THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, £ FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4600, 12 September 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, £ FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vestry of St. Paul's Church will be home to the men pf the parish this evening at 7.30 o’clock in the Parish Hall.

The payout for August, supply to the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co. is: Butter, superfine l,s 5%d, first-grade Is sd; cheese, superfine Is 7%d, first-grade Is 7d.

Wilson’s Road, Netherton, is now passable, and though rough is preferable to the longer road.

A punt-load of metal arrived off the end o£ Gum town Road, Turua, on Saturday morning. Mr Cameron and the gang of men who have been putting down the tramline for the good roads scheme had the punt unloaded and the metal spread, near the Huirau Road factory, about three miles away, the same afternoon.

An extract from am advertisement for a public school teacher in the Cook Islands gives an insight into conditions of life in that part of our New Zealand Dominion. The advertisement states: “Applicants should be free from family ties which might hinder them in their work. They must be prepared to endure isolation, and must possess t,he missionary spirit needed to overcome the disadvantages inseparable from the pioneering work which, is to be expected.”

Nothing has yet been done in regard to the establishment of an eight-to-cight telephone service at Ngatea. The Postal Guide states that these hours may be observed when th 3 number of subscribers exceeds 50. At present there are 65 on the telephone list, and from inquiries made it appears that there are about 25 more waiting tp be connected up. If the Department does not wake up the subscribers will be entitled to a ser vice extending from 7 a.m. to 11 P-m--before their previous request is granted. settlers are joining up with more distant offices where longer hours are in operation.

‘The entertainment of visiting teams is becoming a costly proceeding,” said the secretary of the Manawatu Rugby Union .when the accounts were being considered at the last meeting. “On a recent Sunday the cost for the day’s excursion amounted to £l5. Of course, £3-odd of this was spent on liquor.” Members oi the union (says the “Daily Times”) considered that if the team was: to he entertained at tea the provision of liquor on Sunday excursions was superfluous, and a resolution to that effect was passed.

For Children’s Hacking Cough Take wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.