THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 17, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4975, 17 May 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE HAURAKI PLAINS GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 17, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

I His Worship the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) received a telegram from. Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., on Saturday morning .advising that the Prime Minister was as yet unable to arrange the definite date on which he would visit Paeroa for the purpose of opening the new post office.

Fine weather prevailed locally during the week-end, but it is evident iihat winter is upon us. “Jack Frost” made his' appearance yesterday. - On Saturday night, and at 7 o'clock yesterday morning six degrees df frost were 'registered. The ■ ground was covered witn a dazzling white mantle, and gardens have suffered the effects of the" frost followed by .the brilliant sunshine .that prevailed throughout the-'day. Another heavy frost was registered this me ruing, and q fine, sunny day has followed.

The schools under the Auckland Board’s jurisdiction reopened this morning after having been closed tor one week.

A bicycle which was stolen 'from outside Messrs Hare Bras', premises in Belmont Road on Friday was recovered by the police in Corbett Street this morning.

The .apparatus for the telephone exchange at the new post office has been installed, and a part of .the cutover was made- and successfully tested last night.

At the Police Court at Gisborne on Friday a mdidle-aged man named Robert Hodson Dewhurst was charged with obtaining £2 from the sale of art union tickets promoted by the Grey Lynn branch of £he Labour party and failing to account for the money. He was sent to gaol for thirty days without hard labour.

The Secretary to the Treasury acknowledges the following amounts, forwarded by persons unknown, ap conscience money to the Government: To the Railway Department, £5 ; to the Chief Postmaster, Dunedin, 6d ; to the Pensions Department, 10s.

Good progress is being made wdth the re-erection there of the building which formerly served as an hotel a,t Maekaytown. The premises for which a license will be applied for at the annual meeting of the iDhinemuri Licensing Committee on June 1, are being added to, and when completed will contain in all, 22 rooms exclusive of outbuildings.

A peculiar feature in connection with the census of Matamata is the fact that the population totals 1010, the s,exes being exactly evenly balanced—sos males and 505 females The Maori population of the town is also equally divided one male and one female. Matamata has made phenomenal growth since its: formation into a town district. At the time of the 1921 census, its population totalled 832. Thus it shows an increase of 178, or a;t the rate of 21.4 per cent, for the five, years*