LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4565, 18 May 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual statutory nieeting of I,he Ohinemuri County Council for the election of chairman will be held in the County Chambers, Paeroa, on Wednseday next at noon. At the first community “sing” of the season in Wellington on Wednesday £129 was collected for the Blenheim flood fund.

Sunday next. Whitsunday, is one of the three days of obligation upon all communicants to receive the Blessed Sacrament, but owing to the absence of ithe vicar from Paeroa there will be no celebration of the Holy Eucharist at St. Paul’s Church. Mattins will be said at 11 a.m. and festal evensong sung at 7 p.m.

The formal closing of the Paeroa Bowling Club for the present season will definitely take place to-morrow afternoon. If the weather is fine enough a four-rink inter-club ma-ten will be Tlayed against Thames. Should the afternoon be wet a short meeting will be held in the pavilion and the greens will be closed.

At the Borough Council meeting held last Thursday evening ft was decided that the Council should adopt the same evenings each month for its meetings as formerly,,' namely, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Cr. Vuglar. said he thought that the Tuesday evening meetings could be very easily dispensed with. He considered that tho work done on Tuesdays amounted to a rehearsal of . the Borough’s affairs, which would be gone over again on the Thursday. He contended that this procedure was unnecessary. Cr. Vuglar, however, was not supported in his views by the Council.

Tieserve Thursday, June 14, for the Paeroa Tenuis .Club’s dance. *

' “You take a drink occasionally, don’t, you ?” asked counsel of. a smartly dressed and nicely spoken witness in a divorce case at Palmerston North (states the “Manawatu Times ”). “No, I have only taken it when my husband' gave me a drop of wine or stout occasionally, when I was not well.” “1 mean,” returned counsel, “that, you arc W a staunch prohibitionist.” “Yes, I am,” replied witness; “at least, I have a little sometimes for my health, which is everything these davs.” -(Laughter.) \

A concert and dance, organised by Mr T; Mclnerney and the girls of Ithe Ngatea District High School as a farewell tjo Mr R. E. Jamieson, the headmaster, who has been transferred to the Te Aroha West school,..and to raise funds to decorate the new School building, was held in the Ngatea Hall last evening. Pianoforte solos were given by, Miss D. Dudding ami Miss R. Porteous, recitations by Miss M. Norris, Miss M. Davidson, Miss EMcDuff, and Masftei; F. Dudding, songs by Mr R. E. Jamieson and Mr Errick Charmers, and flute solos .by Mr Jones. Miss R. Hilford was accompanist. On behalf of the parents of the scholars and the various clubs, associations, societies, and committees of Ngatea Mr G. T. Davidson presented Mr Jamieson with a cheque. Mr Jamieson briefly responded. At the conclusion of the concert the floor was cleared, and dancing was carried on till an early hour.

The Mori’insville school committee has received a letter from the Auckland Education Board stating that i; has applied ito the Director of Education Wellington, for a grant of £2127 for the erection and equipment of a manual training school at Morrinsvillcj the building to cost filSOO 1 , cookery equipment £147, wood work equipment £l7O, freight £lO. The school Is calculated to benefit Motumaoho and Eureka (pupils at present attending Hamilton manual train school), Waitoa, Tatuanui, Kiwitahi, Walt,on, and possibly Springdale (pupils not yet attending any manual training school). The committee, decided to urge the Education Board and Minister to expedite Ithe purchase of the property, the option on which has been extended until June 15. The property will cost £2600.

This week's ilustrations' in the “N.Z Sporting and Dramatic Review” reach an incomparably high standard of excellence. The official opening of the Hunt, at Tamaki East and the Pakuranga Hunt, are the subjects of interesting photographs. The Cambridge Troitting Club’s third annual meeting will also appeal to the racing section, while Soccer football, Northcote v. North Shore match, will ba specially attractive to followers. The centre pages show .the O-ford-Cam-bridge inter-Varsity boat race, the Prince of Wales’ fall In a steeplechase, and the christening of Princess Mary’s infant son. An unusual set, of pictures represents the disastrous floods in North Canterbury, while another Interesting series is that showing the diamond jubilee celebrations to commemorate Ithe gold rush at Naseby, Otago. The Vice-Regal garden party at Government House, Auckland, comprises an attractive series of photographs of their Excellencies, Governor Pollock, of American Samoa, and guests on the lawn. Football enthusiasts will be glad to learn that in addition to the competition on the Great Northern Hurdles a special football £lO contest is announced in this issue. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

1 At the poll taken in Te Aroha on April 26 on the half-holiday question, by a majority pf 11 votes the electors decided in favour of a reversion from Saturday to Wednesday. The advocates of the Saturday observance now claim that there were irregularities in conneation with the poll,, and have lodged a petition accordingly.

