THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4798, 12 January 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large touring car .bearing a Wellington number-plate, was to be seen in the main street, Paeroa, on Friday afternoon. Considerable interest by passersby was shown in a two-wheeled trailer heavily laden with luggage which was attached to the car.

According to the latest Year Book New Zealand has 13.05 persons per square mile. Newfoundland, with 1..64persons, ha>s the smallest population per square mile, while Belgium with 654.31 person has the largest population per square mile.

The number. of names on the list of officiating ministers under the marriage Act to June 30, 1924, is given in the Official Year Book as 1794. Of this number ministers of the Church of England total 455, Presbyterian 387, Roman Catholic 294, Methodist 255, Salvation Army 164, Baptists 63, Church of Christ 32.

The total value of domestic produce exported from New Zealand for the year ended June 30,' 1924, totalled £47,859,668. Of that amount the principal exports were butter £9,786,485, a decrease of £1,704,359 from the sorresponding period of 1923 ; casein £132,218 a decrease of £19,079 ; cheese £6,460,167, an increase of £26,355 ; frozen lamb £6,092,763, an increase of £220,975 ; frozen mutton £2,030,335, an increase of £141,487; wool, £14,039, 718, an increase of £2,680, 581. The most notice,able decrease is shown in the export of wheat, which totalled £499. a diw of £183,515.

There is at present oA view in tne shop window of Mr F. Battson, Normanby Road, a collection of sixteen varieties of gladioli, which were grown by Mr W. Simpson, Kennedy Street, Paeroa. The handsome blooms, which are particularly well grown, are attracting considerable attention. Mi - Simpson, who is a gardening enthusiast, states that he has in all no less than thirty varieties of this flower' but owing to the heavy rain and wind experienced at Christmas time lie has not been able to bring all the. blooms to maturity satisfactorily.

Last week ,a Waihi returned soldier extracted a shell splinter from his right leg, where it had been embedded since August 31, 1915.

After twelve days of ideal summer weather rain commenced to fall early yesterday morning, and has continued intermittently up to the time of going to press. The weather during the last twenty-four hours has been very muggy and oppressive, .and as yet the rain has not helped to clear the atmosphere much. Practically all the hay is harvested now, although there are some instances of paddocks that were cut early being in a fit condition for a second cutting, so good has been the growth this season. Generally, a good downpour has been very welcome.

Apropos of the infantile paralysis scare, a Waihi resident vouches for the truth of the following cure, which came under his notice in Hawke’s Bay in 1921, says the “Telegraph— A Maori mother was told by -Napier doctors that her 3%-year-old son, severely stricken with the discease, had four days to live. She hurried the child to her home, a sheep station 30 miles.north of Napier, and immediately prepared a hot bath, in which bluegum leaves had been plentifully sprinkled. This treatment was continued at seven-hour intervals, and an improvement in the child’s condition was almost--imniediateiy effected. This became very-marked at the end of a fortnight, and,-in three months the child was completely cured, and had the use of his limbs, and is generally quite strong’and healthy. Prior to the commlfieement of this treatment the little sufferer* had never walked, and his right side was partially paralysed.