LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4902, 13 November 1925, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Major Robinson, the secretary for the Melanesian Mission, will be the preacher at evensong hi St. Paul’s Church at half-past seven this (Friday) evening.

At last night's Borough Council, meeting four building permits with a total value of £699 we.ne granted subject to compliance with the bylaws.

The following telegram, addressed to th q Editor, “Gazette,” Paeroa, was received from Mr Fred. Burke, Auckland, the well-known Continuance lecturer, yesterday morning: "Bravo, Ohindmuri.”

It is understood that Mr H. H. Sterling, acting-chairman of the Railways Board, is shortly to resign to accept the position of assistant general. manager of the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., Hamilton (states an exchange). Mr Sterling has had 23% years’ service with the Railway Department.

Prior to .severing rhis connection with the Farmers’ Union Trading Co., Ltd., the staff of the Paeroa branch presented Mr D. Brown with a gold watch, suitably inscribed, a& a token of the high esteem in which he was held by them.

An advertisement giving particulars of alterations in the railway time-table operating from November 15 appear in this issue.

The new railway deviation opposite the Paeroa abattoirs, near Mackaytown, is now being used by the Pae-roa-Waihi trains. The deviation has been made in order that the stop-bank on the left side of the Ohinemuri River can be raised, .thus preventing overflow at this point when the river is in flood, and at the same time protecting the railway line and the Rotoko>hu Flats, which lie between the Paeroa-Waihi and the main PaeroaTe Aroha railway lines.

At the meeting of the Borough Council last evening the Mayor produced a rough sketch of the proposed new borough chambens in'Nonnanhy Road, and stated that the £2OOO required for its erection was under offer to the council without procuration fee. = It was resolved to set up a sub-committee, comprising the Mayor, deputy-Mayor, chairman of the Finance. Committee, and Or. Pinder, to go into details and call tenders.

Included in a total, of £157,000 for expenditure on toads in the No. 2 Main Highways District conisdered at a recent meeting of the council the following items of special interest to this district appear : Unmetalled portions of Pokeno-Waihi highway, between Koheroa and Haley’s Corner, £lO,OOO ; Hauraki Plains, £BOOO ; Waihcu River bridge at Ko.pu, £52,000.

Sir Ernest Rutherford’s tribute : “I am told that New Zealand railways are a long way behind those of other countries. Lady Rutherford and I have just travelled down by the Limited, and we can say that we have never had a more comfortable night’s rest and journey. I will, make no comparisons, for comparisons are odious,.but 1 have recently been travelling in Canada and Australia.”

Arising out of the .Works Committee's report at the Paeroa Borough Council meeting last night the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall.) intimated tnat there was a great deal of work to be done during'this summer and autumn, and he appealed to the' councillors, for their whole-hearted support and co-operation. Continuing, the 'Mayor said that lie had been accused of ‘‘running the show.” 'He had no- intention of doing anything without the councillors’ knowledge and approval. Crs. Flatt and Hare paid tribute to the work being done by the Mayor, and agreed that it was not to be expected that His Worship sliould chase after the councillors when anything was required to be done. The Mayor thanked the speakers, and said he would willingly relinquish, the chairmanship of the works committee if the councillors were not satisfied or unless he could rely on their cooperation and support.

The variety and quality of the illustrations in this weeks’ issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” should widely' commend this journal. The Canterbury Jockey Club’s carnival and the Auckland Racing Club’s spring meeting are generously treated. A frontispiece of “The Abbess of Whitby,” by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society, two pages of "The Runaway Girl,” by Gisborne amateurs, an alluring set of London and Paris fashions, are additional features of a highly creditable publication. The centre pages are devoted to golf, swimming, and dancing abroad, and the miscellaneous section deals with many interesting subjects from overseas and locally.

Mr A'. Broad, a Queenslander, who is on the staff of the Te Aroha Dairy Company, told a News reporter o.n Monday that he considered the con'd itions for dairying in this country as near ideal as they could be. In Queensland they had better soil and cheaper land, but droughts were difficult to* contend against, and losses were possible which no farmer need ever fear here. He spoke .most favourably of the Queensland Government’s efforts to assist the farmer in protecting himself against loss in time of drought, and said that great efforts are being made to conserve, in the form of silo, lucerne and other crops. Mr Broad mentioned circumstances which enabled New Zealand to turn but a better article than Queensland. Here we have better Toads, and cream has only to be carted very’ short distances to the factory compared with Queensland, and consequently ft arrives in much better condition.

The road from the Wharepoa ferry corner, io the bitumen road at Turua, which was In very bad order, has been scarified and rolled, and is now much improved.