THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, A FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4820, 3 April 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY, A FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

There were three interments in the Paeroa Cemeteiy during March. Five •sections were sold, and the fees aiv.otriited to £lO for the month.

For the quarter ended March 31, 13 miscellaneous mining applications and five miner’s rights were issued in Paeroa by the Warden.

The regular meeting of the Turua Town Board, which was to have been held on Wednesday evening, was postponed until next week, as several members are away.

A start will shortly be made with the erection of a residence in Ngatea for the Thames Valley Electric Power Board’s troiibleman, the timber having arrived at Jolmstone’s wharf.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council three months’ leave of absence was granted to Cr. C. E. Mace, Mangaiti riding, who is leaving on a holiday trip to Australia.

The local, registrar, Mr J. G. McDougall, advises the following vital •statistics for Paeroa for the month of March : Births, 8 ; deaths, 4 ; marriages, 3.

A postscript to a letter received by the Thames County Council yesterday stated : “If you gentlemen could hear the “good, pure language used when some of us are carrying our cream out. on our backs you could not rest in your bunks until you had something done for us.”

The formal opening of the new post office at Ngatc.a will not take place until the latter end of this month.

At a meeting of the Hauraki Plains Tennis Association at Ngatea on Wednesday it was deieded to play a match against Thames at Turua on April 18. Mr A. R. Vowles was appointed selector of the t&am.

A few miles north of Patetonga, on the Morrinsville-Waitakaruru Road, there is a bend known as the Devil’s Elbow. County workmen are at present laying a culvert and making a deviation.

The official opening of the Paeroa Golf Club will be held on the links to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. All members, intending members, and friends are invited to be present. A mixed foursome will be played.

A report was tabled at yesterday's meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council ‘stating that 50' cows, 33 steers and heifers. 126 sheep, 16 lambs. 5 calves, and 4 pigs were slaughtered at the local abattoirs during March. The fees totalled £5O 6s 2d.

At a meeting of the trustees, of the Paeora Public Library held on Wednesday evening the resignation of Mns C. Halliday, librarian, was accepted with regret. Five applications were received for- the position, and Miss A. A? Kenny, Bennett Street, was appointed.

There is a proposal afoot to form a Rugby Union on the Hauraki Plains subsidiary to the Hauraki Plains Rugby Union. The proposed subun.’on is to consist of the Hikutaia, Netherton, Turua, and Kerepeehi clubs, and a meeting will be held in The Netherton Hall on Saturday evening to discuss the matter.

At a meeting of the Thames County Council yesterday the councillors worke up to the fact that the ThameisHi.kutaia main road w,as in a bad, abominable, atrocious, disgrace, etc., state. If it takes that august body so many years to realise the condition of this road, how long will it take it to have repairs effected?

The total number of cards of qualified electors dealt with to date by Mr P. H. Wylde, registrar of electors for the Ohinemuri Electorate, is 8561. Of that number 6218 have been accepted as valid registrations, while 2300 cards have been marked informal and returned to the eletcors concerned tor correction.

The weather locally during March was exceptionally dry, and the rainfall was the lowest for that month for a number of years. The following figures have been supplied by the local office of the Public Works Department, figures for March, 1924, begiven in parenthesis : The total rainfall registered was 1.04 inches (4.45). Rain fell on seven days (15) during the month, the heaviest fall being on March 27 (29), when .35 inch (L 64 was registered.

To. meet the requests of a large number of our readers we have arranged for a series of cross-word puzzles, the first of which appears in this issue. The service we are offering provides for a cross-word puzzle, and the: following week a fresh puz-zl-e will be provided, together with t he i-olution to the former one. Our. puzzles are entirely original, free from all American and 'other obscurities, and have been especially designed to meet New Zealand conditions.

This week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” reaches an incomparably high standard, and should deservedly make a strong appeal to all sections. In the sporting line are some striking snaps of the leading events at the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham, while the Ma.tamata Racing Club’s fixture is represented in an excellent series, and the North Brighton Trotting Club’s gathering has a very interesting' showing. The Taihape A'tnletic and Chopping Carnival is covered, and cycling races at Wellington have another portion. The centre pages arc devoted to views of Switzerland, Tahiti, and Washington, and there are interesting subjects dealing with matters overseas.

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Following the cuptom which has been in use at St. Paul’s Church, for nearly a quarter of a century, next Sunday, the fust day of the Holy Week, will be observed with special solemnity. The avenue of palm branches leading from the bottom of the. church up to the altar symbolises the triumphal entry of our Lord into Jerusalem on the first, memorable Palm Sunday, and the services throughout, the day will be appropriate to this most solemn season of the Church’s year. The Holy Eucharist wil) be sung at 11, and at 7 there will be Evensong and sermon, with the Devotion, "The Story of the Cross,’ in which “The l Answer” and "The Appeal from the Cross” will be sung by Mr Harold Hill and Mr Ray Fostei, respectively. Mr Hill will also sing a Recitative and air from Maunder’s oratorio, "Olivet to Calvary.”

For-Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.