THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4981, 31 May 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

* A start has been made with the enlagement of a grocer’s shop in Ngatea, the erection of ti baker’s shop and tea-rooms in Kerepeehi, and the erection of a billiards-room in Turua. A poll of ratepayers resident on Pekapejka Road on a proposal- to borrow money for the purpose of installing a water supply scheme 'from the Waihou River was taken on Monday. The poll was carried by 14 votes to 2.

Efforts are being made on the Hauraki Plains to, raise money to provide the Presbytyerian minister with a motor-car. House; parties have been held, and on Tuesday last a cake and candy fair was held in the Turua Hall.

Mr Claxton, at the Thames Valley Power Board’s annual meeting on Thursday, specially thanked the Press for the care always qxercised in the distributing of correct information to the public. Especially did he, thank the Press for the great service it had rendered the board in connection with the recent loan proposal.

The Director-General of Health (Dr. T. A. H. Vajintine) arrived at Thames on Friday afternoon. In the evening he. met the members of the Hospital Board in conference. The conference was in camera, but it. is understood that the Paeroa hospital and the amalgamation of the Waihi and Thames hospital districts were; matters fully discussed.

Leaving Paeroa with the Ministerial party on Thursday evening, Mr A. M. Samuel, M.P., has been busy in Auckland with the 'Hoik Minister of Lands', to whom several deputations were presented. Mr Samuel arrived at Paeroa this morning from Hamilton and proceeded to Waitawheta to attend a, meeting of settlers. He returns to Hamilton this evening, and will attend the opening of the Winter Show there to-morrow 1 .

The. Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. McLeod) is an outspoken Scotsman, and caused much ajnussment when commencing his speech at the opening of tire new post office at Paeroa on Thursday by saying: "During the speech of the Prime Minister I was thinking what the devil a,.t all is the Minister of Lands doing here at the opening of the post office” ; and after a pause he added “I think I am here representing the jokers who have to pay for it. (Laughter.)

The Ohineanuri Licensing Committee will, hold its first sitting at the Courthouse, Paeroa, commencing at noon to-morrow. There; will be .thirteen applications for licenses, auul it is expected that the hearing will occupy two days at least. A large number of prominent solicitors haye be;en engaged in connection with the applications, and a petition against the granting of a license for an hotel at Waitoa will, also be presented. It is probable that the committee will inspect the various buildings before granting licenses.

Addressing his remarks to the children at the opening of the new post office on Thursday the Mayor (Mr W. Marshall) said that the presence a,nd addresses of the. Prime Minister and Minister of Lands would tend to lift tlie; community out of local affairs into the larger realm of the Empire and national affairs. They should inspire us to carry on our daily work in the knowledge that by fidelity to duty the community was making a contribution to the well-being of the; nation and great Empire to which we belonged. For Coughs, aqd Colds never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure,

Wanton mischief has been committed at the private box lobby at the new post office during the week-end. Eight brass, plates forming the keyholes on the boxes have been wrenchad off, and the two screws holding the plates have, been forced ou.t. In addition to this damage, nearly ajl the private boxes have been defaced by deep scratches. The police have the matter in hand, and it is hoped that the vandals will be brought to book.

Considerable credit is due to His Worship the Mayor (Mt W. Marshall), his associates on the borough and county councils, a,nd especially the ladies, for the completeness and thorough manner in which the arrangements were carried out in connection with the visit of the Prime Minister and party to Paeroa on Thursday. The various functions passed off without a hitch, and the propioters are deserving of hearty congratulations and thanks.

“Humour” has a great advantage, over other papers of wit in that its laughter is always of an even standard of excellence and keeps pace with the Latest quips of .the. world’s masters of w'it. This is, Of course, only natural when we know that "Humour has the whole world to draw from for its weekly pages. Owing to the delay in the arrival of a large parcel cf entries from New Zealand in respect to the recent competition, it will be a few days yet before the result is announced.

A petition bearing some seventy signatures of residents at Netherton, the Puke,, and Hill Street areas asking 'for the provision of a vehicular traffic bridge in the vicinity of HUI Street was presented to ,the Prime Minister at Paeroa on Thursday by Messrs W. H. Taylor and & J. Laughlin. The, Premier accepted the petition and accompanying plan, and promised that he would go into the matter with his departmental officers on his return to Wellington. The decision arrived at would be forwarded through the Paeroa Chamber of Commerce.

Speaking in regard to the benefits of electric energy at the Thames Valley Power Eosjrd at Te Aroha on Thursday, the chairman, Mr F. HClaxton, pointed out that in one instance. it was quoted that a man who milked 100' cows, with an average return of 3001 b butter-fat, stated that on only one occasion since he had installed electric energy had his product be;en graded other than superfine, and in that instance it was not. due to the electric plant. On the other hand, it had often been his experience; to suffer the brand of second grade when milking by old-time methods. This, said Mr Claxton, was a great tribute to the grant energy they were; prosecuting.