LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4680, 28 March 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

An election of one councillor for the Kt’imanawa riding of the Ohinemuri County, to -fill the vacancy occurring through the resignation <:f Cr. Vowles, will be held on Friday, April It. Nominations of candidates will be received until noon on Saturday, April 5.

After two days’ canvassing in the business area of the town of MorrinsviHe the sum of £205 was collected for the proposed manual training school.

The necessary application forms for the establishment of a school at the Waihi Beach have been signed and completed and forwarded to the Education Board. It is understood that there will be no difficulty in procure ing the services of a teacher if the school is provided.

The Musgroves Theatre Pty., Ltd., Wish to inform Paeroa patrons that their only opportunities of seeing the “Pharus the Egyptian” Company will be at Tc Aroha Theatre Royal on Monday and Tuesday, March 31 and April 1 * .

1 ast week a party of eight boys from the Paeroa District High School underwent a week’s course of instructor.! at the Ruakura Government Farm. A most interesting and thoroughly enjoyable time was spent, and the lads state that the various demonstrations and lectures given by the instructors should prove of great value to them.

For disfiguring the Palmerston footpaths by painting liu’gc footprints leading to the Army Citadel, as a means of advertising a function, a Salvation Army officer was fined i.2 and costs at the Palmerston Court on Mnday.

A branch of. the St. John Ambulance Association has been formed at Turua. Classes, at which Dr. Valentine will lecture, will be held in the school every Friday evening, alternately for women and men.

An application from a Cambridge resident (Mr Trewin) for a permit to erect a dwelling of eight rooms at the Waihi Beach reserve at an estimated cost of about £soo' has been received by the town clerk of Waihi. This .will be easily the most commodious private l ouse so far decided- upon by persons seeking sections cn the reserve.

Negotiations for the establishment of a rural mail delivery service from Kerepeehi post office along the Pekapeka, Turua-Netherton, and Kere-peehi-Wharepoa roads are proceeding slowly. It is understood that several tenders have been sent in, and it is probable that the service will oe opened if the prices submitted are favourable to the Department.

The representative of the N.Z. Meat Producers’ Boar.d advises that 160,613 quarters of chilled beef, 46,605 of frozen beef, 122,060 carcases of frozen mutton and 66,808 carcases of frozen lamb were shipped to the United Kingdom during the fortnight ending on March 22 from the Agentine and Uruguay, and the quantity shipped to the Continent during the same period totalled 178,600 quarters of frozen beef, 31,801 carcases of frozen mutton, and 1350 carcases of frozen lamb.

The first annual ball pf the Torehape Sports Club was held in the Kaihere Hall on Friday last, and proved an unqualified success. The ha'l was tastefully decorated with the colours of the club—red and black—and with greenery. There were about 40 couples present, and with Mr E. W. Cowdrey as M.C., and with music by Mrs Lloyd and Mr Dimmock, the function was carried .on merrily till the early hours of morning.

The fascining of the TorehapePuhanga road has now been completed, and rapid progress is being made with the claying. Only about two miles of the tramline to the Lands Department’s clay pit and metal quarry remain to be laid. The opening up of this road will be of great benefit to the settlers of Torehape, as it will give them a straight outlet to the river.