THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4827, 30 March 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s new wharf at Ngatca is now practically completed. A tramline from the factory stage is being laid.

To-morrow is the last day on which pel sons who are owners of motor vehicles can obtain licenses without incurring the penalties provided in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1924. It is al'.o necessary that front and rear number plates should be affixed to vehicles before April 1.

Referring at Waikino or Friday evening to the control of dairy produce a farmer speaker observed that the Control Board might make mistakes, but the mistakes would not be as serious as those of the producers in the past through letting every Tom, Dick, and Harry control the farmers’ produce.

There are 7930 electors on the new roll for Ohinemuri, compared with 7508 for last election. For Tauranga tlie present figures are 7092, compared with 8593 last election. The Thames electorate shows 7237 as against 8366, Tlie registrations in the Dominion total 704,443. Last election the total enrolments were 700,111.

Dr. J. N. Mcllwraith and Mr 11. MeChesney, Education Department sciiool inspectors, are at present paying a brief visit to Paeroa, and are meeting teachers of the Paeroa school. Interesting and highly instructive addressss are to be given which, with the general discussion following, should prove to be of the greatest value to teachers. Dr. Mcllwraith has lately returned from England, where he familiarised himself with almost every aspect of education in that country, and his addresses are keenly appreciated by those who have had the pleasure of hearing him.

Several of those persons injured at Netherton on race day are still far from well. Mrs T. O’Carroll, who had the ligaments of her arm strained, still has the injured limb enclosed in plaster-oP-paris, and both she and Miss K. O’Carroll, who had her nose broken, are still suffering from shock. Mr E. O'Carroll is not yet able to work.

The present month has been an unusually dry one, and .the rain on Friday night was very welcome to dairy farmers hi the district, as the pastures and root crops were showing the effects of the prolonged absence or rain. A good deal more rain is required to thoroughly soak the ground and promote autumn growth. Bright sunshine prevailed yesterday, followed by a cold snap last night. This morning a fairly heavy white frbst was evident.

A very interesting sight, was witnesseid on the Hokio Beach last Saturday evening (says the Levin Chronicle). Every wave of the incoming tide lelt behind it as it receded thousands on thousands of tiny pipis, none larger than a threepenny piece. No sooner had the water left them stranded than the instinct for self preservation asserted itself, and thej were up on edge burrowing into the dump sand, which at times was whitened for long stretches by the tin;, shellfish.

“The native forests which provide such grandeur to the Egmont national reserve are doomed if wild cattle, goats, etc., are allowed to roam through them and eat out the undergrowth which provides the humus and humid conditions necessary for the life of the forest gi.antjs,” said Mr E. Maxwell during the course of a recent. lecture pn afforestation (reports the Taranaki News). “Destroy the undergrowth,’’ added Mr Maxwell, “and your national park will not have, the life of a generation.”

There seems to be almost a plague of “daddy long legs” .this autumn, and one Palmerston North resident at least reports that his property is infested with them (states the Manawatu Times). The insects breed in the ground, and to watch their method of emerging frfom their chrypalis is interesting. The insect worms out a certain distance, and then a friend conies along, and, grasping him by any available portion of the anatomy, drags him completely out. But just as proround as the porblem of whether the fowl or the egg was first is the question : Who pulled the first one out ?

“New Zealand has come Into possession of something more valuable than the biggest Gold Mine,” remarked the captain of an American liner the other day when sampling some of ouP local tobacco. “And I predict,” he went on, “that in years to come tobaccogrowing here will be just as flourishing as in Virginia, my native country.” It is ve'ry gratifying to see t hat some enterprising people in this Dominion are realising the huge possibilities of the tobacco industry, but even the most sanguine were surprised when the local article made its first appearance. Such was the success that the manufacturers could hardly cope with the demand. And no wonder, because this tobacco represents quite; a new type, with a distinctive flavour of its own, due, it is said, to the toasting process which has been adopted in its manufacture. But its greatest virtue is its small percentage of and this is why it does not affect the heart and nerves or the eyesight. Smokers should not fail to give it a, trial. Obtainable in three 1 , strengths — Riverhead Gold, mild; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10' (Bullhead), full body.*