THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4772, 5 November 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Paeroa Lawn Tennis Club will open the season on Saturday. In this issue the Public Trust Office notiliCfs that Mr Edwin Edwards has been appointed agent in Paeroa. Constable A. H. Barnes has been transferred to Te Aroha from-Ohe-hunga. There are now 1055 motors installed on farms in the Thames Valley Fewer district, and 951 of them are 2-h.p. milking motors. The monthly meeting of the Turua Town Board is usually held on the first Wednesday. As this month it would clash with a concert, the meeting was held on Monday evening. The Lands Drainage Department Is at present installing a flood-gate on the western bank of the Piako River below Pipiroa. Four men have been employed. The monthly meeting of the Thames Harbour Board has been postponed. Certain important information concerning dredging plant and loan matters has not yet come to. hand. As the result of a deputation from the Wai hi Borough Council the reconstruction of the Waitete bridge on the Paeroa-Waihi main road will be put in hand as early as possible by the Public Works Department. A conference of members of committees of suppliers to the N.Z. Co-op. Dairy Co, was held in the G.aiety Theatre, Paeroa, to-day, and another meeting will be held at Ngatea tomorrow. A number of farmers on the NgateaWaitakaruru section of the Thames Valley Power Board’s district, are now milking electrically, and as soon as the necessary transformers arrive the others will be connected. Proceedings were hanging fire during the election of officers at a sports club meeting on the Plains recently and many were declining when one man rose and proposed himself. T?iis was duly seconded and carried. Meetings at Netherton usually commence and end very late. The an•taual meeting of the Sports Club on Tuesday was called for 7.30 p.m. It commenced at 8.30 p.m. and closed at 12.30 a.m.

There was a slight frost in Paeroa this morning, followed by a bright isunshiny day. Heaps of scrub on several sections about Paeroa show that the younger generation do not intend to forget that this is Guy Fawkes Day. - The ‘'Telegraph" states that most cars that made the trip to Waihi Beach during the last week-end had to use chains. The expenditure ol the Thames Valley Electric- Power Board for the half-year ending September 30, 1024, was £33,231 12s Bd. The. revenue from all sources was £30,429 17s 2d, leaving a balance o£ £2BOl 15s 6d. After a round-table conference between representatives of tne Paeroa Bowling Club and the Domain Board last night a satisfactory arrangement was arrived at after two hours discussion. A report, will appear in next issue. At the monthly meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board the manager reported that there were now 4414 consumers connected to the board’s mains, 64 lighting and heating consumers, and 35 farmers motors, of which 25 are 2-h.p. milking motors were connected last month. Motorists need no longer fear the journey between the Plains and Paeroa on account of the state of the roads. The Pekapeka road has now been graded, and is fit for traffic, so there i$ no need to use that portion of the Kerepeehi-Wharepoa road which is almost impassable. A complimentary social and preisentauon will be tendered to Mrs 3. Cerbett and family in the Hikutaia Hall on Monday. A committee, of which Mr A. R. Robinson is secretary, has the arrangements in hand, and it is expected that there will <>e a large, attendance. The engineer reported to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board meeting yesterday that an 11,000-volt line had been erected for a distance of 2Vs miles from Pekapeka Road to Firth’s sawmill in .the Kerepeehi district, and a 50-k.v.a. transformer installed The Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) has received advice from Mr H. Poland, M.P., that the clause in the WashingUp Bill regarding the closing of Fraser and Johnston Streets, Paeroa, has been agreed to by Parliamen:. This is in connection with the proposed hospital site. Another aspect of the wandering stock problem on the Plains comes to light from Turua, where a resident of the township discovered one morn-i ing recently that his household cow had no milk. During the night some calves that had been running on the road had gone through the fence and helped themselves. At the Warden’s Court, Paeroa, on Monday, before Mr .J. H. Salmon, Warden, Rowley H. Griffin was granted a residence site license on section 5, Block VI., containing 2 roods, at Mackaytown. The application of Cyril Waines for a S.Q.C. of 60 acres at Kaiangahake was recommended to the M nister for Mines. Apparently there is ampl.e justification for the complaints regarding the state of the roads around Mangataraca. On Monday the county engineer and the riding member were stuck ii: in the mud, and another car had to be procured to bring them home. The county car could not be removed until the following day. The net expenditure on the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Account for the Quarter ended September 30, 1924, was £17,030 2s sd, as against £16,861 12s 3d for the corresponding quarter last year. In the Hauraki Plains Settlement Account £18,249 2s was spent during the September quarter of 1924, as against £23,862 18s lid for the corresponding quarter of 1923.

rhe following rainfall figures ’or the month of October have been supplied by .the local office of the Public Works Department, with those for the corresponding month last year in parenthesis: The total, rainfall for the month was 5.39 (3.63) inches. Rain fell on 20 (19) days, the heaviest fall being on October 18 (19), when .85in (.60in) was registered.

At the Thames Valley Power Board meeting yesterday, in answer to an inquiry from Mr W. E. G. IVilly, the chairman said that the Waitakaruru line would be made alive about the middle of December. Transformers for that line were due to arrive in Auckland on November 23, and no time would be lost in getting them installed. .

At yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board Mr J. Price, Matamata, was elected to the executive* committee of the board. The Thames Harbour Board lets no opportunity of increasing its revenue pasts. At the Town Board meeting at Turua on Monday evening an .account was leceived for wharfage and harbour improvement tax on the first of the metal for fhe permanent roads which has been landed over the riverbank from a specially constructed landing. The rate was 5%d a yard.

The works committee of the Paeroa Borough Council has accepted the tender of Mr A. W. Curtis for the formation of Coronation Street leading to the new railway goods yard. The lender of the isame contractor for removal of approximately 2000 yards from the top of Hill Street io Taylor Avenue was also accepted. This work must be completed in'five weeks, and the price, agreed upon is 3s 5%d per yard. Both undertakings will be started early next week.

To-morrow night the Rev. Jasper Calder, of the Auckland City Mission, will speak in the Ngatea Hall. The work of the Mission is among the poor of Auckland, and Mr Calder has an interesting story and he tells it in an impressive manner, Mr Calder is well-known as a first-cl.ass performer on the concert platform both ais a reciter and singer.

The work of erection of poles in the Mangateparu-Tahuna-Hoe-Tainui section of the Thames Valley Electric Power district has been started and all the poles have been landed at Tahuna from Auckland.

Robert Louis' Stevenson once declared, according to one of his biographers: "No woman should marry a man who doesn’t smoke,” and Stevenson, it must be admitted, knew human nature. Another famous man of letters, Bulwer-Lytton, wrote (see his novel, ‘‘What will he do with it ?”) : "He who doth not smoke hath either known no greater grief, or ref.wseth himself the softest consolation next to that which comes from heaven.” As to the harmfulness of the habit, much—very much —depends upon the tobacco. Brands heavily charged with nicotine are best avoided. In that'respset and in other respects our own New Zealand grown tobaccos hold .pride of place, because they * contain comparatively little nicotine and may, therefore, be indulgsd in ad. lib. without affecting nerves or heart. Doubtless that is why they are finding favour with so many smokers. They are on sale everywhere, and are adapted to all. tastes. “Riverhead Gold” is mild aromatic. “Toasted Navy Cut” (Bulldog) a delightful medium, and “Cut Plug No. 10” (Bull’s Head label) a fine full-flavoured tobacco.*