THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4904, 18 November 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A petition for a magisterial recount of the votes cast .at the recent election on tlie issue of Restoration has been lodged by thet N.Z. Alliance party with the magistrate. «

Acting on the appeal put forth on Saturday night for a motor reel the president (Mr P. Williams) and treasurer (Mr A. F. Steedman) of the Paeroa Orphans’ Club commenced a canvass for funds .yesterday, and’ in a short time ‘collected well over the three-figure mark. It was impossible to call on all the tradespeople and others who would' like to help the funds, and it is hoped that those who have not been interviewed will, send their subscriptions along. The club is to be congratulated on having taken the matter up.

The St. Paul’s Ladies’ Guild is holding the annual sjale of work in the Gaiety Theatre, Paeroa, .to-morrow. A host of useful, fancy goods, children’s garments, and novelties of all kinds, iir addition to flowers, vegetables., and sweets, will be procurable at tempting prices. Morning tea, luncheon, afternoon .tea, and supper will, be available at a. nominal price.

General Bramwell, Booth, chief of the Salvation Army, will be 70 years of age next March. To commemorate the occasion the Army throughout the world will be making a special missionary effort, and it is hoped to raise at least £lOO,OOO. Of that amount New Zealand will probably be asked to raise £lO,OOO.

Visitors to Bowentown by way,.of the Waihi Beach have Jjgen-'sorely handicapped by. of soft

.sajRL-lyil’;g~l)etween the ocean beach and the domain (states the Waihi Telegraph); Those in vehicles have had to cross over on foot, horses being unequal to the task of drawing other than empty vehicles across the stretch. The handicap is likely to be shortly removed. Some months ago £lo'o was raised to render traffic easy by making a road along the base of the bluff, and we learn it is probable that the work will soon be in hand. It is estimated that the £lOO wil be sufficient for the job.

In the very heart of the city of Manchester (Tib Lane), perched high on' the flat roof of a warehouse amid the chimneys, and the grime, is a typical country cottage, standing in its own “grounds,” where on wash days a line of clothes may be seen flapping in the sooty breeze. The cottage was built iis a war-time measure when it was impossible to find suitable accommodation near by for the caretaker.

There are easier ways of making money than by working for it. A small Auckland trader travelled on holiday through the Plains recently in his Ford motor truck. He happened to be at Turua last week when the machinery of the Old mill was offered'for sale by auction. The lot was knocked down to the traveller for £lO, who disposed of some a few minutes later for three times as much. Seeing the old scrap iron near the garage that was burned, down some time ago he obtained it and (sold many truck loads, at a good price to the foundry at Thames.

What is claimed to be the largest oak tree in the world is. growing at Waima, North Island. This tree (states an exchange) grew from an acorn planted by the Rev. John Mavin, of the Hokianga Home Mission Station, in 1840. The triee at present has a girth of 24ft .rising to a height of 80ft, and at noon casts a shade of 100 ft in diameter. Under the spread of its branches 500 people can gather. Waima Valley'is a quiet, pretty nook about a dozen miles up the Hokianga River, and the oak is growing about half a mile inland. Though only some eighty years old, it is larger than oaks in England 500. years old.

An exchange suggests that the present Government, ' led by ‘'the man who gets things done,” should be renamed the Perform Party. The activity in the bacon industry at present is reflected in the fact that a local company expects to handle over 2000 carcases during the next seven days.—“ Manawatu Standard.” Professor’Charles Henry Gilbert, of California, and Mr J. P. Babcock (Fislfeiies Commissioner of British two of the world’s leading authorities on deep * sea fishes, are leaving Vancouver in December to survey the salmon situation around New Zealand and Australia. News was received at Nethertbn this morning of the death of Mrs W. S. Young, of Otakeho, Taranaki, at the ripe old age of 78 years. The deceased Was known in this district to quite a number of people, who will, mourn her loss. She leaver in this district two daughters, Mesdames Matthews and Maude, of Netherton, and two sons, Mr J. A. Young, of Nethertbn, and Mr V. Young, of Hikutaia. The week-end cable concerning the London market quotes Anchor butter, salted and unsalted, at 208 s, Danish 210 s, with market reviving. An active market is expected for the next few weeks, with some improvement ih prices. Uns.alted and seconds are still very quiet. Retail is unchanged. White and, coloured cheese is quoted at 116 s, Canadian Octobers 107 s, c.i.f., with market quiet. The' retail is unchanged. There! are three leading powers today, the three great “P’s”—the Press, the Pulpit, and the Petticoats. — Quotation from a speech by the Mayor of Blackburn in the “Manchester Guardian.” The residents of .tl’ie . Marlborough Sounds have experienced what is probably the wettest spring on record there—certainly the wettest for 1 many •years. The rain gauge* at Yncya Bay recorded fifteen days with rain during September, and seventeen during October, the total precipitation for the two months, being just over: fifteen inches—-6.40 inches for September and 8.65 for October. Shearing has commenced in several sheds, and, as was expected, states the “Marlborough Express,” the wool is showing the effects of the excessive- winter and spring rainfall.