THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4978, 24 May 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The rainfall for last week fcota,lied 4.51 inches, the heaviest fall being on Thursday last, when 2.08 inches were recorded at the local office of the Public Works Department. The barometer at 9 o’clock this morning registered 29.80, and showed a rising tendancy.

The annual meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council, for the. purpose of electing' a chariman is to be held on Wednesday, at 12 ficou.

The. steamer W.a.ipu, which left Auckland for Paeroa on Friday afternoon, 1 reached the Puke at 7.30 o clock on Saturday morning. The vessel made rather a protracted trip up the flooded Waihou River, the strong current and floating logs and other debris requiring skill, to be The steamer left on the return journey at 1.30' p.m. The Taniwlia, reached the Puke this morning after a favourable passage from Auckland. '

The annual meeting of the Paeroa Beautifying Society is to be held in the Centenary 'Hall on Wednesday at 8 p.m. The follo.wing nominations have been -received for the coming year; President, Mr W. Marshall,; vice-presidents, Messrs J. W. Sillcock, and G. H. Taylor; committee, Miss Rickard, Messrs OfNeill, EL W. Por■litt, J. Walmsley,-Edwin Edwards, H. J. Hare, F.E. Flatt; secretary and treasurer, Miss D. W. Butler. A special general meeting will be held at the conclusion of the annual general meeting for the. purpose of considering the proposed amendments to the rules. All s interested in furthering the work of the. society .are earnestly invited to be present.

To-day is Empire Day. It was in honour of Queen Victoria that Empire Day was instituted, May 24' being the date of her birthday.

There were 1314 operations performed at the Waikato Public Hospital, during the yea,r ended March 31, 1926. This represented an increase on the previous yea,r, when there; were 1224 operations. Of last year’s; operations 186 were emergency ones. There was one death under.anaesthetic, and of the total deathis (149) at the hospital, 21 occurred within 24 hours of admission.

. “I met a.-man in Dunedin recently,” said Mr Will Appleton, in the course of his address to the, Advertising Club at Christchurch, "who told me; that Jje had worked the same dredge for twenty years and had got consistent yields. .That, is what consistent advertisers do—get on to the pay dirt, keep the same 'consistent policy, and s,tick to it.”

Professor F. R- Moulton, of the University of Chicago, has fixed the da,te of the end of the world, Writes “T.H.D.” in the Dominion. But there is no immediate 'cause for alarm. You may figure it, out for yourself, he says, like this.: The earth is two thousand million years old. The average life> of such a planet is a thousand times a milliop times a million years, or 1,000'000,000,000,000 (one quadrillion) yeara So it will go whirling o in its orbit for another 500,000 times ap: long as it hap already whirled. And when that time comes the sun will get too close to this planet, and "pour,” that will be all. Just like the snuffing out of a. candle it will melt and be destroyed. M'ajor Fitzruse disputes th© professor’s theory, and has written to hipi wagering a ten-pound note, that the earth will not last more than 10,000 times as, long as it, has already existed, at the outside. .. For Influenza Colds take Woods’ Great. Peppermint Cure.