THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4891, 16 October 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The metalling of . the paths in the local domain has been completed and rolled. The average width of the paths has been increased ,to 13ft, giving the place a park-like appearance. In all, some 50 yards of gravel was used on the work, and as soon as this has consolidated sufficiently the whole will be tar-sprayed and sanded.

An amateur gardener suggests a simple plan by which .the pes.t of slug-s in gardens may be overcome. Slugs are, it is said, unablp to resist the temptation of the smell of milk, and if tins containing milk are sunk in the ground at night it’will .be found that they are well filled with slugs by the morning.

Seveial visitors to Paeroa who attended the opening of the Croquet Club on Wednesday afternoon were loud in their praise of the beauty of the local, domain. The opinion was expressed that the residents of Paeroa are indeed fortunate in having such a valuable - area in the heart of the town.

Under the direction of the headmaster (Mr G. H. Taylor) the pupils of the secondary department and standard 6 of the Paeroa District High School planted out 4500 brown Spanish onion plants on Wednesday afternoon. It is lifiped to realise sufficient from the sale of the onions later on to carry out further schoolground improvements.

A start has been' made with the laying of the 4in water mains along Thames Road. Commencing at Willoughby Street, the pipes will be laid as far as Station Road; a distance of about 35 chains. From th ( i,t point to the Racecourse 2in pipes will carry the Water supply in place of the former lin service. The work is being carried out by borough employees, and 'good progress is being made.

Members of the Hauraki Plains County Council visited the county metal quarry at Hikutaia on! Wednesday and expressed (surprise and 1 pleasure at the amount of work that had been done. The whole plant was given a shor,t run for their inspection, and the county chairman and Cr. Mayn were taken for a ride in the truck that runs up and down the hill between the quarry and crusher. It was agireed that the county now had an efficient quarry and plant, and that its metal problem should be at an end as far as the quarry was concerned.

Full of .highly attractive and varied illustrations, this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” is bound to carry a universal appeal. The artistically arranged centre pages are set off with American bathing beauties, the Davis Cup team, etc. The concluding day of the Whangarei Racing Club’s meeting is represented, as well as the Australian Jockey Club’s Warwick Farm meeting. Among the interesting miscellaneous section appear photographs of the escaped leopardess, hunt meet at Tauranga, new geyser at Rotorua, and numerous individual; portraits, A coloured supplement of the late horseman Jack O’Shea is given away with this issue. Fm fnfiuenja Colus lake Woods’ ureat Peppermint Cure.

Mr H. Poland, M.P., addressed an enthusiastic audience at Hikutaia on Wednesday evening, Mr A. R. Robinson presiding over an attedance of 53 persons. Mr Poland was accorded an .appreciative hearing, and was heartily thanked for his efforts in the past on behalf of the settlers.

Newspaper men in the past have been debarred from taking part in local body work. Under the Finance Bill the disabilities imposed on members of local bodies are modified to the extent that anyone serving in that capacity may receive from the local body of which ,he is a member payment at current rates for advertisements appearing in any newspaper circulating in the district of that local body.

It is reported that matters ,are progressing favourably with the candidature of Mr A. M. Samuel, in the Ohinemuri electorate. . At Waihi on Tuesday evening Mr Samuel addressed an audience of 800 people and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The deputy-Mayor, Dr. T. Short, presided. ' On Wednesday evening, at Waikino,. Mr S. H. Morgan presided over an attendance of 150 1 persons, and Mr Samuel delivered a speech on similar lines to the one at Waihi. A few questions were asked and answered ,to the satisfaction of the audience, and hearty votes of thanks and confidence were accorded the speaker and the Reform party.

The commencement of the work in connection with the Waihou River bridge, at Kirikiri is not now far off. Mr De Malmanche, the Public Works overseer, who will supervise the work has arrived from the South Island,, where he has been on. bridge work at the Clarence River. Together with Mr May, resident engineer of t.he Public Works Department, Paeroa, he inspected the site —and also the shingle beds from Which metal for the piles will, be obtained—on Wednesday; The piles will be made at the Public Works depot, Paeroa. The Minister for Public Works has advised the member for Thames that the steel work for the bridge has been ordered.

The old pioneers who came out to New Zealand in the long, long ago little dreamt, as they shredded .the, imported black plug the storekeepers used to sell, that the land of their adoption would one day produce fine tobacco of its own, and in some respects actually superior to the best imported. But so it is. The industry is only in its infancy as yet. But it promises to develop into a source of our National wealth—a point of tremendous importance ,to the struggling settlers on the poverty-stricken gum lands of the North which, poor as they are, will yet grow splendid tobacco. If but a, fraction of this barren land, so rich in tobacco-growing possibilities, were devoted to the culture of the “weed” it would mean the ultimate enrichment of the Dominion. The local, article is much appreciated by those who had to give up smoking foreign tobaccos because of the excesis of nicotine', which affected their health. Try Riverhand Gold, mild; Navy Cut (Bulldog), medium ; or Cut Plug No 10 (Bullshead), full.*