THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4627, 19 November 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A surveyor and his staff were to be seen busily taking levels and driving pegs on the site of Paeroa’s new post office this morning.

special meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council is to be held this evening to apportion the recently raised loan money on various street improvements.

The regular bi-monthly meeting of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Coronation Chambers to-morrow evening.

At a meeting at Waitakaruru on Monday evening last matters in'connection with the establishment of a church for the use of all denominations were settled, and it was decided to proceed with the erection of the building at once.

Advice has been received that Paeroa has again been selected by the Ec.ucation Board as one of its centres in which to hold the annual examinations. The following time-table, with the number of candidates, has been approved : Commencing Novemver 21 to Noveiriber 28, ..inclusive, Public Service Entrance examination, 22 candidates; Senior National Scholarship examination, 3 candidates ; Intermediate examination, 3 candidates; and on November 29 and 30, 18 candidates will present themselves for the Junior National Scholarship. The New Zealand University examinations will also be held in Paeroa from December 4 to 13.

An important decision, affecting all no license areas, was given by Mr Bundle, S.M, at Oamaru, when a charge against Cornelius Goodson of keening liquor for sale was dismissed. Goodson was arrested inside the district. with liquor on his way home. The Magistrate said that as the case hung on the definition “keeping,” and Goodson not having got the liquor home, he had not “kept it.” He therefore was unable to convict defendant.

A large number of bowlers assembled on the local rinks on Saturday afternoon to take part in the Brenan Shield competition, but, unfortunately, heavy rain fell, a.nd all play had to be postponed. Next Saturday, weather permitting, both A and B sections will take part in the competition.

It is estimated (says the Franklin Times of last Wednesday) that over £l5OO worth of potatoes were dispatched from • Pukekohe yesterday, the largest quantity exported from Pukekohe in a single day this season.

Mr Mason, of Waifewheta, who, wi th the people of Waikino, is interesting himself in the raising of a fund for the assistance of Mrs Higgins and her two sons, who have been left practically destitute, waited on the Mayor of Waihi last week with a view fX> ascertaining whether kcal residents would interest themselves in the movement. The main object of the promoters of the movement is to raise a sufficient sum to enable Mrs Higgins and her children to go back to their people in Canada.

A most contemptible act was committed during the early hours of yesterday morning, when the large plate glass window in the shop occupied by Mr ’B. Raffill, hairdresser, Belmont Road, Paeroa, was deliberately smashed. This is the second occasion on which a plate-glass window in this shop has been wilfully broken, the first occasion being only a few weeks ago . The new pane was only fixed into position on Friday last and the signwriting completed late on Saturday .afternoon. That the smashing of the glass was a deliberate act is cvtienetd by the f'l't thai a large stone was picked up inside the window. Some person evidently has a grievance against Mr Raffill, as an archway and plants in his garden at his residence were recently pulled up and generally damaged, and offensive writing has also been placed on buildings adjacent to his residence during the week-end.

Owing to the high tides experienced early last week part of the stop-bank at Pipiroa gave way and water from the river inundated farm land for a short period,. The tide, however, was falling at the time, and little damage was done. The Lands Department on being communicated with quickly had a gang of men on the spot to dtop the breach with sandbags before the tide rose again. The breach has now been repaired and the bank strengthened.