THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4872, 2 September 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mr Sparrow, • representing Paramount Pictures, is in town to-day making final arrangements for tlie presentation of “Tlie Ten Commandments” in Paeroa.

A meeting of subscribers to tlie fund for providing a recognition of the long and faithful services rendered by Miss Shaw is to be held in the Coronation Chambens on Saturday night at 7.30 o’clock.

The local vital statistics tor August have been supplied by the Registrar as follows, those for tlie same month last year being given in aprenthesis : Birtlfe, 12 (6); deaths, 0 (6); marliages, 2 (4).

In answer to Mr F. E. Flatt at yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power, Board at Te Aroha the ehairmamn (Mr F. H. Claxton) said that approximately £28,000 remained of the last £50,000. loan authorised.

It was decided at yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Power Board that the secretary-managery, Mr R. Sprague, would act as accountant in addition to his present duties, and that a chief clerk be appointed at a commencing salary of £325 a year.

Arising ou of the finance commitee’s report at the Thames ValleyPower Board meeting yesterday Mr Flatt suggested that steps should be taken to secure the services of a man to act as the board’s internal auditor. He contended that by such an appointment annual balance matters would be expedited. Mr F. H. Claxton said that he had been in communication with the Audit Department on the matter. He did not think the board should make tlie appointment unless it could secure a competent man. Mr Flatt said he was anxious to obviate the delay occasioned each year in bringing down tlie balance-sheet.

For Children's Hacking Cough, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

At yesterday’s Thames. Valley Electric Power Board meeting Mr G. A. Bush, who has been accountant to the board during the last three and a-nalf years, resigned his position. The resignation was accepted, to take effect as from October 16.

The rain gauge at the Lands Depatrment’s office at Kerepeehi showy that the rainfall during August was only slightly above the normal for the month. A total of 3.32 inches fell on 17 days, and of this 1U todies fell during the first ten days, .71 of an inch on the 13th (the heaviest fail during the month), .35 inch on the 14th, and the rest between the 21st and the 28th. The average fall in August for the last 13 years is 3.16 inches' and the total fall to date this year is 26.34 inches.

The Lands Drainage Department's Bucyrus dredge which has for home ‘years been working on the road alongside the Puhanga canal and the river from the canal to Ngarua Landing has now completed its work, and on Monday last was taken bn a pon- ' toon to Kerepeehi for overhaul. The completion of the stop-bank to Ngarua will render the land down to Ngatea immune from flooding should the river rise to abnormal heights. The department’s Rood machine is also undergoing overhaul. This machine has completed the cleaning of the drain along the roadside on tire Kerepeehi block and is now standing on the Awaiti Canal stop-bank.

A pleasing little function took place in the Lands Office, Keiepeelii, on Friday last, when menibeis of the staff assembled to bid farewell to one of their number, Mr B. J. Loudon, who, after being employed by the department as- a surveyor tor some two and a-half years, has accepted a position with the Armstrong-Whitworth Company on its East Coast railway contract.

It has been said that the man who causes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor. If that be trite and true it asuredly is —what iy to be said of those who established a successful local industry which finds employment tor many .hands, develops tlie latent resources of this Dominion, and keeps the money in the country ? Look at what the poor gum lands ot the North and the barren clays of Nelson, at one time considered worthless for agricultural purposes are now producing. They furnish the manufacturers. with the raw materials for our local brands. And so excellent is this product that no smoker should fail to give it a trial. He is in for quite a new type, a toasted tobacco, more fragrant, less nicotine, and, therefore, healthier. A wonderful improvement compared with the noiitoasted tobacco. There are three grades—Riverhead Gold, very mild ; Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog), of medium istrength ; and those who prefer a full body will appreciate Cut Plug No. 10, the Bullhead brand.*