THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4926, 15 January 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Three building permits to the value of £1777 were granted at last night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council.

At- the present .time one of the Thames Valley Power Boat'd’ts' gangs is working in the vicinity of the old railway station yards, where the existing poles carrying .the .ma,in line are being replaced with 35ft t and 49ft poles. This has, been rendered necessary owing to the al|teration of the Post and Telegraph Department’s lines, and thel regulations require the Power Board, to cart-y the electric wires' sft above the telegraph wires.

On Sunday next, January 17, the services at the ,Paeroa Presbyterian Church will be a.t 11 aan. and 7 p.m> ; preacher, Mr E. R. Ross, MiA., of Knox College, Dunedin. Morning subject, “On building an Altar”; Evening, “Discipline.” Strangers' and visitors heartily welcome.*

At the meeting of the Paerpa Borough Council last evening the Mayoi’ (Mr W. Marshall) said that he thought the councillors might begin the nw year by attending the meetings at the specified time. It should not be necessary to wa,it until after 8 o’clock for a quorum to be present. It wais- not only unbusinesslike, but discourteous, to those members who attended on time. Cn EL Edwards suggested that during the summer the time might be altered to 8 p.m. The Mayor replied that if there happened to be a large volume of business it meant that the meeting would necessarily have to be late, and by statute the council could not transact business after 10130 p.m. The gentle rebuke from the Mayor was accepted by ,thofc'.e preisent.

An ex-Paeroa boy, “Bricky”-Budd, a. son of Mr F. S. Budd, appears to have bee?! making tennis history at Napier, where the family now resides. According to a reent. issue of the Napier "Telegraph” young Budd defeated Rainbow, a former champion of the Hastings club, in a th’ree-se.t match, to which the paper refers as follow^: “The veteran's shrewd placing was unequal to Budd’s hard drives and well-punched volleys! Budd —a crack golfer as well as ani improved tennis player—has a terrific service, better if it is functioning properly, than that of any other player in Hawke's Bay. His game would be better if he used his height with equal effect in its other: places.”'

Exclusive photographs of the late Queen Alexandra’s funeral received by the latest mail make a striking feature of the illlustrations in this week’s issue of the “N'.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review;.” The centre pages are animated with snapshots of the Auckland Racing Club’s summer carnival at Ellerslie, while other recefit race meetings are pictorially represented. Interesting photographs of the English bowlers are given, besides many other subejets of appea.ll. A frontispice of Dame Clara Butt Svill create particular attention, and stage and film portraits have their usual attractive gallery.

* As the result of negotiations with the Railway Department it is likely that the next excursion to Waihi Beach will eventuate on Anniversary Day, January 29. Tire train on this occasion will extend further afield, starting from Frankton.

Great interest is being shown by the public in the promised presentation by the Exhibition directors of a gold wa,tch to the millionth visitor to pass through .the gates’. .On Tuesday morning, .when the ninth week of the Exhibition opened, the grand total was 943,858, and it is expected that the flrjst million will be reached this week.

An extraordniary incident occurred at Dundas. (Sydney) on Saturday. DR Nigel Bolton, of Ryde, was attending Mr Alexander Young, aged 68, of Marsden Road, Dundas. The doctor complimented him upon looking so young and They were conversing on the verandah, the chief topic being future life. Mr Young said: ‘‘l wonder what the next life holds for us ?” His voice suddenly stopped, and he collapsed"*a,nd died in his chair.

Some illuminating facts as to what the Government has done, and is still doing, towards .the care of soldiers’ graves, were given by the Minister for Internal Affairs (Hon. R. F. Bollard) during the unveiling of the Opawa Macri war memorial at Hawera this weeH- It was, stated that the total expenditure to date was in the neighbourhood of £140,009.

The Finance Committee reported at last night's meeting of the Paeroa 80-rough Council that the revenue for the month amounted to £3020 4s Bd, and the expenditure'.totalled £796 7s Id. The credit in the district fund account was £3220 15s 7d. The credit balances in the various loan accounts were s.hown a«- follows: Street iriir pTbvements, £1197 10s 6d-; Sewerage, £297 6s Id; Domain Improvements, £l5O 0s 8d ; Water Improvements, £221 Is 4d.

A phenomenon wlas' observed in the western sky by people on. the Paeroa railway station platform on Wednesday afternoon. What appeared to be a huge waterspout suddenly appealed in the sky, and assumed larger proportions' as it reached higher in the heavens. Those who witnessed the spectacle estimate that it was a considerable distance aw<ay. The disturbance did not seem to be travelling in any particular direction, and it disappeared from view almost as quickly .as it was seen.

Good fortune has come the way of Dr. E. 1. A.“'McDonald, who recently completed a period of training as house-surgeon at the Auckland Hospital!. Dr. McDonald has been engaged ap ship’s surgeon ■on the Kaimiloa, the fine yacht owned by Mr M. R. Kelp, lum, the American millionaire, which is at present lying in the Auckland Harbour. The doctor, who is at pTtesent on a holiday, preparatory .to taking up his appointment, will accompany the yacht on a six moijths’ tour to the Orient, after •which he will go to Elngland-to complete his studies. He will leave New Zealand, in March.

Charles Tasman D.obson, a young man employed" at Grey and Menzies’ Cordial. Factory, Te Aroha, met with a painful accident on Tuesday. While bottling lemonade ,a bottle burst and a piece of glass struck. Dobson with such force just below 1 the left eyeball that the flesh was penetrated to the endangerment of .the sight. Mr Dobson suffered much paid. A surgeon attended to the which, it is hoped, will not result in any permanent disability.

The Public Trust Office, Wellington, has advised the Paeroia .Borough Council, that, as a result of the successful progress of the office in recent years, combined with the exercise of strict economy in expenditure, it had been found possible to increase the ra.tes of interest allowed on certain classes of funds. Accordingly, from January 1, 1926, the interest allowed on local body sinking funds and superannuation funds would lie increased by oire-quarter per centum. ,

The spirit of enterprise s;tili. lives. It did not perish at Galljpoli. A Gore lad showed the "go-getter” spirit at a district race meeting during the holidays (remarks the Mataura Ensign)\ Purchasing a few bundles of pencils at Id a time he neatly halved these and adjourned to the racecourse. There they were retajled at 6d a time per half pencil. Net profit 14s.

The long grass and weeds, encroaching on a number pf the footpaths in the borough are now being trimmed back by the council workmen!.

A large shark, measuring raftter ovex' nine feet, which had been previously wounded by a fisherman a mile out from the headland of the Waihi Beach on Sunday, became stranded on the shore a mile or two along the beach towards Bowentown Heads (states .the “Telegraph”). It appears that early on Sunday forenoon a party of three were fishing in a 14f.t rowing boat about a mile out to sea when the shark was hobked. On being got to within striking distance of the boat Mr J. Clarke, one of the party, with a sheath knife attached to an end of a,n oar, jabbed the lis.h,' inflicting .three deep Wounds on its body. Meanwhile, it is stated, an oar was attached to the line, and during the process the shark, came in contact with .the boat, with the result that the occupants had the unpleasant sensation of feeling their little craft shiver from end .to encHUUltima tely the fitsh broke away with a portion of the line and the oar, and about four o’clock in the afternoon a cyclist coming 'rom Bowentown reported having found it stranded at a point where the waters of a large drain on Mrs Shaw’s property empties itself into the sea. Mr Cla,rke, one of the fishermen, was able to identify it as the shark they had encountered at sea in the morning. The species was that known as, the mako, which affords such fine sport to deep sea fishermen about Mayor Island. I