THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4759, 3 October 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

What is probably something in the nature of a record in fecundity is reported in'connection with the lambing on one farm in Canterbury this season (remarks an exchange). Six ewes have produced between them 19 lambs ; one was the mother of four, and each of the other five mothered triplets. Widely diversified is the selection of illustrations in this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” the, high standard of this popular journal being realised in every respect. Golfers will find their own special niche in the two splendid pages of competitors in Auckland and Hamilton, and snaps at Middliemore give additional interest. The centre pages contain a miscellaney of topical events and people in England. The Avondafo Jockey Club’s meeting is represented in a striking series, while New Zealand horses’ successes in Sydney are given worthy prominence. Gloaming’s race having a particularly fine view. Football is covered in photographs of Grammar Old Boys v. King’s, Marfet Brothers v., Devctnport League teams, Auckland Harbour Board Soccer, and numerous individual pictures. Ladtes will peruse with pleasure the page of French race frocks, while stage and motion picture have an especially appealing showing, including a frontispiece of Hetty King, and a two-colour supplement, “The Modern Giri at her Toilet,” given away in this issue. For Influenza, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

A report submitted at yesterday's meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council showed that 42 cows, 49 steers and heifers, 138 sheep, 2 iambs, 8 calves, and 7 pigs had been slaughtered at the local abattoirs during last month. Fees collected totalled £53 19s 5(1. A Sunday school building, 4i6ft long and 26ft wide, with stained glass windows, was erected in one day by a working bee of Methodist enthusiasts at Moeroa (states the "Taranaki Daily News”). Work was commenced by the volunteers at daylight, and they toiled until long after dark. ’When they ceased work the building was sufficiently advanced to enable it to be used for Sunday school on the following day. In spite of the, many attempts by the struggling farmer, the gum lands of the North Auckland district have proved unsuitable for general agricultural purposes. Cropping is not a paying proposition in those paits. There is one exception, however—tobacco thrives well in these latitudes, and splendid types of leaf have been produced on soils that not long ago were covered with ti-tree and ffein. A small portion of these W'aste lands -i pla lied in tobacco would he sufficient to transform this povei’ty-stricke.i district into regions of affluence anl wealth ; £so' net is the average yield of a tobacco crop pier acre, and often mo>-e. Few people realise the mi mense possibilities of the hbacco industry, but anyone wanting information on the subject is referred to the, ready manufactured article, “Riverhead Gold.’’ mildest of ail; “Toasted Nayy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength; and “Cut Plug No. 10 (Ballhead), full strength. Do not forget that all three brands are toasted, and therefore more wholesome than the average class of goods from oversea:., often so harmful on the score of excess nicotine.*