LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4773, 7 November 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

« The closing hours of shops within a ten-mile radius of Auckland Chief Post Office will now be 9 p.m. on Fridays and 12.15 p.m. on Saturdays. Parliament has now closed down for the session. Mr Massey agreed io consider a suggestion to call members together earlier next year in view of the election. The Auckland Education Board has decided that the Christmas holidays will start on December 20, and thiit schools will reopen on the first Tuesday ip. February next year.

At the euchre tournament held under the auspices of the East Football Club on Monday the booby prize, a handsome brooch, was won by Miv> Hoare

Excursion tickets will be issued to Te Rapa to-morrow in connection with lhe Hamilton races. A special train will leave Paeroa for the races at 8.25 a.m.

The Church of England annual bazaai will be held on November 20 in the Gaiety Theatre. Competitions in both cooking and cut flowers. Attractions for all.*

The Supplementary Estimates contain a grant of £127 for Mr R. T. Reid, headmaster, who was permanently disabled in the Waikino school tragedy.

During last month 150’ cases of explosives were received at the local magazine ,and 81 cases issued. The fees collected during October amounted to £4 18s 4'd.

in an endeavour to counter competition by motoi’ the Railway Department has reduced the freight on benzine, motor spirits, naptha, gasoline, benzole, and benzoline, A return tabled at Wednesday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council showed that 61 cows, 27 steers ,iiiu . eilers, 158 sheep, 7 calves, and 13 pigs were slaughtered, at the local abattoirs during October. Fees collected totalled £55 19s 7d. According to Mr Claude Motion, one of the Dairy delegation, there is mucn speculation in butter in London. Persons there buy butter at 150 s, store it, and rc-sell, at 180 s to 190 s. That is easier than milking the cows and manutacturing in. the Dominion. "The thanks of dairy farmers are due to the Hon, W. Nosworthy, Minister for Agriculture, for what he has done lor co-operative companies. He has stood by them every time,” said Mr A. J. Sinclair at the meeting of suppliers ,at Paeroa on Wednesday. • The Auckland Provincial Dairy Companies’ Association is a body witn a big title, and when it passes resolutions and broadcasts them people .u other places are sometimes misled as to its membership,’' declared Mr A. J. Sinclair at Paeroa on Wednesday. The charges imposed by the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company will be found to be very reasonable, lhe company is a farmers’ concern, and should be supported by other farmers’ co-operative companies, so Mr A. J. Sinclair told the dairy farmers at Paeroa on Wednesday. An abundance of illustrations makes the current issue of the “N.Z. Spoiling and Dramatic Review” a particularly attractive one. The well set out centre pages are featured with incidents of the All Bracks’ matches against Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Gloucester, and convey a graphic idea oi the nature of the games. Racing enthusiasts, who are exceptionally well catered for, will follow with keen interest the snapshots at the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham, the Auckland Racing Club’s fixture .at Ellerslie, and the Waikato Hunt Club’s meeting at Hamilton, each gathering having a very generous showing. The stage and motion picturi sections have a, prominent place in public favour. A two-colour supplement “The Flapper,” is given away with this number. Rumours are in circulation around Turua that the dump of metal has had a serious effect on the concrete road on which it is placed, causing the road to crack to such an extent that unless something is done portion will slip into the river. While it is not possible to ascertain the full extent, the damage that is visible is not serious. The metal has been on the concrete for almost two months, on Saturday last .there wae a high spring tide, and this no doubt weakened the foundations. A crack appeared near the edge of the metal, but at its widest it is only about oneeighth of an inch. The road was laid in sections 9ft wide and about 25ft long, so if any subsidence has taken place it is probably at the end of the cracked section. It wou'l,d be impossible for any of the concrete to slip into tlie river unless there was a big landslide, and that is highly improbable. Few people are probably aware that tobacco was at one time extensively cultivated in England. Winchcombe, in 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 Janies 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 hew departure. Owing to their containing such a trifling amount of nicotine, these brands may be smoked all day without unpleasant or injurious consequences : “Riverhead 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* „ .