THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4887, 7 October 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The official opening of the Turua Tennis Club’s courts will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, October 17.

Tenders for the formation of training tracks for the Ohinemuri Jockey Club are invited until noon on. Wednesday next.

The road from Paeroa to the Plains is now in very bad order, and motor vehicles are frequently stuck. The section from Carter’s Comer to the Wharepoa ferry corner is ,the worst, but the whole ,road is very rough.

The Prohibition campaign opened on the -Palins last night, when an address was given at Ngatea by the Rev. Gardner Miller, of Napier, to a large audience. Various local, items Were contributed by a party of Thames people, and were well received, and the address was listened to with close attention.

Sister Esther’s fund for the relief of .the poor of Auckland will benefit to the extent of £1 16s 4d as a result of the sacred concert organised by the Ngatea choir and held in the Public Hall last Sunday* evening. Selections w’ere given by the choir members, and many of the old favourite hymns, were sung.

Many and varied have been the descriptions given thip winter of the road from Paeroa to the Plains, "but a new one was heard at the prohibition meeting at Ngatea last night. A cleric from Napier likened the journey to that of the Israelites over the Red Sea. The simile is hard to understand, as the Children of Israel had a safe passage, while the chariots and horsemen of Pharaoh’s host became bogged.

A •sequel to the convictions recorded at the September sitting of the Police Court, Paeroa, against several Maoris who had pleaded guilty of engaging in a game of two-up at Hikutaia on August 8 was heard at the October sitting of the Court, when, on the information of these natives, who were smarting under a sense of injustice, the police proceeded against a further batch of those alleged .to have been present. Eight men were summoned to answer the charges, but iit the last moment the against three of them were withdrawn on account of insufficient evidence. One pleaded guilty and Was convicted and fined £5 and costs, the same as. the natives' Of the other tour two were fined £5 and costs, arid the other two were dismissed.