THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With winch is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4731, 30 July 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With winch is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Many farmers on the Plains are at present planting toi-toi hedges.

The American type steam dipper dredge recently erected at Kerepeehi will, it is understood, shortly be put to work in the Waitoa, River. Several of the business houses in Turua have recently been brightened up considerably by new coats of paint. The Beautifying Society is urging others to do likewise. At a meeting of the Ladies’ Committee of the Paeroa Golf Club it was decided to have a Ladies’ Day on Tuesday o£ each week, when the members may arrange matches between themselves and visitors from neighbouring clubs. The first of these days was held yesterday. “Before the ranger came it used to be very much ‘go-as-you-please’ on the road,” said a witness in the Te Kuiti Magistrate’s Court (relates the local "Chronicle”). “How long ago would that be ?” asked counsel. “If I looked at my cheque book I could tell you,” returned witness, and a gu‘:t of laughter shook the Court. "Would you have given £25 to anyone else ?” counsel asked a witness at the Court (states the “King Country Chronicle”). “I would have to some people,’’ was the answer. "Would you have given it to me ?” persisted counsel! “No, 1 wouldn’t, because you’re not the right sort of fellow,” retorted witness, and convulscti the Court. On Saturday last two basketball teams from the local High School journeyed to Te Aroha and took part in an inter-school competition between Paeroa, Te Aroha, and Morrinsville. The Paeroa team defeated Morrinsville by 27 points to 4. and Te Aroha by 12 to 8. The Paeroa. primary team lost to Morrinsville by 11 to 8, and to Te Aroha by 6 to 3. Miss J. Buchanan was n- charge of the local teams. For influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

An amusing incident was witnessed on the Palmerston North station the other morning. A telegraph messengei (relates the "Standard”) was endeavouring to locate the addressee of a telegram and a new arrival to the country beckoned to him. The boy, after a few minutes’ endeavour to understand the immigrant's dialect, gave up the attempt, and. turning to a companion, remarked in a disgust-, eil tone : "It’s no use ; they can’t speak English.”

Another instance of the efficiency of th' 1 Fastal Service and the trouble that is taken to ensure delivery of articles has been brought before our notice. A letter was posted in London early in June of .this year addressed to The Officer Commanding Ist Btn. 6th (Hauraki) Regiment, Paetoa, India. The envelope was duly delivered in Paeroa on Friday last. The postmarks bear the names of such places as Poona, Bombay, and other places in India, the stamp impressions being partly obliterated. The envelope was finally readdressed from Bombay to Thames, New Zealand.

A Wanganui resident, giving an opinion on the freezing industry in New Zealand, stated that the smaller works were getting slowly, but surely, (squeezed by the big combines, and were being forced to pay the farmer more than stock were worth (states the "Herald”). There would come a time when the monopoly would reign supreme, and then the farmers would find that they would be paid any price the combine desired. He maintained that farmers, with few exceptions, could not see half the length of a little finger ahead in regard to important matters of this kind.

Countrymen, yet unable to converse in their native' tongue ! In conversation with Mr John C. Young, of the Manawatu Football Asisoication, who met the Chinese footballers in Wellington a pressman was interested to learn that the visitors do not speak to each other in Chinese, because one cannot understand the talk of the other. To the man from the north the southern Chinaman’s dialect is as a foreign language, and consequently English is used as a common medium, which latter fa absolutely essential. Peculiarly enough, the footballers can understand the others’ dialect when it is written..

What may be described as a “record" rush was made by a young lady, well-known in Napier, who, alighting from a car in Hastings Street at about 5.30 o’clock, made a dive for a music shop, just as the store was closing, in order to purchase some gramophone records. In her hurry (recounts the “Telegraph”) she failed to notice the closed shop door, which was composed of plate-glass, and walked through it, to the accompaniment of. tinkling sounds of falling glass and exclamations from the store manager. Luckily the hurried customer sustained no serious injury and the glass plate .was fully insured.

A statement worthy of consideration by farmers was made to a “Levin Chronicle” representative recently by Mr A Horn, who manages tor his fathei. the wcll-knoW Jersey breeder (Mr R. L. Horn), of Kuku. Speaking of lucerne, of which he had a oneyear old acre patch, Mr Horn stated that he considered >t a very much over-rated crop, and that whilst not denying the fact that considerable quuntitieis of fodder could be cut from it, he was of the opinion that cowgrass was an even better crop. “If,” he stated, “cowgrass received the same thorough cultivation, liming, and manuring and attention as does lucerne, it is my- opinion that on the average land it would beat lucerne out of sizht.”

