THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4948, 8 March 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-morrow, being election day, is a public holiday from noon within the Ohinemuri Licensing District (provided for by the “Licensing Act, 1908”).

The infant son of Mr S. W. Bridge, of Kerepeehi, passed away .after a few - hours’ illness on Wednesday ■night. During the afternoon the child had a fall while playing, but no illeffects were noticed. While bathing the child prior to putting if to bed the mother noticed that its body was twitching, and thinking of convulsions, the doctor was brought from Turua. He stayed 'for some hours, and was called again late at night, but . the child died a ’few momenta before he arrived, pneumonia being the caus|e ascribed.

Following on the recent spell <ff dry weather ideal, conditions prevail,ed locally over the week-end. Yesterday a smoky haze was general, and although the, sun did not shine quite as brilliantly as on previous days, the day was very hot, and the. usual bathing pools adjacent to the. town received a large quota of aquatic enthusiasts. A large number of people also availed themselves of the fine weather to visit the Waihi Beach.

Aii example of the value of timber trees was given at last meeting of the Franklin Racing Club, when it was reported tha,t a clump of macrocarpa trees, when felled and 'split, produced 500 good posts, 100 strainers, ,and 40 tons of firewood. The firewood was sold at 5s per ton, nearly all sold at £7 10s per 100, and a majority of the strainers at 7s 6d .each. About £5O worth of timber from the trees w,ap' a.lso used for constructing two bridges.

A little girl, six years df age, a daughter’of Mr and Mrs James Atkinson, Waihi, met with a somewhat unuusal and very painful accident on Tuesday evening ((states the “Telegfaph”). It seems that the child put; a small stick in her mouth—with several inches of the wood protruding —and then climbed a gate, from which she fell, with the result that a portion of the stick was driven through the roof at the back df her mouth, near the throat, inflicting a severe and .jagged wound. The mother, who was not far a,Way, found the little one bleeding profusely from the mouth, the child having in the meantime pulled the stick out. Mrs Atkinson at once rushed off with the girl to Dr. Short, who, after temporary treatment, sent her to the hoppital. There it was found necessary to insert several stitches in the wound.

The results, of ,the licensing election will not be screened in front o-t the “Gazette” Office ,to-morrow, as arrangements have been made to show them at the concert at the Gaiety Theatre.

A survey of the proposed new railway route from Pokeno to Paeroa is being made by Me'sjsrs D. Ro-die (railway commercial manager), A. C. Flay (operating and equipment superintendent), and O. N. Campbell (Public Works engineer). The party is proceeding from Pokeno, .at which point the ma.in line is tapped, working towards Paeroa, where the proposal is to link up with the East Coast line.

The fourth bigges|t attendance recorded since the opening of the Dunedin Exhibition was experienced on Wednesday, when the tally reached 38,636. ’There have been only three better days—New Year's Eve; the opening day, and Boxing Day. The cause of the rush was .the illuminated water display and fireworks exhibition staged by the Chinese residents of Dunedin to mark the opening of the fire brigades’ contest, in which seventy-eight brigades from .all parts of the Dominion ,are competing. The attendance up to that day was 1,873,401.

A water tower, claimed to be one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, is. in course of erection bn the highest point of Bastia Hill, Wanganui. It will reach a height of 183 feet,, and will be a conspicuous landmark for miles around. The containing ta,nk, at the top of the tower, will have a capacity for 120',000 gallons of water. The tower, although only built for utilitarian purposes, will, nevertheless, be imposing in design and a decided acquisition to the city.

Robert Giles, a. young man employed in the Waitawheta Valley, was arrested in Waitawheta bush early on Thursday morning'by Senior-Sergeant MacLea.n and Detective Sweeney. Giles was taken to Hamilton, where he will appear at the Police? Court to answer charges alleging thefts of money from the Te Kahu Post Office, near Te Awamutu.

When it became known that the late Mr R. McGregor, the popular representative footballer, . had passed away in Sydney, his many friends, in Thames and Auckland immediately moved .to commemorate<his, memory in some fitting manner. On the occasion of the recent visit of the Auckland Old Thames Boys’ Association to Thames in January ,a meeting between the two associations was held, and it was unanimously decided that an appeal should be made for monetary assistance for -the ,widb|W and children of the late Mr McGregor, and also to provide funds for al tablet to commemorate hte memory. At the last meeting of the committee it was decided to circularise each Rugby Union in the Dominion.

Patrons at the local picture theatre were amused, if not somewhat bewildered, on Saturday night a,t the remarks passed occa.slionally by some of the occupants of the back seats. Various training camp sayingp' and terms were “fired off” by trainees who returned that day from Honuhopu.

Miss Zoe Moore' (pupil .of Miss; Daphne Knight) announce# elsewhere that she is receiving pupils for dancing in all. itsi characters.

The latest issue of that popular weekly magazine, “Humour,” inaugurates a big jumbled word competition in which cash prizes to the value of £lOO are offered. There is a; first prize of £5O and 19 other prizes. “Humour” is one of the most entertaining .of the weekly magazines, apd in its pages is to be found a reflex of the world’s, cleverest witticisms in picture,. verse, and .anecdote.