THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4578, 22 June 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The committee of the Paeroa Public Library has to acknowledge with grateful thanks the donation of one hundred books to the library by Mr and Mrs J. L. Hanna. The committee recently decided to appeal to the public assistance. Books that people have read and have no further use for will be gratefully received. Owing to the withdrawal of the Government subsidy the revenue of the local library has beer! sadly depleted, and it is only by the assistance of the public that the library can be adequately maintained. It is considered that people may not feel disposed co give cash, but will be only too pleased to donate disused books. The Minister of Finance was asked in the House on Wednesday by Mr H. Poland (Ohinemuri) whether, hs would take into favourable consideration the question of altering the present policy of the State Advances Office by increasing the present limit of £5OOO as the amount the office will advance in any one year to a local authority to at least £lO,OOO. At a meeting of representatives of tho Te Aroha, Cambridge, and. Thames Trotting Clubs, held in Te Aroha last Monday, it was oecided to apply for a totalisator permit to hold a combined twp days’ trotting meeting in Auckland,, it being maintained that the three clubs had been struggling along the past four seasons without a tote, and as a result they novz find themselves very much behind financially. Therefore they asked for a little consideration from the Government in order to reduce their indebtedness. ■Presence of mind and quickness of action averted a serious accident at the Lampton railway station on Monday last (states the Dominion), A mother left her flye-yeai’-old daughter nursing a baby in a gig when the horse made off. Grasping t,ho position, Mr W. Higgs,, a taxi-driver, called the mother, placed her in his car, and followed the horse and trap. Leaving his car almost before it stopped he overtook the r ( ujmway„ ran and jumped into the gig from behind, pulled up tlie horse) and restored the weeping little girl and baby to the mother. Waving good-ibye, the rescuer drove away without waiting for thanks,, while several onlookers were wondering what to do.

Sunday next will be the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist and will be observed with festival services at St. Paul’s Church. The Holy Buhcarist will be sung at 11 a.m. and Festal Evensong at 7 p.m. At a meeting of the Waihi Borough Council on Wednseday evening it was resolved to call tenders for the sale of a motor-car purchased for £425 by the old council, the purchase having proved unpopular in the face of the conditions of roads and footpaths. The council also resolved to take active steps in regard to road repairs. Next Sunday there will be special anniversary services at the Paeroa Methodist Church. A special feature will be the anthem singing by the choir at both services.

At a special meeting of the Paeroa District High School Committee held last evening several tenders were dealt with for the position of caretaker and cleaner of the school. Mrs H. D. Sorensen was appointed to tho position, subject to taking up duty on Monday. July 9.

On Friday last Mr H. Poland, M-P, for Ohinemuri, gave notice in the House to ask the Mniister of Agiicuiture “Whether he will this session introduce legislation to provide that all proprietary live-stock and poultry foods, condiments, and tonics should be registered, and that an invoice certificate showing the composition and food value of the preparation, as determined by analysis,, be made the basis of every sale, the vendor being liable -to penalty if the article proves to be be’ew the standard indicated in the invoice ?” Many complaints are heard of the quality of some of these proprietary stock foods, and the above suggestion would put the sale of. stock foods on an equal footing with the sale of fertilisers, and would afford the farmer the same protection as he now enjoys in respect of the latter.

A. dance in aid of the Patetonga Tennis Club’s funds was held in the hall on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, and a very enjoyable evening was spent. A euchre tournament was also held, the prizes being won by Miss Blackburn and Mr F. Costello.

One man’s opinion of New Zealand: “I feel like the small boy who was allowed to ask his teacher to come and see his garden after he had put. a lot of work into it. »The teachei, nodded and said, ‘Very good,’ and the small boy looked up at his per,ceptor and burst out: ‘Very good! Hell, it’s just perfect!’”—Mr F. Macpherson, to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce recently.

“New Zealand is all for football,” said a member of the M.C.C. team on his return to England, “Its people do not possess the true sporting spirit of cricket.. Barracking in Australia is nothing more than good-natured chaff. In New Zealand the crowd looked on in silence when Archie Maclaren scored a double century, and then went wild with delight when one of the New Zealand team knocked a four.”

The Union Co.’s Waihora is shipping 750 bullocks for Australia, purchased ’by Keith McLean, of Gippsland. Victoria. The vessel, has been specially fitted for the purpose. The operation of loading in Wellington (states an. exchange) is fraught with many difficulties, and has been watched by a large crowd. The estimated cost of landing the tullocks in Australia is £9 a head. The Waihora wiP return for another shipment, ami if successful other consignments will be arranged.

An American was recently asked how Prohibition was operating in his country. “Oh, pretty well, I guess,” was the reply. “You see, the people are divided into two parties. One party still has a little, and the other has a little still.”

“I would not care to live there. There is no security of life or property,” remarked Mr E. B. Bolan.L discussing his impression of the United States (says the ‘'Poverty Bay Herald”). Hold-ups, he said, were of daily occurrence in- every city, and the papers were full of mystery stories of the perpetrators. Jewels had to be kept in vaults, and motorists were liable to be held up even in crowded streets. One case mentioned was* that of a lady who slowed her car in a traffic block in one of the main streets of a Californian city, and was robbed by a man who coolly stepped into the car and held a revolver at her side. Another case which aroused much interest was that in which a young fellow walked into a restaurant at 5 o’clock in the morning and held up the house detective, two policemen, and a couple of customers who were having breakfast. The majority of the robberies were committed by young men, who took startling risks with the utmost coolness.

Abou: 100 farmers have applied for admission to Ruakura for the forthcoming course of lectures and demonstrations. The age of the youngest applicant, is 15) and that of ths oldest 81. The average age is 21 years, so that there are a great number of young men. .This is a most pleasing feature, and augurs well for the su • cess of the school. Up till the present approximately 400 farmers have received instruction in these short courses, which were instituted at Ruakura about four years ago.

in a certain township not very far from Napier lived an agent for "Tatts,” who hoped some day to land the winner. As none of them received receipts from Australia for their 6s 4d, they surmised (says an exchange) that the postal authorities had confiscated the money under the gaming laws of the country. But the agent, suddenly disappeared, and their suspicions rested upon him as having appropriated their funds. However, they are in the unfortunate position of being unable to take legal steps to claim the money, as they are liable themselves, under the Gaming Act. Verily the way of transgressors against New Zealand laws is hard.

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