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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4785, 5 December 1924, Page 2

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

A start is to be made with the erection of; the new post office at Ngatea in the very near future. Some of the timber, which is coining by rail to Wharepoa, has already arrived, at the site. Hay-making is now being generally undertaken in the lower parts of the Thames Valley. A Puriri settler has just cut for the first time this season a crop of l ( ucerne averaging in height 3ft 10% inches. The stand is three years old. At yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council a report was tabled showing that 60 cows, 24 steers and heifers, 149 sheep, 5 lambs, 4 calves, and 2 pigs were slaughtered at the local abattoirs during November. Fees collected amounted to £5O 0s 6d. At yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club it was unnaimously decided to institute a Jersey Breeders’ Oaks, to oc held under the of the club. In order to stimulate interest, it was agreed to accept entries up till 1 January 31 1925, and also to accept entries i etrospective for heifers calved between June 1 and December 31, 1923. The contest has been arranged to close in 1927.

The nurses at the Waihi hospital recently petitioned the board to reduce their hours of duty from ten hours to eight hours daily. Whilst sympathising with the request, the board refused to grant it on the grounds that information had been received that until a larger staff, and a bigger nurses’ home, was available, tlie 8-hour- day could not be introduced. Fruthermore, finances would not permit of “making the necessary extensions in the staff and buildings,”

At the evensong at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday next the anthem will be Simperfe “Trust in Him always,’’ the solo being taken by Mr Ray Foster. After the sermon Mr Hiroid Hill, of Auckland, will sing the tenor recitative and aria from the Messiah “Comfort ye,’’ and “Every Valley” Mr Hill was to have sung these numbers a fortnight ago, but owing to unforeseen circumstances was prevented from visiting Paeroa on that date.

At a meeting of the Thames Valley Jersey Breeders’ Club at Paeroa yesterday Mr W, J. Hall, Matutoki, stated that he had made a mistake in entering ar animal in the yearling classes instead of the two-year-old classes at the recent Hauraki A. and P. Show at Paeroa. He said he had advised the secretary and had learned that the prizes won would be forfeited in those classes. Therefore the third prize for class 35 would go to Mr H. McCormack and the second prize for the Gamble Cup, class 32, would go to Mr G. Buchanan.

The Waihi-Athenree goods railway traffic was quietly inaugurated at i a.m. on Monday, when a truckload of farm necessities was carried to Athcnrce and intermediate stations. Sii.ee Monday a truckload of goods has been sent daily, consisting mostly of manure, machinery, and timber. There is no set timetable as yet, but a twice-daily service is available if required by the coupling of a trued or van on the afternoon ballast train from Karangahakc. Five cans of cream were railed to Waihi on the opening day.

The unformed road between the Ohinemuri and Thames County boundaries has been laid' off by the Ohinemuri County Council’s engineer, Mt E. Shaw. The starting point of this section is at Prakawai, near Whaugamata. Nearly twelve months ago the route was surveyed by the Government Survey Department, but a better route was sought and found by the county engineer, and he decided to use the Te Wariki tramline, thus materially reducing the distance of the section, of road to be formed. Mr Shaw hopes to have .this work completed at an early date.

The weight-computing competition at the Hauraki A. and P, Show was keenly contested this year. For the bullock no less than six persons gusesed within %lb, while ‘for both the sheep and pig the actual weights were arrived at. The actual weight of the bullock was 750%1b, and Mrs J. M. Thompson and Messrs W. Pickweff, W. Holwell, C. T. Handley (Paeroa), ana T. J. Barton (Kerepeehi) guessed 7501 b and Mr J. G. McDougall (Paeroa) 7511 b. The actual weight of the sheep was 2171 b, computed by Mr R. McClinchy (Paeroa). The weight of the pig, 971 b, was given by Mr G. Prout, of Netherton. The aggregate was won by Miss C. Grant, who was l 3 z iJb out in the bul.lock, %lb out in the pig. and 181 b out in the sheen.

With its wealth of picturesque illustrations this week's issue of the "N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review’’ should make more than an ordinary appeal to the public. The beautifully set out centre pages depict scenes of the most up-to-date interest. The Akarana Yacht Club’s races are the subject of an attractive page, while the farewell to their Excellencies Lord and Lady Jeljicoe and the diamond wedding of Mr and Mrs Henry Brett make up other pages of much interest. Racing is liberally represented in snapshots of the Takapuna Jockey Club’s meeting and the Otahuhu Trotting Club’s fixture. Thamesites will be particularly interested in the fine group photographs of the recent meeting at Parawai. Amongst a host ofl up-to-date miscellany appear football in New York, the late A. J. McFlinn, fencing in bathing suits, Navy League Scouts.

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