THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4628, 21 November 1923, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1923. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

After a continuous service to the public during 22 years Mr Somers has retired from the active management of the Hot Springs Hotel, Te Aroha, of which he is the owner. At the last meeting of the Morrinsville Chamber of Commerce it was decided to call a public meeting, to ’ discuss whether 1 Morrinsville should depart from the Saturday halfholiday and revert to Wednesday. The power of education boards to close schools is tp he checked by a new regulation issued by the Minister of Education. Schools must be kept open for the number of days specified, unless departmental approval is given-for their closing owing to special circumstances. It has been found in the Past that some education boards have been much more lenient -than others in allowing schools to be closed, and it is the desire of the Minister that the practice should be made more uniform, especially with regard to the period of Hosing. It is felt that the interests of teachers, as well as of school children, will be fully considered under the new regulation. The New Plymouth Bowling Club has purchased a motor mower. It is fitted with a 2%-h.p. engine and 20in< b cutting blades, the total weight being 'about 2cwt. The machine is very simple to manipulate, The Ngaruawahia Borough Council has been informed by the Defence D.ipartinent that there will be three camps of 156 men each and one of 480 early next year ; also that in the near future a start' will be made to carry out the establishment of permanent military headquarters.' That it is incumbent upon drivers bf motor-cycles, and, in fact, any other vehicles, to hold their hand out to denote any change in their course was a fnct brought home to Joseph Ashcroft, who was fined 20s and costs 7s at the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, on ■ Monday.