THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4826, 6 May 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

. * The inoculation of cows on the Hau-, raki Plains was commnced on Monday by the Vaccine Company.

Ex-bandsmen in Turua are advocating the formation of a brass band in the district It has been ascertained that there are over n dozen’ex-'bands-men about Turua.

Comparisons are nasty reminders of the good-bad days (remarks an exchange). Recently a Maori memorial was unveiled .at Wauganui, when the chairman, Mr A. in the course, of his remarks, mentioned that within a few yards of where the memorial stood Wanganui had keen sold by the natives to the Crown for £lOOO. The area comprised 80,000 acres, part bf which was now occupied by the city of Wanganui. Here is .where the comparison becomes interesting. Today Um city of Wanganui comprises 70-39 acres, the unimproved land value of which totals £3,206,000,

At yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board at Te Aroha the chairman (Mr F. .H, Claxton) welcomed Messrs G. Howie. C. A. Arthur, and J. Thomas, ami congratulated them on being returned by their respective bbroughs as representatives on the board. Mr J. Price, in turn, congratulated the chairman on his return by the Thames Borough, and said that it. was very gratifying that the ratepayers should have exercised their judgment so satisfactorily and shown their appreciation of Mr Claxton’s valuable services In .the cause ot electricity.

A reminder is given .that an extraordinary general meeting of the- Paeroa Rugby Union is to be held tomorrow evening to consider the question of the existing boundary system.

The Mayor of Invercargill (Andrew Bam) has just received the' following letter from Edmonton, Alberta (states the "Southland Times’’).: "As a prospective resident of New Zealand, I shall be grateful if you will direct this letter to such department as will furnish me with information, literature, etc., as will be helpful regarding your city. Not. knowing the names of any Invercargill newspapers, I would appreciate having one mailed to me, I may say that mine is one of twentytwo Scotch and English Canadian families making arrangements to mi? grate to your country, and we feel that any assistance- by way of information or counsel may iu due time, and in other ways, be amply reciprocated."

At the Gisborne Collie Club "smoko ’ in replying to the toast of the "Visitors ’’ Mr A. Hyde, of Napier, explained why he had regularly followed up dog trials all over the country (says the "Gisborne Times”). When he was farming a few years ago he "as caught in a snowstorm while mustering sheep. His house went over a precipice and was killed, and he lay for Ills hours with a broken leg. His •sheep dog had carried home a message for help, and but ft>r that lie would not be alive to-day. . No wonder, then, that he thought so highly of the work of the collie dog, and as lonz as he was able to do so he woiibl follow up the dog trials. He would always have a warm spot in his heart for the sheep dog. (Applause.)

“It is certainly necessary for the hitman body to get more sunlight than it usually'gets,” said a Christchurch doctor,. when asked by a "Christchurch Star” reporter for his opinion on the formation of a society in London for sunbathing in Hyde Park. The doctor added that the body was usually covered with clothes for sixteen hours a day, and was covered with blankets for the other eight. It was necessary for the body to get the ultra-violet rays, which could only be. obtained by allowing the'body to receive- the’ direct rays of the sun. These rays were necessary for, raising the fighting power of the blood ; this was especially so in the ease of tuberculosis. As an example of- the benefits of open air treatment, the doctor said that the pupils of the open-air school at. Fendalto’i were of a much better standard of health than those who were in the old class-roi-ms at the same school. The design of the rooms allowed the uitra•violet rays of the sun to reach, the pupils for a certain period each day. These lays would not pass througn gla-'s, but they entered the room through the side which was totally open. He was of the opinion, however. that the rooms should only be used when it was impossible’- for school to be held in the open.

The Maori people seem to hava found the art of catering for a multitude, -as is once again .evidenced at Putiki (states the Wanganui “Herald”). The art itself, quite apart from the tasty dressing and mixing of the foodstuffs before cooking and the skilled attention on the part of the cobks, lies in the adoption of the process of cooking with steam heat. The original, process of cooking in the Maori oven is adopted for meat and poultry, and recently a few privileged pakehas had the opportunity or sampling the products. For the steam cooking process, for food which can be cooked that way, the main implements are a boiler for producing the necessary steam and two barrels into which the steam is led. The fooy is placed in suitable receptacles in t.hc K barrels. An abundance of hot water is provided in the same wav. This process enables a hot meal to be cooked very speedily (potatoes, for example, being cooked in ten minutes to perfection), and everyone can be assured of- a hot meal, which is one of the bugbears of the usual' temporary camp experience.

In spite of the many attempts by the struggling farmer, the gum lauds of the North Auckland district have proved unsuitable for geim> al agricultural purposes. Cropping is not a paying proposition in those pacts. There is one exception, however, tobacco tlnives well in these latitudes, and splendid types of leaf have been produced on soils that not long ago were covered with ti-tree and. fern. A small portion of these waste lands if planted in tobacco would be sufficient to transform - this poverty-stricken district into regions of affluence and wealth; £5O net is the average yield of a tobacco crop per acre, and often more. Few people realise the immense possibilities of the tobacco industry, but- anyone wanting information on the subject is referred to the ready manufactured article, Riverhead Gold, mildest of all; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium strength; and Cut Plug- No. 1-0 (Bullhead), full strength. Do not forget that all three brands are “toasted,’ and. therefore, are more wholesome than the average class of goods from overseas, often so harmful on the score of excess nicotine.*