LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4877, 14 September 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Using a machine which milks six cows, at a mite, two American latte recently milked 75 cows in 1% hours.

For nipping the tops off trees planted by the Mastertpn Beautifying Society a married woman was recently convicted and ordered to pay 16s costs.

A reminder is given of the grand dance and euchre tournament, under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Social Committee, which is to be held at the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, tomorrow evening. ‘

In the report of the local Methodist bazaar on Thursday the winner of the weight-guessing competition for the iced cake was erroneously stated. Jack Busby guessed the correct weight, 5%1b.

The Te Aroha “News” states that as a result of the judicious methods of advertising adopted by the Chamber of, Commerce it is inevitable that Te Aroha will leap into prominence as a tourist and health resort.

The present number of pupils on the roll at the Paeroa District High School is : Secondary department, 25 boys and 25 girls, * primary, 217 boys and 161 girls,; total, 428. The average attendance is 394.3 pupils.

It is under,tsood that in the event of any amending legislation to the licensing lawis, making possible a redistribution of licenses being carried into effect, on attempt will be made to obt.ain the transference of a Thames license to Morrinsville.

An Order-in-Council in the latest issue -of the N.Z. Gazette authorises the Waitomo Electric Power Board to purchase the Te Kuiti Borough electric works. Authority its given under section 49 of. the Powei Boards Act, 1918, and section 17 of the Amended Act, 1920.

It is by no means an unmixed evil that the Government has discontinued the purchase and subdivision of estates—presuming that a continuance of it would have had to follow recent unsafe and unsuccessful lines (states the Dunedin “Star”). The original object of the Act was to put men on the land to succeed, not to fail.

The Governor-General has approved of the raising of the following leans by local bodies in this, district: Hauraki Plains County Council, £12,000, for providing a portion of the cost of construction of a bridge over the Waihou River at Kopu ; £2ooo* by the Paeroa Borough Council for the erection of council chambers.

It is estimated that there are 5500 people of varying ages in the Dominion suffering ' from tuberculosis in isome stage. The earlier admission to sanatorium, the provision of special wards at hospitals for' incurable cases; and the closest, supervision,of cases in their own homes are aids to be desired.

Mr W. Lee, of Goodwood, a dairyman of many years’ experience, when speaking at the annual meeting of the Waikouaiti and Waihemo Herd-test-ing Association, claimed that the greatest evil existing in the 1 dairying industry of New Zealand was overstocking. Cows to milk well must have plenty of feed at all times, and, in the opinion of the speaker, the majority of dairymen should cull out their cows and not replace them with others;

Many people have come to regard the State-owned railways system as a thing ordained by Nature, if not, indeed, by Divine Providence (saysi the Christchurch Press), and to think of a privately owned competitor as one not in essentials different from a heretic and a law-breaker. The roads, we take it, were not built for pedestrians, or carts, or sheep, or any special kind of traffic ; they were built in order to enable the community to get itself and its goods safely and easily from one place to another ; and it is absurd to suggest that niotorlorries, which can make such excellent economic use of the highway}?, should not be allowed to use them.