THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4821, 11 March 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting of the Paeroa Golf Club is to be held in the Gaiety Theatre supper-rooms to-mor-row night. At least fifteen members must be present, and all members, are requested to attend. An invitation <s extended to intending members to ba present.

During the cleaning up of the grounds round the Courthouse buildings at Paeroa no less than twentythree empty beer bottles and one ■\yhiisky flask were found in the grass. Thus is contempt for the Court building shown in a no-license town.

At Monday's meeting of the Thames Hospital Board it was resolved to write off the sum of £3.679 19s patients’ fees. The chairman (Mi- W. EHale) pointed out that such action did not absolve the debtors from paying outstanding accounts.

A rather painful accident befel Mrs S. J. Laughlin, of Netherton, on Monday last. It appears that while alighting from her sulky in Hall Street she accidentally stepped on to a broken lemonade bottle, the glass cutting her choe and penetrating some distance into her foot, and it took some force to extricate the glass.

At. the Magistrate’s Court on Monday a judgment debtor stated that he had had to maintain himself, wife, and five children on 25s a week, and aliso yay £LI half-yearly for interest. The Magistrate (Mr J. H. Salmon) said that it seemed incredible, but evidently the man had found a secret of living in spite of the high cost of living that existed nowadays. Needless to add, no order was made.-

At the Police Court on Monday morning, before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., Frank Keoghan, sawmill-hand, Paeroa, was charged with riding a motor-cycle in a manner dangerous to the public in Arney Street, Paeroa, on February 23 last, and was fined 10s and costys. Constable McClinchy said that accused came out of Normanby Road into Arney Street, and was travelling on his wrong side and narrowly averted a collision with three young children.

At tno Warden’s Court on Monday the Te Kowai and Argol special river claims, on the Ohinemuri Rivetnear Karangahake, were granted licenses, work to commence in two months in each case.

At tlic theory examination held m To Arolia in December last under the auspices of Trinity College of Music. London, the following pupils of Miss E. M. Crimmins, A.T. C.L, wore successful : Robina Munro, 99 marks, junior (honours) ; Charlotte Munro, 94. Roderick Lockett, 74 (honours) ; Helen Hermione Lockett. 77, preparatory.

The age of the cross as a sacred symbol was a revelation to moist of those who attended Professor Ran-kine-Browii’s lecture at Palmerston North (says the Standard). He showed a lantern slide of a cross witn arms and upright of equal length bn an altar in Crete of the era of a civilisation which reached its zenith some 3000 years B.C.

One of those shots that good bowlers dream about but seldom see was played on the Levin green recently by a skip in a friendly game. The opposing side was lying six up, when the skip sent down his last bowl. It scattered the opposing bowls in all directions and carried “kitty” down among his own shots, which were lying farther back, with the result that the rink won by seven up, instead of losing by six down. A shot that scores thirteen is ■claimed as something of a Dominion record.—Levin Chronicle.

Judgment by’ default, with costs, was given at the Magistrate's Court on Monday morning in the following cases : W. H. Wight v. W. H. Taylor, £29, costs £4 8s 6d ; State Advances Office v. D. W. and J. L. Hanna, £72 7s Id, costs £2 5s ; W. J. Ellis v. T. •Buckley, £4 14« 9d, costs £1 14s ; W. J. Ellis v. J. Gordon, £l4 16s 9d, costs £2 10s ; T. H. Hale v. Ken. Wright, £5 Ils 6d, costs 15s ; Brenan and Co., Ltd., v. R. Griffin, £2, costs £lBs 6d; J. Morrison v. R. Fraider, £5, costs £1 4s 6d ; T. Black v. Punch Taupaki, 12s, costs 19s. Judgment summons cases : E. A. Chester v. A. Campbell, £l5 Bs, costs 15s 6d ; order for payment forthwith, in default ,15 days in Thames Gaol. Rose Bros., Ltd., v. J. Thomas, £6 0s 7d; order made for payment forthwith, in default six days in Thames Gaol.

Like the fusel oil in bad whisky, so the nicotine in strong tobacco is injurious to health. It is an astonishing fact that the. leaf produced in certain localities of the Auckland . and Nelson districts contains less nicotine than any other tobacco known. This is of the utmost importance with regard to the development of the N.Z. Tdbacco industry, because it is just these mild types, of leaf that are cageily sought after by manufacturers abroad, and fabulous prices are often paid forthem. New Zealand, indeed, will become famous for its unique tobacco, and the local product will be our national smoke. Unlike some of the foreign tobaccos, the N.Z. article docs not bite the tongue, it smokes smooth and mellow, and leaves the mouth sweet and clean. Moreover, it is all pure tobacco with a distinctive flavour, obtainable in various strengths. Cut Plug No. 10 for those who appreciate a full body, and R-verhead Gold for the lover of a very i.iild aromatic, while Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) represents the medium strength.*