THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4598, 15 August 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The local postmaster notifies that mails which left Auckland on J'uly 10, via Vancouver, arrived at London on August 12. In the House of Representatives last week Mr L. M'. Isit.t (Christchurch North) gave notice of his intention to ask the Prime Minister if he would introduce legislation to render it imperative on any city council or body having authority over licensed taxi-drivers to recall their licenses in case of their being found drunk while driving a car. Domestic troubles seasoned with a dash of love were primarily responsible for the sudden elopement of a youth and a girl of 16 summers from the latter’s home in Tauranga on Tuesday evening (says the Waihi paper). Mounted on a motor cycle and t,he girl beside him in a side-car the young man left Tauranga at 7.3 C p.m. for Waihi. Owing to the shocking state of the road the machine stuck fast between Tauranga and Ki'tikati. and the couple perforce spent the long night on the road. They reached Waihi about 8 o’clock on Wednesday night in a wretched and tired condition. The intervention of the police the following morning had brought, the romance to an abrupt ending, and the pair were safely put aboard a service car bound for Tauranga, A district player who received a slight kick at football about three weeks ago has been in a private hospital in Palmerston (reports the Manawatu Times) for the past week, suffering from a peculiar affection which caused his head to rest on his right shoulder. The latest report says it is hoped that he may recover in a few weeks. Something in the nature of a rara avis was discovered at the annual meeting of the Timaru Park Bowling Club, in the form of a secretary who was praised and thanked for having run the club for twelve months on a stamp account which only totalled 2s 6d. How this had been done was something pf a mystery (remarks the Timaru Herald) till Mr Miller, the secretary in question, explained that he wrote very few letters and never gave a receipt. Instead of giving receipts he posted members’ names on the wall of the pavilion and marked them paid, as the subscriptions came to hand. This saved stamps and writing paper, and ne believed that members liked to see their names that way, better than on a piece of paper in their pockets. (Laughter). Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails. |

At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday the case of J, Ryall (Mr Hanna) v. K. M. and G. W. Faulder (Mr Clendon), arising out of an alleged misrepresentation of the position of a cowshed and pigsty on a farm sold by defendants .to the plaintiff, was amicably settled by the parties after the case had been partially heard.

A total of 340 New Zealand-bpru prisoners between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five were received during 1922—an increase of 126, or 58 per cent, on the figures for 1921. Crime among youthful Maoris appears to be on the increase. Twenty-nine Maoris under the age of twenty years were received during the past year, as against ten during 1921.

Christchurch folk are inclined to complain about the weather (remarks the “Press”). An exception is a Christchurch business man who has returned from eight weeks’ visit to Auckland. During that period, ne states, there were only two showers — one lasting three weeks and the other five weeks.

The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) has considered the protests about the gazetted alteration of the list of primary school books, and taking into consideration the lateness of the issue of the new list, he has given Education Boards power fp authorise teachers to adhere to the text books at present in use for 1924, provided that any change in those books must be in accordance with the new list and must operate immediately.

At the Magistrate’s Courx at Cambridge on Thursday Herbert Goonan was charged with the theft of a car, the property of Mr Griffiths, of Horahora. Constable Cleary, who conducted the prosecution, stated that. Mr Griffiths had driven to Cambridge with accused. Mr Griffiths was going away, and he told accused he could use the car in the vicinity of Cambridge for a day or two. Accused had gone to Komata, Paeroa, and Thames, being away 18 days, and damage to the extent of £25. had been done to the car. Accused was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment with hard labour.

It is as well sometimes to see ousselves as others see us (says the Christchurch Press). Not all the world knows that we have just opened a tunnel. An Ashburton County representative coming to Christchurch on Friday to proceed to Otira remarked to an Ot.hgo lady in the train. "It will be a great day to-morrow for Canterbury.” “ Oh, yes,” she replied, “ that’s the first day of the Grand National Races, isn’t it ?”

During the past twelve months 12,377 persons registered themselves for employment as labourers and navvies at the Sydney Labour Bureau, but only 5351 of that number, after being notified that employment was awaiting them, responded. The Labour Department has decided in future to require monthly registration, if the .services of the bureau are still reauired.

The bankruptcies registered in the Dominion in July numbered 57, as compared with 74 in July, 1922, and 32 in July, 1921. For the seven months ended July 31 the total number of bankruptcies was 392, as against 407 in the corresponding term of 1922, and 160 in the seven months of 1921. Compared with last year there is a decrease of 15, bur the insolvencies are still excessive. Farmers continue to top the list ef bankruptcies, the number in July being 15, while labourers who contributed the next greatest number accounted for 8, The principal classes contributing to the bankruptcies in the seven months were as follows: Farmers 93, labourers 34, motor trade 2.1, builders 18, commission agents 13, hotelkeepers 11. These six classes account for about half the number of bankruptcies during the period.