THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4712, 16 June 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special sitting of the Ohinemuri County Council is to be held to-mor-row to consider matters allecting heavy traffic on the county roads. it was decided at last Thursday’s meeting that a tour of the borough should be made by the Paeroa borough councillors on Thursday morning next, with a view .to ascertaining (he most necessary works that require to be done during the year. Mr J. H. Salmon, Warden, i,s holding a spfecial sitting of the Warden’s Court at Paeroa to-day to conside 1 ’ the case of Messrs A. H. Green, F. R. Inglis, W. M. Johnstone, and T. M. Shore, who are claiming the sum of £100(> and injunction against R. M. Ai'.keu and Sons. zl fairly new 5-seater- 4-cylinder Essex car, bearing the registration number Hn. 4073, which it is believed was .stolen from Hamilton on Wednesday last, w,as recovered by Constable McClineby on Saturday. The car was found abandoned near Endean’s Swamp at Tirohia; and was brought into Paeroa. The Police are making investigations. There was only a . small yarding of cartie. at Messrs A, Buckland and Son's monthly sale at the Turua yards on Friday last. The cattle were mostly rough and inferior, and the prices obtained were up to those ruling elsewhere for such animals. Fat cows elnngcd hands at from £4 to £5 10s, store cows 20s to 50s, according to condition; bulls 20s and 255, calves 5s to 22s 6d. r l'he first ladies’ hockey match on the Hauraki Plains was played on Saturday last, when the Waitakaruru chib met and defeated the Ngatea club by four goals to one. The game was a hard-fought one, and the players showed great enthusiasm, if not much skill. There was a large attendance of spectators. A return match will be played shortly. Owing to the lack of a suitable ground the Turua ladies’ club has disbanded. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The Kingston dredge recently working in the river near Ngatea has been shifted to the mouth of the Puhanga canal, where it is employed shifting spoil from one part of the bed of the canal to another part. The reason for this is causing much speculation among the settlers.

On Saturday morning, shortly before 11 o’clock, a man named Chas. Moorhouse, a labourer, of Paeroa, was struck by a bucket of a drag-line dredge receiving a nasty cut on the forehead, necessitating the insertion of three stitches in the wound. It appears that Moorhouse was working on the stop-bank near the old extraction works, when he was struck by the swinging bucket. The engineer in charge of tlie dredge, Mr j. Browne, promptly stopped the machine, and Moorhouse was assisted to tlie residence of Dr. Little, where he received attention, after which he was able to proceed to his home.

The Paeroa branch of the Farmers’ Union Trading Co., Ltd., cordially invites the public to meet Mr A. E. Taylor, men’s suit specialist, who will be visiting Paeroa, on Friday and Saturday next, ami Ntetherton on Monday, June 23. Every garment for whicu Mr Taylor measures you will be made in the Farmers’ Union Trading Company’s new tailoring rooms in Hobson Street, Auckland, and will be guaranteed as to both fit and finish, If after you receive delivery you are not completely satisfied with the suit, the return of the garments will relieve you of all responsibility. Mr Taylor carries a full range of suit patterns, comprising over fifty different English and colonial tweeds, worsteds, and serges.*

Flood water on the upper reaches of the Hauraki Plains is now receding! but large areas are still inundated. The river at Kerepeehi has fallen about 2ft. Gin from the highest flood level, but is still above high tide level, and no tidal effect is apparent. The. American steam dipper dredge in the Awaiti stream is unable to work on account of the flood. The Kerepeehi block and the island block between the Puhanga canal and the river are still under water. Most of the water from the farms fronting Orchard East Road has gone, though all the hollows are still full. The Lands Drainage Department’s workmen are still employed night and day opening and closing the gaps in the stop-banks on the running of the tide.