THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4995, 2 July 1926, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1926. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A young man, a first offender, appeared before Mr H. J. Hare, J-P-, at the local Court this morning charged with drunkenness at Paeroa yesterday. In view of the special circumstances that prevailed yesterday afternoon Mr Hare said that he would take a lenient view of thle case, but warned the defendant that a penalty would be inflicted if he. repeated the offence. A conviction was entered.

To-morrow the following team will represent Paeroa against Waihi, at Waihi, in the primary school grade : Fisher, Irwin, Pivott, K. Wilson, Pascoe, Hislop, Grant, Johnson, Welch, N. Wilson, Lang, Capill, Tukukino, M. Robinson, Prenderville. Emergencies: Power, Pennell, Goldsworthy, Taylor.

A novel charge of shoplifting was heard in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court when Sarah Elizabeth Arnold, an elderly widow, admitted the theft of two chops and four kidneys, valued at Is 2d, the property of Major Sydney Jones. The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months.

At a local hotel yesterday one of the staff was nonplussed with -regard to the price of a bottle of beverage which a customer desired to take home. An appeal was made to an Auckland visitor in the bar to ascertain the price charged in the Queen City. On receipt of the quotation one penny was added to the Auckland price.

At the monthly meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board the treasurer, Mr R. Sprague, submitted his monthly statement as follows :—Receipts : Lighting, heating, and power, £15'53 17s 2d; sales and wiring, £1595 17s 7d ; and the credit balance made the total £38,820 16s 3d. The expenditure included; Balance brought -forward £28,774 15s 4(1, wages £973 7s, power purchases £227 16s 9d, salaries £620 7s 6d, debentureholders’ interest due, £5,500, sinking fund £1250, stock £1224 4s Bd.

Very keen interest is being taken in the final match of the schoolboys competition on the Hauraki Plains for the Terrill- Cup which will be played at Kerepeehi on Saturday between the Ngatea and Kerepeehi teams. The teams have q,n equal number of points, and when they met in .the first round the game resulted in a draw. Both tea,ms have been carefully coached during the season, and in the opinion of many people they play better football than do the club teams. The Referees’ Association h'ajs appointed Mr D. G. McMillan to control the match.

A gallery of high-class. Illustrations is contained in this week’s issue of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review.” The centre pages attract the eye with their array of oversea,? subjects. Football ha,s a generous showing, and the Mounted Rifles refresher coui'se at Narrow Neck makes an interesting series. Other pictures of note are. examples of outdoor dancing, scenes in London during the strike, the N-S-W. railway disaster, the Australians at cricket, etc. • The stage and motion pictures also ha,ve an attractive presentation.

“Kaipai,” sighed a Maori as he passed his pint mug across the bar for a refill at a local hotel yesterday. The native added something about the pakehq’s methods savburiing too much of the “taihoa” policy-

At yesterday’s meeting of the Ohinemuri County Council the engineer, Mr E. Shaw, applied for and was granted a month’s leave of absence for health reasons.

The licensees of both local hotels were recipients of hearty cheers and congratulations yesterday afternoon. In one particular instance it cost the licensee the price of no less than 76 drinks when he. acknowledged the good wishes accorded him.

The N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co.’s latest London market report states that Anchor butter, salted and unsalted Is bringing 1745, Australian 168 s to 170 s, Argentine 15s to 160 s, Irish 1645, Dutch, Esthonian, and Latvian 158 s to 1625, Siberian 152 s to 1545, Danish 1725, a : ll spot prices. The market is very quiet. The. America,n market is still depressed, the holdings on June 1, being over 30 million pounds, ‘compared with 13 million pounds for the same period in 1925. The German market is unchanged. White and coloured cheese, is quoted at 935, with the market quiet.

And thus spake Sardi the Sage unto Kame the King: “I was in q place where the people do ga.ther in great numbers to play a game of cards, and I spake thus unto a player, ‘What is this garnet and what is the meaning thereof ?’ And he df the cards spake thus to me: ‘Art thou a stranger in this place ne.ath the. shadow of the Hill, which is called Primrose, that thou knowest not tha,t this is the great game Euchre ?’ And L Sardi the Sage, knowing not of this thing, watched awhile, ,and, wishing to know more thereof, touched .the arm of my friend again and spake thus,: ‘Tritely, friend, this is a great gam®, tor are not the players as the autumn leaves, innumerable ? but what gain ha t ve these, people ?’ Thien, O Kame the King, did my friend, he of the cards, waxed exceedingly angry and spake thus to me : ‘Khoweist thou not, O ignorant one, that this is .the big game for three nights, and that every Wednesday will this people be assembled, for on the seventh, fourteenth, and twenty-first days of the month July the cards are played, and every night will ten players receive gifts for their play and on the third night, when the players a,re numbered, will one receive the greatest gift of all, a wonderul thing which, as the rose gives scent, so giveth it sweet music, and this thing could not be had for sixteen shekels, of gold.’ And I, Sardi the Sage, saw this great thing and heard sweet music, for behold it Was even as he of the cards had spake. And, O Kamo the King, I wished to know more of this company, but there was not to tell, for now every player was busy with his cards a,nd I, Sardi the Sage, was alone. And I, Sardi, wishing to remember this place and finding jio name, but seeing everywhere, the colour of the buttercup, spake thus to myself: ‘lt shall be called the place <Jf the Yellow Queen.’ ”*