THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4829, 13 May 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day marks the twelfth anniversary of the commencement of :.he big strike in Waihi.

A record was put up by the Hauraki Plains County Council at its meeting yesterday. All the council business was transacted between the hours of L p.m. and 3.20 p.m.

The monthly meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council which was to have been held to-morrow evening has been adjourned until Monday night a;s a mark of respect to the late Prime Minister.

When the news of the Prime Minister’s death reach Waitakaruru the chairman of the School Committee (Mr C. W. Harris) addressed the scholars and had the school flag hoisted to half-mast. The school was then closed for the rest of the day.

At Monday’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Bo.ard the chairman moved a resolution of profound sympathy with the w'ife and relatives of the late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, and the meeting adjourned for five minutes as a mark of respect.

A further attempt by the local Referees’ Association to .hold its nual meeting is to be made this evening, when it. is hoped that at le'ast a quorum will be present. Supporters of Rugby are cordially invited to attend the meeting, which is to be held in Bain’s Rooms at 8 p.m.

Ameng the many visitors to the Oddfellows Ball in the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, on Monday night was Mr A. E. Cooke, one of the famous All Blacks. Unfortunately Mr Cooke was prevented from dancing owing to mi injury to his knee sustained while plnying for Grafton against Ponsonby at Auckland last week. During the evening “Cookie” was surrounded by a host of admirens of both sexes and hero-wor-shipped.

Speaking to his resolution of sympathy with the wife and family of the late Rt. Hon. AV. F. Massey at Mondav’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Board, the chairman (Mr W. E. Hale) said that in his opinion the late Premier had done more for New Zealand than any other man, .and his loss would not only be deeply inourned in the Dominion but throughout the British Empire. The late Premier was honoured and revered wherever his name was known throughout the world.

Particulars of special train arrangements in connection with the Te Aroha Trotts at To; Arolia on Saturday, May 16, are advertised in this issue.

According to the Government’s Abstract of Statistics for April the retail cost of the three principal foodstuffs—groceries, dairy produce, and meat—in Waihi during March stood at 49.12 per cent, over the previous price as compared with 57.51 per cent, in February. The March figures for Waihi were slightly below the Dominion average of 49.53 per cent. The dearest of the twenty-live leading towns for which statistics are prepared was Masterton, with 59.25 per cent, over the prices in July, 1914, and the cheapest was Oamaru, with 39.C9 per cent.

There is as much difference between raw tobacco and toasted tobacco as there is between a raw potato and savory chips. It is not so much the material you use as the .Way you adopt in preparing it. Take, for instance, our locally manufactured tobaccos; they are all toasted, and as a result their latent properties have bee n‘ brought fully out. Science applied, what else is it but commonsense. You need not be an expert to understand the wonderful effect of this toasting process ; flavour and aroma will tell you ; so smooth and mellow, but what is equally important, consider their merits from a health point of view. The, object of toasting is to eject any deleterious properties that may be contained in the leaf and to neutralise portion of the poisonous nicotine; hence toasted tobaccos may be smoked with impunity : they will not affect the heart and nerves or the eyesight. Obtainable in three grades : Riverhead Gold, mild and aromatic; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; and Cut. Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full strength.*