THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4722, 9 July 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two gangs of men have arrived in Paeroa, and to-day commenced the work of erecting the dwelling for the Railway Department.

A man by the name of James Williams, quarryman, residing at Karangahake, was arrested at Karangahake yesterday on warrant for failing to maintain his wife at Auckland.

On Thursday next the Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Co., Ltd., will hold a stock sale at the Paeroa yards. Entries for this sale are solicited.

Sixteen application were received by the Hauraki Plains County Council yesterday for the position of engineer. These were considered at length, and the number was reduced to three, namely, Mr F. Basham, Taranaki ; Mr A. McDonald, Taumarunui; and Mr J. N. nAderson, Ngatea. It was decided to invite Mi- Basham to interview the Council.

The whole of the live and dead stock of the N.Z. Dairy Company’s Huirau Road farm was sold by auction at the Turua yards on Monday. Twenty-eight Jersey cows averaged £B. eight Shorthorns £7, and several Holsteins £5 6s Bd. Jersey heifers sold at £6 10s, calves from 15s to £2 7s 6d, and bulls from £1 to 3% guineas. As stores .12 cows sold at au average price of 265. An aged draught mare brought £4 15s, a heavy spring cart £22, a 65,-gal. separator £9, five or six tons of hay £7, 20-gal. milk -.ans 17s 6d to 27s 6d, and a set of cart harness £5.

The monthly general meeting of the Ngatea branch of the Plunket Society was held last week, Mrs W. G. Hayward presiding over an attendance of sixteen. The nurse’s report was read and adopted. It was decided to post a notice at the library, intimating that the nurse attended there every Monday. The nurse .suggested placing a donation box in the waitingroom, which was agreed to, Mrs Motion offering to supply the box. The secretary was instructed tp procure certain booklets on the feeding and care of babies. It was decided to ask the County Council for the use of the board room in the new county chambe on the day of the nurse’s weekly visit to Ngatea. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails

The Hauraki Plains County Council met in the new council chambers for the first time, yesterday. With the exception of a few minor details the building is completed. Councillors commented on the splendid work of the contractor, and decided that their appreciation of the manner in which he had fulfilled the contract be placed on record and that the clerk write to Mr Giles conveying the Council's sentiments. The building will probably be officially opened in four or five months’ time.

Recently a number of copies of a periodical called the "Golden Age were distributed in Paeroa. its sentiments are anti-British, and upon a copy being sent to the Minister for Justice by Mr W. Barclay, of Wood Street, who pointed out some the flagrant misrepresentations it contained, the following reply was received : “I am obliged by your letter and the enclosure of a copy of the periodical “Golden Age.” I fully agree with you that the passages to which you specially refer arc a scandalous misrepresentation of English rule and law. But such stuff is printed in many journals, even in some published in New Zealand, and has not .so far succeeded in its object, which is to abolish .the true safeguards of peace.” The work of laying down the concrete for three tenuis courts for the Turua Tennis Club has npw been completed, and a start will shortly be made with the tar surfacing. Despite very adverse conditions an excellent result has been obtained. The concrete is 2% inches thick, and extends five feet back from the back line and two feet out from the side lines. The runback will be tarred for twenty-five feet, and the distance between the courts will be eight feet. There is sufficient depth on the section to permit of another court being laid down when required. The necessary fencing will be put in hand and in all probability shelter trees planted. The provision of a pavilion has not yet been decided upon owing to finance, but it is expected this matter will be .solved and by the beginning of the season the Turua club will have a set of courts unequalled in the district. So far the work has been in the hands of Mr J. Griffiths