THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4577, 20 June 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Since the flood on April 21 the weather has been consistently wet on the Hauraki Plains. On forty-three of the fifty-seven days rain has fallen. In this period 14.57 inches of rain have been recorded. About 1457 tons of water have therefore fallen on every acre of ground. So far this month 3.15 inches of rain have fallen, and fifteen of the eighteen days have been wet. Owing to the increase of business Mr L. Wells, proprietor of Wells’ Emporium, Pollen Street, Thames South, has found it necessary to enlarge his business premises. To enable this to be done an alteration sale is being held,, and particulars of a few of the many lines that are to be sacrificed appear in this issue. It is claimed that people attending this sale will spend an enjoyable day in Thames and save their travelling expenses on the sale price of goods purchased.* At the last sitting of the Te Aroha Magistrate’s Court George Bygraves, a farmer of many years’ standing in the district, was convicted on two charges of breaches of the Sales of Foods and Drugs Act, For a breach of adulterating milk Bygraves was convicted and ordered to pay costs, and for adding water to the extent of 10>.9 per cent, to the milk he was convicted and fined £lO .with costs. Two olther on similar charges will be brought before the next sitting of the Te Aroha S.M. Court. At the Borough Council meeting on Thusrday last the report of the Health Committee stated that Mr Denton’s rubbish dump in Mr Cassrels’ property off Aorangi Road, and the drain of the street which runs alongside the railway station between Junction street and Belmont Road, were rat infested,, and steps are being taken to eradicate the rats. In one of our mid-out back centres there has been an argument, over the striking off of an elector’s name on the ground that on the previous occasion when this voter had the chance to vote he did not do so. He swears he did and, “Critic” has learned, has protested in this* wise to the Registrar pf Electors in his district: ‘‘Re the enclosed notice of erasure of name I beg to draw your attention to the fact that I did vote on December 7, in proof of which I can call on the Returning Office.!’, Mrs — —, Miss ■ ——, and Mr —— to prove my statements. As ’I travelled about four miles to vote I. would be very pleased as to further information as to what became of my vote. I have no doubt that the above-mentioned persons will remember me well< as I caused quite a sensation by entering the school-room and finding the Returning Officers so industriously employed that they failed to notice me till I asked could I make a fourth in an. ace pot. Pandemonium followed, and I was hurriedly given my papers and shown behind the screen. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

Commissioner and Mrs Hoggard, j Territorial Commanders of the Salva- t tion Army in New Zealand, -assisted by Brigadier Gunn and Major Bladin, will conduct, a great salvation meeting in the Salvation Army Hall tomorrow evening, commencing at 7.30 O’clock. The Finance Committee of the Borough Council reported at Hie last meeting that during the month .the revenue had amounted to £507 19s 5d and expenditure to £325 17s 10d. The balance to the credit of the District Fund account amounted to £967 6s Bd. Bd. "A few years ago the attitude pt emn’oyeis was, ‘Oh, technical schools! ’All theory, no practice.’ Now they say, ‘Give the boys theory; they can get the practice from us.’ ” —The Director of the Greymouth Technical High School (reported in the “Grev River Argus”). The Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, and Dr. Liston, Coadjutor Bishop of Auckland, passed through Paeroa this morning on their return from the celebration ,of the Rev. Father O’Hara’s silver jubilee as priest at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Waihi. “I don’t think you want. Zlnzac Day on the Coast,” said Mr Croskery in the Greymouth Conciliation Council (reports the “Grey River Argus”)Commissioner Newton : “Yes. Seeing the way they enjoy themselves on Sunday I should say so, too. The Act provides that Anzac Day must be kept up as a Sunday in every respect.” The Education Department has investigated the relative cost, of brick and wood for a ne.w school at Hokowhitu (Manawatu), and finds (states an exchange) that the cost ini brick will be £10,850, as against £684'0 in wood. A wooden building has therefore been decided upon. “Persons who enter into hire-pur-chase agreements under which they pay large sums of what is really purchase money, but is nominally rent, are apt to find themselves in trouble if things go wrong,” remarked His Honour Sir John Salmond in a reserved judgment in the civil action International Harvester Co. v. W. Doyle, which was recently heard in Palmerston North (states the'“Manawatu Standard”). Defendant had paid half the tojtal value of a truck for six months’ use of it. At the last meeting of the Thames Harbour Board the chairman said ■that the Burke Street wharf was in a particularly bad state and was positively dangerous. Had the Board decided not to go on, with the improvement scheme something would have had to be done immediately. He wished members to know the responsibility was on the Board. It was decided that a committee go into the matter.

Reports from Coromandel announce the discovery of rich specimen stone at Tiki, a district from which quite a Jot of gold was won in the earlier days of the. Coromandel field, though generally in small patches. It seems that a prospecting party, which had been fossicking for some time, recently came on good gold-bearing stone and pegged out and applied for a claim. Shortly afterwards they found that the area had previously been pegged out by others, who contend that the ground in which the stone was procured forms part of thier holding. The whole matter, it is said, is likely to be ventilated before the Warden’s Court at an early date. — Waih; Daily Telegraph/

“Don’t send anyone to me who is collecting for the unemployed,” said a Christchurch resident tp a "Lyttelton Times” reporter last week. The reason for this extraordinary statement was that the resident was being kept out of his home, which is undergoing some repairs, owing to what he considered the somewhat unreasonable attitude of the carpenters and plumbers in ceasing operations for four days last week on the grounds that “the hous,e was too cold tp work ip.” The resident was promised that the work would he completed in a week, but that period has passed and the work is only half finished. Meanwhile he and his family have to continue residing out, of town, much to their inconvenience.

“The idea should be Put prominently before everybody that the nose and mouth are the chief means germs have of entry into the system,” said Dr, Home at a lecture in New Plymouth. “Bad and decaying teeth materially help the spread of disease, and. if not attended to, cause the tonsils to become overloaded with injurious bacteria, until,, instead of being a natural means of • combating the evil, they actually become a medium for infection. As tonsils cannot be sterilised they have to be removed when this stage is reached, thus leaving the throat without its protection.” —“Taranaki Daily News.” Speaking pn the question of how many eggs a hen should produce in a. year Mr S, Johnstone, of Palmerston North, judge of the utility classes at tlie Levin show, explained to a “Chronicle” representative that his best hen last year had laid 317 eggs« whilst others had done 306 and 307. These birds were tested under single pen conditions, and he admitted that under ordinary conditions they would not have done so well. At the same time it indicates that in poultry farming, as in other branches of breeding, careful selection and good stock will result in greatly increased production.

A fine point that came up for consideration at Rakaia recently was the difference in meaning between “Not over nineteen years pf age»” and “Not having passed his nineteenth birthday” (remar.ks a Christchurch exchange). On a first consideration these appear to limit the age in the same way, but it is stated they admit of a range of nearly a year. One speaker affirmed that according to a legal ruling adopted by the Defence Department a youth was nineteen until hd- was twenty, so that he might be nineteen years and 364 days bld and. still be “not' over nineteen years of age.”