THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4961, 12 April 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The three relay gangs .are pushing on r well with the laying of the rails from the Puke Road crossing to the new railway bridge over the Ohinemuri River at Paeroa, lb is hoped to have the main line up the new embankment permanently ballasted early next week. The construction of the embankment, Which has a grade of 1 in a 100 to the bridge, is practically completed.

A Ford truck- owned by the N-Z. Roads, Ltd.,. Turua, while being used for the. carriage of barrels, of bitumen to the Piako Road work was driven into a roadside drain near the Hauraki Road corner on Friday' afternoon. The driver wa© slightly injured, but the truck was not damaged.

The arguing seaeon has opened an the Hauraki Plains. It Jias been truly said that .the easiest way to' get into an argument is to go to a football match and observe to a supporter of the losing team th.at the referee is, acting fairly.

• At the meeting of .the Netherton Ratepayers’ Association on Saturday night it was resolved’to support the. re-election of Mr G. Death as the district’s, representative on the Thames, Hospital and Charitable. Aid Board.

The annual meteing of the Piako Rugby Union was held at Te Aroha last Thursday. The report and bal-ance-sheet showed the union to be in a sp’endid position, the balance-sheet showing a credit balance of £2O 13s 9d in the general account and £32 4® 7d in the insurance account. The total receipts were £3B6' 6s 7d, and the total expenditure £333 8s 3d, leaving a total credit balance. o£ £52 18s 4d. The total gate receipts received by the union were £163 Is 5d for the season.

One of the latest “games,’’ introduced among the boys of one of the Gisborne schools was the u&e of strips of rubber from motor-car tubas’ which were used to flick at others. One lad, however, was hit in the face, causing painful injury to the eye, and neces,sitating his removal ,to the hospital. The game was promptly prohibited, and the headmaster confiscated all the rubber in the possession of the pupils.

All the great Dominions have a shortage of women, writes James, A. Kilpatrick in the “Daily Mail.” Here in England there are 1096 females to every lOffO males, bat( the proportion of women in Australia is only' 976 per 1000 men, in New Zealand 957, in South Africa 943, and in Canada as low ’as 940—-that i|& to say, while 96 per 1000 women in England must remain spinsters, the Dominions have large numbers of marriageable men doomed to bachelorhood. In Australia the ill-fated bachelors, according to the latest figures, number about 90,00'0, in New' Zealand 27,000, in South Africa 44,000' (these are whites only), and in Canada 270,000 —a total of 431,00'0 overseas men who miißteither marry wives- outside the Dominions or not marry at all.

The first effect, of the securing of restoration by Ohinemuri was heard at the Magistrate’s Court, Paeroa, thfe: morning, when Williapi Lindsay Buchanan applied for and was granted a wine manufacturer’s, license.

The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Paul's Church is to be held in the Parish Hall this- evening. This meeting will be the last at which the Rev. F. B. Dobson, vicar, will preside-

Easter in England was the finest experienced for fifty years, whilst throughout New Zealand no finer Easter ha’s been experienced for just as long term, states a Wellington a,stronomor.

The succession of deep pot-holes on Puke Road have been the bane °f motorists for some' time post. A start hail now been made by the council, to metal the worst portions, but as the metal used is of a light nature the relief will only be temporary.

At the Magistrate’s . Court this morning L. Cornforth, fiax cutter, Pa.eroa, wa,s relieved df the custody of his child, which was placed by the Court .under the guardianship of its mother. He was ordered to- pay maintenance. at the rate of 15s per week. Tlie amount of wife maintenance was left to mutual arrangement.

A number of the new motor registration plates have appeared in th© to.wn. The plates are of a similar tdze to the first issue, but .this year they are painted black, with white figures, a decided improvement on the former green and yellpw coloured plates. It is necessary to apply for re-registration on or before April 14.

Travellers proceeding along Wilr Ws Road, Netherton, late on Saturday night, had an unenviable experience. For about a mile a. heavy bank of fog and smoke was encountered, and it was impossible to see a yard in front. The headlights of motorcars failed to ' pierce the murky gloom, and the atmosphere was suffocating. Tt its reported that a, car travelling at a, walking pace towards Paeroa narrowly missed a collision with a motor-cyclist who was walking be.siide‘ his machine through .the fog. Bo,th vehicles: were carrying bright lights but owing to the impenetrability of the. air it was impossible for either to see the approach of the other.

Gipsy Smith, the famous evangelist, preached in St.’ Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, a few days ago at the invitation of Archbishop Lees. In the course of his, address he said the fault with people wasi that they stood too far apart to recognise one ’’ another. There would be .three surprises in heaven —“the people we .would find there whom we did not expect, those Who were: missing whom we did expect, and that we yyere there ourselves..” \

The Bucyrus, drag-line dredge has worked its way from Ngatea to Kerepeehi up the eastern bank of the. Piako River, forming a s,top-bank. The work is not yet completed, as it is necessary to batter the riverbank and fill the space between the two rows of spoil that now form the stopbank.

.The N.Z. Gazette . notifies that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint William Higgins, of Patetonga, to 'be an officer Ifor the purpose of Pa.rt H. of the Fisheries- Act, 1908.

A.Post Office regulation states that letters will not be accepted for registiation if the flaps of the envelopes are stuck down with- gummed stamps or stickers,. The reason for the regulation is that letters for registration must not bear any tra.ee of opening or reclosing before posting, and if gummed paper is. affixed this would not be easily discerned.

Some time back, while prospecting in the Waitekauri district, Mir J. Bramble discovered what he considered to be a promising reef in tpe vicinity of t.he Maorlland mine, and it. is now stated that a small Paeroa syndicate has been formed to join with the finder in carrying out a., certain amount df development work on the ore body. It is alsjo reported that a gold-bearing .reef was recently located some two dr three miles back in the hills from the old Moanataiari mine at Thames, and that following an inspection Mr H. H. Adams, well known' in mining circles, and a Thames: resident are interesting themselves in the find, and will fake steps to find capital to explore, the lode.

The apportionment among the various acclimatisation societies of fines, and of “half the net revenue derive# from fees and royalty with respect, to the taking of opossoms,” is gazetted. Tlie sum distributed fe‘ over £4OOO, and Wellington has the biggest windfall. The figures are : Auckland, £35 15s; Id; Buller, £132 5s lid; Grey, £196 12s 4d ; Hawera, £l2 0s 5d ; Nelson, £266 Is lOd ; North Canterbury, £209 4s 6d; Otago., £698 8s lOd ; Rotorua, £225 6s lid ; South Canterbury, 17is; 6d ; Southland, £157 Ils, 2d; Strat'ford, £8 9s 3d; Taranaki, £ll7 19s Id; Waimate, £26 6s lOd ; Wanganui, £175 16s 3d; Wellington, £1494 4!s Id; Westland, £402 12s lid.' Total: £4159 13s.

Tn tire course of an delivered at Wellington last week Dr. MaL colm T. MacEachern, M.D., C.M., B.Sc., associate director of the American College of Surgeons and Director of Hospital activities in that country, said that they would have noticed that a cure had been found for scarlet 'fever which would cure patients, in a few days instead of confining them to bed for 42 days, as in the paet. Cures had also been found for diabetes and cholera. A few years, ago they had had a. scourge of typhoid fever; but to-day New Zealand was at the head (If the. W for the lowest death rate- To-day more people were being saved by antirtoxines than ever before, in the history of. the world. “You people,” said Dr. MacEachern, “are. apt to live 17 years longer as a. result of medical research. These thing® do not jus.t happen. Behind, them are co-operation amongst the medical and nursing professions.”

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