THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4619, 31 October 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On Sunday next His Lordship Bishop Cleary, D.D., is to hold a Blessing and Re-opening Ceremony at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Paeroa. A cordial invitation is extended to all. A meeting of cricket enthusiasts and members of the Paeroa Cricket Club is to be held to-morrow evening to consider the advisability of continuing the game in Paeroa this season. A full attendance of cricketers is expected. The master butchers of Paeroa have decided that in future they will not observe a late night on Fridays as hitherto. The hours of opening and closing have been fixed as. follows : Monday to Thursday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fridays, 7 am. to. 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 6.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. Full particulars are advertised, and the public is asked to note them. •‘Close on 40,000 disabled ex-soldiers are still out of work,” said General Russell, president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, who has just returned to Wellington from London. “Hundreds of thousands of other ex-soldiers are in the ranks of the unemployed, besides. At a conference held at Geneva to discuss the question of the employment of the disabled it was unanimously resolved that where voluntary effort failed to achieve results legislation should be introduced, making it compulsory for employers to engage a certain percentage of disabled men. Discussion of the working details showed how difficult and inelastic such' a scheme would be. In the case of New Zealand it should be the last resort.” Suffering from a fit of sleeplessness during a recent night, a local resident fell to counting the strokes on the hells of the town clock (.says the Timaru Post). He was surprised at the number and pn calculating the number of times the bells were sounded in the 24 hours, he arrived at some astonishing figures. The chimes for the quarter-hour are tolled 384 times in the day, and half-hour bells are struck 288 times, the threequarter 192 times, and the full-four quartet 96 times. Added to this are the 156 times the hour bells struck, making a total of 1116 strokes on ths bells every day.

To-morrow will be All Saints’ Day, which, next to the festivale directly in connection with our Lord Himself, is the greatest Feast of the ecclesiastical year. It is kept throughout the whole Catholic Church, and from very early times has been a festival dear to all Christian people. On it are commemorated all the countless millions who have passed away in. the FaitJj, so that it may be said there is not a Christian living upon whom tihe duty and privilege of remembering some dear one, before God, does not lie. Naturally the appeal of the day has been even stronger since the Great War, when so many made the supreme sacrifice in the cause of honour and justice. The festival will be kept at St. Paul’s Church with special services on Sunday next, the Sunday within the octave. The fifth annual meeting if the Ohinemuri Club was held in the club rooms last evening, when some forty members were present. The meeting was presided over by the president, Mr W. J. Towers. The report and balance-sheet submitted showed the institution to have been progressive. It had again assisted in entertaining visitors to the town, some two hundred having been granted the privileges of the club. The following are the officers for the ensuing year : President, Mr W. D. Nicholas; vicepresident, Mr E. Edwards ; committee, Messrs E. W. Porritt, A. Gorrie, A. Steedman, C. Topliss, J. L. Hanna, W. J. Towers. To be legally liable for the support of another man’s illegitimate child, whose mother he had married a few months before her death, is the plight of a young tram conductor, as revealed in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington this week, when the question of maintenance was raised. “The child,’’ explained Sub-Inspector Cum“is now in the care of the State, and defendant is liable for its support. Defendant is not the father. The girl married him when she was practically dying on her feet, and he was not then aware pf the child’s existence. We have not sufficient evidence to determine the real father. I know it is hard on this young man ; but it is the law.” The Magistrate (Mr E. Page, S.M.) made an order in the meantime for the payment of 10s per week. Housewives will note with interest that the Christmas ham will probably be dear this season (says the Wanganui Chronicle). The new season is now opening, and the eurers are offering high prices for pigs. Another aspect is the outside markets that are opening up for porki New Zealand hams are coming into favour in Australia, and it is only a matter of .time when a Home market will also be available. On the other hand, this will help to develop the pig industry in New Zealand, and the output will correspondingly increase.