THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4848, 3 July 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Particulars as to the delayed running of the usual 3.40 p.m, Frankton-Morrinsvillc-Pacroa train on Saturday, July 4, in connection with the football match at Hamilton are advertised in this issue.

The following is the draw for the basketball matches to be played in the high school grounds to-morrow afternoon : Kiwi v. Tui, 3 p.m.; Areta v, Aroha, 3.15 p.m.; Moaua v. Rangi, 3.30 p.m.

Tuesday last was the closjng day of the duck-shooting season. Fair bags have been obtained in the district, but the bad weather last month had an effect, upon the success of participants, making it much harder to get within range of the birds.

Following a spell of decided activity there is very little moving in the Hamilton building trade at present. Many of the shops and offices erected recently are as yet untenanted, and it would appear that for the present at least the town is fully' provided for hi the way of buildings.

After a number of very wet days the weather locally cleared yesterday morning and bright sunshine followed.' Last night four degrees of frost was recorded, and although the barometer has risen several points since Wednesday, the sky is overcast again and further rain appears to be imminent.

At the local Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday a judgment debtor, in the course of examination, was asked by a solicitor how frequently he journeyed down to the hotel at Hikutaia. A smile went round the Court when the debtor replied rather heatedly that he was “not in the habit of wasting money in poison shops.”

The Irish harp used by Mr Denis Kehoe, actor-manager of the Mother Machree company, has an interesting history. Documentary evidence identifies it with an instrument, built for the famous Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, wife of the celebrated Ambassador, Terence O’Neill, the elder bf Abbey St. Dublin, through whose hands it afterwards passed to Tasmania through .the wife of SergeantMajor Roger O’Mahoney, of His Majesty’s 94th Regiment, of Foot. Fm Influenza Colas tase Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

At yesterday’s meeting of the lOhinemuri County Council a return was tabled showing that 56 cows, 30 steers and heifers, 101 sheep, 5 lambs, 2 calves, and 5 pigs had been slaughtered at the local abattoirs during the month. The total fees for June amounted to £49 13s 9d.

The following members of the Paeroa Ladies’ Hockey Club have been selected to play a match against the men to-morrow afternoon: Misses P. Treanor, L. McKee, F. Shaw, V. Shand, M. Swann, N. Fitch, E. Carthy, M. Tierney, L. Payne, A. Morland, and C. Swann,

“If you asked me how philanthropy goes,” said Mr L. M. Isitt, M.P., at a meeting of the Dominion Scout Council at Christchurch, “I would say Auckland first, then Dunedin. They are Scotch there, but the notion that Scotchmen are not generous is foolish. They are thrifty to a degree, but convince a Scotchman that a movement is worthy and he will support it.”

So proficient have some of the members of the Waitakaruru Ladies’ Hockey Club become in the game that three of their number, Missets M. Beaver, T. Preston, and V. Harris, have been selected to play in the Goldfields team for the White Horse Cup in Auckland during the forthcoming Country Weew. Miss V. Shand, of the Paeroa ladies’ hockey team, has also been

“On a road in Taranaki the Post and Telegraph Department is pulling up its concrete poles and putting in ironbark on one side of the road and the Power Board is putting in concrete poles on the other,” said Mr Lancaster, the Waitomo Power Board’s engineer, at the board’s meeting at Te Kuiti. He explained that the poles had been made so light that their maximum load had been, quickly reached as the department added wire after wire to the telephone lines to meet the demand of new subscribers.

It frequently Happens tnat.we are unable to have a representative at meetings in which the public are interested because wc receive no notice that these meetings, are being held. It surely does not. mean a great deal of extra work for a secretary, when notifying members of a meeting, to send a notice to the press also, and we would appreciate this courtesy. Without the press the public ha.ve little opportunity of learning, what, is done by the different organisations in the town to the funds of which they contribute.

The hospitality of the people of New Zealand was the, subject of favourable comment by Mr Arthur Winter, a London director of the firm of Buchanan and Co., who has been paying a brief visit to Gisborne (says the “Poverty Bay Herald”). Mr Winter, who is prominently connected with racing in England, said that he really came out to Australia and New Zealand as the result of invitations given during the war years by men of .the Dominion whom he had met in racing circles. Right throughout New Zealand he had found the people most hospitable, and he was sorry that he would shortly have to leave the Dominion.

During the week-end Paeroa will be invaded by about fifty young ladies who belong to the South Auckland Methodist Young Women’s Bible Class Union. A rally is being held in the local Methodist Church, and in connection therewith a debate on “Gambling” will take place in the Centenary Hall on Saturday evening. On Sunday special rally services will be held in the Methodist Church, and at both the minister, the Rev. A. M. Costain, will be assisted by various visitors. A feature of the services will be the singing of favourite hymns. Solos will be rendered by Mips McCullay .and the Rev. A. M. Costain, and a quartette party will sing "Sun of iny soul.” All services are open to tne public, and everyone is heartily invited.

This week’s “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is replete with the most up-to-date illustrations from at home and abroad. Of great interest is the line page depicting the New Zealand v. New South Wales Rugby football match in Sydney. Racing is represented by snaps of the Napier Park Racing Club’s meeting, and, another live pages is devoted to the Manawatu A. and P. Association’s dairy show. From overseas comes the opening of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh, latest photo, of Amundsen, the funerals of the late Lord Leverhulnw and Admiral Sturdcc, the King and Queen at Wembley, President Hindenburg's entry into Berlin, etc. Nearer home appears photos of the opening of Parliament, the Wellington Racing Club’s model racecourse at Trentham, and others of equal interest. Striking models from London and Paris are featured, together with stage and motion pictures.

An English- tourist while "doing” the Waikato recently "was surprised and disgusted to notice so many Maori women enjoying their pipes. On his return to Auckland he mentioned the matter to an old colonist, remarking that it was a sure sign of the degeneracy of the Maori race when their women smoked pipes.. Said the New Zealander: “Well, if that is so, the Irish women of the working class must have been degenerating for a good while, because I remember seeing them ismoking clays in Dublin when I was a boy.” The tourist said no more. There is nothing wrong with pipe smoking for man or woman sc. long as the right tobaco is used. Choose a brand as free from nicotine as you can. That’s all. Our New Zea-land-grown tobaccos contain only a trifling percentage of nicotine, and you can’t beat them for flavour and aroma. You can smoke them for hours, and they won’t do you any harm. Ask for Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullhead), full strength.* For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.