THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4962, 16 April 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

For the month of March the revenue received in the district fund account by the Paeroa Borough Council was £15'44 Is Id, and the expenditure totalled £1289 .■ 14s . lOd. After paying -accounts- for- the month a credit balance of £3144' 10s 5d . remained.’

Aided by fine weather, good progress has been made with the formation of the new footpath on the western side of Norma, nby Road in the vicinity of the new munic.ipal chambers. Yesterday a.-gang of ten men, with two drays and hors,es, was engaged removing the spoil in order to reach the permanent level, of the street,.

Tlie local deputy-registrar of motor vehicles (Mr W. E. Ward) has had a very busy time during the past few days on the work ;of re-registering motor vehicles, as required under the Act... To date 160 motor vehicles and 24 motor-cycles- have been registered z at the local offee, and number plates have been issued. . The indication 'number for Paeroa, on motor vehicles commences at 27,770, and for motorcycles the number of the 'local regis>tration begins: at 6601.

Messrs L. B. Campbell, district engineer, O. G; Thornton, resident engineer, and W. Barcliay, assistant engineer, of the. Public Works, Department, with Mr A. M. Samuel, M-P., met a deputation of -Netherton settlers at Netherton on Tuesday morning and discussed drainage and flood protection matters. After being made fully conversant with the, clanger of flooding that existed Mr Campbell gave the’- deputation tj,n asisnraticc that he would carefully ; pveparc a report a.nd submit it to the department at once.

Mr F. R. Howard, sight-testing specialist, representing Messrs Barry and Beale, Ltd., 322 Queen Street, Auckland, will attend at the Criterion Hotel sample room on Wednesday, April 21. Intending clients please note, the change of address.*

A 100 k.v.a. transformer from the 11,00'0-volt line has been installed by the Th tunes Vai l.ey Electric ■. Powe r Board at the. Matatoki quarry, and a supply of electricity will be a,vailable as spoil as the ciuarry pla,nt, is. ready to run.

Scots are generally supposed not, to be easily moved to laughter, but at the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery on Tuesday night there was a spontaneous, outburst when the Rev. John Louden said that one of the reasons that weighed with him in accepting a call \to the church at Paeroa. was “the license coming back.” Mr Louden’s pronounced views in favour of no License were too wfell known to require any explanation of his (Statement. A member of the Presbytery remarked, however, that the gift Mr Louden had of dealing with drunken men would make him a valuable asset .to the police at Paeroa.

A mobile telegraph, gang is at present engaged in extending the telegraph lines to Waihi, Te Aroha, and Thames from the old Paeroa post office to .the new building.

The illustrations, in this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review” should attract wide attention. The well set but centre pages are devoted to snapshots of the Auckland Racing Club’s Easter carnival at Ellenslie,' and the Avopdalei Jockey Club’s meeting and the gathering at the Feilding Jockey Club’s races, are also well treated. There are many New Zealand subjects of general interest, while from overseas the pictures include Snza,nne Lenglen winning the world’s tennis championship. ice yacht racing, game fishing, etc.

At the Borough Council meeting last night Cr. P. E. Brenan-was, appointed the council’s delegate to attend a conference of local bodies o : t Hamilton on Tuesday next, to consider various niattert" affecting the Motor Vehicles Act.

Discussing the delay in commencing the erection of the maternity hoslirial at Paeroa at Monday’s meeting of the Thames Hospital Board, -Mr C. W. Kennedy moved that the DirectorGeneral of Health be strongly urged to visit Thames at his earliest, convenience in order to expedite the completion of several important matters, new long overdue.

Seven applications for advances to connect with the ■. sewerage . system were granted at las.t night’s meeting of the Paeroa Borough Council, and it wa/s decided .to call tenders for the. work forthwith.

The following tenders for the erection of an isolation ward and steam laundry for the Thames, Hospital Board at Thames were received at Monday’s meeting of the board : C. W ; Potterton, Thames, £5190 (accepted) ; Hargraves, Stapleton, and Rolfe, Hamilton, £5240 ; J. R. Simpson, Auckland, £5500 ; Robinson and Beagley, Paeroa,, £6317 12s-; W. ■ Maud, Pukekohe, £6512 ; R. Twentyman, .Thames, £6512. To the cost of the buildings has to be added the. sum of £1357 Ils 6d for machinery and equipment.

The wiring of the Waitakaruru high tension telephone line has been completed by the Thames Valley Power Board, and communication is to lie given as soon as. the cable across the Piako River and the telephone equipment are installed.

A letter was read at the Borough Council meeting last night from, an Auckland builder stating that he wais preparing plans for the erection of two single-storey shops at Paeroa. He asked to be supplied with a copy of the building by-laws and water charges. The Mayor said that, the town clerk had forwarded the particulars. ■

Mr N. G. McLeod, engineer to the Thames Valley Electric Power Board,reported to the meeting on Tuesday that all the transformers, in the Paeroa. district had been thoroughly overhauled and oil treated.

The directors of the N.Z. Co-opera-tive Dairy Co., Ltd., have decided to make the following advance payments to their suppliers on April 20:. Butter, Is 3d per lb superfine ; cheese, Is 'sd per lb. The usual premiums will be paid for casein and milk powder.

At the Borough . Council meeting night a letter was received from tne Hauraki Plains County Council expressing appreciation of the action of the borough in-agreeing to subsidise county road workts: to an amount equal to- the wharfage, paid on metal delivered over the Neahina wharf.

Anzac Day will fall this year on a Sunday, and the question has- been raised whether, following .the customary practice with moving holidays, the observance will be postponed until the Monday. 'So far the law is concerned there is no provision for tire postponement of the, celebration. Anzac Day was declared a public holiday by the Act of 1920, and as a public holiday it might have been transferred from a Sunday to the following Monday. But in the following year, or, rather, late* in the session, of. 1921-22, the Legislature removed the day from the list of public holidays and decreed that thereafter April 25 should be. observed in all respects as if it we're’a Sunday. On the legal side, therefore, no difficulty arises, since the statute refers to the specific date and to that date only. No difficulty arises, aga,in, on the social side or on the spiritual side. Anzac Day is not a public holiday set, apart for recreation or rejoicing. It is declared to jje a sacred day, to be observed, in the words of the Statute, “in commemoration of the part taken by New Zealand troops in the Great War, and in memory of those who gave their lives for the Empire.”