THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4888, 9 October 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Hon. Sir M. Pomare paid a short visit to Paeroa yesterday.

The official opening of the local bowling club .takes place to-morrow.

The total value of building permits granted by the Paeroa Borough Council for the half-year ended September 30, 1925, was £4582 9s 6d.

The Paeroa Chamber of Commerce lias made a request to the postmaster to have the telephone lipin's extended from 6 a.m. to midnight, instead of from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

At a meeting of the executive of the Hikutaia' Bowling, Tennis, and Croquet Club held at Hikutaia on Monday last it was resolved to hold the official opening on Saturday, the 24th instant.

The latest London market advice states that Anchor butter is bringing 236i5, unsalted 230 s nominal. Danish, 2275, market strong. There is very little choicest available, and the German import tariff is operating. Danish sales were reduced this week, and it is? expected that German butter imports will not no be materially affected. Canadian is bringing 2205, c.i.f.. New Zealand is retailing at 2s 2d and Danish at 2s 3d. White and coloured cheese is selling at 118 s, Canadian c.i.f. quotation being 120 s, with probable further advance. The contention that they have not had a. fair deal from the County Council in the matter of the expenditure of rates ahd thirds has caused the Maiigatarata Ratepayers’ Association to write to the Minister for Lands informing him that while they do not know the position in regard to Patetonga, the County Council was rating the Mangatarata settlers at 2d in the £ and spending nothing on th'e roads of the locality. Alleging that the county was spending thirds- on roads which were not entitled to this expenditure, the association has written to the Minister of Internal Affairs and tlie Minister in charge of the Audit Department asking for an investigation. The settlers contend that the district is being neglected, and what money is spent is not being used to. the best advantage. < Fm influenza Colas taxe Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

The Paeroa High School has brought yet another sports trophy to the town. On Wednesday the A and B basketball teams of the school visited Te Arolia, where the A team competed for the Fitzpatrick Shield, presented by Molly Fitzpatrick, a member of Te Arolia High School, for competition among high schools within a 20-mile radius of Te Aroha. The A team won by 18 to> 12, and as the shield has been presented this year Paeroa are thus ,the first holders. The B team played a friendly match with the Te Aroha B team and won by 11 to 5.

Variety and interest are attached to this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” the illustraitons covering an extensive range of topical local and overseas subjects. Patricular attention will be riveted on the centre pages, which embrace picturesque views of the Auckland Zoo and striking studies of its wild animals. The N.Z. Golf Championships at Christchurch are represented in pages of scenes showing competitors at tense moments, the champion, T. H. Horton, and groups of interested onlookers. Snapshots at .the Avondale Jockey Club’s spring meeting are given prominent space, and racing episodes in Sydney are also attractively placed. Football and ci icket are dealt with, and the miscellaneous section covers a. wide range.

If the average man were cast away on a desert island and compelled to lead a Robinson Crusoe existence, his first thought (after the food and water problem was solved) would be : “How can I get something to- smoke?” The craving for tobacco is insistent in the case of 10 men out of every 12, and to satisfy the universal demand hundreds of brands of ,the “weed” are on the market. They come from many lands, one of the latest countries to produce them- (in a perfected form) being New Zealand. Strange to say, the barren gum lands of the North, which, won’t grow ordinary crops, grow splendid tobacco, a matter of the greatest importance to men on the land up there, because the average yield of leaf is worth £5O per acre, and the industry promises to become a source of'national wealth. The local article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excess of nicotine, which affected thier health. Try Riverhead Gold, mild ; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No. 10 (Bulls head), full.* Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colds never falls.