THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4763, 13 October 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

• A shipment of 350 telegraph poles were landed at Waitakaruru last week. These will be sufficient for ten miles of line, but where this will be is not yet known. Rapid progress is being made with the erection of the metal hopper on Puriri Creek, and if the present rate of progress can be maintained it should be ready for work by Saturday next. The official opening of the Waikino Bowling Club was held on Saturday afternoon. A number of bowlers from the local club attended the function and report having spent an enjoyable afternoon. Fortunately the rain kept off long enough for twenty-one heads to be played. The green is stated to have been in good order, and exceptionally fast for so early in the season. It was stated at the last meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board that negotiations were in progress to secure a connection to the Hauraki Plains with the new' line from Horahora to Penrose, which is expected to be completed shortly. The proposed connecting line, if the negotiations are successful, should leave the main line in the vicinity of Pokenc, and connect with the Hauraki Plains section at Waitakaruru. This woul.d give the Hauraki Plains a better source of supply. A lire was discovered in its incipient. stages at the premises occupied by Mr P. Brennan, boot repairer, Wharf Street, Paeroa, on Saturday evening shortly after 9 o'clock. A passer-by noticed a glare through the window as he passed the premises and promptly gave the alarm. The fire brigade was quickly on the scene, but fortunately its services were not required, as the blaze was extinguished by the means of a bucket of water. Little damage was done barring the charring of a couple of the lining boards and slight damage to a cupboard. Mr Brennan had only returned to the premises a short while before the outbreak, and was engaged in another room when the fire was discovered. He can give no reason as to the cause.

Mr P. E. Brenan returned this morning from Wellington, where he has been, with the chairman of the Thames Hospital Board, in conference with the Minister for Public Health and the Director-General on matters connected with the Thames institution ami the proposed maternity hospital for Paeroa. Interviewed this morning Mr Brenan said that he was not in a position to make a statement at present, but he could say he had every reason to believe that matteis in connection with the proposed building at Paeroa were proceeding quite satisfactorily.

••The conditions under which this sale is run are a disgrace to Hamilton.” remarked Mr G. McCullough, the Farmers’ Auctioneering Company's auctioneer, in re-opening business on Thursday at the Waikato Combined Breeders’ Association’s annual bull fair at the Claudelands Showgrounds. There was an impression, continued Mr McCullough, that the auctioneering companies were running the sale, particularly the Farmers', but on their behalf he was pleased to say that this was not so. His ccmpany had, in fact, to come to the rescue of the association by arranging for the erection of a marquee and for the provision of a plentiful spreading of shavings over the muddy surface of the ground. The hearty "hear, hears" that followed indicated clearly the feelings of the large attendance towards the primitive arrangements made for them the day previous by the association.

Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective of fiction, smoked strong black shag tobacco and derived inspiration from it when puzzling over some problem of more than ordinary complexity. Shag is too full-flavoured for many rmokers. It contains a lot of nicotic, and excess of nicotine is a bad thing. The habitual use of such tobacco is bound sooner or later to affect the consumer injuriously. Unfortunately practically all imported tobaccos are heavily charged with nicotine And in that respect they differ essentially from our New Zealand grown tobaccos, the comparatively small amount of nicotine which <institutes one of their chief recommendations. Also—and this is important —they are all toasted, and toasting brings out the flavour of the leaf in a im.Et remarkable way. There are several brands of this popular tobacco : Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog label), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head), full rtrength. Each of them has its merits. That seasoned smoker, Sherlock He lines, would doubtlessly prefer the last named* For Children’s Hacking Cough. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.