LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4801, 23 January 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Cricket matches will be played tomorrow at Kopuajahi and Pipiroa, Ngatea and Waitakaruru being the travelling teams.

Included in a payment for rates at the local borough office yesterday was a bright half-sovereign, minted in 1908.

The Finance Committee of the Paeroa Borough Council reported at last night’s meeting that the revenue during the month amounted to £1763 0s 9d, and the expenditure totalled £lO7O 5s sd.

Font building permits to the value of £235 were granted at lust night’s meeting of the Borough Council. The value of permits granted for the year ending December 31. 1924. totalled £9258. as compared with £11,834 for the previous year.

As the members of the local Borough Council assembled for the meeting last night no less than seven draught horses and a calf were to be seen idly grazing on the vacant section adjoining the borough chambers. Such is Paeroa !

A team from the following will be selected to represent the Paeroa Cricket Club in a match against Waikino at Waikino to-morrow: Shand, Pivott, Halliday, Rolton, Edwards, Farrow, Curtis, Gibson, Wilkinson, Fox, Tams, Verran, and Southby.

Tennis matches on the Plains will be played to-morrow as follows:. “A” grade: Kerepeehi v. Mangawhero, Kopua’-ahi v. Turua, Hopai v. Kaihere. “B” grade : Turua v. Waitakaruru, Ngatea v. Kerepeehi, Kaihere v. Hopai. In each case the match will be played at the lastmentioned place.

Sunday next, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, will be the dedication festival of St. Paul’s Church, and will be specially observed at the services throughout the day. There will be a celebration of the Blessed Sacrament at 8 a.m., matting and sermon at eleven and festal evensong and sermon at 7.

The. gap in the stop-bank on the eastern side of the Piako River between Ngatea and Kerepeehi which permitted the flooding of the big area near Ngatea last winter has now been closed. The dredge, which has been working on the job for some time, has reached the Kerepeehi wharf, and little remains to be done to complete the stop-bank.

The following players have been selected to represent the Paeroa Tennis Club in an inter-club match with Thames, at Paeroa, to-morrow: Mesdames Halliday and O'Neill, Misses L. M., and J; Thorp and H. Tiemey, Messrs H. Thorp, C. H. Wells, R. L. Miller, C. Kenny, F. Thorp, R. S. Carden, C. N. O’Neill, and G. Wells. Play will commence at 2 p.m.

At lost night’s meeting of the Borough Council it was stated that outstanding rates for the current year amounted to £2866 Ils lOd, and previous arrears £1159 15s Id, making a formidable total of £4026 6s lid in r,ates not collected- It was resolved that the town clerk be authorised to take the necessary legal steps after February 1 to collect the arrears by issuing summonses.

Every phase of sport is depicted in this week's issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” The centre pages are remarkably set off witn photographs of footlight and screen favourites snapped in their leisure moments. The Dominion Bowling Tournament in Wellington is representer, .in na excellent series, hunting has a specially fine showing, cricket is well represented, tennis has its qouta. and the All Blacks have their place in the issue.

Fashions in tobacco pipes change as well as fashions in other things. The Meerschaum formerly held pride of place with smokers, but has practically disappeared, at any rate in N.Z., since the war. Clays have gone out, too, to a large extent, and calabashes are seldom seen row. The briar is still with us, but genuine French briar is scarce and rather expensive. There are plenty of cheap substitutes, though. But the pipe is comparatively unimportant—the baccy’s the thing ! Apropos of that, have you sampled our N.Z.-grbwn tobaccos 7 They have thei? points. Unlike most of the imported brands, they are comparatively free of nicotine, and may be smoked with impunity. Also they are toasted. Hence their fine flavour and aroma. The most popular are. Riverhead Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full. The N.Z. tobacco industry already finds employment for many, is proving of great importance to agriculturists (the average yield of a tobacco crop is worth £5O, or more), and richly merits the encouragement it receives.*