THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4726, 18 July 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. » The Tur.ua Concert Party’s entertainment to raise funds for the lighting of the township which was postponed from July 3 will be held this evening. The object of the entertainment is a laudable one, and the concert promises to be of outstanding merit. The meanest man on earth has been found —he lives near Oamaru (says the Oaniaru “Mail”). Recently he sold his motor-car to his brother-in-law. Prior to giving delivery he rau all the oil out of the tank and sold it to a neighbour. This is not fiction, but fact, and can be vouched for by several reputable citizens. The Auckland Education Board has decided to erect the new public school at Waikino with its own workmen, and as part of the building will use two of the classrooms from the school at Karangaliake, where the accommodation is now well above requirements owing to the shrinkage in population, following the closing down of the Talisman mine. The men are now at work dismantling these rooms. After some eleven ways of fine, mild weather a change took place yesterday morning shortly aftei- .3 o’clock, when from that time until 9 o’clock this morning a total of .4in of rain was registered. No rain lias fallen since 2 p.m. yesterday. A heavy frost was recorded last night, followed by bright sunshine and a slight westerly breeze to-day. The mildness of the weather for this .time of the year is remarkable. One needs to talk in superlatives to give adequate description of this week’s issue of the "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” General interest will be merged in the four complete pages devoted to Derby Day at Epsom Downs and snapshots of the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting. The centre pages comprise incidents of overseas note from outdoor sports to Royal functions. Football, is well represented, and baseball enthusiasts have their tastes catered to i<n a graphic portrayal of the Canterbury v. Wellington match. For Influenza, take Woods’ great Peppermint Cure.

The man named John Johnson, alias Hazlett, McMillan, and others, who was apprehended by Detective Culloty and Constable McClinchy six miles from Waitakaruru on Wednesday last in connection with the burglary at Messrs E. V. Slyfleld’s and JT. Wright’s business premises in Belmont Road, Paeroa, appeared before Mr P. E. Brenan, J.P., at the Court on Wednesday afternoon and was remanded until Tuseday next.

Several large herds of dairy cattle have passed through Paeroa lately to various parts of the Hauraki Plains. During the recent Hood on the Plains iiumbi m of sell lens were compelled to remove Ihe slock from I heir holdings and seek grazing on higher country about Hie Waihi disl.rlet. It in pleasing io report llmt the floods <m the Plains have now dlunppmired, and that there is a sufficiency <>f feed to enable the settlers to slock up again.

During a racing carnival week some years ago at Christchurch a social gathering was being held at Mayfield, in South Canterbury, and the chairmtn, a farmer, invited those present to rise and sing "The Grand National.” The devotees of the Sport of Kings rose to a man and responded with great gusto. At a concert at Gonville the other day (relates the "Wanganui Herald’’) the chairman announced that the gathering would conclude by singing “God Save the Queen.” The audience looked puzzled, and no doubt wondered what had happened to His Majesty.

The latest edition of the "New Zealand Gazette” contains notification that a petition has been received praying that a drainage district be constituted under Part I. of the Drainage Act of that area comprising 14,000 acres situated betwee.ii the Piako River and the Hauraki Drainage District, excluding the Orongo Settlement, and bounded on the south by a line from the Awaiti canal along the northern boundaries of the Makumaku No. 38, SE, and 5A blocks to the Wairau road : thence along the Kere-peehi-Wharepoa road to the Hauraki Diainage District. Any person who wishes to object to the constitution of the drainage district must do so withing one month in writing addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

"Care of the Police Station, Wanganui.” This is the queer address that one man has —queer for the reason that the addressee is not a member of the police force (says the "Chronicle”). He comes into Wanganui at periodic intervals, a holiday that invariably terminates with temporary accommodation at the Police Station, and a charge of insobriety tp follow. The delinquent’s people are in Australia, but they regularly send him letters and papers, and they have evidently hit upon the unique address as the most reliable point for delivery. Of. late quite a large number of letters and papers have accumulated, but no doubt in due coure they will be duly collected, and the addressee will retire to the back-blocks with enough reading matter to keep him going for some time.

The successful tenderers for the Arapuni hydro-electrical wprks, Sir W. G. Amnstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., have a world-wide name as builders of battleships and heavy armament. It is only within recent years that the firm commenced undertaking large civil engineering contracts, At the present time they have under construction large harbour works at Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa, costing a million pounds, a big concrete dam at Jamaica, a hydro-elec-tric scheme at Humber Arm, Newfound land, costing over four millions, intended to provide power for woodpulping mills, and several small contracts in Britain and overseas, including portion of the Waihi-Tauranga section of the East Coast Main Trunk railway, costing half a million.

It may interest small boys who are inclined to give way to petty thieving to know that when a. birching is ordered by the Court that it is not a whack, whack, whack and the whole thing is over (says the "Wanganui Chronicle”). The constable administering the punishment does not rush matters, as instanced the other day in Wanganui, when a Maori boy was ordered eight strokes. The lad could not b? induced to promise that he would meud his ways. As soon as he felt the first stroke he became full of resolutions. When it got to the third the Maori boy’s mind began to drift in the direction of attending school, and with the next cut he promised to attend twice a day, more particularly if the man at .the other end of the stick would allow the remainder of the Irding to gp by deftult. By the time No. 7 had been delivered the Maori had also promised to attend both Sunday school and church, and then by way of luck the last cut went in to Key up all the good resolutions.

An amusing experience of the enterprise ef American newspapers was related to a “Poverty Bay Herald” reports by a gentleman, who stated that while he was in San Diego a niemoiial service was to be given as a tribute to the late President Harding. The service was to take place at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, but at 11.30 in the morning he was walking through the park in which the service was to be held. He purchased a newspaper, and much to his surprise found a full and detailed report of the function >yhich was to take place three hours later. The report commenced by stating that the weather was wonderful, and went on to describe the crowd, stating that there were many who shed tears during the impressive ceremony, and even went to the extent of intimating that the police had had trouble in controlling the crowds at certain corners. The most remarkable thing about the repot" was that it was correct in practically every detail, the one exception being that Madame Schumann, a famous singer, appeared in a different part of the programme to that indicated by the newspaper. It really appeared as if the whole function had been staged on lines laid down by the enterprising journal. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Children’s Sacking Cough,