THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With winch is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4889, 12 October 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With winch is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Through mistaking the position of a motor-car standing at the side of a road near Ngatea on Friday evening the driver of a Ford .truck drove his. vehicle into a deep drain. ‘He states that, he was ’ blinded by the bright headlights of the other car, and thought that it was on its proper side of the road, instead of being stationary on the wrong side. The driver was not injured and the truck was only slightly damaged.

Farmers will, not attend meetings on two nights running, as was demonstrated at. Netherton on . Thursday last. There having been a political meeting on the. previous'evening, the attendance at the extraordinary meeting of debenture-holders of the Netherton Hall, which was called to discuss the question of the removal, of the building to a: site near the school and deal with other business about which tspme very definite opinions are held, was so small that no business could be transacted.

- What with one drawback and another, the lot of many a man on the land in N.Z. for some time past has hardly been happier than that of the Gilbertian /policeman, and it is deplorable that in some instances the farmer has been forced to give his farm beet and retrie from a struggle beyond his endurance, Especially trying has been the position of the agriculturist on the gum lands of the North. This soil won’t grow anything the farmer is accustomed to grow. But it will produce remarkably fine tobacco leaf, and as the average yield of a tobacco crop on the Northern gum lands represents a cash value ’of £5O nett, there can be no profit. Large quantities of tobacco are already being grown, and .the culture of the “weed" in certain parts of N.Z. promises to develop into a national industry. Several varieties of this tobacco are on the market, including Riverhead Gold, aromatic; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; and Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), full. They are all in brisk demand.® Fm influenza Colds take Woods’ Great Peppermint Pure.