An enjoyable evening was. spent in the Gaiety Theatre last night, when another of the series of Catholic Socials was held. The attendance was ais large as the theatre could comfortably accommodate, for dancing, while the whol,e of the stage and n.ost of the suppei-rooni was used for the euchre tournament. The whole evening had been thoroughly organised, and as e result gave enjoyment to all patrons. Tile euchre prizes were won by Mrs Treanor and Mrs McCullay, first and second, respectively, in the ladies’ competition!, and Mr Hen wood and Mr Fallon in the men’s competition. The music, as supplied by Mrs Higgs (piano) and Mr Samson (violin), of Waihi, was thoroughly appreciated, as also were the extras, played by Misses Vincent. Taylor. Smith, and Mr Mead.

The problem of what happens to the superannuated cows which every sale day appear in the yards appears to be solved. Speaking to a “Levin Chronicle'’ representative recently, Mr VV. G. Sloman explained that his 2700 head of poultry necessitated such large quantities of meat foods that he had installed a special boiling plant in which every week during the laying season he boiled five or six cows for tills purpose. An eight horsepower boiler provides the power for the piant. and from this steam pipes lead into iron vats in which the meat is placed, about eight hours being required for the-cooking. The bones, after being stripped of the meat, are used for fuel, the residue, which is practically pure phosphate of lime, being then crushed for grit for the fowls. hi an article in the “Daily Mail” in which he gave some interesting information concerning fish Mr F. Mitchell Hedges, the noted explorer, said: "Dr. Gann ami L owe a personal debt of gratitude to a small species of fish that swims in numbers in the rivers of British Honduras. Compelled to walk through an open space in the bush, we became infested with ticks of various shapes and sizes. In desperation we stripped and waded out into the adjacent river. Almost immediately we fel.t tiny nibbles ’all over our legs, and looking down saw in the clear water quantities of small lii-sli actively nibbling off the ticks. We immediately stretched ourselves full length and allowed them to feast to their heart’s content. In about half an hour I do not think a single tick was left.” Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds, never fails.

It is reported that a hardy farmer, who resides not Ear from the Wairau Valley, took drastic measures a few days ago to free himself of a bout of lumbago (says the “Marlborough Express"). He instructed a lelative to rub him down vigorously with a veterinary embrocation generally used for horses. The cure wao a complete success, but the sufferer .s now in hospital undergoing treatment for a blistered and highly-inflamed back. It appears to be another case of the cure being worse than the disease.

Some interesting figures showing a. comparison between New Zealand and Denmark were given by Mr A H. R. Amass (director of the Stratford Technical High School) in an address at Stratford recently (reports the "Taranaki Daily News”). Denmark, he said, was roughly twice the size of Taranaki; yet it contained 3,500,000 people. The land there was, general-' ly speaking, poorer than the average dairy land in the Dominion, but Den-, mark maintained over 1,000,000 dairy cattle. In New Zealand large areas were not fully developed, and certain tracts not at all. Despite its larger area and fertility of the soil New Zealand only supported 1,350,000 cows at the present time.

The newly-elected ischool committee is making itself felt at Tirohia. On Friday evening last the school building was crowded with parents and friends and visitors from Mangaiti and Paeroa, the occasion being a concert and dance organised by the committee, assisted by the headmaster, Mr Prendergast, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to improving the ischool grounds. An enjoyable musical programme was submitted during the first part of the evening, at the conclusion of which a dainty supper was provided and served by the committeemen's wives and friends. After supper the room was cleared, and dancing was indulged in until a late hour. As a result of its efforts, the committee will have some £lO with which to carry out further improvemnets to the school grounds.

A charge that on July 16, at Paeroa, they broke and entered the shop of David McWatters and stole two suits of clothes, hats, overcoats, towels, underpants, a rug, and a quantity of shirts, collars, sox, ties, and handkerchiefs, was preferred against John Grattin Robinson, aged 42, and John William Graham, aged 44, at the Police Court, Auckland, on Monday last. It was stated that both men have been endeavouring to dispose of the goods in Auckland. They were further charged with having been drunk on Saturday, and were each fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. On the theft charge they were remanded until August 4. After the shop had been burgled it was thought by the proprietor that only one article of. clothing was missing, but investigations by the Auckland police point to several garments having been stolen. It is said that the men under arrest were known to have put up at one >f tlie Paeroa boardinghouses prior to the burglary, and that they left the distric.’ almost immediately afterwards.