THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4597, 5 September 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• At the Power Board's meeefing at Te Aroha yesterday it, was decided to prosecute a consumer at Turua for the alleged interference with a power meter. The s.s. Taniwha on its way from Auckland to Paeroa yesterday was unfortunate enough to get on a sandbank about a mile from Carter’s. Corner. Passengers were rowed in a boat to Carter’s Corner, wherg a car from Paeroa was awaiting them. in this issue Messrs Brocket and Shand, the quality grocers, of Paeroa, have an interesting advertisement pertaining to their famous Ceylon Teas.* The first pile of the Puhonga Canal bridge was driven on Monday last. Although everything is in readiness to push on with the work,, it will be a slow job, as the piles are 60ft long and therefore have to be driven ij two sections and spliced together. Even then, it is only at hign tide that driving can be done. The construction of the bridge is becoming urgent, as slips are endangering the present structure. Mr William McCullay, who has recently arrived from Scotland, announces t|hat he had taken over the watchmaking and jewellery business recently carried on by Mr M. J. Harris. He is a practical man, and repairs can be entrusted to him with confidence.* The cessation of the continuous rainfall that has been experienced on the Plains this winter is demonstrated by the figures available from the Lands Drainage Department's gauge at Kerepeehi. During the past month the total recorded was 2-77 in, or .42in below the average for the same month in the preceding ten years. Only 14 days were wet. Brown (narrating his experiences while almost drowning) : “It was a terrible sensation! After I went down a third time my past life flashed before me in a series of pictures.” Jones (edging forward with sudden interest) : “You didn’t happen to notice a picture of me lending you a fiver in the autumn of 1913, did you ?” * “T don’t mind writing letters a bit. Last year I wrote 120' and only got one response.” This remark (says the Chronicle) was made by Mr Gbodwin, the secretary of the Levin R.S.A, at a recent meeting.