated a few days ago (reports the Timaru “Post”) to be at present prevalent in Timaru. It seems that, the complaint is of nc consequence, and is really an ■ affliction of the roots of the fingernail, and caused in many cases by washing up dishes and similar domestic duties. It can be cured by removing the nail! Probably afflicted persons will prefer the ailment to the cure.

A well-nourished Maori was in the witness box at Wanganui. A lawyer was seeking information about his worldly possessions, his income, his earnings, and what he did with them. According to the Maori his income was practically nil, his earnings absolutely nil. Thus he could pay nothing, with nothing tp pay it with. He seemed bored at the futility of the questions and at the proceedings in general. “Well, how do you live?” asked the lawyer in ’ desperation. “How do I live? Porker, taiaw, bread,” scornfully replied thq native. He was astonished that, such a ridiculous question should be asked. His tone (remarks the “Chronicle”) suggested that it seemed farcical that he should impart such obvious information.

It occurred in a, provincial town where the passing of the day’s expresses often provides some of the news of the day that one of the local reporters observed the local detective earnestly looking fori somebody in the carriages of a waiting pxpress (states the Timaru “Post"). The sleuth walked the length of the train, carefully scanning the occupants of each carriage,, and the pressman, alive to ths possibilities of a “story,” followed closely. Then back along the station went the ’tec, searching diligently amongst the crowd, with the reporter still hot on the trail. He sighted his quarry, paused, then pushed through a group of people, and as the scribe came dfeying after him he perceive:! the detective shaking hands with an elderly lady and saying. “How are you, aunt, I thought I’d missed ypu.”