THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4945, 1 March 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A special meeting of ,the Paeroa Borough Council was held bn Friday evening -to consider the decision of the Ohinemuri County Council in connection with the allocation of the cost of the proposed new .traffic bridge at Paeroa. The meeting I ', was held in committee, and it is understood that a further conference df the, two local bodies is to be held at an early .date.

The Corinthic, which sailed for New Zealand on Saturday, has on/ board 173 nominated immigrants,. 13 public school boys, 72'farm labourers, and 34 domestics. '

The invention for turning out ice at.a cheap rate for domestic refrigeration, which was. tested at the Savoy Hotel, London, i,ast Friday, has been sold to a.n', American syndicate for £500,000, in addition, to royalties. The inventors are two young students’ of the Stockholm University.

The streetp of' Paerqa bore a vefy busy appearance on Staurday morning. To the Usual. Saturday morning bustle was added the large number df motor vehicles that passed through en route to the races at \Te Aroha, ■The departure of the local territorials for the regimental training camp at 'NgarUawahia also- added to the animated appearance of the street.

Dr. J.*R. Tillyard, of Cawthron Institute, a well-known authority on plant diseases- and parasitology, who recently left New Zealand to visit England and to carry on investigatitons abroad, will be .assisted in his, work by the Gdvernnient to the extent of £250. Cabinet authorised this grant-on Friday. Dr. Tiltyard is in search, of a natural enemy to the blackberry.

A boy aged 13, Barry Desmond Davies, whose father resides "in Havelock North, died' as tjhe result of a blow on the temple from a cricket ball while he wa,s playing with two other boys.

The Registrar, Mr W. E. Ward, ad--1 vises the following vital Statistics for the month df March for the local, district, the figures in parenthesis bethose of February last) year: Births, 12 (5); detahs, 1 (2) ; ; marriages, 1 (2). ■

The rainfall for .last month, . a’s| registered at the Paeroa Public Work's Office, was 1.11 inches, making the total for the two months 5.81 inches. Rain fell on ten days during February, the highest fa.U during any one day being .it) of an inch. The records show that tor the corresponding , month last year' the rainfall was 1.59 inches.

The pupils of the Paeroa District High School, held their .annual picnic at the Racecourse on Friday in perfect weather." There were over 509 children .on the course,-and parents and friends attended in large numbers and assisted the teachers and committee to make the day a memorable one for the youngsters. A comprehensive sporte programme was drawn up, and the children entered for .the different events with enthusiasm. Organised games were arranged, together with sundry lollie scrambles, for the little ones. It was a very tired but very happy band, of children that left the course for home about six o’clock that evening.’