THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4678, 24 March 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A middie-aged man was found by the police wandering round Willoughby St ecl yesterday in a drunken condi'ion. He was arraigned before Mr G. P. Lamb, J.P., at the Paeroa Police Court this morning and was convicted and lined 10s.

What looked like a picture stunt occurred in Emerson Sti’eet, Napiei. A horse attached to a baker’s cart fell to the ground and the two men on the vehicle simultaneously sprang into the ail’. They rose several feet above the cart, and then descended, one on each side. Both succeeded m fal’ing on their feet, and they remounted the vehicle and drove away, as though the incident was one of da Uy occurrence.

A former soldier patient of the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua wrote to the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association stating that the fees charged were £3 3s pex- week, but .a reduction to £2 10's was given to members of friendly societies and hospital boards’ patients. When the matter came before the Auckland R.S.A. executive on Monday evening several members expressed surprise that the Government did not give soldier patients a similar concession. It was decided to write to the officer in charge, and if such a state >f affairs did exist, to request that the same reduction should be available to returned soldiers. Hamilton Competitions. Dancing - Classical and Oriental. Entries close March 31, 1924. Send for Syllabus.*

As an evidence of the mildness of the pi esent season in the Foxton district apple and pear trees may be seen again blooming in orchards :n that portion of the Wellington prov iiwe.

Mr H. R. B. Watson, the well-known and very successful Jersey breeder, of Canterbury, has again assumed the position of official demonstrator for the Jersey Cattle Breeders’ Associati'.m. a |.'o<Hion which he previously filled so competently. The local sey Cattle Club has arranged for a demonsti ation by Mr Watson to be held at Mr W. J. Hall’s farm at Matatoki on Wednesday. March 26, and at Mr G. Buchanan’s farm at Paeroa on Thursday, March 27. All farmers and breeders arc cordially invited to these demonstrations, and those who attend are assured of a very instructive afternoon. ®

Strong exception ip the inclusion of Nelherton riding in the rating area for the proposed Kirikiri bridge was voiced by many ratepayers at the conclusion of the ratepayers’ meeting on Saturday evening. It was said that the riding would receive no benefit, as Paeroa was the shopping centre for Nelherton. Exception was also taken to the fact that there would be ao poll of ratepayers. Cr. Hare said he did not think it of any use appealing to the council. The matter had been decided, and the only thing to do was to see that the same thing did not occur again.

A Taranaki visitor, remarking upon Palmerston North’s wide streets and apparent prosperity, said (reports the Manawatu Times) that in his district tlie people were subject to three disabilities —narrow streets, wide areas of blackberry, and wider mortgages, the last being the only thing that the heavy wind could not shift.

A case of pick-pocketing is reported to have occurred at the Paeroa races. It appears that a settler of Tauhei, accompanied by a friend, visited the races, and the latter, during the day discovered that his pocket, in which £9O had been placed, had been picked. The former, .not wishing to see his friend unable to “back his choice,’ offered to accommodate him, and on putting his hand in his pocket, discovered that he, too, had been a victim, having been relieved of £lOO.

Hamilton Competitions. ElocutionRecitals, Recitations, Speeches. Entires close March 31, 1924. Send for Syllabus.*