THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4792, 22 December 1924, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1924. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The “Gazette” will not oe published on Friday next, December 26, or Monday, 29th. The office will be closed from Thursday to Monday next, inclusive, Notices usually inserted in Friday’s issue should be forwarded in time for Wednesday’s publication.

Fine weather prevailed in Paeroa during.the week-end, and the various branches of sport were fully availed of. Tarariki and Komata creeks were popular rendezvous for a large number of people in search of cooling streams to refresh themselves.

It may not be generally known that a recent amendment of the Lands Drainage Act makes the provisions of the Fencing Act in regard tc the repair ci. dividing fences apply to the cleansing, maintenance, and repair of private drains between adjoining holdings. Section 20 of the Lands Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, provides that section 6 of the 1920 Act is amended by the addition of the following sub-section : “Where any drain (not being a drain, constructed, maintained., or controlled by a drainage board) is constructed between adjoining lands (whether such drain is throughout its course on the land of one adjoining owner or is partly on the land of one such owner-and partly on the land of any other such owner or owners) such drain, together with any embankment adjacent thereto, shall for the purposes of the Fencing Act, 1908, be deemed to be a fence, and the provisions of sections 31 to 35 of the Fencing Act, 1908 (relative to the repair of fences), shall apply thereto accordingly, as if the cleansing, maintenance, and repair of such drain, or the maintenance and repair of such embankment, were the repair of a fence.”

A brief meeting of the finance committee of the Ohinemuri County Council was held in Paeroa this morning.

The popularity of the Waihi Beach, as a pleasure resort appears to be increasing, judging by the number of motor-cars, both local and otherwise, that passed along the Paoroa-Waihi road during the week-end.

i'he surplus of the Matamata branch of the Red Cross fund, amountin'; to £2215 9s lid, that was discovered to be to the credit of the account in the Bank of New Zealand at Mat.imata, has now been paid over to the original fund at Auckland.

Eleven members of the Paeroa Cricket Club who were selected to play a match against Karangahake at Paeroa on Saturday afternoon turned out with the necessary gear to play. After waiting for nearly two hours the match was abandoned, as not a. single representative of the Karangahake club put in an appearance ; neither was any intimation sent to the local club that the match would not be played.

A youth named W. Hargreaves, employed by Mr F. Battson, Paeroa, in the plumbing trade, had the misfortune to fall and severely cut his left forearm near the wrist while at iiWk on Friday morning. It appears that he was carrying some goods out of the workshop when he stumbled against a box and fell on the edge of some corrugated iron stacked nearby. The whole weight of his body was thrown on to his ,arm and against the edge of the iion, which inflicted a deep gash requiring surgical attention;

About 30 boxes of butter are being manufactured daily at the Ngatea butter factory. The output from the. Hauraki Plains Dairy Co.’s factory at Turua is about 28 crates of cheese daily.

The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Public Works and Railways, accompanied by Mr H. Poland, M.P., and some departmental officers, made a brief inspection of a portion of the proposed Paeroa-Pokeno railway route yesterday. To-day it is understood that an inspection of the Wharepoa flood area is to be made.

Mr Robert Joughin, one of the principals of the Waitawheta Sawmilling Company, and some of the workers in his employ rendered a good service to the Ohinemuri Acclimatisation Society and anglers recently. They discovered near the headwaters of the Waitawheta stream an extensive shaggery, and although they did not happen to have guns with them they killed a number of the birds, both young and old, and destroyed the shaggery and a quantity of eggs. No doubt for years past this colony of shags has been taking heavy toll of the trout Hi the stream, from which some very nice fish have been taken on the rod from time to time.

At a meeting of the Hauraki Plains Athletic and Sports Club on Monday last it was decided not to hold the annual sports meeting this year, but to hoid instead a big picnic on the recreation ground on a date yet to be fixed. Numerous running events will be held, and also cycle races dor local competitors. A track is to be discharrowed and rolled, and sundry improvements made to the ground. Further arrangements will be made at a meeting of the club early in the New Year.

Through the breaking of a radius rod one of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board’s Ford trucks was precipitated into a drain alongside the Kopuarahi-Kerepeehi road on Friday last, necessitating medical attention being obtained for Messrs Lyall and Sydenham, of the Power Board’s staff. The tiuck was considerably damaged.

At the Netherton Ratepayers’ Association meeting on Saturday evening the question of the stop-nanking of the river between the “H" drain and the high land on Johnson’s farm was brought up, and it was decifled that the chief engineer and the resident engineer of the Public Works Department be asked to expedite the work. The county council is also to be asked to endorse the request.