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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4591, 22 August 1923, Page 2

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

The dairy factories on the Plains have now commenced their season’s work in earnest. The Turua factory is turning out 20 cheeses daily, .Huirau Road 13, and Netherton 12. Separating will be continued at the Shelly Beach factory until the end of ithe month. The Ngatea butter factory is receiving cream daily, but churning is only done four days a week. The supply of milk is not increasing as rapidly as is usual at this time of the year owing to the lack of feed caused by the abnormally wet winter.

The advantage tp the Morrinsville Borough Council of being able to give a discount on the general rate as an inducement to ratepayers to pay their rates promptly is shown by the fact that up to Wednesday the town clerk had received £l5OO of the current year’s rates. Up to the end of August of last year only £350 had been received.

Pride of place as the greatest exporter of butt.er-fat in the world is claimed for New Zealand by the Di-rector-General of Agriculture in his annual report, which indicates that the output of the dairy factories Dearly doubled in the year under review.

Ngatea people are wondering if a learned cleric, speaking in their midst recently, realised what a “bull” he made when referring ti, a local man who “would find it a long load to the top of the tree.”

Workmen on the transmission line between Shannon and Foxton received a surprise a few days ago when they came across a small live snake about 18 inches in length in one of the transmission poles. The pole in question had a branch lopped off, leaving a small cavity between the bark and the trunk, and it was evidently in the Australian forest that the reptile in question found a snug resting place. What it has lived on in the meantime Is a matter of conjecture, as it must be at least two months since these poles were shipped from Australia. Possibly the sap in the pole has supplied sufficient nourishment to keep the snake alive until it was dislodged and given a speedy death blow with a workman’s axe.

The bonus payments to suppliers of tffe N.Z. Daily Co. will be paid on the 31st inst.

Friday next being the Feast ofi St. Bartholomew, there will be a celebration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Paul’s Church at 10.30 a.m.,, with special intention and intercessions for the Mission of Healing.

Mr W. North, permanent secretary of the Loyal Jubilee Lodge, has received word from the district correspondence secretary that the district officer will pay an official visit to the lodge on Thursday, 30th inst.

It is gratifying to notice that, with the advent of spring, the Borough Council has commenced tidying up the streets a little. There has been no shortage of green feed in Belmont and Normanby roads during the winter ; in fact, the growth was so good in some parts of these main thoroughfares that they bore the appearance of country lanes. The work of clearing the weeds was commenced yesterday, and a much more live and businesslike appearance has been given the streets. On the Waihi road near the Convent some of the worst of the pot-hole,s are being filled up. There is heavy traffic on this section of the road, and the improvement to the su/face will be much appreciated.

Though 5226 copies of each issue of Hansard are published, there are only 103 people who think enough of the members’ eloquence to pay for Hansard. Their total contribution t,o the cost is only £216, and the cost of printing alone is £8590.

Though only mooted some four months ago, £60,000 has already bee subscribed in Dunedin alone towards the cost of launching the New Zealand and South Se.a,s Exhibition, which it is intended to hold in Dunedin in 1925-26. The promoters regard the exhibition as a Dominion venture, and look for the hearty and cordial support of Wellington and Auckland people in making it a successful exposition in New Zealand’s resources.

Weaknesses in English and arithmetic in the schools are noted in the annual report of the Minister ofi Education. “The quality of Standard VI pupils’ work in English and arithmetic,” says the report, “ has caused the Department some concern, since the work presented in these subjects at the Junior National Scholarship examination revealed considerable inaccuracy in arithmetical calculations as well as very poor knowledge of British history and elementary civics. The attention of teachers and inspectors has been drawn to these weaknesses, and improvement is confidently expected.”

After existing for five years the Rhodesia Meat Packing Company, Ltd., has gone into voluntary liquidation with a deficit of £36,060, of which £23,000 is put down to the fall in market values. Competition from Australia canners was the main cause of the loss.

A Wanganui firm of solicitors or Monday placed a bailiff on the American schooner Forest Home, which has been lying in port for some time, in addition to a claim by the crew, harbour dues now amount to well over £lOO. The captain of the vessel has been left stranded without money, and the schooner is on his hands. He has a share in the schooner, but the other owners are in San Francisco. The crew’s claim comes before the present session of the Supreme Court.

Much comment has been caused in Napier by the methods adopted in repairing the asphalt roads (states the “Daily Telegraph ”). During the last 2G years or more these roads have been repaired by filling up holes with tar boiled shingle, which was quite an effective method, but owing to the council’s inability to secure good quality tar, and the fact that the patent products on the market cannot be put down under wet conditions, Napier has been compelled to use limestone, which has not had a beautifying effect on the roads, and is certainly not as effective as the old method.

During the hearing of a manslaughter charge at the Supreme Court at Timaru, the point was raised as tp the time which a car travelling at the rate of 25 miles an hour would take to cover ten yards. Mr Justice Reed said that an easy means of computation was to halve the number of miles at which the car was travelling per hour, and this would give the number of yards, approximately, which the car (ravelled per second. Thus in the case of a car travelling at twenty miles per hour about ten yards would be,covered in one second.

Pedigree and grade Jersey cattle are on the increase about Waihi (says the Waihi Telegraph) and some fine purebreds of both sexes are to be found. The principal breeder so far is MF Wm. Muir,, who, this year, is milking some 20 purebred heifers and cows, mostly raised by himself. It will probably be found,, when all records are available, that he claims pride of place for butter fat production with a second calver, Wisp’s Beauty, this young cow having, under certified Government test, yielded 488 lbs. of fat last season, with a test of 5.51, and an average of 40 2-311)3 monthly over the full period of twelve months. The qualification for the certificate is 313.1 lbs of fat. Another young cow, Lassie Wisp* gave 312.27 lbs. of fat. Both were bred on the farm by the owner and are by Will o’ the Wisp (Prince Edward by Sweet William) from registered dams. Wisp Beauty’s six months old calf took a first prize in pedigree Jerseys, and came third among all breeds at the last Paeroa Agricultural show.

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