THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4598, 7 September 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• The annual meeting- of the Paeroa Bowling Club will, be held in the Soldiers’ Club to-mqrrow, when several matters of great importance are to be discussed. During last month at the Paeroa abattoirs the following stock was slaughtered: 24 steers and heifers, 74 cows, 146 sheep, 5 lambs, and 8 Pigs. The Thames County engineer has recommended to the Council that the woi’ko f laying down the bitumen road from Kopu to Thames be recommenced as soon as metal becomes available. Notice is given that a poll of all suppliers to dairy factories is to be taken under the provisions of the Dairy Produce Export Control Acr, 1923, Attention is directed to the advertisement, which appears in ithis issue. At yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council a motion of sympathy was accorded to Mr FL Poland, M.P., on the death of his father. Mr J. Hanson, suit and costume specialist for the Farmers’ Union Trading Co., Ltd., is visiting Paeroa today and’ to-morrow, and will be at Netherton on Monday. Mr Hanson has a ’new and up-to-date range of samples which he will be pleased to show you. This is a unique opportunity to secure one of djie latest sui:s or costumes at .less than Auckland prices. Suits from £3 5s and costumes from £3 15s. Fit and style absolutely guaranteed.*

With its wide variety of photographs available from the world’s best sources, the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” commands utmost attention, and this week’s issue is another proof of the energies devoted to its production. Footballers are further well catered for. The recent successful two-year-old parade at Ellerslie gives an indication of the youngsters’ qualities, and the triumph of New Zealand horses at Rosehill races, where they had four wins and a dead-heat, is represented in a series of graphic photographs. The centre pages are attractively displayed with a miscellany of prominent happenings in the social, athletic, and theatricall life of the States. Views of Tokip are particularly appropriate at the present time.

Mrs A. Day, draper, of Queen street, Tr.ames, notifies by advertisement in this issue that she will visit Kerepebi on the 12th instant with a new and up-to-date range cf general drapery, and will be prepared to take orders for children’s sewing and fancy work of all descriptions.*

The public schools in th 6 Auckland Education district will re-open on Monday morning after having been closed for a fortnight’s holiday. Prior to the business being taken of the Ohinemuri Conuty Council yesterday the chairman (Mr A. R, Robinson) welcomed Cr. P. Corbett back to the table again after hi,s serious illness. Hopes were expressed that he would enjoy better health in the future. The Rev. H. B. Gray, who is a prominent, minister of the Presbyterian Church, will preach a,t both services at St. Andrew’s Church on Sunday next. The secretary of tjie Paeroa Chamber of Commerce ha,s received word that both Mr Baker. District Engineer, and Mr L. May, resident engineer, of the Public Works Department will be present at the next meeting of the chamber on the 18th inst., when the notice of motion by tjie president (Mr E. W. Porritt) that the chamber consider the advisability of requesting the Public Works Department to proceed with the cut at Waimarie Bend, in lieu of stop-banking round the bend, will be discussed. At the meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council yesterday the chairman gave notice to move at the next meeting of the council: “That all previous resolutions declaring any plants to be noxious weeds within the Ohinemuri County under section 4 of tho Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, be now rescinded and the matter be re-con-sidered.”