THE Hauraki Plain Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4653, 25 January 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plain Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY. JANUARY 25, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Officials of the Kerepeehi Leadswingers’ Club have been summoned to appear at the next sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Thames to answer charges of holding a smoke concert and of welling liquor without a license.

A fatality occurred on the s.s. Kent at the Glasgow wharf at Wellington on Trcsday afternoon. A young fireman, George Smith, while indulging in a ewim round about the ship, attempted to dive from the maintop, but the distance and was dashed to death on the deck of the vessel.

"No one is more convinced than I am of the necessity of placing early matin cd stock on the London market.” said Sir Walter Buchanan at a meeting of the Wairarapa P. and ASociety on Saturday, "but it is impossible for us to emulate the Argentine, where 19-months-old steers, when slaughtered, average Just under •7091 b in weight—"Wairarapa Age.”

While Mrs Simin, of Puke Road, was proceeding homeward shortly after mid-day yesterday the horse she was diiving took fright ano bolted. Belli h'U’self and little child were thrown out, and it Is fortunate that they r- l off with some bruises and cuts, (onsidering the pace at which the horse careered down the road, lieip was rendered to the suff -rers, who were then taken home in a motor-car.

At Morrinsville a neighbours’ quarrel, which originated over one keeping fowls and the other a garden, culminated in a charge of assault being br night by Edward R. Whitcombe against C. Twidle. Twidlc was fined £5 and costs.

A letter was read at the Te Arolia Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening from Mr C. H. Boyd, Chief Postmaster. Thames, stating that the application in regard toi the conveyance of letters from Frankton Junction to Te Aroha by the Star motor service was referred to the Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. He was instructed to inform the ChambeiAhat the application for the service was declined.

The Anniversary Regatta, which will be held on the Waikato River on Tu“sday next, promises to eclipse in merit other functions of this nature which have been held in the past. Tn addition to the rowing items, the programme “on shore” will also be of an entertaining character.

During the visit of the Minister for Lands last month the Under-Secre-tary for Lands, Mr J. B. Thompson, promised to visit the Hauraki Plains again early in the New Year and look into several matters brought before .the Minister. So far no word has been received as to when he will arrive.

Quick despatch for a line of about 400' fat lambs is reported. The lambs were drafted on a Wairarapa farm early on Tuesday, January 1, were then driven 10 miles to the railway .station trucked, and sent on to Wellington. They were slaughtered at Ngahauranga works on the Wednesday, frozen, and shipped on Friday morning, and at 3 p.m. that day the steamer sailed for London.

The refusal of the Napier watersillers to handle charged oxygen gas cylinders on the wharves continues to be a source of expense to Gisborne foundrymen (says the Poverty Bay Herald). The efforts made to reach an agreement with the men in respect to the cylinders have so far borne no fruit, and the containers are still being brought overland at at added expense. The Auckland boats, on the other hand, bring the cylinders from the North, and the watersiders apparently offer no objections to the loading at Auckland.

Tommy (saying his prayers sleepily) : "Now I lay me down to sleep ; I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” Mother (prompting) : “If ” Tommy (almost asleep) : “If he hollers let him go, eeny, meeny, miny; moi!”

Hie Auckland Zoo has been prominently in the public eye pf late, so that intimate glimses of the tnimals as afforded in a special series in this week’s issue of the New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review should make a wide appeal to old and young. Pictures of the United States airship Shenandoah make an interesting series in view of its projected trip to the North Pole, while boxing in New York is also the subject of up-to-date photographs. Topical happenings abroad cover a wide range of appealing events. The Manawatu Trotting Club’s meeting is depicted in a series of interesting snapshots, and another event that has a generous showing is the Auckland athletic championship gathering at Carlaw Park.. Social,'theatrical, and motion pictures have a strong representationtion.