THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4745, 1 September 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

e ■» Wm. J. Mains. Paeroa. Sept 7-21. From to-day the Daily Letter. Telegram Service ya Eastern is extended to Canada and the United States —except Yukon, Alaska, Labrador, and British Columbia. The following vital statistics for Paeroa for the month of August have been supplied by the local registrar, Mr J. G, McDougall, with figures for the corresponding month last year in parenthesis: Births, 7 (5) ; deaths, 5 (1) / marriages, 4 (1). It iis pleasing .to observe that a start has been made with the demolition of the old Montrose Boardinghouse, Belmont Road, Paeroa. This building wqs partially destroyed by fire on October 15 last, and since that date the charred remains and debris have oeen an eyesore to our town. Within the last few days two enormous' slips have occurred on the Puhanga Canal. On Friday morning about five chains of the newly formed hank just behind the dredge slid into the canal. In places the slip extends back to the middle of the road on the top of the stop-bank. Crown and county rangers scoured the Kerepeehi, Kppuarahi, and Pipiroa toads on Thursday last and collected seventeen head of stock to impound at Ngatea. Motorists will be glad to learn that the white cow and calf which have frequented the roads round Kerepeehi for the past month or so were among those impounded. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

N.ow that the tides are suitable, Messrs R. P. Gibbons, Ltd., the lessees of the Kopu-Orongo ferry, are having the approach on the Orohgo side improved. The manager otthe firm was given a demonstration on Thursday last by an unfortunate motor-cyclist of the difficulty cyclists, motorcyclists .and pedestrians endure in reaching the punt when the tide is out and over a chain of the approach is covered with mud to a depth of about eight inches, and he made the statement that the state of affairs would be improved.