THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which , is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4753, 19 September 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which , is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mission Services, —Mr W. J. Mains. Presbyterian Church, every evening, 7.45 P.m. The advance payments for the August supply of both butter and cheese have been fixed at Is 6d per lb for first-grade by the N.Z. Dairy Co. These payments will be made to-mor-row. ! , A ladies’ hockey match between teams representing the Ngatea and Waitakaruru clubs will probably be played at Ngatea to-morrow prior to the junior Cup Final football match. Employees of the Thames Valley Power Board deposited a drum o£ submarine cable near the Kopuarahi wharf on Tuesday. -It will be used to link up the Pipiroa and Kopuarahi districts. Heavy rain has prevailed locally during the past three. days, and the result is having a very beneficial effect .generally. Rain was badly needed to assist the spring growth, and many farmers were becoming anxious over the exceptionally dry spell which has been experienced this season. Since 10 o’clock on Tuesday night 2.33 in of rain have been recorded by the local office of the Public Works Department. Although September is usually considered a wet month on the Hauraki Plains the present month promises to have a total rainfall above the average. Up till 8 a.m. yesterday the total recorded at Kerepeehi was 2.98 inches. Of this I.3in fell on the 6th, Btb, and 9th, 1.38 in for the twentyfour hours up till 8 a.m. on Wednesday. and .3in up till 8 a.m, yesterday. Heavy rain fell practically without intermission all yesterday and last night. The fine weather recently experienced dried up the ground and caused cracks to appear, so that the first rain was quickly absorbed. Now, however, the ground is saturated, and drains arc taxed to their utmost and in many places have overflowed. For Influenza, tale Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

One thousand barrels of bitumen are being procured by the Hawke’s Bay County Council in preparation for a progressive programme of road work during the coming season.

The latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette acknowledges the sum of 5s 6d for-, warded to the N.Z. Railways Departmen, and .£lB 15s forwarded to the Land and Income Department, as conscience money from persons unknown.

Sunday next will be the Feast of St. Matthew, apostle, evangelist, and martyi, and the services at St, Paul’s Church will be low celebration of the Holy Communion at 11 o'clock and Festal Evensong at 7 p.m., with sermon.

Many papers record the worlds news ; only one chronicles your district affairs. You need .that one, for it is unsatisfactory to be dependant upon gossip—or an occasional read of your neighbour’s paper—for information as to local doings, the decisions of local governing bodies, the views of your fellow-townswen, and the hundred and one matters of local interest that are printed from time to time.

A breakdown on the electric power lines occurcd between Horahora and Waikino shortly after nine o’clock last night, and as a consequence Paeroa was thrown into darkness for about half an hour. Fortunately, the Power Board has a stand-by supply line fiom Te Aroha to Paeroa, and as the breakdown did not affect this line there was sufficient electricity to carry on until early this morning, when additional power was - obtained from the Grand Juncition mine. The defect on the main line was repaired before midday to-day.

Membeis of Parliament are worrying Ministers about discovering a remedy for. the blackberry pest, and urging that a big reward be offered for an effective destructor. Meanwhile (says the Eltham ‘‘Argus ) some practical Taranaki far mens use a remedy of their own. They, drive a number of pigs into an enclosure of limited size where blackberries are growing; the pigs do the rest. They appear to find sustenance in blackberry roots, and dig quite deep for. them. “Dinnis” should be more widely employed than he, is in the blackberrying.

A wide range of topical', illustrations makes the current issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” of exceptional attractive value. A showing- is given of the N.Z. Golf Championship meeting at Middlemore with photographs of the leading competitors, and the Manawatu Ladies’ Golf Championship is also covered. An important feature is the two-year - old parade at Ellerslie of contestants who will appear at Avondale, and a series of snapshots represent the Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting. The artistically arranged centre pages comprise naval and military happenings in England, the King and Queen of Spain, etc. In the exceptionally varied miscellaneous portion are: Inter-State Lacrosse in Sydney, lady polo playeivs at Hurlingham, Rourelles swimming bath, scout camp at Wembley, athletic meeting at Stamford Bridge, English cricket .team at Manchester, motor-boat racing on the Thames, Pageant of Empire, etc.

You have tried toasted bread, toasted bacon, toasted cheese, and possibly toasted kidneys, and know how good they all are. But have you ever smoked toasted tobacco 1 The toasting process, as you know, develops flavour in the case of all the abovementioned edibles —and it has precisely the same effect in the case of tobacco. You can easily satisfy yourself as to the truth of this assertion, because our New Zealand grown. tobaccos are all toasted. That is one reason why they appeal so strongly to smokers. Another reason is that they contain (comparatively) but little nicotine, and may consequently be smoked all day long without producing those unpleasant effects that frequently follow the prolonged smoking of imi-orted tobaccos, all of them more or less loaded with nicotine. For a coal, sweet, and fragranit smoke try Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog label), medium; or Cut Plug No. M (Bull’s Head), full .strength. There is no mischief in any of these brands, and the rapidly increasing demand for them is the most convincing proof of their popularity*