THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4757, 29 September 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club is to be held in ..the Coronation Chambers at 8 o’clock this evening. Only three members attended the meeting of the Netherton Ratepayers’ Association called for Saturday evennig—the president, a viee-presideir, and the secretary. An Ordier-in-Council has been issued licensing the Nobel’s Explosive CoLtd.. to use and occupy a part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark at Maraetai as a site for a wharf. Miss M. Taylor, Hill Street, Paeroa, has received advice that she has passed the musical examination for the L.T.C.L. diploma,,with honour. The examiner, Mr Mallinson, stated that Miss Taylor, had put up a very fine performance. The examination w - as liel'.’ in Te Aroha. A reminder is given that the Dairy Cotnpany’is staff ball is to be held in the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa; this evening, and the function promises to be the social ‘event of the season. Complete arrangements have been made to ensure dance patrons thoroughly enjoying themselves. A limited number of seats will be'available for spectators. The new Board of Trade (Gas) Regulations, which are to come into operation on January 1, 1925, are contained in the latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette. The n'ew jegulations will apply to gas companies, corporations, firms, or persons supplying coal-gas for lighting, heating, motive power, or other purposes, and includes city and borough councils and town boards. The first utility of frequent . and regular advertising consists in this : There is at all timies a large class of persons, both in country and town, who have no fixed places for the purchase of certain necessary articles, and are ready to be swayed and drawn towards any particular place which is earnestly brought under their notice. Indifferent to all, they yield without hesitation to the first who aisks. For Influenza, tale Woods’ Great Peppermint cure. I

One of the most wonderful exhibits in the Indian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition is a shawl made entirely of birds’ down. It is 7Vi yards long and 58in wide, and yet it can be rolled up and passed through an ordinai’y wedding ring. Valued at S5OO, it took three years to make, the feathers being collected when the birds moult, and this takes place during only two months of the year. Mild excitement prevailed at an Invercargill hostelry the other evening (says the Southland Times) when the news circulated round the diningroom that a participant in the oyster soup ration had discovered a pearl in his soup. Later on. when it became known that the discovery in question bore- strong evidence of having already figured in a well-known form of pendant jewellery the run on the “succulent bivalveis” pulled somewhat. Mr D. Leach, secretary of the Ohinemuri Acclimatisation Societj, has received advice from the Auckland society that one hundred pheasant eggs hav.e been allotted to Ohinemuri, and a request that arrangements be made for th'e. rearing of the young birds. The Auckland society ahso advises that. it is prepared to buy back all birds wheni twelve weeks old. if healthy, at 10s a bird. The hundred eggs allotted represent about ten sittings. The Pacific Cable Board and Eastern Extension Telegraph Company announce that, commencing on December 1 next, the cable rates between the Dominion and Great Britain will be reduced as follows : Ordinary rate, 2s 3d per word (present rate 2s 8d) ; Government rate, Is 2d per word (present. rate Is 4%d); deterred rate, ts iy 3 d per word (present rate Is 4d). Tl.e Eastern Company announces further that to places in Europe, other than Great Britain, the rate will be reduced from 3s to 2s 6d per word. Times are apparently hard for some people, says the Hunterville Express. A man and his wife and two children walked into Hunterville and said they had come from Porewa that day and intended walking on to Taihape, where they had frfon'ds who would give the man a job. The man had only 4fe in his pocket. On hearing this, Mr A. T, Gatrell, of the Argyle Hotel, promptly invited them to dinner and handed the man a pound note. The Patriotic Society was communicated with and thier worldly wealtn was further augmented. A commercial traveller, Mr C. Davidson, promptly offered .them a ride through to Taihape, and times seemed much brighter for the quartette. Few people are probably aware that tobacco was at one time extensively cultivated in England. Winchcombc, hi Gloucestershire, claims the honour of being the first place in the Old Country to grow the weed. The dried and cured leaf was comparatively expensive at first, but by the time of j antes 11. the “best Virginia” was sold at 2s per lb, and was in great .demand. It would be interesting to compare, if that were possible the tobacco of that day with that of our own* day. Modern methods of manufacture have, of course worked wonders. Some of the purest tobaccos now on the market are grown in New Zealand, and they owe their fine flavour largely to the fact that they are all toasted—a riew departure. Owing, to their containing such a trifling amount of nicotine, these brands may be smoked all day without unpleasant or injurious consequences : “Riverh’ead Gold” is a fine aromatic tobacco, ‘‘Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog label) medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head) full-flav-oured. They are Meeting with a big sale®