THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4907, 25 November 1925, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1925. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

After a brief spell, of summer weather heavy rain fell locally early this morning, and refreshing showers have fallen intermittently up to time of writing. The rainfall so far this month has been considerably below the average, and pastures and root crops, will .benefit greatly by the thorough soaking recoided this morning.

While attempting to catch a Itorse in the school holding paddock on Monday the escond s.on of Mr F. A. Johnson, NgaAea, was kicked on the head. Dr. Lange, of Turua, Was near, aiftl he attended to the wound, inserting three stitches. The boy was taken home, .Mi 1 ; shortly afterwards he became unconscious and the doctor thought it advisable to have him removed to the Thames Hospital.

The death of Mr Robert Wyllie (Dick) McGregor, the former Auckland andvNew Zealand Rugby fbotball representative, occurred in Sydney on Sunday. Mr McGregor, who was 51 years of ago, was born at Thames, and was employed as a miner there until about ten years ago, when lie took up his residence in Queensland ton health reasons. He will be remembeied by Rugby followers in New Zealand and Australia as a member of a great Thames football family, and one of the finest backs who ever represented the Dominion.

Lieut.-Colonel G. Symonds, the English road expert, said at Carterton that he would* never estimate the life of a road. It could not be done. Even the Americans had found, that but. A good road attracted increased traffic,, the amount of which iti was impossible to estimate.— Wairarapa Age.

A start has been made with the top course of metalling' on the Huirau Road. The portion to be bitumensealed is from the factory corner to the Gumtowh Road..

The annual Public Service Entrance and Senior National Scholarship examinations commenced at Paeroa this morning, and will continue intermittently until December 2.

A property in the Oarnaru district ■upon which' a pine plantation was made about forty yeairs ago, has produced about £3OOO worth of sawn timber during the last year or two (s.aj’w the “North Otago Times”).

Farmers on the Plains complain that the gale on Sunday last practically stripped the young fruit off the trees. ,

Speaking at Carterton Lieiit.-Colonel G. Symonds, an English reading expert, said that in surfacing a road with bitumen many engineers made the mistake of not putting on enough sand or chips. This (reports the “Wairarapa Age’’) allowed the bitu-men-to ‘sweat” and was the cause oT. waves on a road.

A number of people from Paeroa* and district are attending. the annual Agricultural and Pastoral Show at Te Aroha to-day.

. The output of the Ngatea factory is just a little above that of this< time last season. At Kopu.arahi an abnormally good season is being experienced. The Shelly Beach factory is taxed to its utmost, and some suppliers have been compelled to separate .their milk.

In future the use of the cane will not be allowed in schools within the jurisdiction of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. In .the pasti both cane and strap have been used, but as the latter is, now most universally* used the board at its last meeting decided ■to formally abolish the use of the cane in schools. The by-laws will be altered accordingly.

A large number of Maoris were to be seen in the main streets in Paeroa on Monday. Probably the fact that old-age’ and war pensions Were being paid that day accounted for the unusual number of natives.

Mr E. S. Thomas advises in these columns, that he is running his car from Paeroa to Auckland on Saturday and Monday next. In order, to meet the requirements of turf patrons the car will leave Paeroa aftey the arrival of the first train from Waihi and proceed' direct to Auckland, landing passengers there in ample time to reach Takapuna for the first race. The return journey will be made after the races, leaving the General Post Office, Auckland, at a time to be arranged. The booking office foy the service is- ati Messrs Brenan and Cos garage.

The newly-appointed general manager to the New Zealand Roads Company was in Turua on Monday in connection with the bitumen rodding contract. He offered to have the 20-chain strip of road near the saleyards which has broken up on account of insufficient foundations scarified lightly and reformed. ■ A quantity of one-inch metal will be laid and bitumen-sealed and blinded, and later given a final coat of bitumen. The depth of new metal will vary’ at different parts, but the contractors are eager to make a. good job of the work.

Speaking to an. “Otago Daily Times” reporter with regard to ,the people of New Zealand, the Hon. W. Pember Reeves said there were distinct evidences of a new race of people. This, he said, was- food for a careful, and interesting study. He himself was specially concerned in.it, and would watch its progress with great interest. ,

From November 1, 1924, to October 31, 1925, the total- number of lambs slaughtered and'frozen in the freezing works in the North Island was 2,044,307. Wether mutton slaughtered and frozen during the same period totalled 1,121,866 carcases.

During the discussion on ,the post office site at Kaihere on Tuesday a prominent landowner having land that would benefit by either site offered to give a building site free to any person who would establish a shop, near the present post office site. Mes,srs J. J. Ritchie, town clerk, and A. C. Cliffe. foreman, Waihi Borough Council, were in Paeroa on Monday for the pm pose of interviewing Mr L. May, resident engineer, Public Works Department. In conversation with Mr Ritchie it was Jearned tha.t the department has made a grant of WOO to the council fo’- ll'o puipOse of carrying ou.t further improvements to the Waihi Beach road. An endeavour is being made to have the work carried out before the Christmas traffic to the beach commences. It is understood that .the portion of the road from the turn-off on the Tauranga road to the top of the hill is now safe for traffic in all weathens. A considerable improvement has also been effected to the road on the hill, the water channels having been Kept open and the road formed.

If the number of new motor cars in a district is any criterion of its prosperity there is no doubt that Patetonga must be very different to what it is generally supposed to be. A very big number of cars have been acquired this spring, and on some roads it is reported that every settler is now the possessor of a motor car.

The latest cable report received by the N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co. concerning the London market quotes Anchor butter at 208 s, unsalted '2los, Danish 2145. The market is firm, with improved sales. The retail is unchanged. White and coloured cheese, New Zealand, 114 s. Canadian Septembers slightly higher.

Many and varied were the arguments put up in favour of having the Kaihere post office near, the school. Gne was that it would give the scholars something to look at.

The holes that have developed in the bitumen roads at Turua, due to the faulty foundations, are now being repaired as the weather permits. The method adopted is ,to remove all. the loose metal and- to fill the hole with bitumenous cement.