THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4752, 17 September 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

+ Mission Services. —Mr W. J. Mains. Presbyterian Church, every evening, 7.45 p.m. The wireless broadcasting of motion pictures will be possible within a year, according to an inventor, who claims to have perfected a device which will function over short distances. An old soldier in a London Veterans’ Home is said to be 100 years of age; he hrs been married four times, and considers women a tougher proposition than some of the foes he has .‘‘aced. The next mail for Japan, Canada, North America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via Vancouver, goes by the Makura, and closes at Paeroa post office at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, September 29. This mail is due in London about October 30. Now that the football season on the Plains is drawing to a close and summertime is approaching, the opening of the cricket season is being looked forward to with great interest. The formation of several new clubs is mooted, and if these eventuate the game will become almost as popular as football has been in the past. About 20,000 ft of timber arrived at Turua yesterday for the metal hoppers which the County Council proposes to have erected to deal with the metal from the Puriri Creek for the various permanent reading schemes in the locality. The Town Board is also making preparations to receive mortal supplies. Some weeks ago Mr H. E. Hill, Awaiti, was riding a horse when the stirrup leather broke and frightened the animal - and caused it to unseat its rider. As he fell the horse kicked out, and Mr Hill received a glancing blow on the left leg below the knee. Although no bones were broken the leg was badly bruised, and since the accident Mr Hill has been forced to go about on a pair of crutches. For Influenza, taUe Woods’ Great Peppermint; Cure.

Five building permits to the value of £341 were approved at the Paeroa Borough Council meeting on Thursday last. A proclamation that section 35, block XV., Ohinemuri survey district, area 99 acres, and section 17, block 111., Aroha survey district, area 101 acres, have ceased to be set apart as National Endowment lands is contained in l lie latest N.Z. Gazette. For the purpose of providing a berthage where metal-laden punts could be brought at any state of the tide to be unloaded, the works committee of tlie Turua Town Board recently let a contract for the removal of approximately 300 yards of mud from the riverbank below the wharf. At a later stage it was thought that it would be cheaper and quicker to sluice the mud away, and an arrangement was made with a local engineering firm to do this. A pump capable of driving 3000 gallons of water an hour through' a %in nozzle was fitted on to a pontoon, and work was commenced on Saturday last. Mr D. Leach, secretary of the Ohinemtiri Acclimatisation Society, has been asked by the Thames society to take delivery of 6000 rainbow trout fry for liberation in the. Hikutaia Stream. Mr J. Elliot, secretary of the newly-formed Hikutaia committee, who has had considerable experience in this work, has undertaken to attend to the liberation. A total, of 12 000 fry has now been liberated in the Hikutaia Stream this year. If a salesman were to visit the Hauraki Plains for the purpose of selling barometers he would probably do very little business, for a great many farmers' have artesian bores, and these have in many cases been found to bo very reliable weather forecasters. It is the variation in the weight of the atmosphere that actuates a barometer, and apparently this also effects artesian bores, for it has been found that the flow of water is greatest when rain is approaching, and vice versa.

Smokers who are niggardly of their “baccy" are rare. As a rule their pouch is at the service of almost anybody. Of course there are exceptions. Do you remember the story of the smoker who kept two pouches ? One he called “the world,” the other “providence.” The first was always empty : the second always well filled. If asked for a fill he would regret that he “hadn’t a bit in the world.” If questioned as to what he was going to do for himself he would say, “oh, I must trust in Providence.” Well, there are all kinds of smokers, just as there are all kinds of tobacco. By the way, have you tried our own N.Z. grown tobaccos ? In some respects they are unique. For one thing they are all toasted. Hence their peculiarly delightful flavour; secondly they contain so little nicotine that they may be smoked “till the cows come home" ■ ’ll 'nt proving injurious, Thats’ why the doctor’s approve of them. Try Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Dull’s Head), full*