LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4586, 16 July 1923, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of- the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce is to be held to-morrow night in the Coronation Chambers. The annual meeting of- the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club is to be held on Wednesday morning next at 11 o’clock. The Methodist Concert, to be held in the Central Theatre to-morrow, promises to be one of the finest ever witnessed in this town. A first-grade programme by local and visiting artists will be staged. Tickets 2s 2d and Is 8d at door. Programmes free. The N.Z. Gazette dated July 5, 1923, states that Captain E. A. Porritt, M.C., has been appointed pfficer commanding A Company of the Hauraki Regiment, wiltji headquarters at Paeroj., The undermentioned have been appointed second lieutenants on probation, seniority to date from June 18, 1923, and to be attached to A Company,. First Battalion, Hauraki Regiment : George Napier Hart, Walter Leslie N. Lawrence.

, Twenty years as secretary to the Morrinsville School Committee has been the proud record lecently attained by Mr W. J. Neels, and to show the public’s appreciation of Mr Neels’ services the school committee made him a presentation of a well filled wallet.

Mr Alfred Lawrence, slaughterman at the Paeroa abattoirs, met with a painful accident while following his calling on Thursday afternoon. When he was in the act of “legging” a sheep his knife slipped,, inflicting a deep gash at an angle across the wrist of his left arm and severing an artery. Mr Lawrence’s son, who was present at the time, promptly summoned a doctor from Paeroa, and the medical man found on reaching the abattoirs that he had arrived none too soon, as in a very short time the victim of the\ccident would have suc-< cumbed from loss of blood, which, in the interval, had gushed freely from the wound. The injury was attended to and Mr Lawrence conveyed to his home, from whence he was reported l',o-day to be making satisfactory progress.

A little incident that is worthy of notice took pla.cie at the i ecent fire on Te Aroha Road. Miss Doris Alley, who is a sisiter of Mrs White, had just arrived at the house when it was discovered to be on fire. Knowing that an enlargement of her late brother Fred, who gave his life in the defence of the Empire, was hanging above the front room mantelpiece, she hurriedly wrapped a cloth around her mouth and rushed into the burn - ing room and recovered the photograph. Those who witnessed the deed winder how she ever accomplished it, as the room was a mass of flame. The only injury she sustained was getting her hair all singed.

Commenting pn the adverse criticism often hurled at the New Zealand Co op. Dairy Co., by its suppliers, Mr Joseph Clark, director, said, at a meeting of Morrinsville suppliers on Wednesday evening, that it gave some people pleasure to have the directors and managers derated by the suppliers. Much of the criticism, he said, was caused by selfishness or jealousy.

The medical surgeon reported to the meeting of the Thames Hospital Board last week that during the month 25 males and 37 females were admitted, and 25 males and 29 females were discharged. The outpatients were 21 males and 3 females. The .operations were ; Males 14, females 24. One male and 2 females died. .Two of the patients that, died were 74 and 86 years of age respectively.

A special order fixing the number of trustees to represent the several subdivisions of the Elstow Drainage District' is advertised. Two trustees will be allotted for the Awaitj subdivision on the board. The special order is to be confirmed at the next ordinary meeting of the board, to be held at Waihou on Friday, August 10.

While there is considerable sympathy with the houseowner who has the papers torn off the walls of his rented houses and the windows broken and the paintwork scratched by the children of tenants it is doubtful if . the system adopted by a certain Landlord- in Hamilton East of charging 2s 6d extra on t.he ordinary rent for each child which the tenant possesses will meet the position. The remedy, it is thought, lies rather in parents exercising a better supervision over their children, whose unruliness can cause a landlord far more expense than the rent which he draws from his house.

A paragraph appeared in the N.Z“Herald” of July 11 commenting on - remarkable instance of consistent attendance for seven years by a pupil in an Auckland school. It will perhaps interest our readers to know that Mr J. Rush, of Paeroa, holds 21 good attendance certificates showing that each of his three girls, Ettie, Myrtle, and Ada, attended every time school was open from February, 1909, till December, 1915, a period of seven years. The last-mentioned, young lady in her eighth year just failed to gain a good attendance certificate. Mr Rush also holds five good attendance certificates gained by other members of his family. It would be interesting i.o know if any other family in New Zealand can beat .this record.

There was an unusual visitor at the Timaru Magistrate’s Court a few days ago in the form of a bird, which flew in through an open skylight. Having got in (relates the “Post”), the feathered intruder, like' many people who have entered the same room, found great difficulty in getting .safely away again. The noise created by the fluttering of the bird against the glass attracted an official’s attention, and he opened one of the skylights. Like others who have found the court an uncongenial place, the bird departed hurriedly. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For coughs and polds never fails.