THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4691, 28 April 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Paeroa branch of the A.S.R.S. held on Saturday morning the following resolution was unanimously passed : “That this branch of the A.S.R.S. supports the executive in the action they have taken.” Owing to the poor attendance the annual general meeting of the Paeroa Referees’ Association, which was call - ed for Thursday evening last, was adjourned. The lecture on “Rugby Rules,” which was to have been delivered by a Hamilton referee, was also cancelled late in the afternoon. Woikmcn arc busily engaged effecting- improvements on the school grounds at Ngatea and Turua. At Ngatea the playground is being levelled with a scoop in preparation for grassing, while at Turua tar-grouting is in progress. iI.MS.A. Australia, Hie former flagship of the Royal Australian Navy, was sank 24 miles outside Sydney Heads, due east, on the afternoon of Saturday. April 12. With the Australian (lag flying at her bow and the white ensign at the stern she sans in a little more than 21 minutes. A thumicrons Royal salute v as give.i by H.M.S.A. Brisbane as the Australia roiled right over and then plunged stern first into the deep. The sinking provided one of the most deeply impressive scenes in Australian history. i»liss M. J. Taylor has been appointed to the teaching staff of the Paeroa District High School as a probationer. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

At Eltham recently, before Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., J. O'Hagan, charged with adulterating raspberry crush and lemon squash, on the first charge was fined £3 and costs 19s, and on the second charge £5 and costs 19s.

The pontoon lor the Wharepoa renw arrived on Wednesday last, and ; s now being fitted up with the requisite ramps, gates, rails, etc. It should be ready for traffic in a few days. Mr C. Nichol on has been appointed ferry keeper

In the course of his remarks at the Anzac Day Commemoration Service on Fi iday last His Worship the Mayo” (Mr W. Marshall} referred to the fact that as yet Paeroa had no public war memorial. The Mayor intimated th.it ii. the very near future he hoped to be in a position to call a public meeting to definitely decide on the form the memorial should take, and to have the work put in hand as soon as po-sible.

Certain allowances might be made for the unpuncluali'ty of the start if the senior football match in the Domain on Saturday last, as it was the first official match of the season, but the Rugby Union and Referees’ Association would do well to remember that if the support of the public is to be maintained all matches must start promptly to time. It is unreasoKible to expect the public to pay for admission and then be kept waiting because a few players choose to arrive on the ground late and hold a team back.

A touching incident took place a the Puke, Paeroa, on Anzac Day. Just prior to the Taniwha leaving the wharf the .steamer’s whistle sounded two short blasts, and by Captain Freeman’s instructions everyone was still and observed a two minutes’ silence as a tribute to the memory of the Fallen. The vessel was just on the point of casting off, and everywhere was bustle and excitement, but passengers and crew, as well as the crowd on the wharf, reverently observed the two minutes’ .silence, which was profound and most impressive.

A n unber of boys from I lie Eketa-' huna District High School were prosent at the last meeting of the Eketahuna Borough Council (states the "Wairarnpa Age”). The boys were taken with the purpose of gaining an insight into the conduct of municipal affairs x

A sheepskin weighing 351 b must ne a record. Messrs Watson and Co. informed the Christchurch ■ “Press” that they sold a skin (halfbred) of tin's weight at their March sale. At 24’4'd it realised £3 10s 9d. They also sold eight other half-bred skins total - ling 1071 b at 24 Ud —an average of £1 7s per skin.

“1 am not sure a man is the. best for the position—a smart girl might be better,” stated a Tarivua Power Board member in reference to a position to be filled. “I have got a lot of time for the girls of to-day, but mighty little for the boys.”—(Wairarana A gel)

A case was brought in the Magistrate's Court al New Plymouth by the ■borough inspector against a youth for driving a motor-car without having a certificate of ability. Mr Day (repoits the "Herald”) pointed ou< that there were many people driving cars about the borough who had ho certificates and the ease had been brought as a warning to such people. “And not before time,” commented the Magistrate. “During the time I have I con in New Plymouth 1 have seen more people driving cars who pl linl’- should not be doing so than I have seen anywheje else.”

“The financial position in -whicn Australia now finds herself is due to the determination of the Note issue Board to do all in its power to stop inflation, which has been doing on uninterruptedly for some years past,” says Sir Harold Beauchamp, who re turned to Wellington last week. “This inflation is due to the various Government embarking upon all kinds of schemes involving large stuns of money ; employers paying high wages, combined with less efficiency; the enhancement of land values, both in town and country ; and to the reckless extravagance of all classes of the community.”

The railway by-law, No. 33, is re pealed, and the following substituted by Order-in-Couiicil issued last week : "Fruit, vegetables, fish, meat, poultry, ami other perishable articles shall be carried only at the risk of the' ebn signor. Any such goods (a) if not taken away within six hours after arrival at the station to which they are consigned, or (b) insuffiicently addressed, or (c) not delivered in consequence of riot or strike or otherlabour disturbance may be forthwith sold by auction or other,wise without notice to the sender of consignees, and payment or tender of the net proceeds of any such sale after deduction of freight charges and expenses shall be equivalent to delivery.”

After receiving for 52 years a pension from the British Home and Hospital for Incurables, Strcatham, S-W., Mss Rebecca Winter, of Canton street. Poplar, E., has died of tuberculosis at the age of 95. “ The disease was arrested, and remained for many years stationary,” said an official of the home. " While it' is exceptional for us to have a pensioner on our books for 52 years, it is not a record. Neither is Miss Winter's age a record, tor we have a pensioner living at Brixton who is 98.” In the home the oldest patient is 92. Lord Leverliulnie’s 288,479 acres .'it Lewis (Hebrides), comprising the greater part of the island, which is m we than 50 miles long end nearly 30 wide, were offered at auction by Knight. Frank, and Rutley. The Golston estate (56,008) was sold for £509, about 3d an acre. Tbe seven other lots, including the Grisersta estate (19,200 acres), where there is excellent fishing, were withdrawn. Galston produces a rent roll, excluding the shooting, of £1323 ayear, and Die burdens are given as £1242, exclusive of the occupieds’ rates. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.