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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4621, 5 November 1923, Page 2

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

Once again damage and mischief in Paeroa has to be chronicled. On Thursday evening the sweets and soft drinks room in the Soldiers’ Club was entered and lollies to the value of about £1 stolen. The situation if th if room is just, inside the front door. A dan'ce was held in the Club on Thursday, evening, and was concluded just before midnight and the premises securely locked up. It 'S thought that the person who committed the theft hid in the billiard room until the last person left the building and the door was locked. Once alone, a ladder was placed against the refreshment room, and by this means the door, which is divided into two parts, the top half being secured by a bolt and the bottom by a Yale lock, was easily opened.

The various shopkeepers to-day are bu°y retailing fireworks and masks to the younger generation in anticipation of the celebration to-night of Guy Fawkes. The Gunpowder Plot, was a conspiracy entered into by a desperate band of Roman Catholics in the reign of James I. to, avenge the harsh treatment to which the Catholics were subjected in those days. Barrels of gunpowder were secreted in the vaults beneath the House of Parliament, and it was proposed to fire these when the King and his Ministers assembled on November 5, 1605. A ’etter of warning to Lord Mounteagle led to the discovery of the plot, arid Guy Fawkes and his co-conspira-torr, were arrested and executed.

Tenders are invited by Mr E. E. Gillman, architect, for the erection of a block of two shops in brick in Paeroa.

A narrow escape from serious injury, and perhaps from death, occurred in the main street of Morrinsville, when a boy jumped from a cart almost on to the “ Auckland Star ” cay, which was returning from Hamilton to Paeroa. Had it not been for the prompt application of the brakes the boy would have been under the back wheel. As it was the wheel pinched the boy’s leg.

An outbreak of fire occurred in the washhouse belonging to M v B. Halligan. Netherton, this morn ng. The copper fire was alight, out it was thought that everything was left safe while the family were hd>mg breakfast.