THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4723, 11 July 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Weeks bitumen sprayer arrived in Paeroa on Wednesday for the Paeroa Borough Council. It will be assembled within the next few days. “Toilers” will see something of advantage to them in D. McWatters’ advertisement appearing on page 1 of this issue.* Club football will be played on. the Plains to-morrow. The Turua teams will travel to Kerepeehi, Wa.itakaruru to Ngatea, and the United Coast seniors to Patetonga. Six applications for building permits, to a total value of £383, were recommended by the Building Committee and approved by the Borough Council last night. The many Paeroa friends of Miss Eileen Tukukino, of the nursing staff at the Thames Hospital, will be pleased to learn that she has been successful in passing the nurses’ State examination. A truckload of timber from the Railway Department’s Frankotn. Junction house factory has- just been unloaded at the Paeroa railway station. Under the department’s method all the timber is sawn, dressed, and numbered at the factory ready for fitting together. Even nail holes are bored. The material is for twelve outhouses, the system followed by the department being to erect all the buildings simultaneously. A small witness’s idea of what happened to fabricators of the truth caused some amusement in the Gisborne Magistrate’s Court the other day (states the local “Times”), . when a boy of nine years was about to give evidence. “What happens,” asked His Worship, “to little boys who tell lies “They all go to gaol,” was the reply. His Worship smilingly assented that this was a very good reply, and the case proceeded.

At last night’s meeting) of the Paeroa Borough Council Cr. Edwards mentioned that the people of Karangahake were endeavouring to have an area of approximately an acre on which some 40 or 50 kauri trees had been growing for about fifteen years reserved for all time for the benefit of the district. Several councillors supported the suggestion, and it was decided to ask the co-operation of the Ohinemuri County Council In the matter. Woods* Great PeppOrihint Oute. For Coughs and Colds, never fails

It was decided at the Paeroa Domain Board meeting last evening to obtain a duplicate key for the lock on the double gates at the domain and hand it to the Rugby Union secretary so that the gates could be opened on the days of a football match. The representative of th.e Thames Valley Power Board (Mr Haynes) who has been canvassing the portion of Waihi to be reticulated has met with gratifying success (states the “Waihi Telegraph”), quite a number of firms and private householders having arranged to take current. Several business preimses, where engines are used, have ordered electricity for driving machinery. Not many citizens are so widely popular .that testimonials come to them from the Chinese section of a business community (remarks the Napier “Daily Telegraph”). Mr L. T. Bisson, who is going on a trip to America, will carry with him a letter of introduction, in Chinese, from the celestial population of Napier. It is , guaranteed to win him the respect, and assistance, if necessary, of Chinese citizens in any town he may visit.

Some people fall in for all the luck (remarks the “Manawatu Daily Times”). A school committee was considering the installation of electric light in the school, and the question of cost naturally arose. “It wifi not cost much if the meter reads as mine does,” remarked a member. “Why, haven’t you had your meter fixed yet ?” inquired another committeeman. “I haven’t one at all, so far,” was the satisfied response.

A gardener who knows all about the art of successful seed growing tells of a novel and excellent methpd of planting sweet pea seed, and to procure the best results when they bloom. It is done by saving up all the eggshells from the kitchen, and when the suitable time arrives, plant one seed in each shell, placing the whole in a spot where it is desired the peas should be trained, hi a short time the shell becomes decomposed and provided splendid plant food for the yoting seedling.

Covered in mud, stripped of mudguards, ad with a considerable “list to starboard” suggestive of broken springs, a Tauranga service car “limped” into Matamata the other evening just in time to put its passengers on the night train for Auckland. It left Tauranga the previous day, and the intervening space t>f time was put in unpleasantly fixing up a broken pinion in the “deferential” and effecting other repairs. Pluck won in the long run, however, and the car eventually got across the range and completed its journey.

The merits of paspalum as a pasture on the Hauraki Plains is a topic that has been much discussed of late. Many, arguments can be stated in its favour, but settlers from other districts know full well its spreading qualities and that the eradication of it is almost impossible when once firmly established. Several settlers of Nether ton anil Pipiroa who have paddocks of paspalum state that their cows do better and give a greater return from this pasture than from any other. It is probable that large areas will be sown on the Plains in the near future.

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is well up to the high standard of excellence achieved by the proprietois. The centre pages are devoted to the visit of the King and Queen of Roumania to London, incidents being very clearly portrayed. Very interesting snapshots are given of the first Rugby League test between England and Australia, and local football is also well catered for. The Plunket Ball in Wellington is the subject of a charming page of portraits, and the Paris fashion parade at Longchamp is another specially attractive American yacht racing, May festivals illustrations are Polo at Ranelagh, in Paris, and many ethers.

The theory that the popularity of kissing is largely responsible for caries and related mouth diseases is held by a native of North Scotland, now resident in Dunedin. He mentioned to a “Star” reporter that in all his experience of customs in other countries lie had never seen so much kissing as he has seen in Dunedin, nor had he known a people to be so widely affected with mouth trouble as are New Zealanders. “The other day,” he remarked, “I saw a woman with a mouthful of teeth that were nothing short of hideous, kiss a little child right on the lips. If there is anything in the spread of disease by contact that child had an unfortunate experience, and how many others are there treated in the same thoughtless way ?”

In giving evidence at an inquest, in connection with a motor accident in Hamilton a few days ago an expert witness said that he had made s series of tests with a 32cwt car. When travelling at 15 miles an hour he came to dead-stop in 33ft. At 20 miles he stopped in 80ft; at 25 miles he stopped in 90ft; at 30 miles he .stopped at 104 ft. The brakes had not been adjusted prior to the test being made, and they were not in the best of order.

A remarkable outbreak of fire occurred in a chimney at Rotorua (states an exchange). The brigade arrived promptly, to find quite a simple problem they thought, but it proved to be knotty, for the chimney, only a month old, had been built with mortar composed of sulphur pumice and cement. The whole of the sulphur in the concrete foundation was alight. The fumes arising from this were very unpleasant, and pouring water on the sulphur only increased them, nearly driving the men out of the room. They solved the problem, finally, by digging out the foundation with picks and carrying it away in sacks. The floor supports were charred in several places, and a light breeze would have fanned them into flames. It was a unique experience for the firemen, and probably could not have been met with in any other part of New Zealand, and very few parts of the world. The damage was estimated to be £lO.