LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4965, 23 April 1926, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs Gwil.liam and McGuire, J’s.P., a first offender was, convicted and discharged for being drunk, and for assaulting the police was convicted and ordered'to co,me up for sentence within 12 monthis; The ol,d Ngatea post office building wa,s reopened for business at Kaihere on Mo-ndayy las.t on the site previously occupied by the post office which was burned down just over a year ago. The Landfi Department's No. 15 Bucyrus drag-line, dredge was. shifted from Kerepeehi to Ngatea; on Wednesday and placed on the eastern bank of the river. It will work back to Kerepeehi, grading the riverbank and completing the stop-bank. Rdadefs of the “N.Z, Sporting and Dramatic ReView” wlill find in this week’s issue the uisual full complement of interesting and live pictures. The centre, pages comprise a diversity (4 subjects from overseas, and racing as fully represented in pages featuring the Australian Racing Club’s a,utumn carnival and the Avondale, Ellerslie, and Wellington meetings. Athletic sports are represented, and other outdoor pastimes. The miscellaneous section has many interesting subjects; and the stage,- screen, and society portions: are of the very latest and best. For Influenza Colds take Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.

On Sunday next, Anzac Day, a,nd the Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, there will be special services at St. Paul’s Church. The Holy Communion will be celebrated at 8 a.m., and as it will be the last Sunday of the Rev. F. B. Dobson as vicar of the parish, he hopes: that as, many a,s possible of the parishSoners will make their con?munion. At 11 o’clock there will be the great service, of Anzac Day, the offering of the Holy Eucharist with special Intention for those who fell in the Great War. As in previous years, a temporary shrine will be erected beneath the Roll df Honour in the church, and worshippers are invited to lay their floral tributes of remembrance there. At 7 p.m. Festal Evensong of the Feast of 1 St. Mark will be sung, and the vicar will preach his farewell sermon.

The steamer Taniw’ha- on .the run from Auckland to P.aeroa on Tuesday night had i’a,ther an eventful trip. On entering the Waihou River, . near Kbpu a heavy tog was encountered. Ai.< the journey up the river proceeded the fog increased in intensity, and at reduced speed -the vessel; reached the Hikutaia landing safely, at about 2 o’clock the next The fog, combined with the shallow state of the river and a, very poor tide, decided the captajn to proceed no further. With the dawn the tide had receded, and it was not possible to make the Ngahina wharf at the Puke, so passengers and ca,rgo >vere. landed! 'at Hikutaia and finished journey by motor. Tliie Tdjniwha. sailed on the return trip yesterday morning, and picks up her-regular time-table'to-, day. '

The, successful tenderers Yor the extension and remodelling of the Golden Cross Hotel, Waihi, are Messrs Stapleton, and Rolfe, builders, of Hamilton. The work is to be commenced immediately, and the ‘expenditure, without, furniture, will be close on £'sooo. It is also intended to make a,n early stafit with the erection of the- new hotel building on the site which the Sterling Hotels destroyed isqme years ago by fire, formerly stood. The builds ing will be of one storey, land will contain rather over .thirty rooms.

Mr R,. S. Renwick, who ing from his- home at Morrinsville for ten days, returned on Monday night, being found by his wife in the washhouse at about 9.30. Mr Renwick appears to have completely lost his memory, and knows nothing about '’his whereabouts du, ring his, absence. It is known tha.t lie was in Frankton the day alftter his disappearance, blit beyond that notihing can be definitely ascertained.

Considerable interest was shown by passers-by on Wednesday afet.ernooh during the- lowering of tanks for a kerbside pump outride a. local garage. Three tanks, each weighing 2cwtwere lowered into a concrete well by means of ropes and planks. . These tanks, which a,re of welded, steelj will each contain.2so gallons of benzine.; f'he football matches to. be played on the Plains to-inorrow,\ with the. referees, are asjfollbws : 'Waitaka,ruruv. Kerepeehi, at Waitk-karuru, Mr. D. G. McMillan ; West v. Coast, at Pipiroa,- Mr Clark ; Ngatea. v. ’ Turua., . at Ngatea, Messrs J. Kidd - (seniors), and. C. Stretton (juniors}. 1