THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4985, 9 June 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Commenting upon the retail prices of all items of domestic expenditure, the Government Statistician states that it now ta,kes 32s 4d on the average to purchase, what 20s would purchase in the month preceding the outbreak of the Great War,

A total of 15,704 persons who declared their intention of residing permanently in the Dominion arrived in New Zeala.nd during 1925.

Included in the New Zealand loan of six millions which has just been so successfully floated in London is an item of £750,000 to be applied mostly to expenditure on telephones.

A return df the principal causes of death in the urban areas in New Zealand during the month of April, shows them to have been : Diseases of the heart, 77 ; cancer, 57 ; senility, 36 ; apoplexy, etc., 32 ; tuberculosis, 29 ; accident, 29 ; Bright’s disease, 22; pneumonia, 19 ; diseases of the digestive orga.ns, 13 ; premature birth, 12.

The Prime Minister (the Hon. J. G.. Coates) stated a,t the official opening of the Waikato Winter Show 1 that the decrease in the value of dairy products exported during the last financial year approximated three million sterling in comparison with the previous year. This was made up by a million due to lower prices, a million due to decreased production, a,nd a million due to increased stocks! in store at March 31.

A petition signed by 36 Waihi residents asking that the amalgamation of the Central and South Schools be proceeded with was before the Auckland Education Board at its fotrnightly meeting last week, The board decided, in view of the decision of Waihi parents and guardians at the recent referendum, when the proposal was defeated, not to take further action in the direction of amalgamation.

A case of “waiting at the church” has been reported from Eltham (states an exchange). The writer states that the. wedding was arranged for a particular hour in order that the newly-wedded couple might catch the express for Napier, where they were to. spend the honeymoon. The bride, with her friends and relatives, was at the church, with the officiating minister all complete, right an time, but the bridegroom did not materialise, and has not since been located.

“I cannot condemn too strongly the practice of parents giving to school children money with which to buy their own lunch in town,” said Dr. Clarke, medical officer of schools in the Hawke’s Bay district, the other evening (reports the Poverty Bay Herald). “Tn many cases the children, instead of buying good wholesome food, get a lot of sweet rubbish ; the teachers have tried to abolish this practice, and they need the support of the parents. A child’s lunch should consist of wholesome bread and butter —brown bread especially.”

Nothing shoddy about a Wallace Milking Machine. Materials and installation cannot be beaten.*

The gate receipts for the Waikato Winter Show exceeded last year’s high record, totalling £2OBl, as against £lB2l last year. The Northern Steam Ship Company’s Hauiti brought a full cargo to Pinko River ports on its last trip. Fittings and furniture for the Kerepeehi hotel occupied a great dea.l of space, but there was an unusual amount of general cargo.

At the Auckland Winter Show the Ngatea butter factory was awarded a first, prize for a box of butter suitable for export, grading 95 points. A third prize for a box of unsalted butter, suitable for export, wag also gained, the grading being 94% points. In the New Zealand butter championship Ngatea gained 93 points, the highest being 96.

During the hearing of applications for licenses before the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee Police Inspector Willis intimated that he was strongly opposed to upstairs bars in hotels. ‘'That may be,” remarked one df the members of the legal fraternity in an audible a,side, “but the law permits of such bars, and for that matter the liquor could be dispensed in a bathroom if the licensee so wished.”

A turf record was established by H.H. the Aga. Khan’s offer of £loo,o'oo for Solario, which Sir J. Rutherford declined. The. huge sum offered by the Aga Khan is. in itself sensational, but the master tonch is the refusal by the owner of the colt.

It is officially stated that 33,801 Jews—l4,o34 men, 11,649 women, and 8118 children —entered Palestine as immigrants in 1925. During the same period 2141 Jews, emigrated from Palestine, so that the net increase of the Jewish population by immigration was 31,660.

As there may not be another Interclub football match on. the Plains for some time, the Kerepeehi and Turua junior teams may play their match on Saturday, while the senior representatives are at Waihi.

. Tom Ton, the world’s heaviest man, died at Los Angeles last month from heart failure, after an ineffectual, effort to reduce his weight. He had been a sideshow attraction a,t Coney Island, but, gaining 1501 b in the last seventeen days, became ill, and hurriedly started for his home oh the Pacific Coast. As there was no. passenger accommodation large enough, he crossed the continent in a baggage car, and was rushed from the railway station to hospital in a 2-ton truck.

A family party of Gipsies, who arrived at Auckland from Sydney on Monday as third-class passengers on the Aorangi, have been refused permission to land in New Zealand, pending instructions from Wellington and possibly also from the Attorney-Gen-era,l. The party, consisting of five men, six women, and nine children, has been detained aboard the vessel for the present.