THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4824, 27 April 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Information received from the Coni missioner of Crown Lands by a local applicant is to the effect that the sections on the Kerepeehi Block will not be opened up for settlement for two years.

The large dipper dredge which has been engaged for some months cutting drains in the Kaimanawa area ax Koniata North is at present laid up for overhaul. Later on the machine will probably be engaged In draining operations in the Omahu district.

In compliance with u request from the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association and the Mayor of Auckland the flag on Primrose Hill, Paeroa, was flown at half-mast during the period of the commemoration service on Anzac Day. When the flag was lowered a number of people became concerned as to the reason why.

The Public Works Department is ais present engaged on cutting through the bank on Puke Road near Mr L Wight’s residence. Horse teams are scooping the earth on to the lower portion of the road. When the work is completed th'e, sharp bond will be removed and the new road will fill the present gap in the stop-bank.

A welcome to the. newly-appointed organiser, Mr R. L. Fusden, for . the N.Z, Alliance in the Ohinemuri electorate was held in the Ceutoanry Hall, Paeroa, on Monday evening last. Hk? Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) presided over a representative gathering, including a number of visitors from Waihi.

The suggestion made a considerable time ago that the funds collected for a hall site at Kerepeehi should.be utilised for the erection and equipping of a public library and reading room is likelyto be given effect to. A meeting will be held this evening to discuss the project, and if agreeable to amend the rules of the society to permit the different method of disposing of the hall site funds,

Practically no progress has been made for some time witli tlie metalling of. Kaihere Road. At present the road is metalled from the Ngarua wharf to a few chains beyond Pouariia Road corner, but as the road from the top of the canal to the wharf is closed while being raised up with dredged spoil the metal will be of little use during the coining winter for tlirough traffic. The alternate route by the Pouarua and Torehape roads will not stand winter traffic, and it appears that Kaihere and beyord will be cut off from the rest of th'? Plains unless the winter proves an excetpionally dry one. The delay in the metalling work has been caused by lack of supplies of stone.

I'’ - '! Influenza Colds take Woods’ Grbat Peppermint Cure.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) and members of the outgoing Council will hold a public meeting in the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, tomorrow evening, when an account of their stewardship during the past two years will be given.

It was reported at the Hauraki Drainage Board meeting on Friday that a diseased cow .that was condemned at a Turua sale, to be destroyed had been driven towards Thames, but being too weak to travel fast - had been left on the roadside and hud eventually fallen into one of the board’s drains. The stock. inspector being away on leave, it was not until five days later, when police aid was sought, that the Stock drover returned for. the beast. _ It was then killed, cut up on the roadside, and carted away.

Speaking at the Citizens’ Commemoration Service at Paeroa on Anzac Day His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) said he felt it was a reproach to the citizens of Paeroa that the town had not yet taken steps to erect, a war memorial. He would gladly, give a lead in the matter, but realised that times had not been too prosperous, and it was useless undertaking the project unless whole-heart-ed support and enthusiasm was fortncoming. He trusted that the incoming council would take the matter up seriously and push it to a successful conclusion.

For tlie first time for many years a flag was flown from the flagstaff on Primrose. Hill, Paeroa, on Anzac Day. It appeals that a number of years ago the halyards rotted away, and it was rather a difficult task to lower the top-mast and put in new ropes. Howeve], the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall), assisted by several public-spirited men, took the work in hand on Thursday last and put the flagstaff in working order. It is the intention.of the Eorough Council to keep the flagstaff in repair in future, and a flag will ba flown from that point on auspicious and ceremonial occasions.

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