THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4566, 21 May 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

By means of a carnival Whakatane raised £7'so for beautifying the town.

Owing to the heavy wages bill 't has been decided by the Waihi Borough Council tp discharge all temporary hands.

Seven members having been eletced to the Hikutaia School Committee instead of five, the Auckland Education Board has decided to take the necessary action to convene another meeting if necessary.

The ratepayers of Levin have just carried a, loan proposal to borrow £49,000, of which £24,000 is for public buildings and £25,0'00 for street ims

“I did not see an egg for five years. The nearest, cow was 2000: miles away, and the nearest horse was still farther,” said the Rev. Tremaine in the course of a recent lecture at Palmerston North on the Northern American Indians and the blonde Eskimos.

“There ought to be no such thing as separation by consent, A Magistrate has no right'to separate husband and wife,, yet I have actually seen it on the order ‘by consent’,” commented Mr Justice Salmond in the Palmerston North Supreme Court (states an exchange!.

“There is a narrowing tendency in our educational system?’ said Mr T. A. Edwards at the Chamber of Commerefe meeting at Wellington last week, “which tends to suppress individual characteristics and make children uniform, to rub off the corners, as it were, and turn out nice little rows of children, poured out of the moulds of modern mediocrity. Few of you would care to go down the street unless your collars were tunned down and your trousers turned up. It would be a great deal to the benefit of alii if the individual characteristics of children were brought out to ths fullest extent. From what happened a( a conference to«day I! am pleased to say that the state of affairs I deplore is abpunt to be remedied.”

Reserve Thursday, June 14, for the Paeroa Tennis Club Dance.

The Christchurch Sun deals severely with the conduct of some of the students in Friday’s procession. It .says : “We feel compelled in the interests of decency and gpod conduit to protest against, the behaviour which disgraced the occasion. The public has not been taught by students to expect either good .taste cr subtle humour in these displays. The wit of the students’ displays is more of the bludgeon than the rapier, and humour is of the crudely obvious kind. These things are tolerated because they are expected, and because there is a limit which must not be overstepped. Yesterday the students went beyond the limit. Vulgarity gave way tp indecency, and in some cases intoxication displaced sobriety. Acts were committed which the perpetrators should blush to recall,, and which it is impossible for a decent, journal to describe. Women and giifls were held up by almost naked youths hnd kissed and mauled in a way that was cruelly outrageous to modest womanhood. We protest with all pur force against the students’ gross abuse of a privilege which is granted them. The college authorities should be informed by the City Councli that unless a definite guarantee is given that the students will behave themselves tha annual procession must be abandoned.” '•

The formal closing of the Paeroa Bowling Club was held on Saturday afternoon, Owing to the inclement weather play op the greens was out of the., question. From the shelter of the pavilion-I,he club’s president, Mr F. J. Wells., in a happy speech declared the season closed and congratulated the club on a very successful season’s play.

Speaking of the damage done by rabbits to trees (relates the Stratford- “ Evening Post”) Mr Page, of the Forestry Department., lecturing on “Tree Planting” at the Stratford Farmers’ School, said that he had known cases where rabbits had destroyed a thou-, sand trees in one night.

That all New Zealand cattle intended for consumption as meat should’be dehorned, is the advice tendered b.v Mr L. F. Swift (at, present on a visit to New Zealand) president of the company controlling the famous Union Stock Yards, Chicago, who paid breeders for live animals last y?ai nearly a hundred million dollars.

The heavy floods down south have had one good result in that thousands of rabbits have been drowned. A newspaper report states that in the North Canterbury rivers thousands of dead rabbife have been washed down. ’

They st,ay there for about three months and then they see things and they go,” remarked the engineer when the matter of $ roadman in an inaccessible portion of the county was mentioned. —Eketahuna “Express.”

Owing to. the continuous wet weather many of the.roads on the Plains; are now in a very bad state. The unmetalled roads are practically impassable. Another slip occurred on the Puhonga CanaJ. rpad on. Frida# evening, and a Ngatea tradesman had an exciting experience for a few moments. Around, Turua enormous holes have developed in the roads. Even the red . roads , are very slippery for motor cars. , '

“Meat consumption is declining ip the United States,” said. Mr Swift, at present touring New Zealand. “This is particularly true of beef. We are consuming now over . 45 million 'pounds of meat a day in the UniteJ States, which figures out at about 156 pounds per person in the year, as compared with 180 pounds in 1907. Our consumption naturally fell off during the .war, as we shipped so much to the . Allies.”

“I believe in the old saying that women’s voices should not be heard in the church except in the choir,” said an Eltham lady when proposed as a member of AH Saints’ vestry .at the meeting of parishioners. “That’s quite out of date,” remonstrated a gentlemah present. “So am I, then,” said the lady, amid much laughter.

.The petition lodged by the Saturday half-holiday advocates against the decision of the poll taken on April 26 at 'Te Arolia will be heard before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., at the Te Aroha Court on Monday next at, 11.30 a.m.

The fact that he was already a married man with a'family did not deter a of this district recently (relates the “Hawke’s Bay Herald”) from offering himself to an unattached girl, who forthwith accepted the proposal. Preparations were made for the wedding, but before the appointed day the fair damsel learned of the ineligibility of her fiance. The sequel was the handing, over of a cheque for £4oo' from man to maid in order to avoid legal proceedings.

As an aftermath <of the flood at Dunedin soaked bedding, dead cats and hens, and rubbish Of divers sorts are being collected by the corporation’s sanitary staff, carted to the foreshore, and there burnt (states an exchange). The problem of burning collections of damp articles has been overcome by. the use of low-grade kerosene. So far as sanitation is concerned, it, is stated theft the City Corporation’s inspectors and the inspectors of the Health Department are making a house-to-house inspection of the flooded areas. ■ .

Residents the banks of the Waimata River (states a Gisborne paper)- regard t;he seagulls which haunt the vicinity as pets and in some cases have induced the gulls to take scattered food from close to the houses. The birds are fine scavengers, and, it is claimed, do absolutely no harm. A group of these regularly visit the Gisborne Bowling Club’s greens, where they alight among the bowlers, whom they amuse by their antics in avoiding the bowls. One old bird has been named the ‘‘green-keeper,” and is always, on hand.

The usual increase in unemployment as winter draws on has not yec been noticeable in Mastertpn (remarks the “Wairarapa Age”). The Labour Department states that the demand for men has kept steady. Carpenters are specially in demand.

As an illustration that, heifers frequently give better milking results in the third year, during the discussion at the Farmers’ Class at Stratford (states the local “Post,”), Mr J. W. Deem cited the case of a Jersey heifer that only gave 1501 b the first year, but in the three subsequent years it reached 4001 b.

A largely-attended public meeting was held to promote woollen mills at Masterton. The proposal is to raise £30,000 locally towards a total capital of £150,000. The mills will be situated in .Masterton, and are expected to start with 200 operatives. The provisional directors propose a profitsharing system with employees. The meeting decided to support the proposal.

Small experimental shipments of South African beef treated by a special process are being made unfrozen. Ten quarters of beef killed on Abril 20 have arrived at Smithfield, The exterior of the meat is rather dried and darkened, but the interior fresh and bright. The cost of preserving a bullock by this process is fourpence.

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