THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MUNDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4847, 1 July 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MUNDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council will be held at Paeroa to-morrow.

Good progress has been made with the mtealling of the Kaihere-Ngarua road since the weather broke, and only about a mile of the road remains to be completed.

The vital statistics for June have been supplied by the local registrar as follows, those for the same month last year being given in parenthesis : Births, 11 (9) ; deaths, 0 (1) ; marriages, 4 (2).

The following team has challenged the Paeroa Ladies’ Hockey Club to play a match on Saturday next at 2.30 p.m,: C. Treanor, C. Vincent, Grant, E. Robson, R. Lloyd, J. Peak, A. McKenna. G. Morrison, Dawson, Waite, and Mitchell.

With the rise in the height of the water in the drains on the Plains the great growth of watercress can be noticed. It has often been said that it will be a sorry day for the drainage of the Plains when this weed takes possession, as it has done in other districts.

. * 4 AH men are not alike. Some can lead and some can back up a leader. One abomination ijs the chap who neither leads nor follows, but simply criticises. He’s a nuisance to everybody.”—Remarks made by Mr Hope Gibbons at a valedictory function at Wanganui.

The road from the Plains to Paeroa is now in better order than, it has been for years. Much maintenance work is being done by county workmen, and when a short stretch between Netherton and Puke is completed the worst part of the road will be between Paeroa and tlie Puke bridge.

A relic of tlie old days, a candle mould in which twelve candles could be made at one time, turned up at one of tlie Wanganui auction marts during the Week (states the “Herald”). An old farmer , regarded tlie relic with interest, and said that they had better lighting those days than with tlie new-fangled electricity.

.One might well sigh for the opportunities of cheap house building of other days. In January, 1884, the trustees of St. . Paul’s Methodist Church accepted a tender for the erection of a nine-roomed two-storey parsonage in Church Street, “including fencing, pump, and outhouses,” for the sum of £3os.—Manawatu Times. Fm Influenza Colds take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

A "benzine war" is being engaged in by certain retailers of benzine in Hamilton. At least two firms are now advertising benzine at prices which, we understand, mean an actual loss to the sellers.

Last Sunday marked the eleventh anniversary of the deed which brought, down upon mankind the most terrible of all wars. On June 28, 1914', the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were murdered in the streets of Serajcvo.

A reply to the deputation which waited upon the Hon. Minister for Lands at Kerepeehi on his visit has been received by the secretary of the Kerepeehi Ratepayers’ Association through Mr H. Poland, M.P. The road to the school will be metalled by the Lands Department* and a subsidy of £ for £ will., be avail,able for the metalling of the other roads in Kercpeehi township.

Flood-water from the Piako watershed is now reaching the Plains, and though tlie tides are receding the height of the river is increasing. At Patetonga on Tuesday the flood was reported to be a foot above the wharf, and at Tahuna it was said, to be about two feet above previous flood levels. The continual rain is keeping farm land on tlie Plains very iVet. but all drains are functioning well.

The .following referees hhve been ■selected to control the Paeroa Rugby Union’s fixtures on Saturday next: Seniors, West v. Netherton, at Paeroa, Mr E. Smith ; East v. Suburbs, at Hikutaia, Mr W. Welch. Juniors, West v. Netherton, at Netherton, Mr r. B. Penlington; Karangahake v. Suburbs, at Karangahake, Mr J. D. Crawford. Third-grade, Paeroa School v. Nethertno, at Netherton, Mr W. Pennell; East v. West, at Paeroa, Mr F. .Plvott,

In view of the fact that the upkeep of each bed in the Waihi Hospital costfg approximately £225 per annum, or rather over £4 5s weekly (says the “Telegraph”), an announcement made a day or two ago by the Mkyor of Palmerston North is interesting. Speaking at a concert in aid of local hospital patients’ comforts fund, he announced that the cost of maintenance of a patient at the institution was 15s a day, or £5 5s a week, of which the patients were asked to pay 9s daily, or £3 3s a week.

A strange feature of the Wairarapa dairy industry is the number of suppliers who send their cream to distant factories, although a factory might be almost next door to the farm. To the "Age” a Mauriceville farmer stilted that the Mauriceville factory received cream from South Wairarapa suppliers. On the other hand, several Mauriceville farmers supply, to the Mastertoll factory. A stranger fact is that suppliers from both the North and South. Wairarapa. send their cream as far as Otaki, This surely cannot tend to the ehcapcniiig of the cost of production of dairy produce. This feature is also noticeable in the local district.

At the recent meeting of Waihi suppliers of cream to the N.Z. Co-opera-tive Dairy Co. Mr S. H. Thompson asked the company’s representatives how it was that the butter in Anchor brand wrappers was not always of the first quality, and instanced occasions when what he termed the second grade commodity was found in the first-grade wrappers. Replying. Mr G. Buchanan said he had heard of similar complaints both from Waihi and Thames, and had made careful inquiries into the matter, but could find no explanation. .It was to the detriment, of the factory managers to put second-grade butter in first-grade wrappers, inasmuch as they would be penalised if found doing so and they had nothing .to gain if not detected. Mr C. J. Parlane,, the company’s assistant manager, gave it as his opinion that, any difference was due almost entirely to' the lack of proper care in transit, and pointed to the fact that butter deteriorated rapidly when exposed to the sun fbr any length of time. When turned out of the factory only the highest grade product was enclosed in the Anchor ■wrappers. —Waihi “Telegraph.”

You may possess the constitution of a Hon, yet it will avail you nought if you allow jnicotine to poison your system. To ■smoke strong tobacco heavily charged with nieet’nc, is nothing but a slow process of poisoning. It almost, invariably ends in nerve trouble and smoker’s heart, or in tne weakening of the eyesight. Now that a treatment has been discovered to neutralise the effect of nicotine you need ho longer rim any risk. Toasted tobaccos are absolutely safe. You may smoke them continuously without the slightest after effect's. The first whiff will tell you 'that ydu are in for a superior article —so smooth and mellow, in pleasing contrast with the . crude product from oversea. Toasting is a refining process for the specific purpose of developing the Hroma and ejecting the detrimental properties contained in the . raw' leaf. The effect is simply astonishing, and smokers are advised to try any one of the following brands: Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full. All • are toasted.*

For Coughs and Colds never fails. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.