THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4966, 26 April 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto : Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A numbed’ of public and private buildings carried flags yesterday, Anzac Day. A l.a,rg-e Union Jack floated gracefully from the centre flag-polp at the new post office for the fiiist time. - k

The-annual meeting of householders and the election of a committee of nine members for the Pai.e.roa District High School is to be held at the Soldiers’ Club at 7.30 o’.clock this ing. Parents and ex-pupils are earnestly requested to attend.

There were 1869 Ford .cars sold 4 11 New Zealand for the three mbnths December, January, aiid February. Chevrolet ca.me: second with 500 cars, followed by. Buick with 368, and Dodge 363. Morris, cars ranked fifth, with a total of 281 for the three months;

The new post office was fully illuminated on Friday night. The many electric lights in the building were reflected by the snowy whiteness of the plaster on the wajls and ceilings. The lights from the upstairs portion of the building shone out brilliantly over a wide area, afld the scene presented was a pretty one. As one passer-by remarked, “it is difficult to remember that only about a.year ago the site ,of the new building was an ugly old clay patch,”

The' pleasure of picture patirons wais considerably marred at the Gaie.ty Theatre, Paeroa, on Saturday night. A party of ten or twelve young men occupying front seats made the ’entertainment hideous, by persistent cat-calling, shrill whistling, audible, remarks, and other objectionable noises throughout the, major portion of the programme. An usher made several requests to the hoodlums to desist, but without a,vail. The disgust at such unseemly behaviour being allowed has been freely commented upon by many of those who attended the pictures. The onus is on the management to , prohibit such conduct in the future. Complaints have previous,ly been made about the behaviour of young mein attending the local pictures on Saturday nights, but this last performance, it is understood, its the most objectionable met with for a long time.

With reference to the Wa,ih:i Hospital Board’s representations relative to the question of absconding husbands, and their consequent failure, to 'maintain their dependants—thus throwing the latter on charitable aid boards for support—the Minister of Health (Hon. Young) stated that a reply from the Mini-ter for Justice has been received to the effect tha.t there -is evidently some misconception as to the> powers of a court. Defaulers ca.n be, and arc, committed to prison with hard labour for offences under 61 of the Destitute Persons Act, and an amendment is under consideiation which will strengthen the Act considerably.

A writer in the April “Aussie” tells the latest Ford yard as 'follows,: “Yesterday I was, nearly run down by a Ford motor-car on the OamaruDunedin road. I just opened my legs in time.” This is just one of hundreds of humorous stories in the latest issue of this popular magazine, and these a.re supplemented by a host ■of pictures drawn, by .tihe; leading black and white artists of Australia and New Zealand. One of the finest contributions to- the April “Aussie” is a. poem “The Man behind the Gun” which is well worthy of Kipling.

A regrettable incident w,as witnessed at the local domain on Saturday at the con lusion of the senior football, match. A young nian apparently got into an argument with one of tile West players, and n bout of fisticuffs, ensued until they were separated. The scene was not very edifying for the la.rge number of young ladies who were- passing at the time.

In a sermon at Christchurch the Rev. J. K. Archer, Mayor of Christchurch, said: “Colonials are great ‘sinters,’ and. in fact of all the 'skiters’ I have come across colonials take the cake. Each city and town ‘skites’ its,elf up as being the best. lam a great believer in Christchurch, of course, especially since I have been Mayor, and I want your votes next election, perhaps. But the real tost of a city is not in its parks and streets, but in the conduct of the people.”

During the closing stages of the Suburbs, v. Netherton match at Hikutaia on Saturday afternoon a, Nether,ton player,. H. A. (Pat) Morripon, fell heavily a,nd injured his, back. The. unfor.tuntae main after receiving medical attention, was removed to Che Thames Hospital. He was unconscious from the; time he w'as carried off the field at Hikutaia until; yesterday morning. From inquiries made .this morning it. was learned that the patient had passed a comfortable night, but the. full extent of the injury could not be ascertained until a,n X-ray examination had been made.

The need for care in the preparation of food was exemplified at a recent school ca.det camp (states the Dunedin Star). ,A number of apples had been peeled in, preparation for the. following day’s meal, and were allowed to remain in a galvanised iron dish' over-night. Evidently, the acids in the fruit acted on .the metal;, aud the next day quite a number of boys were una.ble to attend parades owing to slight poisoning.

• There has been heavy goods .traffic on the Waihi-Paeroa railway line lately, The increase no doubt being partly due to ,the growing use of ,the' railway by. farmers on the Waihi Pla.ins and at, Katikati for the transit of fertilisers and other requirements. The traffic last week was also influenced by ' building materials coming forward for alterations aird extensions to hotel; premises in Waihi in view of the return to license. • La.st Wednesday one train leaving Paeroa carried 170 tons of goods, and was followed later in the day by two other trains carrying 150 and 130 .tons respectively. Thus the total for the day wais 4501 tons, but This, of course, exceeded materially the daily avqragq, as some of the goods haid been allowed to accumulate a.t Paeroa.