LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4571, 1 June 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

As Monday next will be generally observed as a holiday (King’s Birthday falling on Sunday, June 3), the “Hauraki Plains Gazette” will not, be published on that day. The Post and Telegraph Office and Telephone Exchange will be closed on Monday, June 4. for the King’s Birthday. All mails will be closed -at 7 a.m., and there will be no deliveries by postmen.

The metalling of the Turua-Nether-toif road nea'r Troughton’s is completed, and it is anticipated that a start, will be made this week with the work of repairing the road near Carter’s Corner.

The local registrar Mr J. G. McDougall) supplies the following Paeroa vital statistics for the month of May : Births, 4 ; marriages, 1; deaths, 0.

The special train conveying the children, parents, and teachers from Thames, Wharepoa, and Komata t.o the Waikato Winter Show, on passing through Paeroa this morning was over a quarter of a mile in length. The train was composed of a large numoer of carriages and converged trucks.

While riding home from football at Patetonga on Saturday a girl named Mavis Senior, aged 15, met with a serious accident. Her horse slipped while crossing a bridge and threw her against the railings, and a fractured skull was the result. She was conveyed to the Thames Hospital on Mohday, still in an unconscious state.

The average of a total offering of 40 lots of Mr C. A. Cares’ pedigree Terseys sold at Cambridge last week registered 47 guineas. Mr R. Glynn Lewis’ pedigree Jersey herd-at Okoroire averaged £32 4s per head. In the latter sale some grade cows received flattering attention, making as high as £33.

The employees of the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co.’s Ngatea factory held a very successful ball at Ngatea on Wednesday evening. About. 250' people were present, and the hall was taxed to overflowing. The music by the Morrinsville jazz band was irresistible, the floor was. in perfect order, and the decoa-ations were all that could be desired. The factory boys are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts.

During the Hon. W. F. Massey'S speech at the opening of the Waikato Winter Show pn Tuesday afternoon an interjector tried several times to draw a comparison between Australia nnd New Zealand. The crowd promptly told him to “shut up, and get back ip Australia.’’ Mr Massey said his interrupter looked good enough to be a New Zealander, and he would not press for .his deportation (laughter), and nothing further was heard from the “Aussie.”

A young man named George H. Nicholson was admitted to the Waikato Hospital on Tuesday suffer,infrom a gunshot wound in the region of the heart. Nicholson was taken in from a house on Peacocke’s Road, where he had been found with a double-barrelled gun. one barrel of which had been discharged, lying beside him. As a note indicating his wishes with regard to disposal of his property was also discovered, the case is supposed to be one of attempted suicide. The unfortunate young man gradually sunk Lower and lower, eventually passing away at an early hour yesterday morning.

In our advertising columns will bo found an interesting advertisement of I. Bateson and Sons, nur. erymen, of Hamilton. They have made a special study of the shelter trees that are the most suitable for quick and reliable growth in the soils of this district. Farmers in need of shelter clumps for their stock are advised to promptly get in touch with this firm. They are willing to give full advice and particulars of the expert knowledge acquired by them as to suitability of trees for the different sells. All branches of landscape gardening, including the making of lawns, tennis courts, and croquet lawns, are undertaken, and estimates are supplied*

There was’a good attendance from Ngatea and Kerepeehi at the Mutual Improvement Society’s debate at Ngatea on Monday evening, and a very pleasant time was spent. Musical items were given by the Kerepeehi orchestra and by several Kerepeehi residents. The cause of Kerepeehi and the reasons why it should be the leading town on the Plains was championed by Mr C. Hutchinson, ably supported by Mr J. Jenkins, while Mr H. E. Harvey and Mr R. Phelan argued to the contrary. The latter evidently put up the best argument, for the voting was : For, 21 ; against, 33. The whole debate was carried out, in a friendly spirit, and one to which no one could take exception.