THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4676, 19 March 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr H. Poland, M.P., has received telegraphic advice from the Hon. Minister for Education that Cabinet hamade a grant for the immediate rebuilding of the Waikino public school.

The police report that the behaviour of the crowds during the twa days’ lacing in Paeroa was excellent, and no arrests were made.

The Postmsater-General announces that, the special tax of 2d, which has been imposed on all cable messages sent from the Dominion -since September, 191'5, will be removed after the end of. the present month. This means th it the charge on every cable message’sent from New Zealand to anv part of the world will be reduced by 2d

When the route of the PaeroaPoke’no railway Is definitely announced it will probably be in a straight line from the Ngahina bridge to a point three quarters of a mile from Ngatea on Messrs Phillips Bros’ property, then bending to the left and proceeding straight to the original point decided upon at Mangatarata.

•)n Monday last tlie children of tlie Paeroa Presbyterian Sunday School, numbering some 70-oild, were given their annual picnic in the local domain, and a thoroughly enjoyable dav was spent. The superintendent, Mr J. Mclntyre, assisted by the teachers and friends, left nothing undone to gixe the little ones a happy day. The mo’-ning was spent in organised games, and during the process of one an unfortunate incident happened. Stanley Morgan, aged 42 years, was Tuning, when he tripped and fell, dislocating his elbow. The services ->f Dr. Little were requisitioned, and the little sufferer received prompt treatment. The afternoon was devoted to a sports meeting, and races and competitions were indulged in, each cliild receiving a prize.

On Monday night, in forwarding the results of the races to the Christchurch Press, the; local telegraph office got into direct communicatio’i with Christchurch. Previously message bad to be -.ent to Auckland and transmitted from there. This mean? a big saving in labour to the Telegraph Depai Inient.

Mr G. 11. Taylor, headma-ter of the Paeroa District High School, has received advice from the Auckland Education Board that the proposed holding of evening classes in arithmetic, English, shorthand, and typewriting ha u been abandoned in Paeroa owing to an insufficient number of enrolments. Classes will, however, be held for in,-Iruction in shorthand and type-, writiii'-', open to high school pupils only. "I hose classes will be held ..t the school on Saturday mornings. The dressmaking classes, under the direction of Miss Clarke, will be continued.

The Thames Valley Power Board’’ Ford truck was taken from outside the Ngatea depot ‘on Monday afternoon. One of the board’s employees had been engaged in oiling up J’.s machine, and had gone into the depot. Returning a short time afterwards he found the truck missing. Inquiries were made by telephone, and the information was received that the truck was upside down in the roadside drain near Horahia Road' corner. Apparently the truck had been driven at a great speed and a blowout ha l caused it to skid off the road. The truck is considerably damaged, the cab being crushed to matchwood and two wheels broken. It is astonishing that the driver was not killed. Whether he was injured is not known, for so far he has not been found.

While returning from the races nt Paeroa on Saturday evening a Ford car owned and driven by Mi C. Radford, of Waihi, came into collision with a large car going towards Paeroa on a narrow and nasty bend in the road this side of Karangahake. Either Mr Radford’s effort to avoid the crash or the force of the impact caused the smaller car to swerve, and it went perilously near tq going over the bank into the Ohineinuri River, with a drop of twenty to thirty feet to water level. Fortunately, however, the wheel overhanging the bank was caught and held fast by the branches of a willow tree, and what looked like being a serious accident was averted. The occupants, apart from the driver, who stuck to the wheel, lost no time in scrambling out, but the car remained wedged in its position, and when brought on to Waihi later was found not to be badly dam-aged.-—Telegraph.

A young man, William Dean, aged 23 years and single, of Waikino, was riding a motor-cycle over the Hamilton traffic bridge on Monday and endeavoured to pass between two vehicles going in opposite diretcions. He got jammed between them and had his right leg badly lacerated above the knee. At the hospital an operation was performed, and Dean is progressing favourably.

A sad incident in connection with tiro Queen Carnival just concluded at New Plymouth was the death, on Thursday last, after a short illness, of the queen-elect, Miss Lillian May Whittie. Miss Whittle, who was in her twentieth year, and was very popular in the town, had never had ait illness in her life prior to the attach of pleurisy and pneumonia, which which ended ' fatally.

“ There is no excuse for water hole; in an asphalt road, and in America if a foreman on a road job left any he would quickly get the sack,” remarked Mi T. W. Patterson, engineer in charge of the construction of the Hutt road, .luring a lecture .on road construction at the Council Chambers at Wellington. .«

A clearing sale is to take place at the farm of Mr C. Andrews, Mackaytown, on Saturday, March 29, at 1 p.m., and will be conducted by W. H Parker and Co., auctioneers, Waihi. Full particulars, will be found in our advertising columns.