THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4834, 25 May 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Soccer players had a practice at Kerepeehi on Saturday last.

The N.Z. Railway .Department advertises in to-day’s issue the holiday excursion tickets, qtc.. for June 3 (Fing’s birthday).

Owing to the wet weather there were so few members present ,m Thursday evening that the annual meeting of the Ngatea Farntei’s’ Union was not held.

With the increasing number of now at rivals from Britain in Kerepeehi a movement has grown lip to form an Association football club. Soccerites are very enthusiastic, and the projec’ will probably mature.

It is understood tnat a burglary was committed at Mr A. W. Green.: grccery establishment at Katanga hake on Saturday afternoon, and it is believed that the sum of £52 was stetoi.. The police ate investigating tlie affair, but up to the time of going to press no reliable information was available.

Envoy McKinnon, the authorise 1 collector of the Salvation Army, is a' present visiting the district in the interests of tlie Salvation Army’s social work and orphans’ homes in New Zea ■ lai d. A very success.!til tour of tn 3 Hauraki Plains district, incl'udinc Pateionga, has just concluded, the rcispelisr being very gratifying.*

To-day we were handed a copy of the “London Times” dated Tuesday, January 1, 1788. The newspaper i.> in a perfect state of preservation, and i-s printed on a hand-wrought paper, deckled-edged. The type /aces are clear, and though obviously many of the letters have changed in thape and formation, aud tlie lines are all handset, the news items are well produced. Tne copy of this paper is the property of Mr D. Brown. Paeroa.

It is strange that bazaars on the Hauraki Plains usually clash or come very close together. Un two occasions in the past two year there have been bazaars on the same day in two centres. On Thursday last therq was a function at Turua, to-day there is one at Patetonga, and on Wednesday next a similar function at Ngatea. The committee of the Methddint Church bazaar has trityl to avoid a clash, and has alre'ady announced that its bazaar at Ngatea will be held on October 27. For Coughs and Colds never fails. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure,

Efforts are being made to form an Oddfellows Lodge in Ngateu. There arc a great many members of other lodges in tile district, but so tai sufficient men have not been found with the qualifications necessary for the various offices.

Storekeepers at one of the townships on tne Plains have taken a stand and announced that in future their stores will close at 6 p.m. daily from Mondays to Thursdays, at 9 p.m. on Fridays, and 1 p.m. on Saturdays. For the delivery of newspapers, etc, they will reopen from 4.30 tb 6 on Saturday afternoons.

At the Waihi Farmers’ Sports Gathering at Waihi on Saturday W. Smith, of Paeroa, had little difficulty in winning the. 100 yards open handicap race.. J. McCormick, Komata, was successful in one of the standin.-. chopping competitions, and F. Patterson, Komata, looked like a sure winner in the underhand chop when he had the misfortune to break hits axehandle, the delay in procuring another axe spoiling his chance,.

The storm experienced in other parts of the country was felt on the Hauraki Plains on Friday, but litttU damage is i eported, though severa tents were blown away, »rces were uprooted, and telephone and power poles were shifted. The rainfall on Friday was .64in, bring the total for the month up to 3.97 inches. There is now plenty of water for navigation in the upper reaches of the Piano River. Except where subject to con'stunt tramping farm lands arc still comparatively dry, as the water is getting away in the numerous cracks.

The annual meeting of the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Coronation Chambers, Belmont Road, to-morrow evening, at 8 o’clock. The chief business on the orderpaper is the presentation of the annual report and balance-sheet and the election of a president, vice-presi-dent, auditor, and four members ot the- committee. It is earnestly hoped that members and intending members will maKC an effort to be present. That there is need for such an imst:tution in Paeroa there can be little doubt, and an effort is to be made this year to revive interest in the chamber; but this end can only be aenieved by the individual and collective efforts of its members.

In reply to a question if he though’, the use of preservatives in butter wo ild affect the New Zealand trade overseas, Mr W. Claud Motion, <1 member of tlie' Dairy Produce Control Board, stated at a meeting of the Lever Waikato Dairy Farmere’ Union last wtyik that he thought New Zealand had to thank Denmark for the present agitation on the subject. There was no doubt that the Danes feared competition from New Zealand, and they were trying to create an impression that the use of preservatives was detrimental to tlm butter. However, he was of the opinion that, if New Zealand butter was properly handled when it reached England there was no reason why it should not be snipped without the use of preservatives.

Anti-tobaceoitcs are wont to say hard things about smoking., but quite often they are untrue. Tobacco may have its faultos, but its virtues should nbt be overlooked. Smoking assists digestion ; it is also a great preservative of the teeth and a destroyer of the harmful germs which infect ell people’s mouths, while its soothing and tranquilising .effects iif times of mental stress, worry, or exertions are well’ known to all smokers But th?, quality should’be good. Brands full of nicotine, (like many of the imported varieties) are best avoided, oui own New Zealand-grown tobaccos contain comparatively little nicotine, and may consequently smoked freelv without injurious results, w;>ile owing to the leaf being toasted In the process of manufacture (quite a novel idea) they are remarkable for flavour and fragrance. The popular brands are Riverhead Gold, aromatic ■ Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), iiit) strength. The demand fbr these goods is' growing so rapidly that the New Zealand tobacco industry is assuredly destined to become of tha first importance*