THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4820, 9 March 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Vegetable growers report a frost on the Plains last week.

The price of bread was advanced in Ngatea on Saturday, last to 7%d casn and 8d booked for a 21b loaf.

. The trial survey for the PaerbaPokeno railway having been completed to Pokeno, the survey party will carry on with the permanent survey from Ngatea, commencing this week.

The rainfall for last month as recorded at the Lands Office, Kerepeehi, totalled 1.82 inches. Rain fell on six davs, the heaviest fall being on the 17ih, when.74in was recorded. The average for the month during the last twelve years is 3.1375 inches.:

Ratepayers of the county of Hauraki Plains are reminded of the poll to be held on AVednesday next on the proposal to borrow the sum of £3400 for the purpose of paying off existing bridge loans and thus spread the liability over the whole county.

.Aji attractive booklet entitled “A Southern Call" has been issued by th' 1 executive of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. The booklet is profusely illustrated, and desscriptive. articles on the beauties of Milford Sound and tourist resorts adjacent to Dunedin are published. The information contained therein should appeal strongly, especially to people overseas.

During .the past week a great number of people have journeyed to inspect the six bl.aekfish which were washed up on to the mudflat a couple of miles beyond Waitakaruru on Tuesday last, and many have expressed the opinion that it is strange that no one had attempted to obtain the oil. In other parts of New Zealand where these visitors are more common up to £lOO has been obtained by melting down the blubber by the crudest of methods.

The regular meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council will be held tomorrow.

A second case of typhoid fever is repo: ted from Kerepeehi, the victim beipg an employee of the Lands Drainage Department. He was removed to the Thames Hospital on Friday.

The Kerepeehi schoolmaster, Mr G. Boswell, was in attendance at the school on Friday last to give home lessons to pupils. The pupils were admitted singly.

AViieh tiie honey-suckle hedge which divides the Paeroa Post Office buildings from the Courthouse at Paeroa was being cut back a, swarm of wild bees, with a quantity of hpney, was found in the hedge. Judging ly the comb the bees had been at work undisturbed for a lengthy period.

During the voyage from Auckland to Paeroa early on Friday morning the s.s. Taniwha ran on to a sandbank in the Waihou River near Carter’s Landing, and remained hard and fast until the afternoon tide floated her off. The steamer was carrying n big cargo, which fact, combined with the low tide, accounts for the grounding, The passengers were rowed ashore in one of the steamer's boats, ami they completed the journey from Netherton to Paeroa by car. The Taniwha left Paeroa on the return trip early on Saturday morning.

Through the simple process of toasting his tobacco the modern manufacturer has been able lo effant an enormous improvement in the smoking quality. It is a well-known fact that cooked food is wholesome’' and more digestible than raw food, and the sam principle applies to tobacco. We do not eat raw meat or fish or drink raw coffee, why should we smoke raw tobacco. It is wonderful how the flavour of tobacco can be developed by toasting. Try any of tne brands and you will notice a marked the improvement, and what is also important as a result of the toasting procecs, the tobacco loses all deleterious properties. Smokers who study their health should therefore give this matter their attention; and avoid strong foreign tobaccos heavily charged with nicotine, they are sure to undermine even the most robust constitution. Not only is the local article purer and. more wholesome than most of the imported brands, but it is cheaper, too. Riverhead Gold is mild and aromatic ; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength ; but if you prefer a fullbody try Cut Plug No. 10*