THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4806, 4 February 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council will be held to-morrow.

Phe Thames Borough Council’s assistant engineer was at Huirau Road yesterday morning inspecting the brick bitumen heater with the Idea of having ? similar structure erected in the borough.

Further additions to the fleejt of tradesmen’s motor vehicles on the Hauraki Plains have recently been made. All the bakens, four of the six butchers, anfl six of the twelve grocers now use motor delivery trucks. ■

PaKsenger traffic on the railways appears to be gradually lessening after the holiday rush. The expresses passing through Paeroa recently show that there is a decrease in the number of passengers carried on the Auckland-Thames line.

Very large quantities of hay are being harvested on the Plains this season. Many farmers are now cutting their second crop and finding it difficult to rake owing to the rapid growth of the grass. Nepr the Ngatea bridge a number of men have been employed for some weeks harvesting an 80-acre paddock.

The Hauraki Plains Tennis Association’s matches' on Saturday next will be as follows : “A” Grade: KaL here v. Kerepeehi; Mangawhero v. Waitakaruru ; Hopai v. Turua. “B” Grade : Kopuarahi v. Ngatea; Kerepeohi v. Hopai; Kaihere. v. Turua. In each case the matches will be played at the last-mentioned places.

A telephone erection gang arrived at Waitakaruru early last week and commenced erecting the wires for the Waitakaruru telephone exchange).

The Economic Sale lasts till Saturday, midday.*

The man in a business concern who has not made a mistake has not made anything else,” said Mr F. H. Claxton at yesterday’s Power Board meeting when advocating an experiment with electric cooking stoves, in reply to a statement that the board had made mistakes in the past and should not experiment and make more mistakes.

According to a proclamation in the latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette an area of approximately 4 roods 37 perches, being portions of Papaturoa, Te Hape, and Ngamoka Te Hape blocks, Paeroa, have »ee.i taken under the Public Works Act, 1908, as additional land for the proposed railway station and alterations to trie Thames-Waikato line.

The following rainfall statistics for Paeroa for the month of January have been supplied by the local Pub'ic Works office, with figures for the corresponding month in 1924 in paienthesis : Total rainfall for the month was 2.91in.(2.98in). Rain fell on eight days, the heaviest fall being recorded on January 28 (16), when 1.30 in (.88in) was recorded.

The fact that there are two bare wires running to the electric power transformer on Huirau Raod, and that on many occasions birds have flown so as to touch both wires, thus causing a short circuit, was givqn as the reason for the many stoppages in the supply of current to the nearby farms at a meeting of ratepayers.on Saturday evening. The matter will be brought before the Power Board.

The work, of erecting a new bridge across the Waitakarunu stream on the road to Pokeno to replace the temporary structure built when the old bridge was washed away in the big flood of last winter, is now well in hand. The job fa being done by the Public Works Department, and it is intended to erect a wooden bridge on steel girders supported by wooden piles.

Rain fell on nine days on the Hauraki Plains during the month of January, the total recorded at the Land's office,, Kerepeehi', being 2.38 inches, which is a quarter of an inch below the average for the previous 12 corresponding months. On January 1 .25 inch fell, and from the 11th to the 13th .87 inch. The remaining 1.26 inches recorded fell during the period 26th t-. 31st.

Whether it was the habit of work, a disinclination to be idle, or a desire to save money is known, but while waiting for the councillors to arrive at a conference on Tuesday farmers were observed at several points collecting paspalum seed dn the roadside. . The popularity of this grass on the Plains is - increasing rapidly, and it is being found that much better germination is obtained from locally collected seed than from that purchased, from merchant's.

Thames shopkeepers’ assistants are up in arms against the decision of the Borough Council to revert io Thursday, in lieu of Saturday, as the weekly half-holiday, a course decided r.pon by a majority vote on a petition from the employers. At a meeting of employees on Saturday those in attendance were unanimously for the retention of the, week-end holiday, and it was decided to appeal to the council to rescind the motion for Thursday. If this fails they will ask for a poll of ratepayers to determine the matter.

A return of revenue collected within the Thames postal district for the quarter ended December 31, 1924, is given in the latest issue of the N.Z. Gazette as £12,647 2s lid, made up as follows : Rural delivery fees, £2 ; private box rentals, £166 Is 4d ; moneyorder commission, £289 19s Id ; postages, £6355 18s Id; postal-note commission/ £217 7s 4d ; telegrams, £2509 14s lOtl; bureau fees, £2761 17s 4d ; telephone exchanges, £312 Os 6d ; miscellaneous receipts, £32 4s 4d. Of the eighteen chief post offices in Ne,w Zealand Thames is thirteenth on the list according to revenue.

Our customers ,arc our best advertisement. —“The Economic.”*

■. Witl an extension of the school holidays the average, schoolboy is exercising his brain chiefly in thinking out ways of deceiving various people as to his age, and he feels keenly thC J Health Departments’ edict forbidding chikllen under 16 years of age to attend picture shows. The doorkeepers at this form, of entertainment are frequently offered the adult fare by the anxious juveniles, who then demand admission. They are rather nonplussed though, at the action of one doorkeeper in a Waikato totfn who says he is making a note of their appearance and intends to charge the adult fare when the present regulations are lifted.

It is curious now smokers will “fancy” some of their • : npes"and iai’. to ’‘take” to others. It is not aqn nation of cost, either. J. M. Barrie, an inveterate smoker, has quite a roL lection of pipes,. and some of them are valuable. And yet one of his greatest favourites is a little wooden “nose-warmer” for which he gave fourpence I Tastes i.ni tobacco vary in the same way. Some smokers use only the most expensive brands, while others find ordinary plug or even common shag more to their liking. The flavour appeals to them. But talking —or rather flavour, have you tried the New Zealand grown tobaccos ? The leaf, contrary to the usual practice, is toasted, and this imparts a peculiarly delicious flavour. These tobaccos, moreover, contain very little nicotine, and are consequently comparatively harmharmless. They are manufactured in various strengths to suit all taste 1 :. Riverhead Gold is mild aromatic; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog label, medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) full flavoured. They are meeting with a big sale*