THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4695, 7 May 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

♦- 'Hie dauce given last Saturday e\ening al Patetonga, by tlie members of the tennis club in honour of the performers in "Princess ju Ju'’ was an undoubted suecses, Mr J. Patterson thanked the company for it,s efforts on behalf of the Tennis Club, special mention benig made of Mrs W. Lloyd, the leading lady and stage producer, and a bouquet was afterwards presented to tier. A number of musical items were given, and the dance music was supplied by Mrs W. Lloyd, Miss J. Wallace, and Mr J. Blackburn, Tlie story is going the rounds on the JTaiirn of a party ot men who went up the river one day last month to make preparations for the opening of the shooting season, and while there shot a large number of ducks, to the intense annoyance of the settlers, who, like true sportsmen, were waiting for the open season. One of these settlers communicated with a man down the river, with the result that when the launch was sighted it was hailed and the party informed, that the police had been notified and were coming up by launch to make investigations. The ducks were quickly deposited on the bank, and. the yarn ge-.-s, the people of a certain village have been living on game ever since. At the Magistrate’s Court on Mondin. before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M, judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following cases: D. Leach v. J. H. Carter. £7 6s 3d (balance), costs £3 is 6d: S. A. Bygrave v. V. Mischewski, £4 15s 6d, costs £1 I ls 6d ; W. W. Little v. J. G. King, £2, costs .£1 3s 6d. In the judgment summons case Jakob Bertelsen .v. Dick Rakena for a balance of £1 0s 7d an order for payment forthwith was made, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment at Paeroa. In J. Bertelsen v. I. Rawhi Rawhi. £lO 13s Bd. debtor wt s ordered to pay forthwith, in de fault 10 (lays’ imprisonment in Thames gaol. Costs amounted to 30s.

A notice in this issue draws attention to the fact that all unpaid Ohineniuri County rates for 192'3-24 will be subjec: to 10 per cent, additional charge if. not paid before Saturday, May 17. There was a iceord pig-buying day at Mm rinsville on Monday (aG, when one linn bought 302 pigs from 62 farmers for the >uni of. ’.1120. tic average price per pig being in the vicinity of £3 Ils. In the Warden's Court, Paeroa, m Monday, before Mr J. H. Salmon, Warden. Samuel A. A. Shaw was granted six months’ protection as from March 19. 1921, on S-Q.U. No. pn.'l, n terms of the Minister’s consent. The ferry across the Wuihou River at Wl.arcpoa has been reopened for tra.'li', and this route is now regaining its popularity. Considering the state of the main road from the Tu-rua-lxcrepeehi corner to Paeroa. motorists prefer to cross the river where the only bad piece of road, comparatively speaking, is the short stretch along the riverbank.