THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY, 28, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Unfavourable weather again interfered with the competition arranged for Saturday last, necessitating a further postponement of the event. An incident in the examination of a witness in a motor-car collission case: Witness; ‘‘The car was pimping, because the brakes were applied.” Counsel : ‘‘Was is pig-jumping ? I don’t know whether motor-cars actually do pig-jump.” Opposing counsel : ‘•Oh, thats correct. Of course, road hogs pig-jump !”—Waipa. Post. Advertising is a means of selling to the world at large. You can persuade one person by talking to him, but advertising means talking to everybody.; Let people know what trade you are in—what you are doing. A man who does not advertise his goods is like a man throwing kisses to a girl in the dark ; no one (not even the girl) knows what he is about. A familiar old land-mark in Paeroa was demolished by the gale on Monday afternoon, when the old smithy and wheelwright’s shop in Hughendon Street was blown over. The building was owned by Mrs C. V. Crosby, Paeroii, and business was last carried on in it by Mr H. D. Sorensen. It has not been occupied during the last twelve months. Mr C. Fal.kiner, the noted English billiaidist, stated at the Ohinemuri Culb last evening that in his opinion the reason why Clarke McConachy, the brilliant New Zealand cueist, had fai’ed at Home recently was because of insufficient practice with ivory billiard balls. Mr Falkiner said that lie considered a player needed about three years’ consistent practice to become proficient with the ivories, whereas McConachy had scarcely had that many months. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, For Influenza, take
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4704, 28 May 1924, Page 2
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294THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY, 28, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4704, 28 May 1924, Page 2
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