THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4734, 6 August 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• The work of laying the double deck on the Turua wharf is proceeding very slowly. A start has been made with the alterations and additions to the Kerepeehi Hall. Advice has been received that the Hauraki Plains County Council’s deputation on drainage and ether matters will be received oy the Hon. Ministers on Thursday, August 14. - Settlers on all parrs of the Plains report that cows are now coming in steadily. Herds are being, brought back from the hill counliy, though many, farms are not yet in a fit (state to receive them. The latest New Zealand Gazette states that six and a half acres, being Block I part sections 1 and 2 in the Kerepeehi township, have been permanently reserved for a recreation ground. Tlie little office which until recently ‘ was used by the. Hauraki Plains County Council as a county office lias been shifted to a site near the bridge, where it will form an addition to a council employee’s residence. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been successful in having twelve arid a half acres if land in the Rotorua Survey district permanently reserved for acclimatisation purposes. The Farmers’ Veterinary Club met at Ngatea last week and transacted routine business. Three l new members were enrolled. The surgeon, Mr J. Costello, reported having attended animals belonging to twenty-Beven different members during the month. Tlie social club which was formed last winter in Kerepeehi under the name of “The Leadswingers” is being reorganised in such a manner that it will ba able to. carry on without fear of such disasters that befel it last February. The rural mail delivery service from the Kerepeehi post office to tlie settlors on the Pekapeka and Kere-peehi-Wharepoa roads, and that part of the Turua-Netherton road between those, two roads, commenced yesterday. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

At the Warden’s Court, Paeroa, before Mr J. H. Salmon, Warden, on Monday last, David Sheehan and party were granted a reduction of rent to 2s 6d an acre for six months from July 1, 1924, on S.Q.C. No. 208, and Richard Craig was granted a certificate of protection on S.Q.C. No. 9275 for six months.

The Hauraki Plains County Council hav- caused notice boards to be placed alongside the roads wear many of the schools on the Plains to warn motorists to drive slowly. However, the writing is so small that a motorist would have to practically stop to decipher anything beyond the word “Notice.”

Inter-club football matches will be played on the Hauraki Plains on Saturday next. The games and the referees are as follows : Waitakaruru v. Hauraki West, at Patetonga, Mr Anderson and Mr Bertelsen ; Kerepeehi v. Ngatea, at Kerepeehi, Mr McMilland and Mr M. Leonard ; United Coast v. Turua, at Coast, Mr J. Kidd.

For a week after Mr J. Twist left Kerepeehi there .was no headmaster at the school. On Friday last Mrs Loving, late of Kerepeehi and recently of the new Orongo school, took charge. The Orongo school was closed on Friday and Monday, but reopened again on Tuesday with Miss Coxell, of the relieving staff, in charge.

The rainfall for the month of July a«s gauged at the Lands Office at Kerepeehi was one of the lowest for that month on record. In 1920 .05 less was recorded, but the average for the past thirteen years is about twice as much. On thirteen days (luring the month rain was recorded, the total being 1.87 inches. The total for the year 1924 is now 37.29, which is well above an average year’s rainfall.

The estimated population of New Zealand to June 30, including Maoris, is given as: North Island, 844,573 persons, and South Island 505,250, making a total population of 1,349,826 persons. The total increase of population in the Dominion proper for the same period was 1973, including Maorh, which represented a net gain of 4113 by natural increase and a net loss by 2170 by emigration.

Mention was made at a drainage board meeting at Turua recently that some person had apparently deliberately broken a flood-gate, and the fact was published in the “Gazette.” At Friday’s meeting the foreman reported that several settlers had made a point of telling him that they had not commuted the act. It is apparent that more is known in the district than the Board knows of. -“It is inconceivable that you could have a more peaceful, law-abiding community living in a foreign country ti an the Chinese. The pioneer of the Dominion butter industry was a Chinese living in Taranaki. Those who have traded with the Chinese know that none have a higher sense ot honour and duty than they,” said the Mayor of Palmerston North (Mr F. J. Nathan) at a smoke concert tendered the Chinese Soccer team. —Standard.

At As monthly meeting recently, a certain local body on the ■Hauraki Plains passed the wages accounts for payment and held up the accounts for goods supplied until the next meeting, a member remarking that tradesmen doing business on the Plains were lucky to get paid within two months. At other meetings of this local body members have deplored the fact that in many cases rates are not paid until extreme measures are threatened.

The Ngatea friends of Mr and Mrs J. Banks gathered in the Public Hall on Thursday evening last to bid them farewell. Mr Banks has given uj) farming after nine years on the Hauraki Plains and intends to reside in Auckland. Dancing was engaged in, and during the supper interval Mr J. Bratlie on behalf of the residents of Ngatea, presented Mr and Mrs Banks with a beautiful silver tea set and conveyed to them the district’s best wishes for the future.

The Hauraki Drainage Board has had wooden flood-gates installed at several outlets where the concrete gates have become broken. At one place the concrete gate jvas rendered useless owing to a defect in the hinges and was replaced ivith a wooden gate. Tlie concrete gate was left lying on the bunk for the time being, but some person apparently broke up the slab with an axe to prevent it being again utilised. Is it any wonder that the Board is at its wit’s end to finance necessary works.

Why is smoking so pften attended with Jesuits that cause medical men to order their patients to cither discontinue the habit or greatly modify it ? It is simply because the percentage of nicotine in most imported" tobaccois is so high, and it is the nicotine. in excess that renders smoking injurious. Now, our New Zealandgrown tobaccos contain so small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity, and, be-, sides, they are subjected to a new toasting process. Toasting developes the flavour, removes all deleterious propel ties, and makes the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. If you like a full body, try Cut Plug No. 10 the Bullhead label, or the somejvhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog). There is another brand, Riverhead Gold, which excells all others in mildness and aroma. They may be smoked with impunity and cost 25 per cent; less than the foreign liri'es/’