Don’t fail to attend the Salvation Army nest Sunday. Services will be conducted by Major Bl ad in and StaffCaptain Powick, assisted by 35 young people' from Waihi, Thames, fe Aroha, and Hamilton.*

In all probability it was merely a coincidence, but it did Dok strange (says the Dunedin “Star”) to the ratepayers of a certain South Island borough when they found a week or iso ago that the asphalters were laying down a path in front of the new Mayor’s property the day after his election. This embarrassing occurrence did not happen in Otago.

Wire received. —“ 'Gazette,’ Paeroa : Advertise, special purchase Men's Raincoats, 39s 6d, 555,. 69s 6d. Startling values showing next week.—Slyfield. Wellington.”*

“Which man were you, the one under the bed or the one behind the curtain ?” asked counsel of a witness in the Palmerston North Supreme Court (relajtes the “Times”). Witness was giving evidence in divorce proceedings, the particular incident in question being a visit by a police office! to a co-respondent’s house during the absence of his wife. “I was in the wardrobe,” was the illuminating answer.

Probate has been granted in the estate of the late John William Stew ■ art. retired solicitor,, of Auckland. It was sworn at under £45,000'. The will makes a number of bequests to churches and benevolent missions as follows: £7fio to the Leslie Presbyterian Orphanage, £750 t,o the Egypt General Mission, £5OO to the British and Foreign Bible Society, £5OO to the Salvation Army, £250 to the Social Stervice Association of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church for work in the Auckland district, £259 to St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, Ponsonby.

The Wyndham district (states the local “Herald”) practically escaped the floods northward. The worst and the best 'thing that happened was the flooding of the river flat land,, drowning out, rabbits from their holes and forcing them to take refuge in gorso and on mounds, where they were easy prey to hunters, who got busy, in hun-dreds.--One party at Menzies’ Ferry caught over 100'0 in two days.

Some very - ' interesting games of football are sure to be witnessed to> morrow at Waitakaruru and Turua, where the last matches of the first round will be .played. As there is so little difference in the points that it is. impossible to pick the probable winners.

“I nave noticed ever since I came to live in' Dannnevirke that there seems a tendency to keep women out of every association and committee,” said Mrs A. pickins at a recent meeting of ladies to assist the public play ground scheme (says (the Dannevirke “Evening News”). “I don’t know why,” she continued, “for women are jusf- as far-seeing—indeed, many of them are more so—than men, but there i certainly seems a tendency among the men here to keep the management of affairs in their own hands.”. She instanced the Progressive and A. and P. associations and the gymkhana committee as cases ?n point, and concluded: “They have no women on itheir committees, but when they want any money raised they call the ladies together to do it for them.” Needless to say, Mrs Dickins’ remarks were heartily applauded by those present, several of whom declared them to be exactly coincident .with their own ideas.

' “I am convinced,” said Mr ,D. Buchanan, the well-known Ayrshire breeder, of Manawatu, who has just returned from a trip to Australia (states the “Manawatu Daily Times”), “that the prospects for the next season in the Dominion are exceedingly good, partly as a result of the terrible drought th4t has prevailed in the Commonwealth for s© long. I shail not be at all surprised if, very soon, we experienced a big demand for fat sheep and mutton from Australian consumers, because their own stocks are depleted and they must di’aw supplies from somewhere. Graziers slipuld be on the lookout for this demand, which I feel sure must come soon.” ' -

A new arrangement affecting the instruction of children in small household, schools is contemplated by the Education Department. The proposal is that where the attendance is less ithan four ’the pupils should be enrolled in correspondence classes, and payment of capitation discontinued. The matter came before the Auckland Education Board, and >t was agreed to prepare a return of schools referred to. Mr Purdie said that the teaching of children by correspondence entailed a great deal of work on the mothers. In effect was making them teachers under guidance. Mr E. C. B an^s (chairman) said it would mean a saving of £l5 a head per annum. Mr J. Boddie said that if the mothers had the capability and the time it would be a good thing, but in country districts the mothers aften had more than they could possibly do without undertaking the education of their children. It, simply meant adding another burden.

“Scenes That Are Brightest” on life’s checkered way Live to the vision, when far, far away. Music melodious which sings in our hearts After long years still its rapture imparts. When life is nearing the gates of its goal, Echoes of childhood still stir in the soul. Tenderest thoughts in our sad hours endure Of home and Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.