LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4779, 21 November 1924, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Methodist Church services will be held in the Gaiety Theatre on Sunday.

The Wanganui Hospital Board has received a donation of £331 Is from Chinese residents of Wanganui.

On account of the Paeroa show next week the date of the Hikutaia stock sa’e has been altered to Tuesday, November 25.

The contractor for the formation of Taylor’s Avenue is pushing on with the work, and four teams and eight men are at present engaged.

County workmen using a tractor and a road plough are at. present tearin- up the Turua-Netherton road from Carter’s Corner southward.

The formal opening of the Waitakaruru Domain Board’s new concrete tennis court will take place to-moi-row.

The Ngatea Cricket Club will play its first match to-morrow against an eleven chosen from the members of the Pipiroa Club.

Special, services in connection with the Salvation Army’s Young People’s anniversary are advertised in this issue. Ensign Gill Inglis will be in charge.

The mail for the United Kingdom and Europe via Vancouver, to reacn its destination by Christmas Day will close at the Paeroa post office on Monday.

The Turua public library, which has been closed since the beginning of the month for reorganisation and recataloguiug, will be reopened this (Friday) evening.

The bitumeiirseaiing of the roads in the Turua southern area will commence as soon as the weather permits. Supplies of metal for the top courses are now coming to hand from the new Puriri crusher.

At a special meeting of the Thames Hospital Board on Wednesday the resignation of the matron was accepted with regret, states the Thames “Star,” and Sister Ansenne was appointed acting-matron.

It was stated by a ratepayer under the Manawatu-Oroua River Board that as a result of the erosion of his block in the Taikitahuna district he had 25 acres left out of the original area of 106 acres.

There are record entries for the band contest in Auckland in February. There are 16 bands in the A contest and 17 in the B grade. These include Waihi Federal, Hauraki Regiment, Hamilton City, and Waikato Regimental.

The Turua public school ha« now been closed for a week on account of the illness of three of the teachers and many of the pupils. In view of their approaching examination the sixth standard pupils are receiving instruction. It is anticipated that the school will reopen on Monday.

"1 feel that if we have another great war the day of the white man will cmne to an end. There are millions of the Mohammedan races waiting for their opportunity, and that will come if Europe bleeds herself to inanition and death,” remarked Di. Gibb in a powerful discourse on .the League of Nations at the last session of the Presbyterian General Assembly.

At St. Paul’s Church on Sunday evening choral evensong will be sung, the anthem being Simper’s "Trust in Him always,” the solo part, of which will be sung by Mr Ray Foster. During ti e service Mr Harold Hill, of Auckland, will sing the tenor recitative and aria from the “Messiah,” "Comfort ye,” and “Every Valley.”

A Turua farmer states that many settlers in that district are harrowing paddocks troubled with fescue and ar.? cowing paspalum, which is the only grass that has a fighting chance with fescue. He has had trouble with stock grazing on fescue country, and he has found that the best plan is to shift them about every fortnight, into a paddock where there is no fescue.

“There Is Just as much gambling in guessing the number of peas in a bottle as in running a roulette table.” —The Rev. J. C. Paterson (Clutha Presbytery) at the Presbyterian General Assembly at Palmerston North. Of course there is, and the running of a Tattersall’s sweep or a totaljisator is no more gambling than dealing in land or mining scrip.

An Hauraki Plains farmer, discussing the good results fi;om millet ensilage last year stated that he sowed his millet about the middle of October. He put. in 20 lbs of seed per acre, with 2 cwt. of superphosphate. The land is chiefly peat. The crop was cut wit.li the binder, in the beginning of March, when it was 4 feet high, and put into an ensilage stack 14 feet by 16 feet. Cutting with a binder is a great saving of labour as it makes the handling of the green stuff so much easier. He fed 40 cows and incalf heifens and 12 yearlings for nine weeks in the winter on the ensilage made from 12 acres of millet, and in the future shall depend on millet ensilage for wintering stock.

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is of an incomparably high standard, the illustrations covering a wide diversity of subjects. The double centre page is set out with outdoor sport and recreation in England and America, and fashion models. New Zealand Cup day at Riccarton is depicted in a series of striking snapshots of enthusiasts on the lawn, while Derby day is also interestingly represented. The Thames Jockey Club’s meeting, the Hamilton fixture, and the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting are also given prominent space, while the Melbourne Cup meeting at Flemington makes a distinctive section in itself. The All Blacks at Swansea make up a graphic page, and there are numerous miscellaneous pictures, with fin attractive showing of Theatre and picture subjects.

The new railway station is evidently to be of substantial dimensions, judging by the concrete abutment for the platform, which is now nearly completed by the department’s bridge gang. It is estimated to be about 17 chains in length. Mr N. McLeod, engineer to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, was m Paeroa on Wednesday, when he discussed with the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) and Cr. Flatt the proposed alteration of poles in connection, with the new railway station. It will be necessary to shift a couple of poles and have guards erected for the proposed overhead crossing. The cost of this work will, of course, have to be borne by the Railway Department. The Public Service Entrance, Scholarship, and Intermediate examinations are being held in the Paeroa District High School. Mrs W. L. Lawrence and Miss A. A. Kenny are acting as supervisors, and there are 3 candidates for senior scholarship, 16 for public service entrance, 7 for senior free place, and 11 for junior national scholarship. The examination started on Wednesday, and will extend till Friday, 28th inst. Pupils are sitting from Te Aroha and Paeroa districts. The Matriculation examination will be held in Paeroa on December 2 to 11, inclusive, at the District High School.

A good deal of gambling ip said to be going on at present among Dunedin bank customers in American drafts, and the upward trend of the sterling has been responsible for, naturally, some losses and gains. An example of the latter was given to a reporter by a business man. for whom about three weeks ago, when sterling was quoted at 4.661, a draft of £156 came to hand. He did not lift it until yesterday, when, with the exchange rate standing at 4.71, he made or saved a clear £4 10s. To a man who left a draft running into thousands’with his bank there has been given a tidy Christmas present by the ascendancy of the pound.

Through the simple process of toasting his tobacco the modern manufacturer has been able to effect an enormous improvement in the smoking quality. It is a well-known fact that cooked food is wholesomer and more digestible than raw food, and the same principle applies to tobacco. We do not eat raw meat or fieh or drink raw coffee, why should we smoke raw tobacco. It is wonderful how the flavour of tobacco can be developed by. toasting. Try any of the local brands and you will notice a marked improvement, and. what is also important, as a result of the toasting process the tobacco loses all, deleterious properties. Smokers who study their health should therefore give this matter their attention, and avoid strong foreign heavily charged with nicotine —they are sure to undermine even the most robust constitution. Not only is the local article purer and more wholesome than most of the imported brands, but it is cheaper, too. Riverhead Gold is mild and aromatic ; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) of medium strength; but if you prefer a full body try Cut Plug No. 10 I .*