THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4974, 14 May 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It was decided at night’s Borough Council /meeting to move the band rotunda from the -main street to the reserve near the old 'railway sta r tion, - 'subject to the. consent of the Beautifying Society. The Piako County. Council’s loan proposal of £3OOO for the erection of county offices at Ta Arolia has. been defeated. The results .were: For the proposal, -422; against, 386. A ew returns to come will make nc- alteration. ■ Upon the adoption of the. Poiind statement at last night’s Borough Council meeting it was resolved that unless the ranger improved in his work of coping with the straying stock menace within one month • the council would take drastic steps to bring about an improvement. ' Last night’s- Borough Council; meeting was the first general council meeting to be held in the new Municipal- Chambers. ■ 'At the conclusion of business Cr. P. E. Brenan moved that the thanks and appreciation of the councillors to the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall), for the valuable services, rendered and enterprise shown in launchthe.: programme for the new building and carrying the work .through with such signal success, be 'recorded.' Cr. E. Edvards seconded. Each councillor' in turn extended congratulations to the Mayor and referred in glowing terms to the services , he had rendered. The resbluton was carried with acclamation. The Mayor suitably acknowledged the tribute, and said it was particularly gratifying to hear, such a resolution, coming as it had, from two of t-he councillors who were the. keenest opponents of l!he scheme when he had first mooted it. .

Can you guarantee- that 50 miners will return to work?” asked the, Minister of Mines of a speaker a.t Karangahake on Wednesday night. “If I tell ybu that that number will return will you guarantee the 1 erection of a battery ?” was the rejoiner.

The dumping of spoil from the western side of Normanby Road in the moat surrounding the band rotunda at the domain, was referred to by Cr. G. P. de Castro at the Borough Council meeting last night. He drew attention to the, damage that was being done to the domain and footpaths by the heavy carting during the. recent wet Weather. The Mayor admitted that damage ‘ was being done, but that it! was fully compensated by the fact th at'the moat was being filled up, levelled, and would be grassed The spoil, had to be removed from the street, and the damage done could be easily rectified at a small cost. This view was also shared by the other councillors.

Widely diversified a,re the illustrations in this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” In the centre pages appear striking photographs of topical overseas events arranged in artistic fashion, and footballers will be interested in the snaps of both Soccer and Rugby. Included in the miscellaneous 1 subjects a,re -the Carnival and Battle df Flowers on the Riviera, St. Patrick’s Day shamrock for Irish Guards, Grand National Steeplechase, etc. The stage and. motion picture sections are also illustrated in a notable series. ,

The Finance Committee reported at last night’s Borough Council meeting that the re venue to the district fund account amounted’ .to £268 18s 10d. After the. payment of accounts totalling £321'5 ss, 8d a credit balance of £2098 3s 7d remained. Replying to a rigorous crossrexainination by the Minister of Mines at Karangahake' on Wednesday night a member of the deputation said that he. bad been connected with mining for 65 years, 42 years of. which bad been spent at Karangahake; yet, even with such experience,, he was. unable to tell the Minister how many tons of gold-bearing ore there were under the ground a,t Karangahake. (Laughter.) Something of a. record for the borough was established in the number and value of the building permits approved of at the Paeroa Borough Council meeting last night. The ap'plications included alterations and renovation so three hotels, alterations to four business premises, the erection of a, new shop in the pain street, and the erection of a concrete motor ga.rage. The total value of the permits issued was £7353. A poll, of the ratepayers, in the Thames County residing near the Wharepoa ferry was taken on Wednesday on the question of whether the ferry should be kept open or closed as suggested. The result was 36 votes in favour of keeping it open arid incidentally increasing the rntejs to maintain the approach roads, and 27 votes in’ support of closing the ferry. Cr. Brunton, .who advocated. closing .the ferry, was defeated at the election by Mr Winder, who has been active in advocating its Mr D. O’Leary, acting district telegraph engineer, Auckland, is - at. present in Paeroa supervising the erection of the new Ericsson manual, exchange, system at the.new poet l office in readiness for the cut-over.

Tn the course of his reply to a, deputation at Karangahake on Wednesday night, the Hon. G. J; Anderson said that' it was, the law in South Africa that ajs soon as a miner showfexl any symptoms of miner’s phthisis he was prevented from working in the mines. In New Zealand the provision of the water drill in ,the mines had greatly lessened the disease.