THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4790, 17 December 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Two more motor-trucks have been added during the past week or so to the fleet of commercial vehicles on the Hauraki Plains. Three of the twelve grocers, four of the six butchers, and all the bakers now use this form of transport, and there are almost a dozen carrier with motortrucks. At Auckland yesterday Abraham Wally Mohamid Salaman was sentenced by Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., to one month's imprisonment on a charge of false pretences. The extent of sport on the Hauraki Plains can be gauged from the fact that during the present summer season 120 tennis playeiw will be playing in inter-club matches arranged by the Hauraki Plains Tennis Association every Saturday, and two tennis teams will be disengaged owing to lack of opponents, while 44 cricketers will be playing in matches arranged by the Hauraki Plains Cricket Association and one team will be idle. Two tennis clubs, Patetongn and Netherton, are not affiliated with the tennis association. It fe therefore obvious that well over 10 per cent, of the population are active members of sports clubs.

A poll of borough ratepayers to raise loans totalling £14,500 for the purchase of the local gasworks, water reticulation, and sewerage connection is being held to-day. Apparently very little interest is being taken in the pol’. as up to the time of going to press a very small number of the total cn the roll had exercised their votes.

Miss Agnes Wright Stewart, who was the plaintiff in the recent case at the Auckland Supreme Court, where she claimed £2284 as damages from Abraham Wally Mohamid Snlamiin, Indian herbalist, died yesterday morning. It will be remembered that plaintiff alleged that defendant had been negligent, and had failed to exercise reasonable skill in his treatment of her. Alternativolv, plaintiff alleged fraud on the part of defendant. The defence was a general denial of the. allegations. After a three days’ hearing plaintiff was awarded £6OO damages against Salaman. At the hearing deceased was so ill that she had to be carried into the Court on a stretcher in order to give her evidence.

Over the signature of •‘Consideration'’ a writer in a letter to the editor hones that the usual courteous and efficient post office counter facilities at Paeroa will be increased to meet the urgent demands of the Christmas and New Year festivities.

The Waitakaruru Domain Board, at a meeting on Monday evening, decided to have a concrete cricket pitch laid down on the Domain ground.. The work will commence next week. The secretary was instructed to send ’a letter of thanks to Mr E. Walton, ot Ngatea, for free legal advice and ;o Mr J. N. Anderson, also of Ngatea, for having surveyed the levels for the tennis court.

Hai’dly a week passes but some vestsel experiences difficulty in negotiating the passage through the opening span in the Ngatea bridge. The opening is not very wide, and when the tide is running out a vessel must proceed at considerable speed to have steerage way enough to pass through without bumping. Should the vessel touch one side and lose way the tide will quickly swing her round. In this event the only, thing that can be done is to make ropes fast to piles and pull the vessel straight with winches. Such a course had to be adopted with the s.'s. Waipu on Tuesday afternoon.

As the dredge which has been working on the western bank of the Puhanga canal has now passed the end of the temporary bridge at the end of Torehape Road, and has erected the stop-bank for the full length of the canal, the temporary bridge has been removed and the road on the eastern bank closed to through traffic. The road on the western stopbank is in good order. Permission Has been granted a local tradesman by one of the tennis clubs on the Plains to sell ice-cream and summer drinks at its tennis courts on Saturday afternoons. The local jockey, Cyril Burgess, who • was thrown from his mount, Ulva's Isle, and seriously injured during the running of the Maiden Hunter Steeplechase at the Waikato Hunt Club’s meeting at Te Rapa on October 27, has recovered sufficiently to be discharged from the Waikato Hospital and has returned to Paeroa, where he is convalescing. As the primary schools will close for the summer holidays at the end of this week many of the Plains school.? have arranged for a picnic or a concert on Thursday or Friday. It has been said that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor. If that be true—and true it assuredly is—what is to be said of those who established a suclocal industry which finds employment for many hands, develops the latent resources of this Dominion, and keeps the money in the country 1 Look at what the poor gum lands i f the North and the barren clays Nelson, at one time considered worthless for agricultural purposes, are now producing. They furnish the manufacturers with the raw material for our local brands. And so excellent is this product that no smoker should fail to give it a trial. He is in for quite a new type, a toasted tobacco, more fragrant, less nicotine, and, therefore, healthier. A wonderful in provement compared with the non-toasted tobacco. There are three grades : Riverhead Gold, very mild ' Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), :>f medium strength ; and those who prefer a full body will appreciate Cut Pb’g No. 10, the Bullhead brand.*