THE Hauraki Plain Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4651, 21 January 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plain Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

In the Police Court at Waihi last Friday a young married man, Joseph Gt ay, residing at Owharoa, Waikino, was sentenced to three months in Auckland gaol for having used obscene language on the Waihi-Paeroa roid. Senior-Sergeant O’Grady said that accused was mad drunk at the time, and created a disorderly scene outside the Rising Sun mine. Accused, who had a long list of convicitons, was only recently convicted of being drunk and disorderly at Paeroa and Waihi, respectively.

Of the Greymouth pioneers who went to the Hokitika jubilee celebrations recently, the oldest in years was Mr Frank Bathe, an inmate of. the Old People’s Home at Gieymoutb. Apart from a slight deafness he is ic splend’d possession of his facilities, and (says the Star) carries the burden of 94 years as easily as a man 40 years his junior. His still majssive frame is but slightly stooped, and after the “ welcome ” ceremony he took a brisk long walk through the streets of Hokitika, an exercise which would have had dire results for the “ younger ” of the party. Another interesting personage was Mr Chris. Nelson, a retired goldminer of some note, who claims that Neilson Creek was named afiter him. I

‘ The Waikato Times states: It is understood that a wararnt has been issued in Hamilton for the arrest of an absconding accountant, who is said to be aboard the s.s. Makura, en roate for Sydney. Interesting developments are anticipated.

In the senior National Scholarship examinations held in November last, the results of which are to hand, it is pleasing to record that Allan North. of the Paeroa District High School, passed very creditably, gaining 1575 marks, which places him fourth on the list for the Aucklan 1 province. This achievemnet is all the more creditable when it is considered that Master North is only just over fifteen years of age.

The Eketahuna Express says a local carrier has put on the road a. lorry with attachment for carrying fat lambs. Thee are two pens, one above the other, and the floor of the top deck is water tight. There is also a race (carried in sections) for loading the lambs, of .which 100 can be carried at a trip.

A novel ararngement for the . operation of taps at wasu-hand basins has been installed at the new Hokowhitu (Manawatu) school. To operate the supply the foot is placed on a knob projecting from the floor, and on the child leaving the wash basins the water is automatically cut off. thus eliminating the possibility of waste.

The value of the much-lauded “vitamines” has been much over-rated, according to statements made by Dr. T. F. Telford at the Master Bakers’ conference at Christchurch. “Regarding vitamines in bread,” he said, “I think they have been run to death. I said all along that they were merely a fad, and now the pendulum has taken its maximum swing and returned to the mean.” He stated that if bread lacked vitamines the want of them was more than made up by the other ingredients of a mixed deal. The absence of salts in bread was easily made up by such a vegetable as the potato.

The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that the due date of payment of the income tax is on Friday, the Bth day of February, 1924. Additional tax will accrue if the tax is not paid on or before 29th February, 1924. The demand will be posted from the office of the Commissioner of Taxes on or about Ist February, 1924. Demands must be presented with all payments, and if a demand has not been received the Commissioner should be communicated with.