THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4957, 29 March 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Will advertisers please note that there will be no publication of the Hauraki Plains Gazette on Good Friday and Easter Monday; both days being ’statutory holidays., Usual notices) for; Friday will need to reach this office in I time for Wednesday’s issue..

The Hauraki Plains representative cricketers defeated '-Thames by two runs in a one innings,/match at Thames on Saturday. The Pukeokhe team > utas also defeated during- the .week-end, scoring 53 runs in 4 twlo innings while .Plains knocked up 129-in one innings.

, The Turua Tenpis Club’s team defeated the Waitakpruru Club’s team at Waitakaruru on Saturday in a chair tenge match for’the Howell Williiamb’ Memorial Shield. Waitakaruru recently won this troiihy .Vi;om tlfe Hikutaia Club.

... Despite the stretch pf unmetalled road, that must be traversed, and the time of the year,, New Brighton iis still a popular seaside resort forPlains, motorists. Captains of tennis) ’clubs ale still.'complaining that it is -a greater draw than the courts.

The. attention of persons qualified to have their names- placed on the parliamentary electoral rolls is drawn to a public notice appearing in today’s isfeue of this paper. Now that the law requires persons to register immediately they become qualified, every such person would be well advised to 1 see that his or her name ia put on the roll. It will be observed 'that persons whose names are already on the roll or who have become registered since the rollsi closed for printing at the general election need not apply for registration, but these persons, if they change .their address, must notify the new address to the Registrar.

Messrs Hayward Bros., William Street, Paeroa, have ,a n interesiting advertisement on page 1 relating to a well-known, high-powfered, good value, tow-priced motor-car, for which the firm has been appointed district agents. They ha.ve a demonstration model in stock.*

This year the N.Z. Railways Department has issued a booklet Setting out the Easter holiday arrangements for the North Island main line -and branches, and also connections .to southern districts and principal tourist and health resorts. The booklet may be obtained ‘free from railway stations; by bona fide travellers.

Swaggers are generally not loath to accept lifts from passing motorists — only too rarely are they offered the luxury—but occasionally they learn to prefer the more familiair method|S' of locomotion (says the Wanganui Chronicle). This was demonstrated to a motor salesman taking a, car to the Waverley Show. He picked up a tramp by the wayside, bu.t his -“cornering” was so advan'cexl and artistic that’at the bottom of the first hill, the passenger requested that lie be set d6wn again.

An advertisement appeared in our last issue to the effect that the harvest festival sale in connection with the Ngatea Methodist Church would be held on Thursday next. : The sale will be. held .this (Monday) evening.

The Rev. E. H. Brooker, Methodist minister on the Hauraki Plains, preached his farewell se.t vice at Ngatea on Sunday evening. He Will be succeeded in a month’s, time by the Rev. Hall. The Rev. Erooker intends leaving for England Shortly.

Footballers, friends; and supporters are reminded that the annual meeting ol the Paeroa Rugby Unioji is to be held to-morrow evening at 7.30 o’clock in the Gaiety Theatre supperrooms.

.The heavy rain Qf last week had a detrimental, effect on. the Pokeno road, and several private cars have been stuck. The service cars; have got through daily and pretty well up to time. ■

Buyers from .Waihi, Thames, Te> Arolia, and throughout the district attended the dealing sale pf furniture and effects at the Paeroa Hotel on Saturday. Commencing-at J.O a.m. and concluding shortly after 6 p.m., everything was, cleared at; satisfactory prices.

The Minister pf Immigration announces that, a number of skilled farm labourers will arrive in Nev; Zealand by the Corinthie on April 6. They have been specially selected by the immigration authorities in the United Kingdom. Farmers who desire the services, of these men should make, early application to the Immigration Department at Wellington.

For several days- a patient of’the •Auckland Mental. Hospital' has been, missing. Visiting friends at house in Mount Eden Road on March-17, the man suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. On that day he was, seen going in the direction of Mount Ros,kill. He has not been seen since. Friends of the man suggest that he its' suffering from depression and is hiding.

A Pipiroa settler has, a- cow that possibly hold a record in fecundity. In four years she has produced nine healthy calves, and despite this continues to b a very big milk producer.

A farewell will be tendered the Rev. E. H. Brooker, Methodist minister of the Hauraki Plains, at Ngatea this evening.

Statistics- compiled by the State Forejst Service reveal that whereasj in 1846 there were some- 46 million acres of standing timber in New. ’Zealand last year, the tot|al wtas 12% million. The area of native timber forests remaining is estimated to be 5% million' acres, which, in all probability, would be exhausted by 1965.

Miss C. Bestic,' assistant at the Waitakaruru school,- who has resigned from the department, the guest of the members of the Ladies’ Hockey Club at a farewell supper at ,the residence df Mr T. Beaver on Saturday evening. About thirty of her friends were present, and on behalf of them Mr Beaver presented Miss Bestic -with a xylonite hairbrush and comb.

A-huge black and white boar estimated to -weigh 4401 b was captured in the Mako Mako -district by a party of Pahiatua sportsmen, accompanied by a well-known Masterton pig-hunter. The unusual size induced the party to skin the whole cartase,- and a Masterton taxidermist will be wfth the task of mounting the body. When completed this should form a unique trophy. Unfortunately the other huge boar captured near Masterton wins not mounted.

’ Three blackfish similar to those that icajne ashore near Waitakaruru some months ago were stranded on the beach near the same spot last Friday week. Two Waitakaruru men have since rendered down tlie blubber and-secured between five and six hundred gallons, of oil, which will probably return them about 7s 6d a gallon. The fish were 35fti 33ft, and 27ft long, but all fhe blubber could not be secured owing to the difficulty of turning the bodies over. •*

•; Speaking at Dunedin, the Hop. W. Nosworthy said the success of the* Exhibition was the more remarkable when it was considered that in t<?n ■months there had been a, decrease of £1,166,954 over ■ thd corresponding period of last year in the amount of money coming in from overseas owing to the drop in the value of exports. Added to this, unfortunately, there had been an increase of £2,487,686 in the amount of money going oveis,eais; principally for manufactured''goods. z He\. hoped the Exhibition would have its effect next year and thereafter in a greatly increased demand for Ne.w Zealand-made goods.

Some people are saying that Dunedin folk are spending ajl their earnings in “Chocolate row” and ’on amusements at the Exhibition. As evidence that such is not the casa (says the “Star”) Ave have the facts that 338 new accounts in the Dunedin Savings Bank were opened last month, and that the in’erease of deposits in the same bank is, £24‘,756, as, ’compared with the amount standing to the credidt in January.

The Curtis Publishing Company, Miich has just presented its shareholders with £14,000,000 worth of preferred stock, was built up. by a man who began life a,s a newsboy, alnd later bought the. Saturday Evening Post — whose circulation is now moving rapidly towards the , three-million mark—for £4OO. Later, ,the Ladies’ Home Journal —scarcely less mioribund at the time df purchase—wias bought, and ’this, was built up very la’rgely by Mrs Curtis. Another fa'ctor in the reckoning wa,s> an organist in New York who befriended the newsboy, and who so inspired him with love of music that Curtis him Self became later an organist of no mean skill. To-day Philadelphia has a magnificent auditorium and organ endowed in-memory of Curtis* benefactor.