LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4778, 19 November 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

The steam roller for Paeroa is expected to arrive in a few days.

The jubilee of the Borough of Napier will be celebrated next week. There are now over 20 farmers from the Waihi district sending cream to Te Aroha. Tenders are invited for the erection of workmen’s cottages for the Thames Valley Power Board, Two Maori shearers put up a good performance at Kiwitahi on Saturday by shearing 193 heavy ewes before mid-day, says the Morrinsville “Star.” A return of lifts of one ton or over during the last six months showed pn average of two a month at the Morrinsville railway station. As a result of the storm experienced in this district on Monday night one of the windows in a house at the new railway (settlement was blown in.

Between 30 and 40 men are engaged on the new station -work, A powerful steam navvy is also employed shifting a large quantity of soil.

It is stated that the Railway Department intends to build two houses at Komata when the Paeroa settlement is finished. The rain experienced throughout this district on Monday night and yesterday will, be welcomed by farmers and gardeners. In some places rain was badly needed. At a meeting of the Waihi branch of the Returned Soldiers’ Association on Saturday there was straight talk on the non-observance of the two minutes’. silence on Armistice Day, reports the “Telegraph.” At the first wool, (sale of the season at Wellington on Monday 6576 bales were offered and elicited phenomenal prices up to 35%d per lb for halfbreds. Prices were 100 per cent, above those of last November. Notwithstanding the quantity of feed to be found in most paddocks there are some people who let their stock wander on the roads. The engineer of the Piako County Council stated on Monday that from £lO to £l5 worth of damage had been done by wandering cattle in Manawaru in one day.

A start has been made with the removal of about 2000 yards of spoil from the top'of Hill Street to Taylor’s Avenue. This work has to be pushed on to enable .the Railway Department to close Hill Street crossing. This crossing cannot be closed until Taylor’s Avenue is formed and made passable for traffic.

Turnip crops In most parts of this district are coming away welj. One well-known Netherton settler who limed and manured his ground states that he is convinced, from the way his turnips are coming on, that it pays to manure well. The cost of the lime and manure, in his opinion, may be returned by the increase in the first crop.

Four hundred New Zealand immigrants, including 40 domestics, are sailing by the Dorset from Liverpool on November 22 ; 400 others, including 30 boys who are being sent out under the sheepowners’ scheme and 20 public school boys, are leaving by the Corinthic «on November 27. Fifty Scottish farm workers and 40 domestics will sail by the Rotorua on December 18.

An old identity of the Goldfields in the person of Mr Thomas Johns, of Waihi, passed away on Sunday morning in his 78th year. Deceased was widely known and highly respected throughout the Thames and Ohinemuri goldfields. Within a year of the opening of the goldfield in 1867 Mr Johns was engaged in mining. About 25 years ago he went to Waihi, and was in charge of the Waihi Extended mine for some years.

The Railway Department announced recently that to compete with motor traffic the freight on benzine and other spirits had been reduced, It is eAident that the railway cannot compete against water carriage. The freight on a ton of benzine by rail irom Auckland to Paeroa is 255, plus 25 per cent. If the consignment is less than a ton the rate is still 255, but only 22y 2 per cent, is added. The freight per steamer is Is per case. As far as the railways are concerned there does not appear to be any reduction in general merchandise.

The annual show of the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association will be held at the association’s grounds at. Claudel ands to-day and tomorrow. To-morrow will be “People’s Day,” on which it is anticipated there will be a very large attendance. The exhibition this year is on a bigger scale than ever, and the horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs entered are large in numbers and high in quality. Tomorrow will be reserved for the judging, although there will be several ring events. The principal jumping' contests wiU take place on Thursday. The Waikato competition will be the chief attraction, for which all the leading hunters in the province have entered, while there are also some from outside.

A copy of a new weekly magazine of 36 pages entitled “The New Nation,” published in Wellington, has reached this office. “We hope,” states the editor in a foreword, “to be in a position to encourage New Zealand writers, and each issue will contain, if possible, at least one good short, story by a New Zealand writer. Once every month, too, we intend to have a page devoted to original verse.” The publisher if for no other reason deserves success on these grounds in his venture. The first number includes* articles by Professor J. B. Condliffe on “The Economic Reconstruction of Russia” ; "War and Human Nature,” by Professor I. L. G. Sutherland ; and a scholarly discourse on “The Literature of Criticfem," by Sir Robert Stout. Considerable space is given to music, art, and the drama, and several pages to book reviews, j

Their Excellencies, Viscount and Lady Jellicoe and family will leave New Zealand by the R.M.S. Tahiti, which is due to sail for Sydney from Wellington on November 26.

The annual meeting of the Paeroa Fire Brigade was called for last night, but owing to sickness a majority of the members were unable to be present, only six putting in an appearance. It was decided to adjourn for a week.

Why is smoking so often attended with results that cause medical men to order their patients to either discontinue the habit or greatly modify it, It is simply because the percentage of nicotine in most imported tobaccos is so high, and it is the nicotine in excess that renders smoking injurious. Now, our New Zealand grown tobaccos contain so small a percentage of nicotine that it is practically a negligible quantity, and, besides, they are subjected to a new toasting process. Toasting develops the flavour, removes all deleterious properties, and makes the tobacco climate proof. Toasted tobacco is recommended to those who study their health and appreciate a pure tobacco. If you like a full body try Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead label, or the somewhat milder Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog). There is another brand, Riverhead Gold, which excels all others in mildness and aroma. They may be smoked with impunity, and cost. 25 per cent, less than the foreign lines.*