THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4584, 9 July 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The social that is advertised for Thursday by -the Beautifying Society promises to be a successful function. The public has been most generous in donating prizes and supper, and alte cash towards the cost of providing the music, and very complete arrangements have accordingly been made. The prizes for the euchre are on view at Mr Corringham’s, and are: First lady’s, umbrella, presented by Mrs Medhurst; second lady’s, a sunshine suede purse, presented by Mr P. R. Hubbard ; first gentleman’s, a travelling rug, presented by Messrs W. F. Johnstone and D. McWatiters; second gentleman’s, a brief-bag, presented by Mr G. S. Taiboys. ’Lovers of dancing will be pleased to learn that the dance music will be supplied by Mr. “Brooky” Christian. The Dairy Farmers’ Union, is calling a conference of dairy factories of the whole of the Wellington province for July 9, in .order to discuss the unsatisfactory position of the bacon industry. The efforts to secure the works of the New Zealand Meat Packing and Bacon Company having proved fruitless the question of a new cooperative scheme on a large basis will be discussed in rthe hope of devising some solution' of this vexed problem. ‘‘ How your Council has the face to ask me for rates is a, wonder to me,’ wrote a Te Kowhai settler in forwarding a cheque for £34., to the lasii meeting of the Waipa County. “They have never .spent one shilling on my roid in their lives, and I have to ride if I want to go tp Hamilton. 1 consider their treatment tp me a disgrace to any local body. I wish to inform the Waipa County Council that it is my intention to cite them before the Minister for Lands. I am simply paying rates to keep up roads for other people. I consider a black man would not or should not be treated a° I have been.” While the road in question might , not be all that was required, the riding member expressed it that it was no worse than many others and the communication was received.

The sudden appearance last Friday afternoon of "suffragettes ’ and others parading the streets, of Paeroa in weird and wonderful costumes requires some explanation. The children of the High School are holding a series of entertainments ait tjie school to raise money to buy much-needed library books. The “suffragettes were offered £1 if they would be ‘“game” enough to walk in broad daylight from the school to the station. It should be added that the generous donor forwarded the money before the concert, but. the girls determined ito carry out the full contract. Hence the procession.

While embarking pn to a launch at Kerepeehi on Thursday evening a member of the Kerepeehi Concert Party, Miss E. Thompson, stepped over the end of the wharf into the river. The night was very dark and a strong current was running. A lantern was produced, but 4n t,he hurry it was dropped into the water. Although he was wearing an overcoat a?nd thight boots.and could not swim Mr W. W. Herkt sprang into the wate’- and located the girl. A rope was thrown and the pair brought ashore.

At the meeting of Netherton ratepayers last week Mr Vowles stated that a,s a result of a concert Netherton had contributed £ll towards the ‘fund of £lOO which’ the Education Department had promised to subsidise for the establishment of a manual and technical school at Paeroa. The meeting carried a resolution, proposed by Mr Vowles and seconded by Mr J. H. Nicholson, that the Minister of Education be urged to established a manual and technical school at 1 aeroa for the benefit pi the children of paeroa and the Surrounding districts.

The pupils of- the secondary department, of the Paeroa District High School are considerably handicapped by the lack of a well-stocked library of books to help them in their work. With a view to raising some money for this purpose a little entertainment was given by the high school pupils in the large room of the Infants’ department on Friday last after school. The programme included a number of dialogues, recitations, and musical items. The performers appeared for the most part in costume, and some very striking and humorous effects were .thereby obtained.

The clearing '.sale at the Morrinsville saleyards yesterday (states Friday’s “Star”) was carried on under difficulties owing to the almost incessant downpour. Yet, despite the watery conditions, the auctioneer retained his sense of humour. He was selling, or trying to sell, seme horses. There was an evergreen tree close by, so he suggested that they should stand under the spreading branches, where he thought it might not be quite so damP< They stood under tl(e tree—the auctioneer, his clerk, and the sprinkling of buyers. They did not .stay there for long, hewever, as’ the branches and leaves appeared to be holding more water than even there was in the heavens, and it was falling in large and numerous drops. The auctioneer saw a hillock out in the pouring rain: “Let’s get out of the rain,” he said, and made his way into the open again.

The Dobson coalfield is now considered proved to the extent of two million tons of coal (says the “Grey River Argus”), but old miners state that there is much more in it. The latest, bores show that coal is plentiful, and it is expected that the previous notion that the field was unworkable will now be speedily exploded.

The Maori residents of Galatea, on the Wanganui River , have built themselves a school, preparing the plans, finding the labour, and using the timber from an old flourmill erected by Sir George Grey 50 years ago„ says the Wanganui Chronicle:

The Palmerston standard says the somewhat unusual spectacle of t,wo trains standing stationary while a policeman was engaged in the task of removing an “ inebriated lady ” from the railway line was witnessed at the crossing at the station end of the Square one day last week. She was passing over the erpssing when the heel-of one of her shoes caught in a double rail rendering further progress for the moment impossible. With much ceremony hse removed her foot from the shoe, and catching sight of a policeman who was bent on arresting her, she moved on to the permanent way between the hedges that flank the line through the . Square. In the meantime the north-bound New Plymouth mail train had left the station and a goods train from the Wairarapa was coming into the station on the down line. Both trains had to pull up the offender was removed from the crossing and escorted, protesting, to the police station. She failed to appear whan called before the Police Court and in her absence a .conviction was entered and the amount of her bail, ss, was estreated.

For the five months ended May last the arrivals in New Zealand numbered 15,028, and the depatures 14 i( 279 The nationalities of immigrants and numbers were: England and Wales, 1272 males, 1307 females; Scotland, 598 and 487 ; Ireland, 151 and 117 ; Australia, 249 and, 209 ; Canada, 23 and 14 ; other British possessions, 2454 and 2264. There were 88 males and 36 females who arrived from foreign States.

“My advice to justice of the peace,, when in doubt about issuing a warrant for the arrest of a person on dny cha r ge is to go tp t,he clerk of the Court,” said Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., at the Hawera Court, when dismissing an information in. a case of alleged theft of goods by a wife and two other men from the woman’s husband (states the “Taranaki News”). The throe accused had been arrested on warrant, and the Magistrate had te comment severely on the practice of issuing warrants in cases where a 1 summons would suffice. For Influenza, take Woods’ Greaj; Peppermint Cure.