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

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4882, 25 September 1925, Page 2

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

A benefit Rugby football match will be played at Kerepeehi on Saturday next between teams, representing the Soccer and Rugby clubs. The progo to the street lights fund.

The brickwork for the first storey of the new Paeroa post office is now •nearing completion, and the concrete and border dividing the two storeys is to be commenced next week.

Mr E. Smith has been selected to referee the Paeroa versus Karangahake Oddfellows Lodges football match at the Racecourse, Paeroa, tomorrow afternoon.

Attention of contractors is drawn to the tenders being advertised in these columns by the Ohinemuri County Council for calling of metal and formation work.

The extra L.G.U. round and sealed and hole match postponed from Saturday, September 19, on account of Wet weather, will be played on Saturday, 26, players to choose their own partners.

It is. understood that the Public Works Department is to make a start shortly with the erection of the Waitete bridge on Paeroa-Waihi Road The piles, decking, and staging are now on the site.

■ A meeting of the Netherton Ratepayers’ Association is to be held at the Netherton Hall to-morrow evening at 8 o’clock. A large attendance is, desired, as important matters are set down for discussion.

The contractor for the Public Works Department made a start on Wednesday with the excavation of the site for the new municipal offices in Normanby Road, P.aeroa, The spoil is being used to heighten the stopbank on the Ohinemuri River near Cassrete Street.

“I believe that half of the motors are owned in the country districts, and that being so the county councils are representing the motoring interests equally as much as the automobile associations," stated Mr W. Morrison at Wanganui (reports the “Chronicle”). He added that taxation was a small item in the maintenance' and construction of their roads, and the man on the land paid the “lion’s share” every time. First aid for coughs. colds, influenza Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The dedication of St. Peter's Church at Kerepeehi will take place on Friday, October 9. The ceremony will be carried out by the Venerable the Archdeacon of Waikato, the hour fixed for the proceedings being 7.30 p.m.

By advertisement on the fourth page of this paper Messrs W. Fleming and Son advise that a regular bus service will be inaugurated between the Criterion Hotel. and the Paeroa railway setation, commencing on Monday. The time-table is also published.

The latest week-end cable received from the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co.’s London manager states th,at the price of Anchor butter is 210 s, unsalted 212 - Danish 2155. the market ip very firm, with further advance imminent. White cheese is bringing 110 s and coloured 109 s, and Canadian 112, c.i.f. The market is quietly firm.

A piece of evidence calculated to confound those who, like Samuel Butler, hold that the Darwinian theory developed into a deadlock in, view of the non-transmission of required characteristics has come to light in Akaroa. The “Mail” records that a few days ago a calf was boim at Robinson’s Bay with the earmarks of its mother perfectly reproduced.

Three eons of Mr R. L. Davies, of Wharepoa Road, Kerepeehi, were thrown from the horse which they were riding to school on Wednesday morning. The horse shied and two of the boys fell on their heads and were stunned. They were carried into a nearby house and attended to by the Plunket nurse.

It is to be hoped (says the Evening Post) that the Bank of New Zealand v/ill promptly . suppress the issue of its new 10s note.. The value indication, shown thus : £?-£. will doubtless cause many mistakes and a consequent loss. In addition, the note is by nb means artistic, being a horrible yellow offence to the eye.

The three-year-old child of Mr J. A. G. Wilson of Wharepoa Road, Kerepeehi, met with a serious accident. which necessitated its removal to the Thames Hospital on Tuesday. The child followed its parents into the engine-room at the milking shed and became entangled in some belting. One of its legs were fractured, and tlie child was unconscious for a considerable time.

“The liquor trade propaganda posters statement that if prohibition iis carried in New Zealand, 24,000 persons will be. thrown out of employment. is a deliberate lie,” said the Rev. F. E. Harry at the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, on Thursday might. The speaker said that from statistics taken . from the Year Book it was shown that in 53 breweries there was a total of 1038 employees, and barmen, barmaids, and others directly connected with the sale of drink, totalled 950. in all, 1988 persons.

The Paeroa branch of ‘ the Farmers' Union Trading Co., Ltd., advises that Mr A. E. Taylor, suit specialist, Auckland, will bo in Paeroa on Friday and Saturday next. It is understood that Mr Taylor has had English as well as Colonial experience in making men’s high-grade suitis. He carries a full range of suit patterns •of ample size to give a good idea of what the finished suit will look like. The patterns comprise over fifty different English and Colonial, tweeds, worsteds, and serges. Mr Taylor is equally experience in the measuring and making of dinner and dress suits, sac suits, sports suits, overcoats, and riding breeches.*

Features of widespread interest characterise this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” Pride of place is given the New Zealand v. New South Wales Rugby match at Eden Park, illustrating the game at various exciting stages and snowing the crowds of spectators. Several pages are devoted to striding snaps at the Waikato Hunt’s, annual point-to-point meeting at. Bardowie and the Pakuranga Hunt's steeplechase at East Tamaki, and the Wanvanuj Jockey Club's spring meeting is depicted in a specially fine scries of incidents. The double pages artistically display up-to-date topics in America and England. Scenes of exceptional interest show Ohakune Junction during the recent snowstorm, while miscellaneous pictures include many Dominion subjects.

What kind of tobacco do you prefer —mild, medium, or full ? If you have been long a worshiper at the shrine of My Lady Nicotine you have doubtless sampled all. sorts of brands at one time or another, and have your preferences. But have you ever tried toasted tobacco ‘I It is quite a new idea. The leaf is carefully toasted, and this process develops the flavour and aroma in quite a surprising way. It’s like eating salt with nutis or mus>tard with beef or cheese. You can test this for yourself, because the New Zealand tobaccos, now so much in evidence, are all toasted. Hence their delightful fragrance and flavour. And, unlike most of the imported brands, they contain such a small percentage of nicotine that they may be smoked pipe after pipe “till, the cows come home” without unpleasant or harmful consequences. They won't bite the tongue, and appeal to,all tastes. Riverhead Gold is aronuitlc, Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) a pleasing medium, and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bull’s Head) a fine full-llavoured tobacco*